Re-Kan! Episode 5: Culture Festival

Obligatory school festival episode too. It just isn’t anime without it.

Amami’s class decides to make their class into a haunted house. All of us could have seen that one coming. And of course Amami’s ghost buddies are helping out scaring people too, even though they weren’t supposed to. They were just supposed to watch over her but then got in the fun of things. It helped their class become a legend in their school.

But what I didn’t expect was that we would learn about Amami’s father. Parents are usually nonexistant in anime, so it was fun learning a bit about him and Amami’s mother. So Amami’s mother also had sixth sense, which Amami inherited. But her mother’s was much stronger. According to her father, she was able to make predictions. Before passing away while being pregnant, she already knew she was going to die. But she says in the future that Amami will face pain, but also meet with happiness. Amami’s mother is exactly like her daughter, other than appearance. When it comes to her sixth sense, she’s just as nonchalant. Even announcing out loud that her powers would be at their strongest at night, shutting down Amami’s father’s pick-up line. So maybe even more nonchalant. Aww haha.

But what’s hilarious is that Amami’s father is terrified of ghosts. But he still loved her. But he was terrified so bad, just after a week of knowing her, his hair turned white. That’s how bad it was for him. If Inoue doesn’t stay away from Amami, her hair might turn white too. And it was funny when her father was even checking to see if Inoue’s hair was turning white.

Most of the episode was the students preparing for the festival, and flashbacks. Interesting how Amami’s father and Inoue are so much alike. They both had a heartfelt talk at the festival, and then they had a run-in with ghosts because they mistook Inoue for Amami in her costume. Of course this meant the both of them screaming and running throughout the school. And oh ho ho, Esumi brought up possible yuri between Amami and Inoue (with Amami even blushing), so hmmmmmmm.