天下制覇

Well, I guess filler noises are better than butchering English.

Impressions:

Well, it was different than what I expected, and not really in a good way. Kyouka’s simultaneously weirder and lamer than I had hoped. She’s a narcissist obsessed with her brother to the point where she has a secret room lined with photos of him that she sits in and… does things… to the body pillow of him. At least he’s off in Harvard where it can’t get any creepier. Other than that, she’s basically the prototypical perfect rich girl, but with the worst goddamned casting known to man. Somebody needs to take Kobayashi Yuu out back and spend an hour teaching her how to laugh. Good god, that was painful. I think I may have nightmares for weeks fearing that laugh ever again. Going from Yukari Tamura’s laugh to that is like running your ears through a river of shredded molten glass.

It was an okay episode, but Kyouka was just really lame and this seems like they’re stepping away from the more fun and interesting parts to just have yet another "rich girl makes friends by her schemes backfiring" story that we’ve seen eight thousand times before. The only real development this week came from the new term starting and basically the entire cast getting shoved into one classroom for convenience purposes. Even Chika’s at the same school now, and already has a new stable of sugardaddies to bend to her will. Otherwise though, it was mostly just introduction to the not overly pleasant Kyouka.

Preview:

The pool and overnight adventures.