Summary:
Some of Miyako’s pseudo-friends discuss how Miyako loves Dan because he resembles her deceased pangolin, Kotarou. This suspicion is confirmed on a shopping trip at the kendo gear store when Miyako gets in a fight with Carrie Nishikawa of California. Carrie is instantly attracted to Dan’s animal magnetism and calls him Anderson (after her armadillo). Miyako is not happy, and the two agree to a duel the next day.
Naturally Miyako loses, as Carrie is so good that she can even dual wield shinai. However, the loss inspires Miyako to stop bullying Satori long enough to ask for some kendo tutoring. This meshes nicely with the theme of everyone trying to tell Tamaki to try losing for once so she can learn some mysterious lesson about being a loser. Tamaki never wants to lose, which is good because the Kanto and Shouryuuki tournaments are coming up.
Reaction:
It’s amazing that Yuuji hasn’t throttled Dan out of jealousy. Dan’s got two girls lusting after him now, he’s achieved number 2 in academics, and in one month he’s gotten good enough to score a point off Yuuji. Meanwhile, Yuuji’s only made progress in the mind of Kawazoe-sensei. At least it was cute how Tamaki kept asking Yuuji for answers to puzzling questions.
Carrie’s english wasn’t very good, but Dan’s was downright horrible. I could barely understand what he was talking about, but his lovey dovey engrish really affected Satori (and even Tamaki slightly). I wonder if Tamaki will have a devastating loss soon, because they are really setting her up big time with all this talk about how you can learn a lot from losing. On a completely different note, those Dan balloons after the preview totally blew my mind.
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One of the best parts of the episode was Dan basically explaining his ability to pimp all over the world, and Yuuji and Ishida-sensei going “You’ve gotta be kidding me!” afterwards. Dan’s so awesome that he needs the “-kun” ending to bring him down to our level. :P
While this doesn’t change the fact that he is godly in the Bamboo Blade universe, I was happy to learn the secret of Dan’s mojo. Who knew such a weakness could also be an overwhelming strength?!
Edit: I just realized this is our second Leap Year 2/29 post (Kungfucius made one in 2004).
Dudes:
You’re four episodes behind. There have been some interesting plot twists and character development. It’s been a bit heavy on the Blade Braver, but with episode 23 it makes sense. Speaking of episode 23, Kirino has big problems…
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