Oh no, it's even worse, babies develop object permanence by 6 to 9 months so Sekai had to be playing peekaboo before that age... Sekai was in love with a literal baby...
I would bet money it's the Janis Ian song. While there are some similarities between "At Seventeen" and "Can't Smile Without You", the chord progressions are not the same, and the Janis Ian song has the bossa nova beat that the song in the happy event has.
I think you're probably right, i listened to it again earlier and it matched more the more i listened, also, the whole Amy repeatedly mentioning 17 backs it up so i figure there's a far better chance it's this song than the Barry song.
Hearing both songs, the mall song is definitely derived from the Janis Ian track, but I don't know if I'd ever heard that song prior to this weekend. The Manilow track I definitely recognize from the easy-listening crap I had to hear in the car as a kid.
Ha - the Janis Ian song is the first one I went to.
I've always thought it was a pretty great song - the lyrics are killer.
It's a trap. Also, @Selebus, you know you can move the hearts or actually make them the Iris?
What makes you say that? I don't really recall things about Sekai, before her marriage, being mentioned. Unless I've just forgotten.
I'd be more worried about Yumi, Chinami is easy to deal with: just throw a handful of peanuts in her general direction.
It's unsaid, just implied, how else could she have known Akira as a baby to be able to play peekaboo with him? I guess she could've just been a baby sitter but think she might've been too young at that point, unless she's way older than expected, i figure she can't be more than about 10 years older and i wouldn't trust a 10 year old with a baby so that pretty much just leaves a friend of the family or a relative. Tie that in with marrying Nozomu and there's got to be some degree of spending time with the Arakawa family spread over many years.
I'm pretty sure Nao-chan is a lovecraftian horror, but I am 100% okay with that.
I mean, Sekai may have just married Nozomu around the time Sensei was born. We don't really have any specific ages to go off of, as far as I can recall, when to comes to Nozomu or Sekai. I also don't really recall Sekai being referred to as young, even during the peekaboo thing when Sensei was little. It's definitely hard to tell though, since characters tend to look notably younger than they are.
