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Why do men even work at this restaurant?

Impressions:

And the second of the not-really-comic ‘comedies’ of Sunday. This week introduced Otou, Yachiyo’s mild-mannered unintentional rival for Kyouko’s attention. Aaaaand that’s about all there is to him. He has all the personality of mildew without its thriving social life. It would actually be more amusing if Yachiyo had a grudge against a chair or some other inanimate object instead of some guy with absolutely no personality whatsoever. At least there was less Inami, but every one of her scenes was as cliche and horrible as last week.

Most of the focus was on Yachiyo and Kyouko, but sadly, most of the humor remained too understated to have any kind of impact. Otou and Yachiyo’s little encounter wasn’t bad, but the rest was just the same old "underplay the sword" jokes that they’ve been using since the first episode, plus a healthy chunk of Kyouko being clumsy and/or ignorant of Yachiyo’s crush on her. The four panel origin just shows through entirely too much and we get the same punchline to only marginally different setups for two to three minutes in a row, killing even the decent jokes that it makes.

So… meh… We’ll see how the second episode of "Bishies Watching You Pee" goes, but it’s a little sad that the funniest Sunday show to me so far is the one that’s not even trying to be funny.

Preview:

You suck, Inami.