Episode 21 – The 2010 Winter Anime Season
Our favorites for the upcoming season. What we think will be good, what we think will be bad, and everything in between.
Reviews: Code Geass (Lelouch of the Rebellion) and Mahoromatic Tadaima Okaeri
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April 7, 2013 @ 7:57 am
The Minami girls are huddled at the kotatsu when Kana suggests having nabe. Chiaki is disdainful of this idea until Haruka shows her support. The doorbell rings and Kana is forced to answer it. Yoshino, Uchida, and Touma are there, ready to play in the snow. Haruka gets Chiaki and Kana to leave by giving Kana a list of things to go out and purchase. On the way, the elementary school girls start a snowball fight with Kana, defeating her despite her boasting, before making a snowman. Haruka shows up, giving Kana the wallet she forgot. Kana asks why Haruka can’t just go since she’s already out. Haruka says she’s busy, but Kana knows Haruka is headed back to the kotatsu. She nails Haruka in the back of the head with a snowball. Haruka stops, then after a pause, makes a snowball and knocks Kana to the ground with a shot to the forehead.
April 7, 2013 @ 8:11 am
Hayami observes a girl in the class knitting, so she decides to put Hosaka onto the idea of knitting something for Haruka. Initially, Hosaka refuses, but Hayami succeeds in getting him interested to knit something for Christmas. Meanwhile, with winter upon them, Maki gets a knew coat and shows it off to Atsuko on their way to school. After getting there, Hayami decides to ask Atsuko her preference – cocoa or coffee, relating it to Maki’s new coat. Hosaka summons Atsuko to ask her a vague question, which turns out to be about Maki’s coat and Haruka’s coat. Atsuko heads to the Minami residence after school, where Uchida and Kana start grilling her on the magic of love, which she somehow compares to a coat that is the color of milk tea.
April 7, 2013 @ 9:14 am
At school, Natsuki and Hosaka admire the snow that has fallen and discuss it for a bit before Hosaka wanders off. In the infirmary, Hitomi takes her temperature under her arm and discovers she has a slight fever. Haruka stops in, also not feeling the best, before Hitomi walks out. Hitomi encounters Natsuki in the hall, still looking out at the snow. Natsuki notices Hitomi’s shirt unbuttoned and points it out to her. He then starts talking about the snow, which Hitomi misunderstands as him talking about her breasts, thus she’s offended when he says he would have liked more (snow). Haruka encounters Natsuki, her shirt also unbuttoned, causing Natsuki to get flustered and flee. Haruka then encounters an angry Hitomi by the vending machine, where she recounts Natsuki talking about her breasts. Haruka, discovering the state of her own shirt, misunderstands Hitomi’s story to be Natsuki talking about Haruka’s breasts, and laments the “more” comment.
April 7, 2013 @ 9:34 am
From here, the episode meanders here and there, pondering where some of Kana’s friends have been over the New Year break, although it seems like half of them can’t even remember despite picking up either the dialect or units of measurement of their host locations, and a visit to the indoor swimming pool with the sole purpose on berating how her recently laziness has turned her summer washboard stomach into something, well, decidedly less so.
August 11, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
what’s with the above comments? It sounds like another pointless slice of life school anime… Japan makes way too many of those.