天下制覇

Eh. I’ve seen dirtier Jenga.

Impressions:

A pretty decent episode, especially compared to last week’s abysmal affair, but it really didn’t help that they used up all the best jokes at the start and then it devolved into painful cliches, and bad stereotypes by the end… kind of like the exact same thing that this was directly parodying by the same director (Saki). Compared to having Star Platinum play Adult Jenga, extended realizations and internal monologues at the end that this whole bit was just to get into Takumi’s pants (or in Nozomi’s case, "Nyaa") were tiresome. They certainly did finally get their money’s worth out of having Horie Yui on contract this week though.

They also missed numerous opportunities to really go to town with the theme too. If you’re going to have characters play Adult Jenga, strip, suck on pacifiers, wear Chinyaa dresses, and do the bloomer ass dance, all in mixed company, then I expect some humorous girl on girl or guy on guy action. I don’t believe that Ieyasu has been traumatized enough yet. Plus, I could easily see Nyaa stealing the kiss and shoving her tongue down either Chise or Fumino’s throats. Regardless of the loss of inertia towards the end though, this was a lot better than the last couple weeks, even if we remain off in some kind of strange parody universe having absolutely nothing to do with the opening month or so of the show.