More effective to have your apartment burn down (bottom right) to do some seriously daring things with your crush (rather than just humping his pillow)
HELL NO! I know you've been using that handkerchief for!
Summary:
Ryoko and Ryoshi go on a double date with silent chara-type baseball star and a stalker whose flag he triggered when he lent her his umbrella. Ryoko loses her memories of her current school life after a fall while rescuing a cat which was stuck in a tree. Ryoshi is shocked and delighted by how shy and cute Ryoko is and promises to always be there for her. But when he becomes absorbed in discussion with Ringo about how to solve the current predicament, Ryoko takes off on her own.
Things take an ugly turn when they run into Shiro who reveals provocative and tantalising tidbits about his shared past with Ryoko – juxtaposing her claim of him assaulting her against his of intimacy and then claiming that he ate her but subsequently claiming that the claim was a lie. Ryoshi tells Shiro that he will hunt him down and (Wolf in) Sheep(‘s clothing)-kun looks forward to the challenge. Later in hospital Ryoko recovers her memories but claims not to remember what happened during her episode of amnesia. Which Ringo sees through and forces her to wear animal ears to school. Meanwhile Silent and Stalker have settled into contented domestic life.
All lolis are pure evil - you just have to know how to bring it all out
Reaction:
I thought that what Ryoshi liked about Ryoko was the gap between her public tsun and private dere – the latter which the amnesiac personality completely lacks. Still, the confrontation scene between him and Shiro went some way towards making me accept Ryoshi as Ryoko’s companion, support and future lover. He said all the right things like not caring about Ryoko’s past and thus undoing the potential impact of most of Shiro’s trolling – the only thing I found obvious fault with was how he attempted to use a ranged weapon in a melee situation. Which, in turn, allowed Shiro to show that he’s no pushover, smoothly slicing through the sling and coolly reprimanding Ryoshi for interrupting his trashtalking.
I’m still catching up so I don’t know if the following will play out in the coming episodes: Shiro’s claim that he was lying about having eaten Ryoko reminded me of the title of the second episode which described Ryoko as The Lying Ookamisan and Liar’s Paradox. I got a distinctly Rashomon vibe for a brief moment; there might be a possibility that the shy Ryoko had misunderstood and over-reacted to Shiro who had meant no real harm but had certainly been over-aggressive. And that he has pursued her this far to try to recover what was lost. Or it could be that he is really as unpleasant as Ryoko has made him out to be and that she needs to overcome that dark part of her life which she had fled (and which has now caught up with her) as part of the process of learning to be honest with her feelings once again, to live the life of her own choosing without the fear of interdependence.
Related posts:
- Okamisan and Seven Companions 10
- Okamisan and Seven Companions 11
- Okamisan and Seven Companions 12 (Final)
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I have a penchant for Bishoujo, Oneesama and Yuri character dynamics. Genre-wise I enjoy drama and satire; tilt-wise I am terribly weak against self-consciously arty farty styles and reference humour. Sieg Lunamaria!
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Evil Ringo is the best part of this show. I liked her laugh when she pushed Ryoko into holding Ryoshi’s hand for “the sake of the mission,” and that look she had when she caught Ryoko lying was priceless. When it comes to stalker girl I don’t think I’d RECommend that she burn her place down though, it looks like it’s going to take more than a fire to really heat things up between her and Mr. Laconic.
It’s the gap between sweet apple and the poison one sent to Cinderella by her wicked step-mother (or Blake’s if you prefer) that makes Ringo such a great character.
Haha, I just couldn’t resist the RECference after seeing the watermark on the surveillance footage – which has an amazing number of angles!
I was pretty surprised by the end, I really don’t get how things progress that way. Happy to see that things turned out well for everyone.
Definitely the highlight of the episode, and I’m lovin it!
Wow, and here I thought only
loserguys do this. Still it was pretty cute that stalker girl has this side of her. If only she could unleash it when it matters, next to the guy she likes. That’s how you reel them in (at least me I mean) !!Though I think what sealed the deal for Mr Laconic was her cooking – whoever said that aiming for the stomach was aiming too high isn’t always right haha!
Pretty decent episode young Ryoko was just on the right side of sweet (without being annoying) moe. It’s not a perfect series but it does seem to be getting better and better.
Second best for me personally, behind the few instances Majolika takes of her silly wizards outfit and shows us the… erm goods. She’s criminally underdevoped (thankfully not literally, hyuk hyuk ;P ) at the current point of the show, like a black hole for screen time. Needs. More. Sexy. Inventors. Now.
Did you want her to call you “Oniisan” like the way she did with Ryoshi? :3
I love that big wizard hat she’s got (have a weakness for it e.g. Lilith in Yamibou and Lily from Daimaou) though I agree she should lose the swirly megane more often. Lots of shows always need an inventor/engineer type to provide the props but who are then left woefully undeveloped – like you, I hope they will do justice to Majolica in a way that adds to both her chara and the show as a whole.