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Impressions:

This entry was meant to be one with the summary of the next episode, but it somehow got a bit long so I decided to make it separate. The episode was the best so far, mainly because everything happened at school – my favourite setting for ecchi, harem, romance type shows. The characters are all so extreme, but that’s what makes the show funny and enjoyable. Yuuji is too perverted, both Chihaya and Hatsune are too accepting, Marie is too unemotional and Kazuki is too violent. No, what am I talking about? There is no ‘too’ in this. Everyone’s character is perfectly fine for this type of show. Anyway, this episode has gotten me much more interested in the series. Note: I’ve watched the next episode but I haven’t written the summary yet. It should be up within a day.

Summary:

In a dream, Kazuki is spending some quality time with a handsome, well-mannered Yuuji. They are about to kiss when Kazuki falls out of bed and wakes up. After she gets dressed, she starts fretting about why she had such a dream in the first place, and how impossible it is for Yuuji to be so handsome. Downstairs, Kazuki is greeted by Yuuji, who had been waiting for her to go to school together. Of course, she doesn’t like this and hits him on the head with a rolled up newspaper. She sees a camera on the breakfast table and asks about it. It is Yuuji’s, so her explains that he want to capture the memories of his first day of the new school, especially the girls. Kazuki snatches it out of his hands and the two struggle for it, resulting in them both falling down. Yuuji, as the guy, lands on top like in all ecchi Anime. With his head in between Kazuki’s breasts, his perverted self returns and he starts smothering his face. Marie comes to Kazuki’s rescue and barrages Yuuji with rubber balls from her teddy bear gun.

When things have settled down, Kazuki asks Yuuji about what he thinks of his own looks. He thinks he looks good, but Kazuki points out that his uncombed hair, slack face and loose shirt will make girl’s hate him. He does not believe this and says that girls like wild men. To back this statement up, he also says that since he was younger, girls have admired him from a distance. Kazuki informs him that those girls were actually avoiding him. Yuuji becomes somewhat distraught and lets Kazuki tidy him up. Hatsune (Kazuki’s sister) says that Yuuji doesn’t actually look bad and will be popular if he looks proper. Kazuki does not believe that it is that simple, but Yuuji turns around and starts fixing up his expression. When he turns around, Kazuki is amazed to see that he has just become the handsome guy from her dream. However, his face returns back to normal after a while. He explains that it’s tiring keeping such a look.

On the way to school, all the girls start admiring Yuuji because of the handsome face he had put on. Kazuki finds herself staring too, and blushing even. She questions herself as to why she’s going red. As they are walking, an energetic junior school girl runs into Marie as she is running. The girl cannot help but stare at Marie, as she reminds her of her toy raccoon. Kazuki tells Yuuji to help her help the girl up, but finds him glaring at her exposed panties. Kazuki grabs Yuuji’s face to stop him from looking. The girl gets up and heads off for school. When Kazuki lets Yuuji go, he is pretty much unconscious.

At school, everyone parts to go to their own classes. Marie introduces herself in her class, where the girl from before (Niina) just happens to be in. She immediately offers Marie the seat next to her. When she sits down, she notices Niina staring eagerly at her and moves her desk slightly closer to the window, away from Niina. She, in turn, moves slightly closer to Marie. Seeing no other way to avoid Niina, Marie gives up and sighs.

In Yuuji’s new class, he introduces himself like Marie, with his temporary handsome face. Machida, the class president, suggests a welcoming party. He tells Yuuji that he can help with attracting the girls with a face like his. The vide president, Serizawa, slams the back of her fist into his face and tells Yuuji to talk to her if he has any questions (whoa that class is rough). She also winks at Yuuji, which gets all the guys in the class ogling. Yuuji is about to return to his normal look, but wills himself not to as it’ll mean his social doom.

At the start of recess, Kazuki starts worrying about Yuuji and the possible perverted acts he’s already committed. She tells herself that even if Yuuji is bad, he wouldn’t go around hugging girls at random, especially at school. However, when she thinks back to the multiple times she had been attacked, she starts to think otherwise. Chihaya suddenly appears and asks her about her childhood friend. She tells Kazuki that she’s already seen what he looks like. Kazuki asks about his behaviour and is quite surprised to hear that not only is he normal, he is also quite popular among the girls. Chihaya takes Kazuki to get a look at him and he indeed is surrounded by girls.

Kazuki makes her way to the roof, frustrated about Yuuji’s sudden popularity. She’s probably just jealous though. She is also angry that he never acted like he that in front of her. At home, Kazuki is surprised by Yuuji, who appears from the window as she is changing. Yuuji is annoyed that she didn’t wait for him to go home together. Kazuki angrily asks him why he didn’t go home with the other girls, to which Yuuji replies that he only wants to go home with Kazuki. He tries to sway Kazuki to like him with his handsome face, but she simply gives him another whack and says that she does not like that look. Yuuji becomes unenergetic and says that he won’t bother with pretending to be good looking anymore. Kazuki is worried as the girls will ignore him, but Yuuji does not mind as she will still be his friend. Kazuki is taken aback by Yuuji’s expression (in a good way). She becomes even more nervous than when she’s around the handsome Yuuji.

The next day, Kazuki asks Yuuji to meet her after school. He gets the wrong idea and Kazuki can tell immediately. She slams his face onto the table and tells him that she just wants to introduce him to Chihaya. Kazuki also asks Marie to make sure he acts appropriately.

After school, Chihaya and Yuuji meet as Kazuki watches from outside the classroom. Yuuji acts like a normal high school guy and Chihaya seems to be enjoying herself. However, after the short conversation, she gets Yuuji in a headlock and tells him to start acting normally. She even goes to such lengths as to press his head against her chest to get him going. Sure enough, it does and Yuuji starts enjoying the moment like the pervert he is. Kazuki walks into the room and asks Chihaya how she knew Yuuji wasn’t acting normally. She says that she had suspecting it since yesterday when she saw his face twitch. She tells Yuuji that she thinks acting normal is better for him. He is extremely happy that someone has accepted him for who he is and takes Chihaya’s hands. Marie, who had been watching the whole time, is about to fire as she mistakes this for perverted behaviour. Kazuki tries to intervene but ends up running into Yuuji and Chihaya and knocking them over. Both Chihaya’s and Yuuji’s skirts are pulled up when they hit the floor, which of course does not escape Yuuji’s attention. He is about to grope the two girls, but Marie fires on him and knocks him into the wall. Both Marie and Kazuki apologise to Chihaya for Yuuji’s behaviour, but surprisingly, she says that boys should act a bit perverted. Yuuji is ecstatic to hear her agree with his actions. Chihaya lifts her skirt up for no particular reason but to satisfy her own curiosity. He cannot help but look, which causes Marie to shoot him again. This process occurs many more times as Chihaya exposes more of herself.

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