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Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12, titled Chin Up and Face Forward, was released on September 18, 2024, on Tokyo MX and other channels in Japan. In this episode, Alya delivered a beautiful speech at the closing ceremony, with a clear resolve to win over the audience.
Her clarity of ideas and resounding belief in herself resonated with other students, as she received more applause than Yuki Suou, who also delivered a fascinating speech. Undoubtedly, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 was a spectacular finale, where Alya's character came full circle as she faced not only the crowd but also herself.
Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers from Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12: Alya does her final rehearsal with Masachika for the closing ceremony
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 commenced with Alya rehearsing her speech at the auditorium, with Masachika Kuze guiding her. The boy acknowledges Alya's efforts and feels if she can replicate her performance in the closing ceremony, she will do fine.
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However, Alya appears slightly nervous, especially because the closing ceremony will have a bigger audience than the student congress. She wonders how she can engage the audience like Masachika.
After joking about how it all comes down to experience, Masachika tells Alya a trick to grab the audience's attention. The episode doesn't reveal the trick just yet. Following that, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 shows Yuki Suou appearing at the scene, accompanied by Ayano Kimishima.
Yuki and Masachika engage in a competitive banter, which sets the mood for the closing ceremony. Yuki asks Alya whether she's disappointed to see her actual self. However, the silver-haired girl feels it's only natural to behave differently in different situations.
She also thanks Yuki for allowing her to introspect and realize why she truly wants to become the student council president. Alya promises to reveal it through her speech at the closing ceremony. Meanwhile, Masachika feels Yuki should be ready to face the challenge since she started it herself.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 then shows Kenzaki, Maria, and Chisaki arriving at the scene. The student council president wonders how they should decide the order of the closing ceremony's speeches.
Masachika is against the idea of deciding it through rock-paper-scissor, so the party eventually settles for a coin toss. As Maria flips the coin, Yuki delves into a thought, wondering what she should do if she wins the toss. Interestingly, Alya loses the toss, so Yuki gets to decide. After much deliberation, she chooses to go first.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12: Yuki delivers her speech and states her vision
The narrative for Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 skips to the closing ceremony, where Kenzaki, Maria, and Chisaki deliver short and humorous speeches to set the stage for Yuki and Alya. The announcer calls Yuki to the stage first, who shares her vision, or goal, should she become the president.
Yuki Suou assures the students to create an academy where students' opinions are taken seriously. While she feels it's a cliched concept, Yuki shows a student suggestion box, which remains empty most of the time. While it's readily available for everyone, seldom do students suggest things because they feel it's a waste of time.
Yuki wants to change that thought. She knows the current president and the student council members have a lot to do, which is why they don't get enough time to pay attention to it. However, she assures everyone to organize many events, and pay heed to their suggestions.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 then switches the perspective to Masachika, who feels Yuki has everything but substance. Meanwhile, Ayano takes the stage after Yuki, delivering a well-curated and safe speech to glorify Yuki.
Masachika Kuze knows Yuki and Ayano must be plotting to shut the door for them. However, he remains composed. The boy reminds Alya of the purpose of the event and wants her to express herself with clarity.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12: Alya's resounding speech wows the audience
The narrative for Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 moves to the next phase, as Alya takes the stage to deliver her speech. The crowd still cheers for Yuki and Ayano, whose speeches remain fresh in their mind. However, to everyone's surprise, Alya opens her speech in Russian.
The audience is stunned into silence as they can't fathom what's happening. Shortly after, Alya resumes her speech in Japanese, apologizing to everyone that she defaulted to Russian due to being nervous.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 reveals Alya beginning her speech in Russian was a trick suggested by Masachika. He knew it would be ideal to break the crowd's buzz created by Yuki and Ayano. After successfully gaining the crowd's attention, Alya begins her actual speech.
She briefly introduces herself and states her purpose of becoming the next year's student council president. Alya knows she neither has any track record to boast of nor does she fully understand a council's work. Despite that, she knows she can work harder than anyone.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 shows Alya telling everyone how she always strove to bring what she felt would be the ideal outcome to fruition. While she has tasted failures, she has learned from them.
The silver-haired girl also mentions how, in last year's middle school festival, she helped her class win the best attraction award with everyone's help. Even though she knows that she's lacking a lot to become a proficient student council president, she promises to close the gap.
If she thinks she's not worthy to become a president by next year's elections, Alya reveals she will voluntarily step down from the race. As such, she urges the audience to track her efforts because it will only fuel her to become the president they need.
Alya's grand speech in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 leaves everyone spellbound for a while before they begin to clap. Masachika compliments Alya's efforts and takes the stage. He begins with a joke and then casually reveals why he chose to support Alya over Yuki.
Masachika Kuze feels a student council shouldn't only be a capable person or a person with a strong mentality, but rather someone with the charisma to draw people to them. He feels Alya's speech cleared all doubts since it was heartfelt and genuine.
Masachika adds that he was drawn to that side of Alya, which is why he wants to support her in her pursuits. Not only that, he reveals that should Alya win the election, Nonoa and Taniyama, their rivals from the student congress, will work alongside them in the student council.
Yuki appears shocked as she didn't predict Masachika's plan. Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 then shows the audience breaking into applause for Alya and Masachika, even louder than they did for Yuki and Ayano.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12: Yuki admits defeat, Alya and Masachika share a moment
The narrative for Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 switches to Taniyama, who tells Alya that she has returned the favor. Even though they stay as rivals, she promises to help her, should she win the election. Meanwhile, Yuki admits her defeat but only for this day.
Following the closing ceremony, Alya and Masachika check their test results. Masachika secures 33rd place, failing to get into the top 30. He reminds Alya about the bet they made, where he had to do one thing Alya asked him for.
However, he soon finds out that Alya wasn't counting on winning the bet. Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 then shows Masachika asking Alya whether she would be comfortable addressing him by his initial name.
Alya accepts and calls Masachika by his name, which creates a sweet and embarrassing moment for the duo. He also asks Alya if she would meet him over the summer break. Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian episode 12 ends with Alya telling Masachika that she would do it gladly.
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