Summary:
Eiji has to sell his other paintings, and yet still can only cover about half of the cost of the painting he vandalized. Meanwhile, Yuki continues to climb the charts (up to #2) while Yayoi continues to climb the managers. Menou runs away again, but Touya’s never home so she has to chill with his neighbors. She does, however, spot Rina’s ex-manager Hiiragi-san snapping Yayoi and Touya with a “Camon.” For some reason Tamaru happens upon Hiiragi-san and starts spinning a tale of how he got away scot-free after stabbing a woman (also overheard by Menou); of course we later see him blubbering in front of his dad and getting yelled at because Misaki is extorting their family.
After getting her spy on, Menou returns energized and ready to bang out two singles. Touya then heads over to Mana’s place to give her a present, but Itsuki returns and is surprised to learn that Mana’s awesome teacher is Rina’s loser escort. Itsuki reveals all of Touya’s connections, and Mana is seriously upset. Bad end Mana does not appreciate her mom interfering, and runs away before Itsuki can land a right hook. When Mana doesn’t return home, Itsuki starts blowing up everyone’s phone, and shows that if you really want to get in touch with someone you can, even in 1987. Touya takes a cab up to Haruka’s cabin and is impressed to see an energized Haruka practicing tennis.
Reaction:
I am confused about these extra side stories being weaved in to White Album. Misaki hasn’t been hanging out with Touya’s dad lately, and it really sounds like Tamaru raped and impregnated her back in the day (which led to payments for silence, and explains a bit about Misaki’s behavior). Meanwhile, what was with Touya’s dad and Yuki? We got the palette swap moment, and he keeps trying to tell Touya something about Yuki. Next we’re going to learn that she’s Touya’s half-sister because Fujii-otousan wasn’t faithful to that picture of his wife. Perhaps that would explain why Touya is so hostile towards his dad that he clearly cares about. I’m not 100% on this, but it would explain so much about why Touya is the way he is.
Meanwhile, there were some hilarious moments in this episode. Mana needs to work some upper-body strength with Haruka, because she was having some seriously trouble tearing that notebook. I laughed at how that fanboy Hiiragi-san refused to take pictures of Yuki because she was innocent. I also loved how Touya thought about Rina and Yuki smiling, and then thought about a dripping Yayoi showing cleavage. From apologizing to Yamamoto-san to noticing Haruka after she donned bike shorts and a skirt, Touya was in MVP form once again. You gotta give it up for Haruka; even after she fell so low, she never went the route of eating away her troubles, and now she’s in tennis shape because she’s been keeping her body right. I’m a bit confused about Rina’s album, though. They showed it at #4 on the TV show, but it was #2 on the radio. Are these different charts, or did Rina totally leapfrog Yuki in love and music?
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I’m becoming more confused and bewildered with every episode, especially with Tamaru’s conversation with his dad. I can’t believe that Misaki would try to extort money from from him, but there’s definitely that possibility that Tamaru wanted to hush Misaki up or something. She defended him last episode, so I’m going to assume that she’s just the victim again, and that Tamaru the one at fault.
I’m placing my bet on that situation, or that Touya’s dad just miss his chance with Yuki’s mom, and been regretting it ever since. Still, it would be pretty interesting to see how Touya would react if it was true.
Indeed, this was a pretty confusing episode; I just hope they can wrap all these loose ends up!
WAIT WAIT…hold up!
I’m seriously missing something here.
During the exchange with Tamaru and his father, they mentioned something about a ‘celebrity,’ so I got the impression that they were not talking about Misaki.
I also got a twinge in this episode…that a Touya/Kanzaki affair is not entirely…impossible.
I got the feeling that Tamaru was lying to his dad about Misaki being a celebrity. He’s been prone to hyperbole from the start, after all.
I’m glad I got a chance to read this before my long drive back home tomorrow. LOL @ the dick in the box gift caption… Mana really looks resigned to her fate there.
Being serious for 2.5 seconds, I think the deal with Misaki is that her father paid her to stop going out with Tamaru a long time ago, whether or not there was a pregnancy involved, because she was an unsuitable match for Tamaru. His latest girlfriend, whom it sounds like did get pregnant, was another unsuitable match/payment opportunity.
Back at the ranch, it was hilarious how Tamaru tried to come across all ghetto about knifing Misaki, but his story kinda falls apart when he gets to the bit about her surviving… and not really being wounded. That and the rivers of snot running down his teary face kinda destroyed the whole ganster motif he was going for IMHO.
That would be the most awesome twist ever… Touya will have already banged her by the time he finds out though, because his dad left the message on the answering machine that Touya is never home to check.
My favorite scene this episode had to be the Yayoi/Touya bathroom scene though. The way she manhandled him was hilarious, and it was awesome that he flashed back to overheated Yayoi when he was talking to his dad.
And did anyone else catch that Menou is just putting the face to quiet girl’s songs? I’m ready for Menou to out herself during the Venus Festival and then go find Touya for a little drunken debauchery. Something has to go down to get Rina pissed at Touya, even though he’s quite capable of screwing things up himself.
Haha, just wait till Menou comes back to the studio to see Natsuko making out with Touya. It’s always the quiet ones you gotta watch out for! Also, after seeing Menou and Touin smoking, it’s funny that Rina got caught in a scandal about smoking when she never even lit up. Oh, the irony!
Also, I have no idea what is going on with Tamaru and Misaki, because Tamaru is a big liar.
He didn’t call me the day after, either.
LOL, at least he didn’t tell you he was going to the bathroom and then grab his jacket.
Yes that was totally awesome!
So I guess Mana wasn’t dead after all. Perhaps Haruka with a shovel represented something else… Wouldn’t it be great if Touya’s dad ran over Haruka’s brother, and that’s why he’s always holding that tennis ball? And then when he dropped the ball (maybe he died or did he just fall asleep?) Haruka was ‘reborn’.
Also, it would be totally awesome if Misaki pretended to be preggers just to extort money. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t think she’s that good of a person LOL.
My god that’s horrible, but that would be pretty awesome. It would really shock me if that actually happened.