Summary:
Kuroha is very eager to introduce Satoshi to her friend Steven Cigar… cutter, but before she can make the cut, she is called off to an urgent matter that requires someone fluent in Cantonese and French. Elsewhere, Saki meets up with her friends in Kazuomi’s Eden of the East club and spills the beans about Akira. Kazuomi is suspicious, but agrees to check out Akira’s mall while Haruo searches for the still-missing Satoshi. This seems like a perfect opportunity to keep the club mascot, Saki, in Eden of the East.
Akira makes an elaborate entrance and mentions that he’s tried out the image recognition search engine that Mikuru programmed. EotE was originally a small recycling group and Saki’s idea about tagging images viewed in the engine made the program a highly valuable product. Unfortunately, students began using the engine as a matchmaking tool, and this got the club in trouble. Kazuomi wants EotE to be a NEET paradise, and he is a bit jealous of those who are able to succeed in society. Akira offers EotE funding, however, as a means to fulfill his noblesse oblige and Kazuomi reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile, Haruo succeeds in finding the pictures that Satoshi has been sporadically posting with his cell phone, and deduces that Satoshi has been captured by the “Johnny Taker” (who has over 20,000 victims).
Reaction:
It’s pretty funny how the URL for the board that Satoshi is posting on is “amorepadrone/com” (the corrected URL doesn’t work). And how is his phone set to automatically post pics on that board? I also can’t help wondering if the apple and the number of Kuroha’s victims have any special significance. It’s too bad Kuroha’s current secretary got fired, and I noticed that she didn’t ask Juiz for a trilingual secretary. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the new secretary only spoke French and Cantonese, but not Japanese?
I can’t help but think that Kazuomi will turn against Akira when he finds out about how Akira shipped all those NEETs to Dubai. Still, we are getting more and more information about Akira’s shift in thinking. Instead of getting rid of or improving NEETs, he is now trying to empower NEETs to punish those in society who took their rise for granted (and dump bowls on girls who lust after their brother-in-laws). It will be interesting to see how the search engine and the club will help Akira carry out his plan. I wonder if Akira will end up having Kuroha killed to save Satoshi, unless they both agree to have an all-female NEET paradise.
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Well he can’t help it man! I mean she does have FOUR EYES!!! *picks up glasses* HYUK-HYUK-*KABOOM*
Btw, I’m diggin’ the character designs, but at the same time, it seems like you can put Saki’s hair on any of those girls and poof: theres Saki! Sometimes I do this practice by putting Saki’s hair on the blue-haired girl! =3 OH SAKI!!! WHERE DID THESE COME FROM!?!? Also, that loli girl is pretty kawaii
It made me squeal abit when I heard this… just where does she put all those Johnnys?
Number 5. And no comment on the Steven Cigar… OHH BUT THIS IS A COMMENT!! YOU WIN THIS TIME KABI!!! *wink*Show ▼
It’s all fun and games until someone loses a dick.
It actually used to creep me out as a kid.
I’m not 100% sure that woman has Satoshi. As someone elsewhere noted, the tie color of the person being held by her is different from his tie color in the last episode, and he’s masked so we can’t truly see who it is.
Of course, how this person got his bag and cell if it isn’t him, who knows, and I suppose she could have possibly changed his tie (but why?) or it could just be a mistake, but for them to miss something so obvious seems strange to me.
Of course, that doesn’t answer the question about where he is if that isn’t him, but if he doesn’t have his cell, that could be one reason why no one can get in touch with him, either.
Whoa, this is a very good point. I went back and watched it again, and you are right about the ties. This would make it easier to keep Satoshi alive and yet have Kuroha run into Akira. However, that’s definitely his bag and purple cell phone (which we saw in episode 4 when he called up Saki).
I think you could be right about it not being Satoshi, but there is only one way to verify his identity: we need to see the Johnny!
20000/365=54.8
how long since the phone come into her possession?
Akira shipped the NEETs off about 2 months ago and the magazine Akira read mentioned Hajime becoming the local medicinal association president within one year of opening his practice. I don’t know if all 12 Selecao were chosen at the same time, but my guess would be that Kuroha has had her phone for less than a year.
Since Kuroha seems surprised when she takes a Johnny, I would guess that she has either inspired copycat Johnny Takers or the legend has been greatly exaggerated.
Wouldn’t it be EXTRA hilarious if the new secretary’s fluent in Cantonese and French but not Japanese AND was male? (On second thought, that’d just be gross. As if 20,000 Johnny’s weren’t enough… I honestly do hope they’re just blaming the missing NEETs on her)
Or imagine if all the male NEETs that Akira rehabilitated got killed off by Kuroha…