tamako market - 03
The shopping district, and the people within it, are an extension of Tamako's family and identity. When Shiori enters those halls for the first time, she's exploring that construct, akin to those hammy dream-scenes in certain other properties where the protagonist wanders around a person's memories, represented by the opening of ethreal doors, peering into flashbacks. It's such a wonderful scene, representing physically that introduction into Tamako's world, and the beginning of their friendship.
What a lovely episode - it really is the time for cherry blossoms and young hearts. The interspersed shots of the blossoming trees, and the opening up of the newest moeblob's heart, the end of her social isolation -
hnngh.
On the subject of the quality background girl, she's consistently flat-faced and bad of posture! Her arms in the first screenshot aren't poorly drawn, they're just prosthetics! She lost them in a tragic cake-baking incident! Kyoani masterplan! Suck it haters!