Savage’s impression~
So, yeah, remember how the premise said people had superpowers? Yeah, I do, and it was good times, good times. However, the show itself seems to have forgotten that, as both last episode and this one seems to forget the people have powers in order to have “everybody loves Andou part 2.”
Its summertime, and the first part of the episode is Andou taking Chiyufu an Kuki to the water park.
Kuki, still thinking Andou is a lolicon, is convinced to try and show how bad he is to Chiyufu so she will stop loving him (and finally notice her.)
As you can expect, this leads to wacky events where she tries to make Andou look bad, but it just makes him look good or else falls completely on its face. t has a sort of wily coyote charm to it, but otherwise, its pretty much that.
Honestly, its a little funny, but it hasn’t done anything to surprise me-
Hi Mako…odd to see you here. Well…huh….that was a bit surreal. Anyways, long story short, now Kuki is enamored with Andou.
Because EVERYONE LOVES ANDOU. Seriously, Andou is pretty much entirely a harem anime main character. He’s weird and does things which makes the girls hit him, but they all want him because he’s “just so nice” and when he doesn’t’ act dumb he’s super wise and charismatic. Its Golden Boy Syndrome and its just so predictable. Andou was fun in the beginning because he was strange, because he was such an oddball otaku. Seeing more of him in this light kind of removes some of that. He is likable but he becomes far more generic feeling.
The other half of the episode is Sayumi with Andou, going to the exact same waterpark. Seriously…its just more shenanigans of the same kind.
Well, since this is traditional, it only makes sense we finally get the real reason episodes like this exist-fanservice.
And there’s a double dosing because guess who’s here? Its ponytail from the previous episode.
Now I personally kind of find him interesting,even if I want to punch him in the face. He is literally going meta, knowing Sayumi is a secondary heroine, and trying to get her and Andou together because he wants to see what happens. So he’s pretty much the avatar for the audience who will just hang their heads in shame if he gets with red hair chick. Even though that is interesting, it also is hampered by him being creepy and a troll.
So their part is just Sayumi trying to not get wet and managing to do so because she’s the athletic one of the group and thus is a ninja. However, this was all revealed to be pointless, as ponytail was lying, both to mess with Sayumi and with most of the audience who wanted something to happen.
The only thing relating to the superpowers at all is finding out that ponytail has superpowers. Because of course he does. If you have a name in this series, you have superpowers. And apparently he is trying to work with a sort of antagonistic force so he’s a bad guy…i guess? Also we find out Hatoko is going with Andou somewhere, and red haired chick is sad.
Overall, this episode was feeling really pointless. The comedy was light, but not anything that can carry the episode, and the character stuff felt re-treaded and dull. This series has begun to simply become slice of life instead of something about superpowers. I am guessing something will happen soon, but honestly, the series is beginning to lose me.
-Savage
Episode 11
Well we had our obligatory pool episode, what’s the logical place to go from here? A beach episode . So as was foreshadowed before, we get the family trip of Anou and Hatoko’s families to the beach. Where in which we witness perhaps the most awkward ten minutes in anime history.
I’m sure I could find more awkward if I tried, but still this entire part was just painful to watch. She’s trying way too hard and I know it’s sort of meant to be played for laughs but really I just ended up feeling sorry for her.
I guess that’s what you get for trying to get love advice from a teen magazine. Well at least in the end of it all things get so much less awkward and she realizes that she doesn’t have to try too hard or confess to Andou since he already views her as someone special.
At the same time this painfully awkard scene is happening, Tomoyo is having some awkward situations herself as she visits the pool from last episode by herself. Do I really have to tell you how sad that is? I know I started off this series saying I didn’t want Andou to get with her but by this point they’ve developed it into a romance that I could handle. Honestly, now if there is anyone I don’t want him with it’s Hatoko.
Before the hored of Hatoko fanboys maul me down for this, she’s not a bad character. I was a little harsh on her in a previous episode. I just don’t think she’s right for Andou, she’s a great friend for him but not a good romantic interest.
And so, after ten or so minutes of the beach we get to see him go on his date with Tomoyo. Because…Well every other girl in this show has done it, why not her? They go to a festival, woah! wait a second, you mean that shot of her in a kimono in the opening meant something? touche’ Inou battle, touche’.
The scene itself is pretty cute, she beats him at one of those shooting booths and he has to treat her to all her food. Which he was going to do from the start sooo, I guess it was no real loss for him. Then he takes her aside to talk to her about something that Hatoko brought up on the trip about being mean to her.
She brushes it off as a ‘thing between us girls’ and the subject gets dropped as the fireworks start up and she reaches a single realization. She is in love with Andou. Which has been really obivious to everyone else, and I don’t just mean the viewers. Also, this episode gave us the flashback of what she said to Andou when they met before.
She looks like her brother when she dresses like this, which is really cute. I wonder if his hair is also a wig, or perhaps he dyes it. Oh well, not important. What is important is this scene. You remember this girl? From the student council, yeah, she’s in the show still and it looks like the plot came knocking at her door.
So they all get called to the club room by the student council girl who bursts into the room screaming about how her arm is on fire. Wait, didn’t this gag end with Hatoko dousing Andou in water? Which is exactly what she goes to do to this girl and she steals Hatoko’s power and turns it on them.
WAIT, WAIT, so this episode was spent on awkward beach and festival adventures and you’re going to bitch slap us with the plot in the LAST EPISODE OF THE SERIES? Like, I get that this show has been trying to balance the ‘everyday’ with the ‘supernatural’ but the balance has been really off. Oh well, whatever. I’m looking forward to it and I can hope this wraps up on a satisfying conclusion.
