Hello everyone,
Here we are to talk again about the loli basketball anime series named Ro-Kyu-Bu that finally got to its seventh episode after the week break for the O-Bon Festival. (Strangely not all series stopped airing, but only some of them. I wonder why...)
This episode marks the clear transition of Ro-Kyu-Bu from a "anime about Basketball with a bunch of cute girls" to a "anime about cute girls with some basketball game here and there", and while this is not good for plot purpose is still entertaining enough for me to keep going forward in this series.
This episode, as predicted by many of us, switch the focus to another of the main heroines and by the look of it they'll likely go over all of them by the end of the series.
Airi Kashii, the heroine that is the focus of this episode, is shown somehow distracted during the practice game and prompt Subaru to do some investigation to learn about the reason behind the distraction. After the discovery of the reason behind Airi's sad face, Subaru is invited to help her learn to swim in Maho's villa and everything continue with the classic rhymes of a love comedy like many other harem series in the past.
Between the many comedy scenes, I laughed out loud at the scene where Hina jumped right on the face of Subaru (twice actually if you consider the villa's scene as well)! Another quite obvious point in this episode (that we were all expecting after all) were the many fanservice scenes involving the girls, especially Airi...
...after watching her in bathsuit I can clearly says that she can't possibly be a "elementary schooler", I mean she is bigger than Aoi I think. 
In this episode we also had some build-up from the Aoi side as well. We finally get to know for sure that she loves Subaru, but unfortunately she continue to be unable to find him available for a chat or for a study-review-session ending up being quite frustrated.
She is also the main point of the cliffhanger right at the end of the episode with her appearance in the basketball team gym right when Subaru was teaching them how to play. Her face wasn't really happy about the discovery and I suppose there will be some level of angst in the next couple of episodes.
Looking Ro-Kyu-Bu from the technical side we still get the same old situation. We have a rather nice seiyuu level (loving more and more Tomoka's voice) combined with the animation department that continues to be mediocre at best with great problems on pretty much everything. This is especially true in all the scenes involving characters shown from a distance.
Next episode will likely involve again the pair Airi/Aoi, and I wonder how they're going to resolve the incoming fight between Aoi and Subaru. After all Subaru is, looking from the eyes of Aoi, doing the exact same thing that caused the disband of his basketball team.
I surely hope Subaru isn't going to come out to Aoi with some of his rather suspicious lines (something on the genre of "Elementary schoolers are the best!" that we heard in the last couple of episodes) increasing her rage even more...
The series is still delivering great entertainment at the moment and I'm getting rather fond of the characters. (especially Aoi and Tomoka are pretty high in my rankings)
I wonder if they'll go for a definitive ending or they'll leave us some hope for a second season...
See you soon,
feal87