天下制覇

Getting a little bit crazy all up-ins here.

Impressions:

Man, not much happened here at all. In between going crazy, Kuze leads on Mizuki for the entire episode, including kissing his ‘princess’ while she’s sick (ew, cooties phlegm!) and then says that he likes her too, and that’s why he’s dumping her. Then he goes home and marks ‘the end’ in his calendar. Nagi got a little bit more interesting this week as she finally did something aside from expose herself to the others. On the other hand, it quickly devolved to her bitching out Yuu in motormouth fashion for ignoring her to go on a date with Yuuko, before wandering off again when he denied it was a date. She also continues her weekly exhibitionist escapades, this time in the present, greeting her brother’s woman at the door in nothing but a towel.

Speaking of Miyamiya, I really don’t like all these quasi-epilogue bits showing the characters from the previous season at all. Those stories were over and finished with perfectly acceptable conclusion, and the ones going on here are dragging right along at a slow enough pace even without stepping aside to learn that… shock and surprise… Miyako and Hiro are still happy and doing fine. If they were having a tiff because of a threesome with Kei gone awkward because of a misplaced appendage, perhaps there might be more to the story there. Alas, it is not meant to be. A pity, really.

Yuuko probably got the most development this episode, dragging Yuu out and then deciding that it was a date (and breaking both of their ‘first date’ virginities in the process). She was also pretty cute when she was pretending to cower from Yuu being his normal bastard self. I’m still not certain what she sees in that self-centered jerk at all and he’s certainly doing absolutely nothing to endear himself to me either. Also revealed was that she’s not really Akira’s sister either, which leads me to believe that she just calls everybody ‘nii-san’ until they yell at her not to.

Well, overall, it was more enjoyable than last week’s episode, but lacked any one particularly excellent scene like the violin torching. Maybe next week.