Overrun by Stray Cats! #03 — Runaway Cats
April 20th, 2010
No chubby pussies this week either!
Impressions:
This felt like a bit of a bizarrely placed episode. Right from the start, they retcon the end of last week’s episode and crowbar in about three minutes of Takumi talking to Nozomi about his past before Fumino shows up and instead of the dramatic moment, yells out that she forgot something and snatches a hairpin (I think) off a table. Then a little later, we get Fumino’s love/hate/love confession to Takumi as the reason Nozomi ran off followed by about another three minutes of Captain Monologue using his super power to defeat the villain Withering Budget.
It was still an okay episode, but it was a bit overblown for something that popped up in just this episode. I’m not sure whether to say that that made it feel overly machinated or entirely too fast, but awkward is a good start. I’m also a bit disappointed that after Takumi tried to talk to Fumino about her confession, she very happily tells him it was a lie and flicks his nose. Damn resets to the status quo. I hate resets to the status quo. Let development stick, damn it. At least Takumi did try to talk to her about it instead of waffling around. Sadly, thanks to the angst quotient being cranked up to max for this episode, there wasn’t all that much humor, but there wasn’t too much of the irritating glasses guy either. No surprise Horie Yui attacks for that matter… le sigh.
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Well, I get what you mean, but to me this was a totally outstanding episode. Its pacing and storytelling, which I admit could seem odd, seemed unique and wonderful to me.
This show is certainly giving us memes we may be familiar with, but it is giving them to us in new ways. I found the episode emotionally powerful (I guess that’s the “angst” you refer to), as well as being very high-class sentimental moe.
By the way, since we have an honest confession already in episode three, we know that the reset is not complete. That brilliant smile in your last screencap shows her so happy. The feelings are complex and fascinating. But we already know she has always loved him, and continues to love him, whatever she says at any given time.