天下制覇

*Gasp* Handholding!

Impressions:

Well, this episode was a drastic step down from the previous three and genuinely bland, if not just outright bad. So much for moving on once they assembled the main cast. They teased for a while about searching for another ghost besides Yuuko, but ended up continuing up just having it lurk the background in a couple shots and watch Kirie sleep while giggling. Given Yuuko’s reaction though, as well as how the show’s been overall, I have a hard time taking the cliffhanger very seriously. 

Anyway, the first half was Yuuko moping about Teiichi not hanging out with her over the summer since she doesn’t have anybody else. And… that’s about it. Which didn’t even work very well since she was sitting at the edge the whole time and has never been shy about getting messing with them before. When offered to touch anywhere, he picked her hand which is totally meaningful and stuff. Handholding being third base for the Japanese after all. Then the second half was her telling him all about a curse stone then showing it to him and shock, she had scribbled his name all over it in magic marker. That would’ve worked a lot better if she had been pulling pranks on him or messing with him for the entire episode instead of… well… no setup to it at all besides explaining what it was and why anybody should care.