Nagasarete Airantou 11

June 13th, 2007

Kagami Kagami. Children’s game? Or Queen of the Beasts?

Yes, I’m aware that the game is called Kagome-Kagome.

Impressions:

Kagami is a delightful character. Why are the mothers of all the girls so much more fun than the girls themselves? Another fairly enjoyable episode thanks to Kagami’s very playful demeanor, no “zettai muri!” and only a couple bloodshowers, one of which ended up in icicles. And Machi attempting to communicate by morse code definitely got a chuckle out of me.

Summary:

In some kind of strange bizarro opening, the show starts with Ikuto washing Suzu’s back and then carrying her into the bath. To the surprise of nobody it was just a dream. Ikuto wakes up and sees Suzu sleep-bathing in a pot mumbling about taking a bath with Ikuto. He then drags her out of the pot and Suzu easily wins the ‘wet nightshirt’ contest for the month and Karin Ikuto spews blood all over the place.

Because of her night bathing, Suzu’s sick the next day, but it’s just a cold and Ikuto has to take care of her by bringing over some ice. Elsewhere on the island, new-style Yukino and her animals are making shaved ice. As it turns out, it’s actually Yukino’s mother Kagami. Yukino comes up and we quickly learn who wears the pants in their strange animal-centric family.

Yukino and Kagami help Ikuto in the search for the ice that he was sent for. Yukino has it, but apparently Kagami and the animals used all of it for the shaved ice. Kagami and the beasties volunteer to vomit it up for Ikuto, but he decides to pass. Yukino tells Ikuto that she’ll help him get the ice from the mountain and Kagami offers to help as well, but Yukino tries to dump her, only to get another earful.

Over with our lovely little voodoo priestess, she’s fantasizing about shaved ice as well and summons Ayane with a well placed poke. Back with Ikuto and crew, Kuma Kuma is carting them along when Machi suddenly appears on the back of the cart. With her comes various signs of bad luck, a black cat, a broken sandal string, etc. Machi gets left behind by Ikuto and the crew, so she decides to communicate her whims to Ayane by morse code and poking the voodoo doll.

The superfriends continue their journey up the mountain to find the ice, joined by the winter animals when Ikuto notices that Yukino and Kagami are missing. Yukino is hiding inside a giant hamster’s mouth for warmth and Kagami is flying overhead. She quickly convinces the animals to have a snowball fight which Yukino and Ikuto get dragged into as well.

Ayane is continuing her quest for the herb as well and imagines Ikuto freezing to death up on the mountain and the two of them warming eachother with their bodies, so immediately heads off.

Up on the mountain they’re packing the snow into the cart. Kagami has some… ‘suggestions’ for Ikuto regarding Suzu, which causes another blood spray, this time frozen. Ikuto eventually decides to take off alone with the ice to get it back to Suzu. Pretty quickly he starts falling victim to the cold and ends up fantasizing/thinking about sickly Suzu to keep him going, but his next move is to run off a cliff, so really, he was probably better just collapsing in the cold and letting Ayane warm him up.

He then has a vision about Suzu challenging him to a shaved ice eating contest which he loses. He wakes up head-down in the snow and gets up to keep going.

Yukino and Kagami and crew have built an igloo to protect them from the cold, but Yukino is worried about Ikuto, so they all run out. One big sneeze later and they’ve caused an avalanche which engulfs Ikuto right as he finishes climbing back up the cliff.

The giant snowball lands right in front of Machi, who makes her shaved ice out of it… using what appears to be soy sauce. Ikuto gathers up a bundle of the snow and goes trotting off to get it to Suzu. Kagami sends Taka Taka to give Ikuto a quick ride home, but when he gets there, his snow has melted down to a tiny core and Suzu is already all better.

And of course, to the surprise of nobody, Ikuto’s big day out leaves him with a cold the next day and in the tender and loving care of Suzu and his own clump of snow.

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