Summary:
Eiji is pleased that Yuki has defied him, and so he brings her down to his special gallery of identical fake paintings of the girl with the lilies. Unfortunately, no one bothered to tell Yuki to play along, and she immediately points out that all of the girls in Eiji’s lolicon gallery are completely different and that he is crazy. See what the rocker lifestyle does to you? Eiji seems to be depressed but lucid after Yuki dispels the genjutsu, and he gets to work on a new song after telling Frank to get rid of all the crappy paintings he had spent a fortune on.
On Touya’s side, Menou’s manager arrives in time to grab the little skank before she can get drunk and sleep with Touya, so Touya heads to the university to flirt with Yamamoto-san of Student Affairs. She’s still pleased that he called her a goddess after she gave him the last tutoring job, and she gets Touya to agree to a dinner date with her. Unfortunately, Touya is a total cheapskate, and uses the appearance of Yayoi to skip out on the bill. Touya wonders if Yayoi is jealous, and she tells him to stop seeing other women since he already has to deal with 2 obstacles (Yuki and Rina, perhaps). As the episode ends, we see that Yuki is too tired to listen to any of Touya’s voice mails about how awesome Rina is, while Touya is too busy cheating on Yuki to listen to any of her voice mails either.
Reaction:
It seems like they are really drawing a parallel between Eiji and Touya in this episode. Suddenly it makes sense for everyone to spend time at Echoes Cafe. I guess just as all those paintings were but echoes of the painting Eiji saw in London (and can no longer remember), Touya is chasing every girl and acting like each conquest is an echo of the girl that Yuki was before she got famous. Of course Eiji is in full-fledged My Last Duchess mode to the point where he can’t even tell the difference between portrait and landscape orientation, whereas Touya only reciprocates the lust of girls with long hair like Yuki.
Yayoi was awesome once again, whether it was following Eiji’s request to get naked, get on all fours, and lick his shoes, or refusing to let an ex-employee make phone calls on the company car phone. That girl is dedicated to her job! We got a taste of the other characters, and my appetite was whetted. I don’t believe Haruka is ok for a minute, and I’m convinced she killed Mana. Meanwhile, I was giggling so much when Akira told Misaki that Touya has always been a whore and that their relationship would be over if she ever had dinner with Touya. The flashback with Tamaru made it look like there was more to his breakup with Misaki that initially revealed, and it seemed like the envelope on the table was full of money. BTW, did Frank eat Akira’s cheesecake in the scene where Akira was yelling at him? If so, awesome!
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Ah, the train is picking up speed! All that’s missing now is for it to derail and crash into something!
LMAO! Things really came into perspective when Yayoi started disrobing for Eiji, as the woman is obviously a masochist (not that there’s anything wrong with that, Yayoi-sama). Suddenly, all the time she spent with Touya above and beyond the satisfaction of her salt replenishment requirements was explained, sealing up one of the many plot holes in the series.
I loved this scene, especially when he tells Yamamoto that he has to go to the restroom… and then grabs his coat. Like everything else in his life except his mission for failure, that excuse was so half-assed that it brought tears to my eyes. I love this show.
And I think that Misaki wanted Tamaru to stab her with a different “wooden knife,” and that’s why she put up with all his crap last season: she’s been carrying a torch for him all along, and merely trying to distract herself from her buried guilt with Touya and Akira. It’ll be awesome when she dumps Akira to sleep with Tamaru (after Mr. Fujii’s passing, of course, may he rest in peace, as it’s obvious now that he’s never going to regain enough energy to bang Misaki, or give Touya one last butt whipping).
Wow, excellent insight. I was so busy being distracted by the antics of the cast that I didn’t put those things together until I read that. It’s awesome that I can come here to be entertained and educated at the same time (seriously).
I can’t wait till next week. Hopefully they’ll show us where Mana is buried (alive, to begin with, I’m sure).
P.S. That latest pic of Nama-ko makes a sweet header.
Haha, that really explains a lot!
I actually didn’t notice him grabbing his coat the first time, but that is so hilarious and awesome. Touya is totally the MVP. If you replaced him with any other character, this show would suffer. Even Makoto from School Days couldn’t turn in such a great performance because Makoto lacked Touya’s incredible incompetence.
So, recall Touya being called into Kanzaki’s office. He’s questioned about his relations with Mennou and Yuki. Rina then bursts in mentioning that they were lovers or dating.
But more importantly — why isn’t she upset with Mennou seeing Touya?
Touya annoyed me too, finally. When he yawned and displayed bitterness towards Rina for making him watch her practice for 5 hours, “you tricked me.”
You begged for the job you prick.
I’m waiting for the episode where Itsuki starts beating Rina and locking her in a closet.
Hmm… interesting. Eiji wastes craploads of money on shitty paintings in search of the ‘true’ painting, Touya sleeps around with tons of random chicks in search of the ‘true’ chick.
And she’s going back to the lodge to jump off the cliff, right?
C’mon murder/suicide, I know you’re in here somewhere.
@Myssa Rei: I think it’s already starting to come off the tracks. Trainwreck from hell, here we come! n_n
I don’t think so. I’m still waiting for Mana to come out and announce to everyone within hearing that she’s carrying Touya’s child before we can TRULY say it’s come off the tracks…
Also, I’m sure many will be happy to see Touya’s head on a pike at this point, given his general douchebaggery. Or in a bag.
I still don’t really understand why Mana and Haruka are even in this show… Mana’s disappearance reminds me a lot of that guy that like Kotonoha in School Days who just fell off the face of the earth midway through the season.
wait, Mana’s dead? O_O
Well, we haven’t seen her for a few episodes now, so…
Yeah, call off the search and rescue teams.
Yeah Mana’s dead. Haruka clearly was burying something at the tennis courts (see the shovel?) the previous episode.
Man, that’s really insane is that basically everyone in this show is crazy… the only seemingly normal person in this show is Yuki…
That is until this show goes for the School Days ending
Pretty interesting though how Touya’s entire pick-up power is because he calls girls his ‘Goddesses’… I should have thought of that line earlier hahaha….
I’m thinking the best possible ending for this series is for Touya to get dumped by Yuki and end up committing suicide… If it’s a happy ending, it just won’t be memorable.
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