I thought the stuco debates were the best part of this show/season. The Rom-Com stuff fits in neatly between and never got tiresome because of the greater narrative. The politics were much more interesting, even if they lacked a grand a-ha twist, they were handled deftly.

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That's exactly what made the whole anime lame at the end: Moments like this being half-assed. It would have been so much more fun if he had truly crushed his sister. And then she would have gone full-villain mode, meaning more fun for us.
The show works perfectly fine without an earth shattering evil villain; the sister playing up as one is plenty fun as she brushes close a few times, but no one has to be fully irredeemable in the end.

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Alya is SO helpless without Masachika.
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she was portrayed as an all-capable character.
Being capable and a hard worker has nothing to do with taking on something you have no experience with, like politics. He was right in that those people, assembled on that stage with applause raining down would never have happened without her desire and reputation combining with her charm combining with her helpful assistant (who was in a slump before this) into this situation. You don't have to be an author to write a book; you write a book to become an author.