Contrasted to the main anime where there is a marked lack of development, the progress that the couples are shown to make here may delight some viewers. I'm reading the manga now but have not read much of it yet, so I don't know if they also make that much progress there. Maybe they do, or maybe it's just an anime-only twist. Regardless, to me this sudden disruption of the status-quo was a disappointment. And that goes doubly so for the second episode - I want my Ai-chan's relationship to remain pure and platonic. If I may talk about a "special" that I'd like to seefor a minute, it'd definitely be one based on the crossover manga with "Ganbare Douki-chan". Hopefully they do that in the future...