MM! #06 — Family Bondage
November 5th, 2010
Yuuno’s off-center ponytail bothers me.
Impressions:
A pretty funny episode, although both a bit vacuous given past episodes (DBZ one notwithstanding) as well as wielding the drama stick with a lot less grace than previously. The first half was pretty much just one of Mio’s cosplay training sequences for Tarou, only for half the episode instead of 60 seconds before the OP. It had its moments, and Xebec was really chomping at the bit to do everything but flash Mio’s panties in a couple shots, but it was pretty brainless. At least it was better than the DBZ parody. More the pity that they seem to be going back to that next week. Hopefully it’s just one throwaway joke instead of dominating the whole thing.
The second half was Tarou’s family inviting Yuuno over and barely holding themselves back from eviscerating her the entire time until they finally snapped and interrupted a potentially tender moment and started arguing over which one of them Tarou loved more based on his childhood paraphernalia. I did appreciate their plan to drive off Yuuno by trashing his room and hanging up male body builder posters all over it. Yuuno has some family issues as well apparently, although they didn’t really get into what exactly. Just a lot of "You have such a wonderful family. And I wish I could have a nice family too. Family family family." Yuuno and Tarou make a cute couple though, and there isn’t a lot of contrivance or deus ex machina misunderstandings tacked on to every one of their interactions that gets in the way of it.
Preview:
Beach trip with the genius.
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Yuuno’s faces are priceless.
Also…
Fsck you, she looked lovely. You disappoint me.