Summary:
Kimura Takako and Ookouchi Shino really like the new boys in the art club, and we meet Jin’s art hero Hibiki Daitetsu and manga artist Akiba Meguru. Takako and Shino decide to haze the youngsters by sending them to tidy the “haunted” storeroom, and for some reason Tsugumi tags along. Jin sees ghosts and spirits all the time, and at the storeroom he notices an impurity crawling around. However, a sudden noise from below the floor scares everyone, although it later turns out to just be the club advisor, Dokusasori-sensei.
Unfortunately for Jin, Nagi figures out that there was an impurity at school and manages to convince Tsugumi to give her an old (and too small) uniform. Nagi is pumped up, but when she cannot find the impurity she begins to worry that her spiritual senses are failing. It seems as good a time as any to go ask WWJD, but when Nagi runs into the church, she spots her imouto, Zange. Nagi is not too pleased about this development, and Zange taunts Nagi while crushing the impurity without tools or help.
Reaction:
I was really pleased to see some fangirl service, and Takako ogling too-pure-pure-boy Jin was great. I felt the comedy was fantastic, and even better than the manga. Tsugumi celebrating silently at being bustier than Nagi was hilarious, and the tongue-in-cheek criticism of Deja Vu manga was amusing. Even the fanservice is subtler than usual, and I like the way it’s handled. I don’t understand why Jin hid the magic stick from Nagi, because it just forced the bored girl to look through all his naughty magazines to get her gear back.
Finally the main three girls have been introduced, and I look forward to Zange riling up both Nagi and Tsugumi. Nagi claims to have someone else she loves, and Tsugumi thinks that Nagi is related to Jin so there is not that much friction. Zange, however, is here to compete, and I worry that Tsugumi doesn’t have the firepower to win Jin. I also liked vulnerable Nagi, which reminds me of vulnerable Horo. Still, I’m rooting for Nagi to get her mojo back and start clearing up impurities and greenhouse gases before the series ends.
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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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Ha ha… Rooting, VERY appropriate, given Nagi and Zange’s shared origin and their connections to the Kannagi trees…
Am I right or is Chiaki three-timing? The brushed down ahoge might work as camouflage but it can’t fool me.
There’s a special corner of Hell reserved for bad punsters. ò_ó#
…as to the ep, ‘s awesome. “Cracked people – for everyone!” to grossly mutilate a C&C: Generals quote.
I still can’t believe that school uniforms are so expensive that the girls don’t usually have even one spare. What happens when the uniform has to go into the laundry!?
And I keep thinking ‘Shizuru!!’ when I see Shino.
Yeeeaaaaa MAGIC STICK! Not a wand!
Is it a terrible stick, too ?
UGGUUUUUU!!!! I can’t get enough of Kannagi! Its like the second coming! (the first being Haruhi… hurr hurr coming hurr hurr). I have to let my fanboyism aside though, I can’t just let her pull the strings of my heart so easily! I mustn’t be such a loose boy ^_~
I thought the episode was pretty sweet (in that inspirational gay way) where Jin is all like, “I look up to you! BUT I WILL SURPASS YOU!!! That Daitetsu guys totally reminds me of Sakaki from Azumanga! What I found more funny about that cat-gasm scene of his was that the blonde guy had him covered with tissues conviniently placed on his desk. Thats what I call true friendship =3
Takako fanclub FTW!!! I love how direct she is with her comments. For instance, when she was all like, “Oh, you mean that magazine full of comics that I thought I’ve seen before.” XD True art students know exactly where it hurts
btw, I like how the animators incorporate that Warner Brothers “TH-TH-T-T-TH-TH-THATS ALL FOLKS!” circle effect (at the beginning of episode three, and I believe at the end of either epi one or two). Definite cheese factory right there! =3
nyoro~n? :3 This sort of reminds me of this vid that Totali ( :love: ) showed me
ORLY?!?!?!… PLEASE DIRECT ME THERE!!! *packs his things*
I love how some things slide by without much fanfare, like the Deja Vu comic joke. Blink and you’ll miss it, but it’s that much better for having been so sneaky.
What this episode did was introduce a new doujin pairing in the form of two yaoi fangirls.
While I have a thing for nuns, I’m still rooting for Nagi as she gives me more wood than her sister…
I’ll get my hat.. and leaf right away.
Okay, I stop now.
It did make for a great “OH SHI-” look from Jin as he realized what had happened.
I read that as “tree-timing”. Damn. ><
When Nagi couldn’t find the impurity, she was truly stumped.
OTL