This is the epitome of dere-dere. Man, why can’t I have a cute and powerful woman by my side too. Well, I guess it is only short guys who have all the luck. *curses and swears*…
Remember this face well. Ayako is just so cute in this episode. Well, I am not saying she is not cute in the previous episode but when her dere-dereness is used against her, it is just so funny. This is well not as scary laughter as Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, but good enough to put me in quite a few stitches.
This anime is good comedy value, considering the serious stuff that I have already on my hands such as Bokura, Kanon, Asatte and Red Garden. So, this seems like yet another keepers for me, at least for a while until I get bored of watching brainless stuff.
Episode summary
Mamoru was called over as the world was in trouble. In fact, it was simply that the astral fire was stolen and he was brought to calm Ayako. Of course, Ayako flared up until she saw Mamoru and started blushing. However, she regained her senses and punched the living lights out of the president. After that, the president decided to place Mamoru and Ayako together as a team to retreieve the astral fire. The astral fire was a weapon created by Ayako and then Ayako left the school, telling Mamoru that she would meet him later.
We see the spectaled secretary sneaking around and from some prodding by Mamoru, she revealed she was the one who stole the weapon away to save her dog, Arun, who was kidnapped by the enemy. She felt really stupid to do it, especially to betray the person’s trust. After school, Ayako and Mamoru went over to a cafe and Ayako was feeling embarrased to call his name. Eventually, she did and was spoonfeeding Mamoru with ice cream until she noticed that the student council was taking pictures. She cleared them off once again with the mega strength again of course.
As they walked along the beach to find the weapon as she could sense the source, she asked Mamoru whether she could have her answer. Mamoru felt that he was not good enough and could not protect her but did not have time to answer as an explosion occured. Ayako was angry her best chance was disturbed and chased after the explosion, telling Mamoru to stay put. Of course, he did not and gave chase. Ayako was fighting against someone who had removed the Beatrix in the vicinity.
After that, she was forced to dodge and hide, as the man sprinked his machine gun all around to kill her. As Mamoru rushed up, he noticed that he was but a liability to Ayako as Ayako would be distracted from him being there. The dog, Arun, then appeared as he charged out and was noticed by the enemy. That caused Ayako to rush from her position to save him and she was shot. Mamoru was so angry at himself because Ayako was still a girl and he allowed her to get injured.
He then tried to stop the person as the man used the Astral fire to kill Ayako. Mamoru was weak and was unable to stop him as the man was ready to fire it off. Suddenly, he also released Beatrix powers as he literally turned the man into a living flame. He then fainted from the exertion. As he woke up, he found himself inside Ayako’s car and Ayako thanked him for the help. She also said that he had used his Beatrix powers to protect her.
As they returned back to the council, the secretary asked for forgiveness and it seemed that the president already changed it to a fake one, deceiving everyone. So everything was already safe as he already knew the secretary was going to steal and he trusted that she would tell him one day. As the punishment was a punch, the secretary accepted it but Mamoru said he deserved one for hiding the truth.
The day finally ended as Mamoru and Ayako walked home together. Ayako said she promised to protect him but failed to do so. When he was around, she became nervous and she said she had no confidence to protect him and he was going to be harmed if she was with him. She was about to speak more when Mamoru cut her off and said that he felt that since he had Beatrix powers, he would be of some help as he asked whether they could go out together.
Of course, she agreed.
Hohohohoh~
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Thoughts
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Ok, enough swooning. I think I literally scared the living lights out of you right now, so I will snap out of my fanboy mode. Anyway, I really like the idea that Mamoru is not a lame shota that has no abilities. In fact, he is probably a less weakling that can save our megadere Ayako in times of trouble too. Now, that makes it better than a main male lead whose only ability is to provide moral support. This is much better.
Well, I actually like the fast forward romance of Ayako and Mamoru. Many shows spent too much time on this lovey dovey stuff that makes no sense at all. If you are slanting yourself as a comedy, do a comedy romance and not try to add too many unneeded genres like drama and lame fanservice. Fanservice generally sucks unless you make it so obvious until it no longer affects you the same way. This anime is definitely not fitting for subtle fanservice, even though there is a bit of it…
Nothing biggie though.
In fact, putting this away will mean that they will be better action eventually, so I am excited to go and see the improving relationship between Mamoru and Ayako. This seems to be a hilarious comedy romance genre even though I am still very curious what is Beatrix. I mean, how did Ayako get it in the first place. The stranger question goes like….How did Mamoru get Beatrix powers? Perhaps, that is the reason why he was allowed to enter the Tokyo Beatrix University.
Even though the student council is merely for comedy purposes, I like the little thing that the president is in fact quite smart. I mean they can make him completely dumb but the fact that he changed the Astral fire to a fake one makes him slightly more credible. However, his credibility is probably like 0.000001 %. Or something close to that. Still, there is some credibility.
Applause! *_*
Interesting and laughable stuff. I enjoy this brainless show quite a bit and I cannot wait to watch another episode of this.
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*excited* so romantic!!! >_
animefreak added these pithy words on Dec 02 06 at 6:32 pm