Tamayomi Dropped:

In a flash of brilliance, I realized I could better characterize Nozomi by integrating her catch phrase into the newest Sae section.  The new paragraph reads like this:

　　When we first arrived I had no interest in celebrating Christmas, since I viewed Christianity with contempt. But when Nozomi had become mayor for a week, the first thing she had done is reinstate it with a concise "Christmas is back on, kettei!", later telling me Christmas for Japanese had never been about Christ anyway. Thinking back, I was thankful for her intervention. Christmas was the anniversary of when Sae and I became a couple. Now every year I got to hold her hand while lighting up City Hall's enormous Christmas tree.

Like a fractal, sometimes the best edits are of previous edits.  Until even the edits are edited the editing never stops.

Meanwhile, the second episode of Tamayomi was uninspiring.  The girls don't get along well enough with each other, and people who are constantly insulting each other are grating and depressing to watch.  Then there's the issue with the overuse of cg in all their motion scenes.  It's like they aren't even trying to produce a beautiful work of art.  So barebones and workmanlike, clearly the budget wasn't enough.

There's a third problem too -- Major 2nd itself is at least halfway about a girl's baseball team, and it is fully hand drawn, with Kana Hanazawa voicing the main heroine, etc.  It's showing up Tamayomi so much at its own game that there's no place left for Tamayomi's existence.  Major 2nd is strictly superior.  Why watch an inferior version of the same thing?