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Impressions:

I am very, very, VERY impressed. I didn’t think it could end so well. True, it’s another life-goes-on ending, as expected, but still was just awesome. It was amazingly funny, probably one of the funniest the whole season. What a way to finish! And the highlight was of course Miki getting drunk. Actually, it would seem the other way around, as she becomes so angelic and KAWAI when drunk. OMG it was too good – I was just hoping to see her in casual clothing, but instead of that, she becomes a goddess and blows everyone away with her sudden change of heart. I never thought it possible that I’d see her so feminine!! She also reminded me of April from Coyote Ragtime Show for saying ‘okaa-sama’. And the fact that she’s 20 also surprised me. I thought she was maybe 17 or 18, fresh out of high school. Oh well, it doesn’t matter anyway.

And like I never thought I’d see Miki so pleasant (the fake smiles from previous episodes DO NOT COUNT! Oh god don’t remind me of that…*shivers*) I also never thought I’d see Megumi so brutish. It wasn’t the usual evil, scheming Megumi, but someone who greatly reminded me of Two-Hands from Black Lagoon (Levy). Ahh…damn it’s over. It turned out to be such a great show. The ending was great and the quality stayed high all the way until the end. And of course, there was heaps of comedy; every episode had me laughing like crazy at one point or another, and this episode had substantial amounts of material, even if some of it is reused. Ohta getting skewered in the head is always funny. His reaction when Miki looked to him to defend her against Kankuro was also hilarious. Now that I think about it, Ohta was quite a good character with all the laughter he brought. In fact, all the characters were great. The whole show is great. I said in the first episode this is just a series where all you get is mindless comedy, and that still stands. That aspect is a good thing, for those times when you just don’t want to worry about sad things or romances etc. In the end, I highly recommend this show for those who haven’t watched it, but if you dropped it halfway because it was boring or just not funny, then you probably won’t find anything new if you start watching again. All in all, great show! And now it’s over…

Summary:

During the evening, some of the customers ask Miki to have some alcohol, but she declines the offer as she remembers her mother had warned her not to. This is because whenever Makiko drinks, she goes crazy and trashes the place, and as Miki is her daughter, it is likely alcohol will have the same effect on her. However, the customers say that they’ll stop coming to the restaurant, so Miki is forced to drink. She drinks the whole bottle, but is caught by Makiko. When she tries to punish her daughter though, Miki reacts surprisingly fast and manages to fend her off easily. Miki then calls her mother ‘okaa-sama’ and starts speaking very formally as well. When she sees the skirt she is wearing, she screams in embarrassment because she thinks it’s too short. So this is what happens when Miki gets drunk…

After Ohta closes his own shop, he goes to the Onimaru restaurant to have dinner, but is quite disturbed when he sees how Miki is acting. Makiko sees that Miki is wearing a long skirt now and asks her about the old one. She misunderstands this question for a perverted one and runs away all tearful, even calling Ohta horrible. Ohta is quite obviously very alarmed at the change in behaviour, so Makiko informs him that it’s because Miki is drunk. Even when Kankuro comes looking for a challenge, she refuses to fight. Kankuro is shocked like everyone else. The customers become restless as no one is fighting, so Makiko orders Miki to fight. She finally agrees to fight, but the best she can do is slap Kankuro. He starts crying and runs out of the store, saying he hates the current Miki.

The same thing happens when Toshiyuki comes looking for a fight. He lunges at Miki, but when she acts all nice towards him, Toshiyuki stops in midair. Miki offers him a bone, but as he is surely disgusted at Miki’s lack of fight, he simply turns around and walks away. When Miki returns inside the restaurant, Makiko tells her that it’s fine for her to go to sleep. Miki does so gratefully, unaware that Makiko just wants her to return to her old self, as her personality change had been getting on her nerve. The next day, Miki has returned to her normal self. Just as she is trying to get rid of her hangover, Kankuro arrives dressed like a rich woman; long pink dress, makeup, wig, fan etc. He plans to use Miki’s ’strategy’ from last night to fight her. Miki is so disgusted that she hits him so hard he tumbles through the air and crashes into one of Megumi’s pot plants.

During the day when the cherry blossoms are meant to look most magnificent, Miki tries to persuade her mother to go and save a spot at the park so they can enjoy the blossoms that night. Makiko doesn’t want to leave the store because she has business, so Miki decides to get Ohta to go and secure a spot. Makiko comes to his rescue and forces Miki to go herself. When night has fallen, it turns out that Makiko cannot go as she is sick. And so, Ohta goes with Megumi. He is quite afraid because of the possibility that Miki had been drinking. Sake is a common thing at these kind of outings, so it wouldn’t be strange if she did drink a little. But of course, we all know what will happen if she does get drunk. When the two get to the park and start searching for Miki, Megumi says she cannot sense her killing intent anywhere. Ohta fears for the worst, and those fears come true when he sees her…

Miki is sitting calmly on the blanket and greets Ohta and Megumi very slave-like. A few people behind her admit they gave Miki some beer, but it is quite obvious she’s drunk due to the number of empty bottles and cans around her. Megumi, having never seen Miki like this before, demands to know what had happened to her. When she realises Miki is not acting, she decides to take advantage of her like the little devil she is…After ordering Miki for a while, Megumi gets drunk herself and starts making unreasonable request, one being Miki stripping while everyone is watching (now why the hell would she want that?!) She even gets Kayahara-sensei to ask Miki to strip by bribing her with ramen. Before things can get any worse for Miki though, she throws up and her daze lifts. She then punches Megumi in the guts, which makes her throw up as well. Of course, now a fight begins with Kankuro and Toshiyuki joining in as well.

And so it looks like everything has returned to normal. And thus concludes…

MUTEKI KANBAN MUSUME!

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