天下制覇

Poor Ken never gets a break.

Impressions:

Another great episode all around. I was especially happy with how good of a job did anthropomorphizing the Ken-Locker through the second half. Even without his poses and the gleam in his eye, they still managed to convey the same brand of his reckless energy through a big metal box. The art did suffer more than a few times through the episode though. There were quite a few shots where people’s faces were just a little bit off and at least one where it looks like Mafuyu’s missing her arm. You’d think that getting to not draw Ken for half the episode would leave Deen with a little budget to spare to correct that, but they probably blew it on all the sparkly shots of the girls in their bikinis.

I also must note that Minatsu with her hair down looks suspiciously like I’d imagine a female version of Ken. She’s also delving into brainwashing business alongside Chizuru, although she did bring her own doom upon herself. Mafuyu’s starting to get under Ken’s skin too, as his fevered fantasies about the girls eventually led him into one of Mafuyu’s daydreams about him. Otherwise though, this week was pretty light on the parodies. Just lots of girls in swimsuits and Ken freaking out about not getting to see them. I’m also weak against the Canon in D, overused as it is, but it still gives me warm fuzzies inside whenever a show uses it.

And just for the record, I have to give Mafuyu the highest marks of the group for her taste in swimwear.

Brief Summary:

It’s summer. It’s hot. So the girls decide to hang out in swimsuits to cool off while blindfolding Ken. He’s less than happy about it and continuously rants/fantasizes until Minatsu brainwashes Mafuyu into believing that Ken is the enemy. That quickly backfires when a thrown protractor cuts Ken’s blindfold off. After that, Minatsu goes to play baseball and Ken gets locked in a locker for the rest of the day. The rest of the girls chit chat about making friends at school and whatnot until running off to the pool. Ken uses his imagination to power his escape (they unlocked it on the way out anyway), but as soon as he leaves the room, he runs into a beautiful girl. He’s totally dumbstruck by her, and she seems to know and be comfortable around him. It’s Minatsu with her hair down. Ken can’t believe how different she is right now. Just as he ruins their romantic moment by asking if one of the secrets she still has from him is that she’s really a man, Sakurano comes back in and (after being called a loli) shoos Ken back into his locker where he’s forgotten until well after school ends.

Preview:

BL and sandman.