Summary:
The episode opens with Selecao #11, Shiratori Kuroha Diana, waking up in hotel room 1109, scooting out of an enormous bed, and finding a fat S&M-lover dead in the bathroom. This isn’t the first time that Kuroha has murdered someone, but she seems a little loopy as she asks Juiz to clean up the evidence elegantly. At the same time, Akira runs into one of the NEETs that was shipped off to Dubai, and while the NEET is mad about being ditched in a desert for 2 months, the experience landed him a fiance and a ticket back into society.
We then find out that the dept. manager brought Saki in for an interview merely as a courtesy to Ryousuke, and the manager proceeds to ask Saki retarded questions, stand her up for lunch, and then have a toadie dump a gyudon on her lap like a boss. Akira scoops Saki up before she can meet with Satoshi for dinner, and she tearfully explains that she can’t work at the company she likes because they would just use her, but she can’t go home because she constantly thinks about Ryousuke’s hot body. Akira realizes that the entrenched members of society are screwing themselves over, and cheers Saki up with a kiss. Meanwhile, a drunk Satoshi stumbles out from his “date” with Kasuga Haruo and collapses near Kuroha.
Reaction:
Clueless Satoshi’s complaint about how Saki never told him she had a man really tickled my funny bone, because Satoshi never realized just how badly Saki wants to bang her brother-in-law! While I had already suspected that Johnny the skeleton was symbolic of the NEETs, it was interesting to see Saki on the road to becoming a NEET herself. At first I figured wiping the NEETs’ memories and shipping them to Dubai was merely phase 1 of Akira’s plan, but now it seems he realized that he was merely treating symptoms and decided to start fresh in trying to get to the root of the problems of society. This differs from Kuroha’s approach of saving Japan by teasing gross guys and then chopping off their genitalia with a cigar guillotine.
I get the feeling that the side characters are more important than we realize. I wonder what exactly Hirasawa Kazuomi is doing with his club, since they wouldn’t mention how he turned down 6 job offers unless the club was fairly important. We also saw Selecao #1, Mononobe Daiju (the guy with the ring in episode 1), and Kuroha implies that Daiju is the realist against Akira’s romanticism (while Kuroha herself is a more chaotic force). I was also wondering during the Prime Minster’s amusing “gyafun” scene how much other members of the government know about the Selecao, considering one official was yelling about Selecao being responsible for the missile strikes.
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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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Perhaps I’ve got Hatsukoi Limited on the brain, but I can’t help but wonder if Ryousuke is Saki’s first love in a gender-reversed Here is Greenwood situation. I wasn’t expecting that, but looking back at your captions for episode 4 it seems that your unrequited love radar was dead on. I wonder how that will play out, but I’m sure that Akira is capable of “saving” Saki… after all, she’s seen him naked several times and still hangs around, and she gets moody when he doesn’t return her texts.
Your reasoning behind Akira’s memory wipe is very convincing, but I’m still not sure why he chose the memory wipe/armed streaker combo platter. Unless that’s indicative of his sense of humor… which makes me wonder if he shipped all the NEETs to Dubai with Soylent Green as the in-container movie.
When you think about it, it would be pretty traumatic to have to hear your crush making babies with your older sister all the time; no wonder Saki never wants to go home. I wonder if she is going to try to finagle a room at Akira’s mall to stay in.
I keep wavering between thinking that Akira will ambiguously survive, or if he will have to die after meeting Mr. Outside and giving Japan (and Saki) hope.
I honestly doubt they’d kill Akira in the end though, since they’re making such a point now that all the Selecao WILL die eventually (reverse psychology?). And I’m now wondering how Saki could survive “hearing her crush making babies withher older sister” without going Nice Boat along the way.