Theme this time: Animals (see all themes and post for this episode here)
The Cute Transfer Girl
- We start our episode by looking at Mizuki’s room. As you may remember from a previous episode’s post, Mizuki’s room is full of adorable rabbits. Then there’s also her rabbit clip, of course. Edit: In particular, while Mizuki talks to Subaru over the phone you can see some white rabbits with red eyes, which I don’t think I’ve seen up until this episode.
- Then we get a kitty that’s not quite as wholesome as Haru from My Roommate is a Cat, but still a nice kitty.
- Aside from that, the first segment doesn’t have any animals…but hey, humans are also primates, also known as animals, so I guess I can discuss them too…whaddaya mean, that’s cheating?! Does that mean talking about the head is cheating too???
A Curious Couple
- The rabbit calendar returns with this segment. Notably, in the past few episodes it’s been facing the same way but there was a time when it was facing the other way and in the more distant past, it wasn’t there at all…I’ve been trying to chart that in previous episodes, but I think it’s most relevant to this post.
- There are silhouettes of frogs on a sign behind Mizuki when the show cuts to the shopping centre. The silhouettes are green and “Health Care” is written between them in a reddish colour.
- Inside the store, too, there are various animal-themed girls such as Subaru’s cat-eared waifu from a previous episode and the rabbit-eared girl from the dakimakura. You even see Subaru’s old flame Ribbon-chan in the store on a poster! However, Madame Rabbit isn’t actually rabbit-themed…which I must boo for the sake of the theme I’m using…
- Mizuki’s new strap kind of looks like a bear…hmm…but it has a ‘fro. Does that count???
Other:
- I feel vaguely pissed off that Mizuki calls manga “stuff for boys”…there’s shoujo and josei, plus multi-demographic appeal, fo a reason, y’know. But maybe that’s my bias.
- The yoyo had Kaori’s name on it!
- T-That thing Maria and Subaru are discussing is definitely a parody of the Heroic Legend of Arslan (at least by the title)!
- I think Mizuki’s faceplant is making a homage to when Subaru was sleeping on the couch instead of the President because he was having artist’s block.
- Collette looks like she’s gearing up to do a magic trick at 12:37…hmm. Let’s see where that leads…Update: It leads nowhere. Boo…
- Notably, when Mizuki asks Subaru to accompany her, she uses tsukiatte kudasai. Depending on the context, that phrasing can mean “date me” or “accompany me”.
This post’s a bit shorter than the others, but I’m feeling kind of lazy today. So what’s been your favourite animal in Konobi so far?
The Animanga Spellbook 
Haha, so this means that you, Jon, and myself all noticed Collette gearing up for a magic trick – only for no magic trick to occur! A shame.
Maybe Usami was referring to the Black Dragon Eye being for boys? (Which is also incorrect, as you will see in my post tomorrow…).
I need to keep better track of that rabbit calendar.
It keeps slipping under my radar.
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