Finessing the Shizu-sama Doctrine
Theological finessing of doctrine is important. It’s been said that: ‘Theology is a device for helping agnostics to stay within the Church of England.’ Likewise for anime doctrines.
Evirus’ definition of the Ayako Doctrine has the virtue of being simple and clear:
Any anime featuring Kawasumi Ayako should be watched.
But, like any prudent person, he also introduced a few qualifications.
Note that the Ayako Doctrine does not claim every anime featuring Ayako Kawasumi will be good, nor does it dictate that these anime must be watched to completion. The Ayako Doctrine merely compels the viewer’s consideration, reasoning that her presence can only be positive.
This certainly applies to the Shizu-sama Doctrine too. Certainly not every anime with Shizuka Itou will be good. In some cases, like this season’s Index, she has only really had a decent number of lines in two episodes (5-6?); the frequency of her presence in Index was somewhat like Wirhelmina’s in the first Shana season de arimasu. Certainly ‘her presence can only be positive’ but sometimes it can’t compensate for a high number of negatives. But, at times, it can give buy a series just enough time for a viewer like myself to latch onto something else and, thus, continue to watch the series.
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Baka-Raptor’s reckoning that Kei was 
An ominous sense about Himawari had been building up since the first season and we finally learnt the reason why. Shizu-sama is at her best when playing women who are strong but with a vulnerable side too like Tama-nee from 
And she made a great sacrifice to save Watanuki’s life. Large deep scars don’t just adversely affect a cute girl’s appearance but as anyone with significant amount of scar tissue knows, the scars themselves can feel stiff. Or even painful. But mostly annoying, for example, when you walk into an air-conditioned room from hot outdoors and you can feel the scar(s) pulling as they contract at a different rate from the surrounding flesh. Her tearful lines about being sad at causing Watanuki’s accident but being glad to have saved the life of the only person who has said he was glad to have met her was also great Shizu-sama stuff: tears of pain and sadness mixed with tears of relief and happiness.
We get more Itou Shizuka goodness when Watanuki gives Himawari the little bird that he ‘incubated’, a bird born just for Himawari and thus immune to her attribute. Watanuki has always described her as cute and cheerful but this is probably the first time that we’ve seen her .gif)
