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Impressions:

Yay, Megumi’s in casual dress! It would’ve been more of a sight if she was wearing a skirt though, instead such a long one. The facial distortions are always hilarious though, and I still haven’t gotten over them. Aside from that, I didn’t find this episode as funny as the others. The series had a good run, but now it’s getting harder to come up with new ideas. If their was a plot, it could manage a full 26 episodes fine, but with frequent comedy as its only drive, I guess 12 episodes is its limit. Even a little romance would allow for more material, but it just wouldn’t suit an Anime like this, where everyone’s nature is to dish out damage. With all this in mind, the ending will probably be abrupt and not resolve anything, as their really isn’t anything to resolve in the first place.

Summary:

Kankuro is faced with the difficult decision of how to approach Miki with his usual challenge, as every time he tried in the past resulted in painful failure. As he has always entered the restaurant from the right, so he thinks if he enters from the left, he’ll have a better chance. This doesn’t prevent him from getting hurt, but his constant attempts does irritate Miki into accepting the challenge. Only thing is, she has to make a delivery first.

Hours later after Kankuro has stuffed his face many times over in the restaurant, Miki finally returns, only to get more errands from her mother. Makiko tells Kankuro that Miki probably won’t have enough time to fight him today, as she needs to do many more odd jobs. Because of this, Kankuro decides to help her with everything.

He goes on a delivery to Endou’s house. Tsohiyuki almost mistakes him for Miki, but stops in time before biting his face off. He delivers the ramen quickly, returns and completes all the small jobs that Miki was meant to do. He even starts cooking, getting to a speed where as the single cook, is able to keep every customer satisfied (and this is an achievement as the restaurant is full). Ohta sees this and is shocked to find the restaurant is using efficient services to attract customers (like a normal restaurant), instead of using fighting shows.

At the end of the day, when Miki finally returns, she finds out that Kankuro has done a much better job in the store than she ever has, and is afraid of losing her job as a poster girl. Because of this, she challenges Kankuro to a race where the winner gets the job of poster girl. Kankuro dresses up as Miki to make things fair (he wears a skirt) and races to the residence where they are meant to make the delivery. Surprisingly, he manages to beat Miki, as he is wearing a skirt, which doesn’t restrict his movement. Although he does make it to the destination first, his skirt frightens the woman who ordered the ramen, so Miki ends up winning the race.

However, Makiko convinces Miki to accept Kankuro’s challenge as he had been working so hard that day. She reluctantly agrees, but the fight is over in a few seconds, with kankuro lying in rubble as the result.

The next day, Kankuro once again challenges Miki to a bout, but is hit with such might that he flies into Megumi’s bakery and blacks out. After waking up, Megumi asks for an alliance with him to defeat Miki. Kankuro does not want to involve anyone else in his quarrels, but if Miki wants him to help her with her own revenge, he would gladly accept. Putting it that way, Megumi accepts this and the two start their ’special training’.

And what might that special training be? As crazy as it might seem, the kankuro trains Megumi in riding a unicycle and pretending to be a train. Kankuro had used both techniques against Miki, but although he failed both times, he reasons that they can beat Miki by combining the two techniques. Megumi foolishly believes this.

And so they continue their training.

Later in the day, Kankuro sets up a boxing ring for Megumi to fight Miki in, and even sends the enemy a letter of challenge, saying it was from Megumi. And so Megumi starts her battle with Miki. However, as she is wearing boxing gloves, she can’t use her skewers. She tries to implement the ‘unicycle and train’ technique, but fails miserably and goes down with one blow to the stomach. She says she shouldn’t have listened to Kankuro in the first place, as she only ever fights underhandedly and never honourably.

Because of their different personalities, Kankuro and Megumi get into an argument. To escalate things, Miki tells them to fight physically. She offers kankuro to accept his challenges whenever he asks if he beats Megumi, and offers Megumi to shave her head and apologize to her if she wins. And so, with this new motivation, the two start clashing with all they have. Miki then realises she’d get the worse end of things no matter who wins, so decides to defeat both Megumi and Kankuro herself. With this new threat, Megumi and Kankuro join forces and launch an attack from two sides. However, before they manage to impact Miki, Makiko interferes by stopping them both in midair, and at the same time burying Miki’s face in the ground with her foot. Irritably, she drags her daughter away. Megumi and Kankuro start arguing again about which way was better to fight Miki with: the honourable way or not.

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