It’s just a normal day at school, when Shizuki enlists Sakura’s help in playing matchmaker. Shizuki’s library coworker, Ono Chieri of 2-C, likes Sakura’s friend Miyamoto (star pitcher on the baseball team). Shizuki and Sakura set up a study session with Ono and Miyamoto, and all is going well, in spite of Dokuro’s embarassing questions about stuff in the Boys and Girls: Secrets of the Body book (Corpora cavernosa and prostate glands… T__T). Sakura finally gets Dokuro to notice the mood, but this gets Dokuro fired up to be like Cupid. Various fanservice-laden hijinks later, a bookshelf goes flying at Ono, and Miyamoto saves her, but injures his shoulder in the process. This leads to a sequence of events where Ono bests 3rd year hottie-baseball manager-bizatch Numata Haruna for the right to escort Miyamoto to the nurse’s office. Miyamoto tells Ono he enjoyed studying with her, and it looks like all they needed was a little push and a bit of courage. In a surprise move, Shizuki then invites Sakura to a movie… DATE-O!
Unfortunately, Dokuro shows up to interrupt the date, but then mysteriously falls asleep. Sakura wants to just leave her in the street, but Shizuki notices all the sketchy guys waiting to molest Dokuro, and insists they take her into the theater. Once inside, they notice Sabato, and she is bent on revenge. After the incident in episode 2, Sabato was forced to live under the bridge where she was cold and hungry (and birds stole her underwear). In an attempt to wake up his savior Dokuro, Sakura accidentally grabs Dokuro’s right boob, but then does some quick thinking and uses Sabato as a shield. This just delays the inevitable, however, and as Dokuro is bringing Sakura back to life, Shizuki slips out the theater with a sad look on her face.
This set was another pair of strange, but entertaining episodes with more gore, service, and odd humor. A little bit of romance and mystery was added to the mix, as we see Shizuki thinking about Sakura while taking her bath; does she like him now? I’m no better at decoding female signals, so I can’t tell either! There were naturally a great many WTF moments in the episode, like with that horrible movie they were watching (The Susceptible Salaryman?!?!?!), and the terrible books they were reading (ZOMG, that Dog of Flanders made his owner into his bizatch!). And did anyone notice that pillow that Dokuro sleeps on?! OMGWTFSEXXORINGPOSITIONS!
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Kabitzin – who has written 1970 posts on Sea Slugs! Anime Blog.
One of the founders of Sea Slugs, I handle most of the blog admin tasks while wearing my I AM BOSS shirt. I like my action series well choreographed, and my romance series extra trashy. I also have a soft spot for puns.
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What a great catch! I didn’t notice the pillow at all. These episodes were even better than the first two, in my opinion, because they didn’t use many ugly effects. I’m pretty sure that Shizuki likes Sakura very much but she’s heavily disappointed by the date-o, of course. I wonder whether there’s some reality distortion field because she didn’t question any of the events at all.
you mean “the supersensitive salaryman”…
Hmm, I went with the Froth-bite translation, but both can be used to describe the movie protagonist I suppose… either way, that has to be one of the WORST date movies ever.
Hahaha that pillow rocks, didn’t notice that when I watched it =)