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Punish me please! I’ve been a bad girl!

Wow, if you get offended by some panty shots, you will probably want to shy away from this show because it’s at a level beyond that. We have incestuous yuri licking, women rubbing each other in the bath, ero manga, brother and sister face to bare cleavage contact, and of course, the above pictured masochist girl getting herself off in the middle of school grounds. And I loved every minute of it.

The episode opens with a disturbing dream Ren is having about his sister with angel wings flying to save him, only to be interrupted by Benisu and a gigantic Colonel. When he wakes up it is decided that Mihato will be trying out to be Miyu’s personal attendant and Ren will be spending his trial week doing miscellaneous chores, and so Ren works on standard butler tasks such as gardening, sweeping, and other cleaning chores. Later they all have dinner together, emphasizing that the servants are all part of the family and they should all eat together as a result. After dinner Ren has a few more flashbacks of his abusive father, while Shinra and Benisu bathe together and Yume and Natose lay in bed together (hoho servants and masters are sure close in this show, deliciously so). Oh, and I won’t forget Miyu in bed reading what appears to be some ero manga I guess, she apparently has graduated college so that’s kosher. Hah, one more thing, Ren falls asleep in his sister’s cleavage. No, this obviously was not based on an eroge, nosiree. The next morning we get to see the licking action advertised in the preview, as Shinra cleans off Miyu’s face. After being flashed by Miyu, Ren goes out onto the veranda of his room, and finds that he shares it with Natose. Together they pledge to do their best tomorrow in serving their masters.

On the sixth day of the trial period Ren accompanies Yume and Natose to school, where he crashes into Mistina, who is apparently a masochist. She gets quite aroused by the apparent abuse of being crashed into and his cold gaze, so much so that the rubs herself repeatedly, and later on when they actually get to school she keeps it up. When they get to school they meet some more of Yume’s friends, Keiko (who seems relatively normal), and the not so normal Ageha and her butler Kojuuro, who we found out later is quite obviously in love with her. When Ren cleans Ageha’s dirty shoe, she is so struck by it that she offers him some of her special candy, which is apparently quite an honor to receive. Later in the evening at the mansion, Keiko shows up and asks Ren if he has seen a ferret, it’s gone missing and the one that finds it gets to increase their club’s funds. In his effort to capture the ferret he breaks an important vase inside the house, to which he pleads forgiveness from his masters. Outside he is feeling distraught, and Miyu and Natose have to come out and beat some sense into him. He is newly inspired and gets back to butlering, awaiting the household decision. In the morning the family decides that first, Mihato will be accepted as Miyu’s new personal assistant, and that despite Ren’s breaking the vase, he will be kept on as well, and Shinra orders him to be her personal attendant.

Next Episode:
Preview shows some lingerie shots, bath time, some Initial D type racing and Yume in her P.E. outfit, one can only imagine.

Impressions:
I’ll start out first with the new characters. We don’t get much of Keiko, and what’s there seems pretty normal so she will probably be one of the only non-screwed up people on this show. You need a couple of them to balance out the show, even Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei has one! Ageha is the abusive master who frequently beats the crap out of her energetic butler Kojuuro. Kojuuro is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama, one of the GARest voices around, giving manliness to roles such as Madarame, Viral, and Ikkaku. Ageha herself is voiced by another Hayate crossover (Maria in this case), Rie Tanaka, another seiyuu whose voice I enjoy. This show is certainly a big collection of some of my favorite voice talents, starting with the first episode and continuing on into the secondary cast introduced in the second. And last, but definitely not least, we are introduced to Mistina, the masochist girl. I was rolling in laughter throughout every scene she was in during this episode, I have always been one to laugh at those kind of jokes and sexual situations, it was great.

As for the content of the show itself, I was disappointed in the relative lack of Shinra-sama, but we did have to add in the secondary cast at Yume’s school. It appears that both Shinra and Miyu are beyond school age, so we won’t be constantly at school, but there are several characters here so I assume at least a chunk of time will be devote to school events and scenes throughout.

We obviously knew they were going to get accepted on as full-time, so the predictable breaking of the vase and the sort of drama and such that ensued really didn’t put me on the edge of my seat or anything. Even the serious sounding parts where Ren remembered their abusive past were hard to think of seriously because I had just watched Mistina orgasm in the middle of the sidewalk. Not that there is anything wrong with that, you really don’t want to take any of this seriously. Plus, this show is pretty escapist and fetish-oriented, so we really don’t need alot of serious drama, and accordingly it was a pretty small amount of time in this episode so I was fine with it.

Overall, the episode continues to build upon the great material that was in the first. Definitely enjoying this one so far and is a show I plan on carrying to the end.