Summary:
Misaki and the animation quality both recover, and Misaki seems happy to be with Akira. It’s not clear how much Akira knows, but he is very cold towards Touya at Echoes; meanwhile, it seems like Tamaru is pissed about being humiliated at the festival and Touya’s dad is having a heart attack alone. Rina’s not doing so well either, as Eiji tells her she has been demoted to the tiny Calma Club on Christmas Eve. The Sakura-dan has been owning Rina on prime time TV, so Eiji is going to shake things up by having Yuki sing at the arena. Rina agrees to Eiji’s little game as long as she can hire Touya as her manager/groupie.
Rina decides that her Calma Club concert will be broadcast at the arena, setting up a 3-way battle. Rina’s unsettled by the 46,701 that Eiji says she needs to win (doesn’t quite match what President Itsuki Kanzaki calculated, unless Yuki only has to sell 1,802 seats), but she still goes out of her way to encourage Yuki at the rookie’s first choreography rehearsal. Later that night, Rina is surprised to find a ripped up letter from Yuki to Touya. Yayoi accidentally ripped up the wrong letter (instead of ex-Manager Hiragi’s) after another call from Hiragi-san on her way to some comfort-kissing with Touya, and Rina despairs that it’s too late for Yuki.
Reaction:
What an interesting episode! So it looks like Yuki was writing to encourage Touya to wait for her and see her at the big concert. I suspect that Rina really has been a true friend (damn, Crusader was right), and she thinks Yayoi has succeeded in destroying Yuki’s relationship. It’s ironic that Yayoi actually didn’t rip the letter up on purpose this time, and yet she was still planning to make out with Touya before delivering it. I wonder what Hiragi-san has on Yayoi that would make her tremble so, especially since all he ever does is fap on the phone while making Yayoi listen to him breathing heavily.
Touya’s explanation that many random women come into his life every day and become his goddess of the day was enraging, but perhaps it was to show why Touya can’t handle being away from Yuki. She was his “every day” and perhaps that means “every day goddess.” This would dovetail nicely with how Touya explained that Rina’s fans worship Rina, but it’s hard to take Touya seriously after all he’s done. I guess he can’t handle Yuki being everyone else’s goddess. It’s hilarious that Touya’s conditions for hire were one day to work at Echoes and one day to sleep work at Mana’s place. Maybe he’s practicing for his mission to seduce and destroy the loli members of Sakura-dan, since that seems to be the style of all of Eiji’s managers.
Related posts:
6 Comments
I thought it was hilarious how the guys in the cafeteria were talking about how “Tamaru finally did it,” in regard to their mistaken assumption that Tamaru had succeeded in sequestering Misaki as his love slave. Then the expression that Tamaru gave Touya was also awesome. I sense that Touya’s apartment will be TPed in the near future. And it was pretty sad how Touya told Haruka that she was his goddess for saving him… and then totally didn’t listen to a word that she said.
I still think that Rina is out to get Touya. Her words over Yuki’s torn letter seemed to me to mean that her devilish man trap is already in the process of springing, and that nothing can stop it now. And did Rina go to see Eiji the same night that she ran into the Sakura-dan? If not, the next night would have been Touya’s Wednesday Echoes shift, when he was making out with Yayoi. It looks to me as if his his other jobs are just excuses to keep his harem options open.
And if Yayoi was indeed a former idol, Hiragi-san probably has her Perfect Blue idol photos….
Tamaru’s expressions were high comedy! That dude takes his college reputation seriously! Considering what he did to Misaki for just rejecting him, I expect that he has something terrible in store for Touya. However, since Tamaru is really just a stage nerd, I don’t really expect anything to come of Tamaru’s plans. Still, this episode showed me that drama is serious business.
Touya’s other jobs are such a joke. He makes way more with Rina than anywhere else, and he got those other jobs to make money… Clearly he does not understand opportunity costs. To be fair, he does get paid to sleep at Mana’s place so that is pretty sweet, but the job at Echoes is stupid. Touya only works one day a week, and Akira kinda hates his guts now.
I want to hear/see more about Yayoi’s idol glory days
.
What did the Sakura-dan do to deserve THIS? Scary thought, Kabitzin ^_^;
Haha those little bitches are messing with Rina’s business and fame now, plus they ruined Yuki’s outfit and c-c-c-combo-ed her that one time in the hallway. For this, Akira is not enough punishment; it must be Touya!
oh man, that scene was tits!!!
and we know tits always have the best sound effects! =3
Did girl groups like Sakura Dan exist back in 1980’s Japan? I always thought Morning Musume was the first big girl group, but then again what do I know about Japanese pop music!
I was thinking that sweaty fired manager dude was just stalking Yayoi instead of having dirt on her, but perhaps you could be right too… I did like how she planned to deliver the letter after some sweet making out hahaha. I wonder if part of her making out is really for her own sake, rather than to stop Touya from talking to Yuki though.
3 Trackbacks
[...] Rina also tells Eiji that she hopes that Yuki isn’t destroyed in this game, it seems that Kabitz from Sea Slugs is right about Rina being a true friend to Yuki, and she seems very upset when she thinks that [...]
[...] that Yayoi can’t read and had ton up Yuki’s letter to Touya instead of Hiiragi’s. So far Kabitzin has apologized for his indecent slander of Rina though I am awaiting usagijen to beg Rina for [...]
[...] This is when the hilarity ensues. Since it’s Christmas Eve, Yuki gives Touya a new phone before heading in the opposite direction of her double. There’s no explanation for why Yuki can’t go celebrate with Touya, but she declares the phone ban over. Touya gets a ride with Yayoi, but resists boning her for once, only to find that Mana is stealing Haruka’s puppy-in-front-of-door trick. Fortunately, before things can get too statutory, Yayoi returns to give Touya his gigolo pay and rushes Mana to the hospital after noticing the girl had a fever. Touya then heads off to comfort angry Haruka, and things go from bad to worse when Akira runs over Haruka’s bike and yells to Touya that Touya’s dad collapsed… like a week ago. [...]