Hekiyoh’s Student Council #08 — Child’s Play

November 20th, 2009

 

How did Elis end up being the most likeable girl this week?

Impressions:

Really not a particularly good episode, and easily the worst so far in my opinion. Amazingly, the problem wasn’t with Elis, Lilicia’s younger sister sent to spy on Ken by Lilicia, but with every other girl. Elis was actually pretty amusing on her own, and I was half expecting her to turn out to be a lot older given how many… uh… adult things she had picked up and was using to play with Ken in the first half. Apparently she’s just a precocious child heavily influenced by Lilicia’s tabloid nature. Her Shiritori was especially frightening, as was her like for playing house with domestic violence added right in. Ken was getting along with her just fine too and didn’t even instigate anything untoward at all and even usually resisted when Elis started going off on weird tangents.

The problem came with the rest of the cast. From the very start, they spent pretty much the entire episode crapping on Ken for no particular reason. Elis didn’t even start anything with any of them like you’d expect from the situation. Hell, she didn’t even talk to anybody aside from Ken and Sakurano, and ended up liking Ken. Everybody else just seemed to completely lose their senses of humor and any understanding of how to act around kids this week. I get the lolicon joke at the start, but everything after that was just being whiny little brats for no reason. Sakurano was especially awful this week, actually picking a fight with Elis and then going on a long and boring tirade about how every part of her body was awesome (President Nose, President Mouth, President Cheek, President Hips, etc). That made the obligatory shoehorned in ‘touching moment"tm all the more painful. Elis asked Ken to marry her, and he told her to wait until she grows up and becomes beautiful, which pissed Sakurano off and then when Ken made up with her, the rest of the girls got pissy about it.

Seriously, this was perhaps the first week where Ken behaved like a perfect gentleman for almost the entire time, and they spent the whole thing pissed off about it. What the hell?

Preview:

Chizuru episode.

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16 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • クレナイユメ says:
    November 20, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    The Start of the Elis Route.

  • Anise Punter says:
    November 20, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    Rumiko Takahashi finds the events of this episode to be perfectly logical.

  • Nanaya says:
    November 20, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    I’m still voting for the ending where Ken figures they’re not worth the effort and goes elsewhere.

  • Yue says:
    November 20, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Cho kawaii desu~~~~~

  • chad001 says:
    November 20, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    Why are her eyes red in this one?
    : http://blog.seiha.org/images2/hekiyoh8/hekiyoh8_84.jpg

    • Aroduc says:
      November 20, 2009 at 7:33 pm

      Hunter-Killer mode activated.

      • Haesslich says:
        November 21, 2009 at 3:32 am

        Mafuyu went into hunter-killer mode in the ‘swimsuit’ episode too, IIRC, when reprogrammed by Minatsu. It makes one wonder if she’s a robot girl who’s playing the part of a gamer girl geek, or if she’s just played too many of those sorts of games and has half-turned into a killer cyborg….

  • Haesslich says:
    November 21, 2009 at 3:30 am

    Sakurano was pissy because she’s got competition for the ‘cute loli-type character’ area now with Elis, who is much more… well, loli-type. The other part is that because Ken’s paying attention to someone else other than the rest of them, so… well, the un-harem’s gotten bitchy.

    But damn, that was cute… especially the part at the end, and when Lilicia’s little sister pulled out that weird cat’s cradle resembling pantsu.

  • X says:
    November 21, 2009 at 6:47 am

    Aren’t they all pissed off cause their jealous of the way Ken is treating the little kid very nicely, a side of him that he shows to that kid which made them quite jealous. It was quite and hilarious in the beginning when even Ken was surprised that all the girls (heck even including the cool mature beauty that is Chizuru) was seriously getting jealous. Imagine what his harem would do if the Ken’s ex-girlfriends would show up, dam!
    If they are this pissed of with just a little kid, imagine how they would react with Ken’s former lovers.

    That would be a sight to see, unless of course we get Kurimu’s boasting of her features again, yes I agree with you on that part, it was a complete waste of the episode, which degraded the episode.

    I also liked that they revealed Lilicia’s perhaps infatuation to Ken to the point that she keeps taking pictures of him (or at least that’s what I understood in the beginning – or her always using Ken as a topic for her articles).

    • クレナイユメ says:
      November 21, 2009 at 7:11 am

      If you could read the title of the episode, it gives it away.

    • Haesslich says:
      November 27, 2009 at 12:39 am

      Eh, the really SCARY part of this is that the ‘liking Ken’ thing is apparently something in the genes of the Toudou sisters. :P Look at how easily he charmed both of them… although Aka-chan and the others didn’t seem to get the hint with Lilicia. I guess she just doesn’t spend enough time around Ken for them to get catty…

  • Anonymous says:
    November 22, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Feito and Feito-Imouto?

    I approve.

  • Gin says:
    November 27, 2009 at 1:29 am

    I am impressed. Elis seem to almost setup potential lolicon situations, but Ken neatly dodged through them as best as he could. Amazing cat’s cradle, by the way.

    • Haesslich says:
      November 27, 2009 at 1:44 am

      Gin: I am impressed. Elis seem to almost setup potential lolicon situations, but Ken neatly dodged through them as best as he could. Amazing cat’s cradle, by the way.

      That was the whole point – Lilicia set up a lolicon situation, and had Elise perform the sting operation with the tape recorder… and Elise later seems to suggest that Ken knew what Lilicia was up to, but was playing along with her anyways, which is why she suddenly likes him. Just like Lilicia.