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In episodes 21 and 22 (at least towards the beginning of the latter episode)
of the "second season", we see Kaiki in a number of shirts in the same scene
in the Okinawan cafe.

He first appears in a pink shirt (which he wasn't initially wearing in the
airplane):

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/duioR.png)

Before changing to a blue shirt and a yellow shirt:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DDa5Pm.png) ![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8DLrqm.png)

In the toilet, we see him in what appears to be a different pink Hawaiian
shirt, and in the beginning of episode 22, we see him in an orange shirt:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zLIHIm.png)![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hvyr0m.png)

The changes in shirt seem to coincide with "pauses" in the conversation - e.g.
pauses indicated by the "black screen", or Kaiki's own thoughts (accompanied
by images such as departing airplanes). But the conversation between
Senjogahara and Kaiki probably takes place over a bit more than the course of
one afternoon. If that's the case, should Kaiki's changes of shirt be taken as
something stylistic without much meaning, or is there some significance to it?


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Why does Kaiki keep changing shirts?


As you can see, the interior coloring of the cafe changes too. We could assume
that they're moving together to a new place every now and then, or that the
cafe decorator is currently working 400% with customers still in the cafe.
Senjougahara also changes her "disguises" between scenes. We can assume they
have enough money to afford all that, and are changing between their meetings.

But what's really going on is probably just Shaft doing a comedy thing with
changing decorations to somewhat lighten up the mood of a very serious
discussion between Kaiki and Hitagi.


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