Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Episode 6 seems to be sort of filler-like, but what it makes up in the filler is sort of hilarious. Chikorin, a Japanese idol, was suppose to come to town to give a pep talk against drunk driving as police chief for the day, but her flight delays have kept her from coming. Ryou initially decided to cancel her talk, but with the urgings of Narasaki, the department decides to go search for a Chikorin, and the task manages to find its way into the hands of Megumi and Morimoto. Since Chikorin will be police chief for the day, this lets Ryou off the hook in terms of police duties, but he later gets called up to investigate another Reverse incident. However, when Ryou goes out to investigate, the Reverse turns out to be a street drunk.

Ryou’s duties are not finished as he notices a person dressed in a bear character costume pass out nearby after handing out balloons, so he runs over to help the man up. After the man regains conscious, Ryou goes to get the man some food, but comes back to an empty bear costume. He was about to walk away when he hears the cries of a smaller child complaining to his brother that he wanted a balloon, so Ryou dons the bear costume to go make the child’s day all better. Unknowingly, Ryou had set himself up to save these children, who are the children of a Japanese official, from a kidnapping as some thugs started to approach the children and threaten Ryou to hand over the children while he was in the costume. It’s too bad this particular episode didn’t show it, but the kidnappers are later sent to the police where they confessed to being beat up by a bear. :P

In episode 7, the group takes a trip out to the beach where we learn a bit more about Megumi, who also has a persona, but due to an accident in her younger years where she couldn’t save her brother, she’s a bit angry and scared to see Shin and Takuro use their respective personas to protect themselves. Yumi comes along on the trip, but usually finds herself in some phased state staring out into the ocean on top of a lighthouse, and it almost costs her life as she reaches out with the “whale feather” that she has I guess to make some sort of wish, but Megumi manages to release her persona in time to catch Yumi on the way down. Shin also manages to see what looks to be his younger sister Yuki reaching out to Yumi before she falls.

Now that Megumi managed to release her persona in a positive effort, I’ll be expecting some triple-teaming (or maybe quadruple teaming with Morimoto) persona action later in the series as they take on the baddies.