The slice of life sweetness continues with Potte having to face her next arduous duty as president of the Photography Club: the club recruiting day presentation. Once again the art, music, writing, and animation are all spot on for this lovingly created healing anime. Will Potte’s club gain new members, or is she doomed to spend her time with her friends in her club room with no club to speak of?
Impressions: I really don’t have much to say about this episode. It was sweet, it brought a tear to my eye at least once, and so far I really like the new character, Kanae Mitani. When I first saw her I thought she looked like a bit loli, then I was surprised to find that she is a third year student. But when she stands next to Potte, she looks like her sempai, and she is so darn cute!
Episode Recap:
As she heads to school, Potte looks positively terror struck. Seeing her friend, Kaoru realizes that today is the “big day” when all of the school’s clubs get to make presentations to the 
students to recruit new members. Potte is nervous beyond belief and barely manages to get out a feeble “Let’s Photo!” before dissolving into an incoherent babble. Her friends, adviser, and homeroom teacher all hang their heads in defeat, but in the back of the room, someone is watching with great interest.
Afterward, the girls are sitting in the club room eating and Potte realizes she forgot to actually mention the name of the club. Moen reminds her that she at least mentioned the word “photo”, so it should be OK. But the real concern is not the recruitment 
presentation, but what happened when the third year, award winning photographer Kanae Mitani came to the club room the other day. What we saw before was her opening the door and saying, “I heard you made a photography club.” It turns out that after she said that, there was an uncomfortable silence and she simply said “Bye” and left. They all really wonder what her deal is.
The club adviser comes in with information on photography competitions and wants Potte to fill out the one she wants to enter and says she’ll send it off the next day. Potte reminds her that she has to take the picture first, which again demonstrates 
how much of an airhead this teacher is. But there’s more, she has a pile of paperwork that Potte has to fill out describing the clubs goals and stuff like that, as well as any equipment requisitions, all due this week. It seems that creating a club is a lot of work…
While Potte works on paperwork, the other three decide they’re going to investigate Mitani-san and see if they can talk to her. They find her, but she runs away from them. Meanwhile, Potte 
is filling out her club goals but has trouble getting past “Take Photographs”. She looks at Kanae’s photograph in the magazine and has a thought. She adds: “That bring hearts together”. She is her father’s daughter, after all.
Kanae sees the girls leaving school and zooms in on Potte. She seems to be fixated on her quite a bit. Kaoru’s sister has sent them all a text telling them to come to Cafe Tamayura after school. They’re wondering what it is all about, but happy to 
have some of Potte’s grandma’s latest dessert, a strawberry and cream filled crepe. It turns out that they were called there so Kou and his friend Komachi have made a banner congratulating Potte. It is quite cute. They talk about the problem with Kanae and how she seems to want to say something to Potte about the club, but can’t do it. After getting other peoples’ advice, Potte decides she has to talk to her.
She is working up her courage when Dougou-sensei calls Potte to the office. The reason he did it was really to advertise Potte’s club by talking about it over the loudspeaker system. However, 
he also has an idea: he wants Potte to talk about her club at the upcoming Sakura Fair. Kaoru is on the planning committee it seems, since her parents are the main event planners for the fair, but she seems unsure if it is a good idea. Potte, however, seems very determined. She’ll do it!
The rest of the girls tell Potte that she really seemed “presidential” when she decided to speak at the fair. She says she 
will be happy with just one or two members joining, but she really wants to find someone to share her love of photography with so they can learn from each other. That is why she started the club, so she will go and talk to Kanae Mitani-san and find out what she wanted to say to her the other day.
When Potte finds Kanae she immediately turns away from her, running up the stairs, but Potte follows after and calls out to her from the landing. Kanae then turns to Potte and apologizes for taking her picture without permission. Potte tells her that 
wasn’t a problem and asks if she can talk to her. [As an aside, this is something that I had wondered about since the whole contest photo thing came up. It is standard practice for contests to require model release forms for photos with people as the primary subject of the work. In this case, she really should have gotten a release from Potte, either before she took the picture or after she took it, when she knew she was going to use it in a publication...]
The go to the club room and Kanae seems a bit reluctant, but comes in. Then she sees Potte’s photos stuck on the whiteboard across the room and is instantly drawn in. The look on her face as she appreciates the photos is priceless. She turns to Potte, seemingly a different person, much kinder and gentler than she has seemed before, and tells her that she thought of starting a photography club too. Potte apologizes for having done it instead of her, but she tells her it isn’t a problem. She thought of it as a freshman, but when she thought about how much work it 
would be and the fact that she would have to be the leader of the group, she couldn’t do it and put the thought aside as too much trouble. She tells Potte that she is always like this, over-thinking things and failing to accomplish anything. She isn’t really sure how she even managed to send the picture in to the contest. She also tells Potte that she went to the We Exhibition and saw her photos there, but when she realized that Potte was the girl whose picture she took without permission, she couldn’t work up the courage to talk to her, though she really wanted to talk to her and tell her how much she loved her photos. She loved seeing Takahara from another person’s perspective. Kanae thinks Potte’s pictures are much better than hers.
Potte says she doesn’t think so and she really wanted to meet her and see more of her pictures. She wants to find out how she takes them, how she chooses her subjects, and learn about her photography and to share her own ideas with Kanae. So will she 
please join her? Will she become a member of the Photography Club?
Kanae agrees, saying that she probably wouldn’t have had the courage to join if Potte hadn’t invited her. They celebrate by taking a picture of the two club members on their first day together as a club.
I love this show more and more each week. It is sweetness and light personified, but with a depth that really touches the heart on a regular basis. The happiness the two girls felt at finding someone to share their love of photography with reminded me of some of the great people I have “met” online at various photography sites and made me think I need to start posting my photography to more places again, something I have gotten away from over the past few years. While it may seem like a little, light weight piece of fluff anime, Tamayura ~More Aggressive~, indeed, the whole Tamayura franchise, is really a very powerful story, with the ability to do what Potte wants to do with her photos: bring hearts together.
Enough gushing… until next week at least… Here is the slideshow of this week’s screenshots: