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Needs more beach.

Tired of waiting for a better raw. Let’s go with this.

Impressions:

Well, if you ignore the really terrible pacing, I suppose it was a decent episode, but parts 2 and 3 dragged without actually having any real jokes to speak of. I expected that Maki would have been able to pick up some better teasing tricks given her friends, but apparently she’s just lame. Fujioka is even lamer, but that’s neither here nor there. They’ve done the rapid fire flashbacks before, and I hated them then as well. What’s the point of 5 seconds in the present just so you can say "and then…" before jumping back to the past? It reeks of blatant space filling and I detest it. Throwing in flashbacks inside of flashbacks is just wanton abuse of flashbacking. I’m also a little annoyed that the beach stuff was about 90% of the preview last week, but about 5% of the actual episode. Screw you, deceptive advertising.

Part 1 was flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks about everybody going to the beach and the disappearance and reappearance of Fujioka… the bear. Part 2 was basically just Maki’s attempt to embarass Fujioka by teasing him about using Kana’s spoon. Dude, if spoons count for that kind of crap, I have bad news for you about that time you went to Denny’s. Uchida tried to catch up on her summer homework after screwing around all summer in part 3 with Mako-chan’s incompetent assistance… which mostly meant needling Chiaki until she revealed her master plan to let Uchida copy her homework after suffering. Finally, part 4 had everybody bringing over fancy foods, and Chiaki stealing Kana’s portions as revenge for all the summer teasing.

Preview:

Forget Makoto. Where’s my Hosaka episode?