Seriously Makeine, you just going to throw out a crazy one-off ED sequence like that as if it was nothing? At least I assume it was one-off, given the themes of the episode. I loved the first ED but the visuals were once again pretty spectacular here. Sometimes an anime comes along that, for whatever, reason, seems blessed by the Gods in having everyone associated with it obviously trying to make every little element special. Sometimes it’s a massive hit manga or LN, sometimes it just happens and we never know exactly why. Production-wise, Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! just has it goin’ on.
Because of my checkered (well, more like chessed) record with light novel adaptations, I’m on about DEFCON 3 with Makeine at all times. Objectively speaking I didn’t find this to be a great episode. But it didn’t really do anything to scare me, either – it was just good but not quite as good as the last couple eps. It didn’t get caught in any bear traps or anything, and lord knows with a brocon imouto running around it was practically dancing in a field of them. In other words, reassuringly normal. One step closer to beating the odds (with seven more steps to go).
All the heroines got a look in here, and while it seemed for a while as if Remon was going to be the odd girl out she ended up being the main MacGuffin of the episode (albeit mostly off screen). Nukumizu-kun is buying LNs (the ability of a LN to mock LN title constructs is a good sign) and looking forward to some quiet summer vacation time at home. But Anna has decided to pay a visit, and Kaju is relentlessly mining for information (she acts happy about it, but I’m convinced there’s no dagger in her school bag). Why is Anna there? To unload some somen – and freeload something else. Why was her father’s salary paid in somen? I’m not sure we’ll ever get an answer, and I’m not sure I want to know.
Because he’s in a club Nuk-kun has to spend part of natsuyasumi at school (because Japan is dumb that way). After a brief club meeting where the prez solicits stories for the magazine that’s proof for the student council that the club actually exists, he and Chika get sent to “volunteer” at the library (though she seems to be doing precious little besides basking in her her story’s online reviews). Komari admits she’s been spending a lot of time with Remon and even that she’s been enjoying it. She also asks Nukumizu if Remon has any brothers, though he seems not to pick up on the inference…
Nuk-kun is learning the downside for an introvert in leaving their shell and making friends – his peaceful life is no longer his to command. Anna calls him out – Kaju insists it’s a date, but predictably it’s really Anna wanting to bitch about Sousuke and Karen and their lovers’ chemistry. Anna being her usual knucklehead self is always amusing, but this is actually a bridge to the main event. The pair spy Remon out and about with Mitsuki-kun. They’re childhood friends so in theory it should be no big deal, but Anna insists that the look on Remon’s face was not that of a girl that’s given up.
Eventually Asagumo-san shows up, as she’s been tailing Mitsuki on suspicion he was cheating with Remon. Anna really should be hostile towards her as a homewrecker but the three of them end up in Kazuhiko’s room, ostensibly to discuss this affair but mostly to embarrass Kazuhiko over his otaku paraphernalia. Asagumo notes that if in fact Mitsuki is in love with Remon, she’s willing to step aside so the pair of them can be happy. But it’s pretty obvious she’s putting on a brave face and trying to fool herself.
Later, Asagumo calls Anna and Nuk-kun out to where she suspects (correctly) that Mitsuki and Remon will be meeting up. I don’t know exactly what’s going on here – Remon winning would be a contradiction of the series’ seeming central premise though, and I suspect this is more innocent than Chihaya believes it to be. Through more Preston Sturges hijinks Asagumo and Kazuhiko wind up being discovered in a changing stall by Mitsuki, and Chihaya promptly throws Kazuhiko under the bus. Poor guy – As an introvert he fundamentally wants not to be involved in people’s things, and now he’s up to his neck.
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