^ I am so dissapointed how the Shanghai arc went.
A plotline from way back in S1 that they decided to use one of their two episodes as mostly filler with the first half, then while I like the idea of focusing on KuuKa and being Kanon who pushes Keke this time, to be frank their relationship has been mostly ignored after the first 3 episodes of S1, with Keke having most of her development alongside Sumire past that, so it rubs me the wrong way that Sumire only got one scene while Kanon took the stage figuratively AND literally.
if my profile doesn't give a hint, I'd have LOVED if it had been both Kanon and Sumire EQUALLY who helped and supported Keke like she did for them before, even the credits image has them together!
But nah can't have that, as always Kanon gets the lion share of it all, while Sumire has gotten almost nothing the whole season (the credits of that episode being performed by Sumire and Keke kinda already told me that shewouldn't get her own episode this season... at least Ren was given some time during Kinako's episode...)
And when you put all that aside, even though Keke's growth in the episode was good I thought it was rather hard to take seriouly with how much Superstar doesn't want to have the parents show any presence at all, likely cause they would support her and Keke's problem is more so with herself felling in debt to them