7. 無銭飲食列伝 (The Free Meal Recollection): One afternoon, Akiho invites Iriya to go do some research for the newspaper by sampling the foods at various restaurant. She doesn't think that Iriya would come, but to her surprise, Iriya makes a phone call back home and agrees to participate. Meanwhile, Asaba is out cleaning (and messing around at) the school's pool with his buddies and they mention to him that Akiho was looking for him during the firestorm dance on the last night of the festival.

Akiho and Iriya hits some cafes first. Akiho would order the food and Iriya would say that she wants the same. Akiho observes that Iriya eats like a robot, very methodical and lacking emotion. At the second restaurant, Akiho tries to strike up a conversation and tells Iriya all the things she did with Asaba at the festival Iriya couldn't come to. When she mentions that she danced with Asaba, Iriya catches this lie right off the bat.

The last place they go to is a chinese restaurant where one of the featured foods is the "Iron Man Dish." The restaurant promises that whoever can finish the entire course in 60 minutes or less and doesn't hurl can have their meal on the house, otherwise it costs ~$40 bucks. There's a list posted of all the past "Iron Men" and listed on their is Suizenji being the youngest to finish everything. Akiho orders it and Iriya says she'll have the same. The waiter tries to tell them what they're in for, but the two girls don't care. A competition is brewing.

At first, the other people in the restaurant don't think the girls have a chance, but when they finish the first dish, ramen, they start taking notice. The second dish is 5 gyozas, but they're particularly large. Akiho almost throws up during this stage but manages to keep it in her mouth. Even people outside are starting to take notice.

The last dish is Chinese rice. Halfway through, Iriya gets another nosebleed and it gushes onto her food, making what is described to be like Mapo Tofu. She continues eating though. Eventually Akiho wins by a couple of bites of rice and celebrates. She doesn't remember much after though as the two of them pass out. When they wake up in the back room of the restaurant, Akiho and Iriya wake up and confess to each other that neither wanted to lose to each other. They become better friends, but there's still a sense of rivalry.

8. 水前寺応答せよ（前編） (Please Answer, Suizenji, First Part): It's a peaceful evening soon after and Asaba's parents also inform him about how they met Akiho at the festival. Suddenly the ground starts shaking and there's a loud explosion. Asaba runs up to Yuuko's room, which faces the mountains and the base, and sees that there's smoke coming from that area. There also seems to be some tracer bullets being fired from helicopters. The news that night state the obvious -- that there was an explosion -- but no official confirmation of what caused it as the military chooses to keep quite, both the self-defense forces and the American army stationed there. It may be a transport plane crashing (but Asaba later thinks why the tracer bullets?), but rumors circulate that it may be an UFO.

The next day they still have class, and Iriya is also there. She's surrounded by her classmates all asking if she knew anything. She says she doesn't and was hiding in the bomb shelter during the time. Their teacher then comes in announcing that class has been cancelled for the rest of the day, but they're supposed to go home immediately. Asaba's group of friends decide to spend the day having fun and go bowling. They invite Iriya to come and she does so. Asaba also finds out from a encrypted message left by Suizenji that he's gone to investigate the crash.

After a round of bowling, they go outside and see that Enomoto has found Iriya. He scolds her for not calling him and goes as far as punching her, rendering her unconscious, and carrying her back to the base. The group is so shocked at what they see that they disband without saying a word to each other.

The next day, Asaba explains to Akiho that the guy is supposedly the brother, but strangely, he calls her by her surname, not her given name, Kana. To everyone's surprise, Iriya shows up, but her hair is pure white, rather than purple. Since hair coloring is prohibited at school, their teacher goes up to her and grabs her by the hair. He pulls out a large chunk of it. As he's stands there speechless, Iriya gets paged. As she leaves, Asaba runs after her as he knows she won't be coming back for the day, at least. Asaba see Iriya at the bottom of the stairway. She asks if he's going to go hide in the shelters, he says that he's not and will be waiting for her. She tells him that everything will be fine, in the same manner that he said to her when they first met.

9. 水前寺応答せよ（後編） (Please Answer, Suizenji, Last Part): The city is falling into chaos with a lot of people leaving for the shelters. The government and military still won't say what happened. Suizenji has been missing since the incident in the mountains and now, Asaba sees that most of his classmates aren't coming to school anymore, including Akiho.

Iriya still comes to class, but Asaba notices that she seems to be going blind. During break, he finds her at the top of the clock tower, and his suspicions are confirmed. Her vision is severely impaired despite her denials. She then has a seizure. Asaba finds Mayumi and they manage to sedate Iriya with multiple injections directly into her heart.

With Iriya calm now, Asaba starts cleaning up the place. He finds an orange bag that Iriya had and sees that it's a collection of all the things he threw out. It seems like a good luck charm that she carries around. Asaba then starts accusing of Mayumi and Enomoto of doing this to Iriya. Her health is degrading and her hair turned white because she's a pilot for the Black Manta plane. Mayumi doesn't take his verbal abuse and ends up pummeling Asaba until Iriya grabs her leg in a gesture to ask her to stop.

As he's passed out, Asaba remembers back a few months ago when he went over to Suizenji's house and they found a map of the mountains near the base. That place used to be Suizenji's ancestor's property and they had dug tunnels underground. This map details those tunnels.

Sure enough, Suizenji has been in those tunnels these past few days and finally came out and sees *it*.

Back in the club room, the bruised Asaba waits for Suizenji to come as he mentioned in his note. Iriya shows up in the room too with a fresh set of clothes, unlike Asaba. Asaba then gets a call from Suizenji, who's in a telephone booth somewhere. He tells him that "it's alive!" but before he can say anymore, Asaba hears some glass break and a struggle before the line goes dead. He then tells Iriya to run away with him and not go back to the base. Iriya tells him that's not possible because he's bugged. He has a biological transmitter implanted behind his right ear.

With that, Asaba runs into the bathroom with a cutter and a lighter and digs it out (this part still makes me cringe). Iriya finds him in the bathroom drenched in blood, but without the bug in him anymore. They make their escape. Enomoto later shows at the bathroom and finds some dirty clothes and wet underwear.

Bonus. ESPの夏 (Summer of ESP): It's the middle of February before the main story occurs and Asaba and Suizenji are in their club room under a kotatsu talking. While trying to guess at some poker cards, Asaba and Suizenji start talking about the supernatural. Despite having an interest in it, Suizenji is disbeliever as he believes everything can be explained. They talk about the different senses that people have and the supposed 6th sense. Then their alarm rings signaling the beginning of lunch. During the break, Suizenji and Asaba go in the broadcasting room and announce over the P.A. system that they're doing an experiment in ESP. They're interrupted halfway when their science teacher storms in, but they manage to get some entries.

キミボクそして私が立つ今日 (You and Me, and Today I Stand):
Chapter 2: Agnes tries to convince Yuuki to help her in defeating the spirit of the school and escape the place. While Yuuki and Agne's chipmunk show their doubt, she unveils her secret weapon, her combat suit. Unfortunately, the suit looks like something a cosplayer would wear. As she changes, there's a slight flashback to explain why she's dropped out of school 7 times; it's because she's always been teased by her peers for being different and causing trouble because of it.

After putting on her outfit, Shizuki shows up and admires Agnes's clothing. Agnes then starts to attack her. At first, Shizuki thinks it's just a game and plays along. But later, she gets just a bit serious and counter attacks and wears out Agnes.

聖竜伝 (Legend of the Sacred Dragon):
Chapter 3: Shin, Latkis, and Fana come across this mysterious village with a queen named Madora. After a brief scuffle with the people there celebrating her birthday, Madora invites the 3 guests into her castle. She offers them all the food that they want and Shin and Fana dig in. Latkis on the other hand, is a little wary. He step out for a bit and then comes back to find Shin and Fana asleep. Madora explains that they're living out their dreams, Shin is with his deceased nanny and Fana with her parents. Madora tells Latkis to join them too, but he refuses. Suddenly, Shin takes out his dragon scale and Madora's true form is revealed. She's actually a skeleton. In fact, the whole city is dead. The three manage to escape from the place and it's explained that this city was wiped out long ago by the dragons. Fana, however, is extremely saddened now that she had to leave her parents for the second time (even though it was only a dream, but then again, she's only 10 or so).

1. 少年はその日変わった (The Boy Changed on that Day)
2. 少女は少女であることを自覚した (The Girl Realized She's a Girl)
3. 初めての… (The First...)
4. とまり、悩む (Tomari in Distress)
5. はずむの心 (Hazumu's Heart)
6. やす菜の目に映るもの (The Thing Yasuna Sees)
7. 少女三角形 (Girls Triangle)

Gunslinger Girl: 第２５話　ピノッキオ（４） (Pinocchio 4): Christiano and John come to Franca's aid and rescue her by killing her captives. Later on, when Henrietta and Joseph come to investigate, they almost get killed by a trap placed underneath a dead body. 4 months pass and Franca, Franco, and Pinocchio are at the vineyard still. They find out that Christiano has been sold-out and captured.

Ichigo Marshmallow: ??: Due to some money problems, Nobue decides to find a job. As she's doing so, the other girls think what jobs they could possibly do. On a phone call with a potential employer, Miu jumps in and screams "Fungaa" into the headset just as Nobue is about to hang up. She thinks this will leave a good impression. During the interview, Nobue finds out that Miu wrote "Fungaa" on her application too.

Muv-luv: 6: On the island, Mikoto and Takeru are paired up for survival training. Mikoto is obviously the better soldier and is able to see many of the traps. Along their journey though, they have a few awkward and close moments. After avoiding another trap, Mikoto loses their gear down the cliff and then Takeru gets bitten by a snake.

Kashimashi: 8: After seeing Yasuna kiss Hazumu, Tomari has started to give Hazumu the cold shoulder. After enduring this for a few days, Hazumu decides to go over to Tomari's house and apologize. They make up after he explains that he made a promise to her years ago that he would be his groom.

To Heart R: 4: Hiroyuki and Akari go visit the university and see Maruchi there. After bumping into one another, Hiroyuki and Akari go sit in on some classes. Maruchi discovers that her predecessor, HMX-11 is at the school too. After the classes, Hiroyuki visits the professor who created the androids and is surprised to find out that HMX-11 is out and about. They then find that HMX-11 has taken Maruchi hostage as she's jealous that Maruchi has empathy and she does not and couldn't show her love for her previous master. But they convince her that by feeling this sadness means that she does have feelings. After the incident, Akari runs off being jealous of Hiroyuki's affections for Maruchi.

KuraKURA: 6: Runa (the mother) goes into more detail about her prior relationship and how she gave birth to Runa, the daughter.

Psiren: 7: Soichiro's group has developed a new android with multiple appendages like a spider and the Psiren are out combatting it. At first, it seems like the android would win and during the battle, it fondles Meruna (as a Psiren) and gives Soichiro and the operators some interesting footage, but eventually Meruna is able to defeat the robot.

Uta~Kata: 5: Ichika has fallen ill and Manatsu is taking care of her. Ichika is able to walk around by herself, but when Sei comes over, she pretends to be asleep. When he leaves, she sees him meeting up with Saya and suddenly transforms and attacks Saya. Then then comes to her senses. She's now confused as to why this is happening to her.

Karin: 恥の２１「ヴァンパイア集会とかりんのクリスマス〜Holy Night〜」 (Vampire Gathering and Karin's Christmas): Karin has been asked to work during Christmas at the Julian restaurant and offers to do it as she sees that Kenta will be working too. Meanwhile, her parents are off to the north to the yearly vampire gathering. At the meeting, there's discussion about the decreasing numbers of vampires and everyone is envious of Karin's family as there are kids. The parents proudly exclaim that they have a loving family, but in fact, they're pretty embarrassed about Karin and don't want her abnormality to be leaked into the public. Meanwhile, work goes as usual and Kenta gets a heater as a bonus for the overtime work and brings it home proudly as he and his mother don't have one.

Maburaho Colorful: 第３話「くりこ、プラチナゴールドの野望」の巻 ("Kuriko, Platinum Gold Ambitions" Chapter): Kuriko is after Kazuki again, this time she has the idea that if created a monster, Kazuki would come rescue her like how he has rescued Yuuna and Rin previously. However, her little puppy refuses to transform, so she tries to convince Kazuki that it's really a monster. Kazuki runs away at first, but then comes back with garlic and clothing (the puppy ripped her clothing when she tried to wake it). Kuriko apologizes for doubting him.

Tsubame Syndrome: ACT14[偽者（イミテーション）] (Imitation): After some research, Ura finds out that Cocktail's Origin Heart is a fake. Cocktail then escapes her research chambers and goes to find Taiga. She tries to make him lunch at school, but Taiga is happy with just Tsubame's lunch box. Cocktail doesn't understand why he's so attached to her and tosses the lunch box into the swimming pool. Taiga risks his life to retrieve it and Cocktail flies off to be alone.

Supasu-pa: ２５「柄杜家のお正月」 (New Year's at Tsukamori's): Because Itsuki lives in a shrine, New Year's is always busy. This year, they have Suzu to help out, but things are still hectic. Suzu asks if he has some free time, and when he says he doesn't, she becomes a little depressed. Itsuki finally gives in and says he has some time to be with her. Suzu then has him wait as she changes into a traditional kimono and watches the sunrise on new year's with him.

Maid Guy: 3: Naeka tries her hardest to pretend that she doesn't care about guys, but gets particularly excited when she finds a love letter in her locker. At home, Kogarashi tries to find out who it is and is determined to help out (in his own way). Flashback to Naeka's first crush and how she almost killed him with her homemade cooking. At school, she's really giddy and finally she meets up with her crush. It's a fellow girl.

Full Metal Panic: MISSION56 Show Down: Tessa brings the submarine to sea level causing the torpedo to avoid them. Galon escapes from the helm and manages to go to the hanger and jump into Venom. Sosuke follows and jumps into his mecha and prepares for a fight.

Love Dog: 第４話「櫻おねーちゃんと一緒」 (With Sakura): Sakura, the second eldest decides to stay home rather than going on a walk with her sisters. The reason is that she wants to change into some pretty clothes, which is a hobby she keeps a secret. Shinichiro comes home unexpectedly and sees her in non-black clothing. The two of them then go out and take a walk together.

Taisetsu na Koto: Step 12: 最後の体育祭 (The Last Athletic Festival): After being out sick for a while, she goes back to school to find that a lot of has changed. Namely, Ryutaro is now a popular guy because of his running abilities. She prepares lunch for everyone at the festival, but no one joins her except for Mitsuaki.

Girl Following: 第４話「涙の理由」 (Reason for Tears): Miori returns to her own body, but the next day, Natsuru re-possess it. At school, Eitaro tells her that she needs to behave like she's Miori, but she forgets and mistakenly sits at her old desk. After school, she and Eitaro go back to her mother's house and weeps when she sees her mom.

Nodoka Nobody: 七の湯「日本の心」 (7, Heart of Japan): Nodoka's new client is at the Ashiko hot springs in Kanagawa. There, she finds out that they have an exchange student for a month. The girl, Ema Walsh (half Japanese), has an interest in photography and stays out late every night taking pictures. However, she doesn't seem to be able to find the beauty that she's been looking for. When the bath is completed, Nodoka shows Ema the view of Mt. Fuji and that's when she realizes that she's found the image she's looking for and finally explains why she came to Japan. She wants to see the beauty that her late Japanese mother described.