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Impressions:

I didn’t find this episode as funny as others. The main thing that made me laugh this time were the faces the characters make, but that’s what happens all the time so it really shouldn’t be that that’s the main comedy aspect. The past few episodes had mores spoken and acted jokes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the shows turned bad or boring. I still love it and find it to be the funniest series I’ve ever seen, although I must say I haven’t seen many comedy series. The only other series I can compare to Muteki Kanban Musume is School Rumble (the first season) and perhaps episode 16 of School Rumble 2nd Term - that was the funniest of the season! Ok, getting side-tracked now… The flashback that Miki has of her childhood is awesome because it shows her mum before she became so tankish. Take a look at the 8th screenie, which is 2nd column and 3rd row. I wish Miki had actually gone shopping in casual clothes. Pity she didn’t… I can’t talk about the animation or the character design of Muteki Kanban Musume as it’s always the same (good of course, but the same). The many, many trademark Anime facial distortions they use is what is most memorable (oops, I am talking about the animation and character design, hehe…) Let’s take a look at what will happen next episode - what am I saying? You can never tell what the previews are about. From what I can make out, there will be fighting - like in every episode - and one shot depicts Miki being attracted to Kankuro. But of course, this will definitely not happen! But if it does it’ll be nice laughing material. This reminds me to some previews I’ve seen where they have nothing to do with the real storyline (e.g. the preview shows five seconds of a dream some guy has). I really hate those…

Summary:

Miki is bored on her day off and decides to go shopping, as she doesn’t have a television or any games. She goes to the kids section of the Hanasakiya mall (wonder why she went there…) She sees a pink stuffed animal and is reminded of a time in her childhood when she had slept with the same toy (and holy crap her mother isn’t a tank!). She decides to buy and starts rummaging through her handbag to see if she brought enough money. As she is checking, someone comes and takes the bear (which is the last one on display) and is about to purchase it before Miki intervenes by taking a shot at her head. Yep, you guessed. Who better to take the animal and start a fight with Miki? Megumi! Actually, Miki started the fight, but oh well! They fight over it using fists and skewers, but somehow ends up becoming a tug-of-war using their teeth! As Megumi is struggling to take the bear, she makes a weird face. Seeing this, Miki begins to laugh and gives up the bear (which has been torn now anyway).

The next day as Miki goes outside to sweep the ground, she sees a truck drive off after delivering a box to Ohta. He opens it up, revealling the same pink bear from yesterday. He explains it’s a prize for this years competition. Miki had won last year, which had been a sumo competition. Ohta announces that it won’t be a sumo competition anymore as Miki injured too many people last year. He goes on to explain the history of the competition. He says that the district sumo competition will still commence, but it will be on where no one will get hurt, even if Miki shows up. With the some help with Megumi, Ohta concludes that both thumb wrestling/sumo and paper sumo are both VERY hazardous to Miki’s opponents. Megumi suggests that they pick something Miki isn’t good at. Ohta enquires Miki about this, to which she replies that she is bad at taking a hit from her mum. Ohta rejects the stupid idea, saying the population will drop if they did that. When Miki leaves, Megumi remembers that Miki isn’t good at holding back laughter.

On the day of the competition, the feature match is a staring contest between Miki and Megumi. They will hold water in their mouths and and whoever spills loses. Megumi makes a face and Miki already feels like she is about to lose. Eventually, when she is on the verge of losing, water spurts from her eyes and ears. Megumi laughs at the sight, lets the water escape and loses. Miki wins once again! However, that was only the first game. In the end, the winner is not Miki, but Kayahara-sensei, as she simply never smiles unless she is near or eating ramen. She wins the bear and a new television. Afterwards, Miki treats her to ramen, but her mum tells her that she has to pay for it.

Second half: Miki comes after Megumi when she finds out she has complaints filed against her. It seems that Megumi had said she skips work to play and spreads rumours about the bakery, which is all true, but Miki doesn’t listen to reason. The chase leads into a narrow alleyway, up some exterior stairs, over a wall and into an enclosed space where the only way up is a broken ladder that is too high to reach. Uh-oh! They both decide that they need a springboard to reach it and fight each other to determine who will be it. As they are fighting, Kankuro leaps into the enclosed space to fight Miki but gets stabbed in the head by a skewer and side-kicke on the face. He is down immediately and is used as the springboard. However, it is too low so they prepare to fight each other again. Before they can do so, Ohta appears by abseiling the side of one wall with a rope. Megumi and Miki run jump off him (who had actually come to save them) to make the distance to the ladder. They would have made it too, if it wasn’t for Toshiyuki who shows up and slams them both back down.

Miki decides to have a battle royale to determine who’s bodies will be used as a springboard. Ohta is about to protest, but Kankuro makes him realise that everyone has their eyes on them. Kankuro thinks of a way to make Ohta fight, which is to mention Star Rangers. Ohta gets a confidence boost, but a confidence boost is all it is. Both Kankuro and Ohta get the sh*t beaten out of them. Miki is left with Toshiyuki to fight, which is settled surprisingly quickly as the dog has been worn out. Megumi reveals herself after hiding behind camouflaging piece of cloth (where’d she get that?) Anyway, Megumi is confident that she’ll win as Miki is already at her limit. However, as she is about to attack, she notices Kayahara-sensei sitting in the corner and identifies her as a vengeful spirit. She passes out. Miki goes to talk with Kayahara and she agrees to go get help. She scales the wall with no equipment, rope or anything, astounding Miki. However, when she gets into view of the public, people start screaming in horror. Kayahara returns back down depressed and refuses to budge for the rest of the day. Meanwhile, Makiko is furiously waiting for Miki’s return.

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