I love how Makoto added the School Idol Diary (not the manga) detail that Nico's father is dead.
I love it when people use that bit of non-anime touched canon and use it to drop into the anime's canon..
this amount of angst is fitting for these two, who wall themselves off and have a really hard time letting anyone in. makes those moments when they open up to each other all the more satisfying : ) i can't wait to see how this one ends.