Episode 5 manages to ramp the comedy back into full action and also manages to make me extremely hungry as the girls are booked for a commercial for a ‘Mega-famous’ company. The ‘Mega-famous’ company is a drive-in chicken and rice shop that is local to saga, but hey, at least Saki has heard of it before. In fact, when she was alive with her gang, she would come to eat after a night of tearing up the roads.
The number 1, with a side of lettuce. Her signature order. God I want chicken and rice now.
So the girls are pushed into chicken costumes and have to sing and dance with the company mascot in the commercial. They run into a few actual problems caused by the fact that Tae hasn’t awakened yet but are ultimately able to complete the commercial. It’s good enough for the director, it’s good enough for the guy who runs the company, but it’s not good enough for Kotaro!
They haven’t felt the passion of the chicken, they haven’t BECOME the chicken. So it’s not good enough, and Saki, who has been super gung-ho and on board for this commercial since Kotaro told them where it was for is all over backing him in this.
“If we want to become idols that can take over the country, we need to be able to gobble up the star on his own shoot.”
Saki, honey, remember when I was talking to Yugiri in the last episode about phrasing. This is what I meant, because now you’ve got Tae running to eat the mascot because she thinks he’s a real chicken. So she chases him and bites him and rips the back of his outfit, yet somehow this works out as Kotaro has them roll the camera and the footage gets included in the commercial.
Which airs without a hitch, but what’s this? Someone recognizes one of them? A reporter? Well this could get interesting.
This is the cliffhanger as we reach the middle part of the episode!
I am increasingly amused as these girls start fighting back against Kotaro’s abuse. Throwing the baseball into his leg in the first part of the episode, smacking him across the face with the french bread in the second part of the episode.
Now, the Gatalympics! What are the Gatalympics you ask? The Gatalympics are ‘an event held in the mudflats of the Ariake Sea off Kashima city in Saga Prefecture, Japan. The event takes place every year at the end of May. The Gatalympics are a series of fun-filled competitions that take place on the mudflats.’, pfft, why would you even need to ask. Obviously, you fail at Saga! -nervously hides Wikipedia article behind me-
Of course, once again the only girl all in on this is Saki. Unfortunately, the T-shirts that Kotaro had made for the girls are extremely tacky looking.
As they get there, the reporter is there covering the event.
The girls try riding bikes along a thin area between the mud and they all fall in and get covered in mud. As they try to clean off, they wash off their make-up. So now they have to get back to Kotaro, get their make-up back on and all of this without being seen.
Or simply get to the mud and jump into it to the point they are all so covered that nobody will be able to tell that they are without their make-up. That works too.
So they get through all of this without revealing their zombies, but it’s also a total flop at advertising the band. They do manage to get some additional advertising for drive-in Tori, the chicken place before the end of it all though.
Nice bird, nice bird indeed. Oh well, I guess that’s all fine except that the reporter remembers where he’s seen them before and decides that he needs to do some looking into this!
Oh boy, at last some kind of high stakes drama with the fact that it was kind of inevitable that someone would recognize the more famous members of their group. Junko and Ai in particular were always a little high risk, considering they were pretty famous before they died.
This episode was amazing, I loved the fact that Tae being a unawakened zombie was actually a hinder to them if even in small ways for once. I love even the small insight into Saki’s backstory and I love that we are getting even some kind of low key plot with the reporter.