Last year's Tanabata: the 11th grade girls of the music club dance under the Tanabata trees. 

This forlorn-looking Tanabata Tree was the only Tanabata decoration I saw at the school this year. 

Close-up of the kogane-gumo (lit. "gold spider"). 

This witness doesn't seem to care. 

"Ha ha! My perch is higher! Hello? Hey, you! I'm talking to you! Are you listening? Hey..." 

The vanquished, would-be usurper lies low in the brush. 

His Royal Redness, King Aka surveys his kingdom from his throne, which he has just recaptured from the little upstart, Tora.