My hatred of Jirou is building. He's repeatedly proven himself to be the kind of guy that will forget one girl as long as he's in the presence of another without the first nearby. It's like all his cogitation over the hot milk he actually made for Akari the previous night just went right out the window, just because Akari didn't seem upset the next morning (Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Akari go through this exact same process previously? Would this not raise any flags in Jirou's head?), and he saw Shiori.
Meanwhile, and as I said, Shiori's only trying hard because she has competition.
@Rataniji,
@Benjiro: I'm currently playing Muv-Luv, and I'm going down the Sumika route first; I just got past the point at which you choose a meal made by someone else, and now I'm on what appears to be a date with Sumika. However, I say that Meiya is definitely the better girl. Don't get me wrong, Takeru is the kind of MC I hate--a donkan (just like Jirou, but worse). Even worse, he's a donkan who likes to pretend he's smart. On top of that, he's got a pretty bad personality, and the abuse he gets from Sumika is sometimes deserved. That said, sometimes, Sumika deserves what she gets, and that's a reason why (along with the abuse itself, MAJOR minus for any girl who does it; and no, I don't forgive the opposite either) Meiya's better.
The one thing Sumika has is that she wears thighhighs. Meiya's only flaw is that she wears pantyhose. I guess they had to make Sumika appealing in
some way, because she doesn't have much at all otherwise.