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Cuulgle.com? Seriously?

Impressions:

Haruka gets a ticket to a local indoor pool/water park, but Chiaki’s all cranky and doesn’t want people to realize that she can’t swim. There’s the usual gender bending play, plus Kana torturing Chiaki while ‘teaching’ her… and Hosaka lurks in the background too, pretending that he’s giving Haruka mouth-to-mouth on an inflatable bear. Teaching continues until Chiaki can swim underwater for about… 15 meters to her disappointment. Then, since Haruka slept the entire time that she was there, all her friends throw her in.

I’ll admit that I chuckled when Kana walked in on Chiaki and assumed that she was looking at porn. I can’t even imagine such a thing. My brain shuts down before I can even start. Everybody showing off their swimsuits before they left… including Kana exposing herself because she forgot that she hadn’t put her’s on yet was also worth some laughs. Most of the rest was pretty formulaic though. The overuse of the repetitive piano theme around the 10-11 minute mark drove me completely insane though. You can only listen to a little 2 second riff so many times in a row. Around the twentieth, my teeth started to grind. Around the fourtieth, I’m pretty sure the bile began to rise in my stomach.

This episode had some really weird things going on though, above and beyond the piano riff that made me want to punch baby kittens. There were a few points where the animation turned a bit strange, and the direction felt a little spastic. Makoto seemed to be along just for the gag at the start of the show and then basically disappeared for almost the entire rest of the episode. Same with Fujioka and Touma for the most part. Oh well, it was still one of the funnier episodes of this season, and Fuyuki didn’t show up even once… not even in the previews. That alone makes it worth a thumbs up. The lack of freakish floating boobs is also a plus.

Preview:

If it involves a tiny naked Kana in a bowl. It’s probably best to not guess.