I totally understanded what “joy tinged with sorrow” means after reading Sasameki Koto chapter 3. The anime episode 3 showed the mood better than the previous episode.
Well, come to the most improtant scene first!
Ushio thinks it needs practice to have a perfect first kiss. She volunteers to help Sumika practice, with a amusing superman mask wore so that it won’t be her first kiss…
Sakura loves the female Natsuru and confesses to “her” directly. But Shizuka tells Sakura that Natsuru is going out with the male Natsuru. And…
Natsuru changes back from Kampfer to the guy side. He is seen with Akane on top of him by Sakuru. Sakura thinks he cheats on the female Natsuru. So she challenges to him!
As a yuri-con, I absolutely watch Sasameki Koto. Comments said that the first episode was kind of deceptive, the subsequent chapters were lighthearted and comical. So I got to resd the manga, learning Japanese by the way.
It seems like the author Ikeda-san changed the story setting after chapter 1. It becomes quite funny. So watching episode 2 made me feel - is it a bit too blue?