Megami no Café Terrace - Episode 20 - Akane Bites Burger

Akane said something about women and birthdays you should know, but the crumbs near her mouth distracted us.

Is this a clip show? So much has happened (thanks for the half-season montage) that Hayato forgot to celebrate Shiragiku’s birthday! He better do something. Uh oh. Akane’s grandmother looks at that same photo of the original Familia Café Terrace. Ha! Goddess Café Terrace changed the chef statue in Kappabashi to a cat. Kappabashi-dori (Kitchen Town) is a real-life location in Tokyo. Hayato still excels at making girls blush by casually dropping clues about how much he pays attention to them. Thankfully for Shiragiku, Akane can keep Hayato from buying stupid gifts for her.

I see no other men besides Hayato in this fast-food joint. Oof. Hayato bragged about how well his stocks had performed. But they couldn’t cover the bill for repairing the three holes he made at the haunted inn in the last Goddess Café Terrace episode. Idiot Hayato. A girl can’t tell the guy she likes that it’s her birthday. She’ll save that for married life to beat you over the head. Ack. Akane would have looked cooler saying this without burger sauce on her face. Oho. Akane went on a date with Hayato for her birthday! She dropped so many hints, Hayato. Apologize by marrying her, okay? How rare for harem anime to be so open about a character’s intentions and motivations to the harem king’s face.

Double birthday celebration for Shiragiku and Akane! I see a lot of Spanish food on the table. Shiragiku hasn’t let Hayato off the hook yet. Oh boy. Open catfighting during a birthday feast. Who’s ahead of whom in the harem Olympics? Akane secured a marriage promise! Eat that, Riho! Well then. Everyone gets to marry Hayato!

Oh, right. It’s already the Christmas season for Goddess Café Terrace. Ouka made Santa-style uniforms for the café. Ouka can’t yet comprehend how serious Akane is about her marriage proposal. How do you get “radio remote controller” out of “kekkon (marriage)?” And here comes the MIB! Oh. These are Hououji Security Personnel under orders to summon Hayato and Akane. Summoning or kidnapping? Po-tay-to, po-tah-to!

Ahaha! Grandma Youko is still angry at Masahiro for making her fall in love with him. Akane mistakenly told her grandmother she had found someone to marry. Oops. Hahaha! The Ami patrol car is in hot pursuit! Eep. Here’s another overly dramatic scene in Goddess Café Terrace. Katana-to-face: how do you protect your wife? A vaguely disappointing answer to follow after a small time skip. Let’s milk the expectation for fake emotional impact! That’s a vital question: Would Hayato marry into the Hououji house or Akane into the Kasukabe family? The flash-forward from the end of the previous Goddess Café Terrace says his wife joined the Kasukabe. But Akane will make him fall in love so hard that these family considerations won’t matter.

Grandma Youko realizes that Hayato looks and acts like Masahiro, but he thinks like Sachiko. Flashback to Sachiko’s first day at the Familia coffee shop. The younger versions of the grandmothers act just like their granddaughters. The flashback shows the day Masahiro took that famous picture of the original goddesses of the Familia Café Terrace. When do we meet Riho and Shiragiku’s grandmothers? Uh oh. Ami’s batteries are running low.