Sweeping outside the apartment one day, Momoko finds a lady who collapses in front of her. Seems that the story goes that she’s was forced to work as a maid to pay the debts of her parents. Abused and tortured, she was finally chased out after being blamed for breaking a vase. Out of kindness, everybody offers to let Kinu stay in the attic. (seems that the assassin grandma had ran away and never came back)

It’s not long before Kinu displays her helpfulness and versatility. House cleaning, tennis, and an expert motor cyclist.

Kinu offers to help Momoko with the groceries shopping. But surprisingly, delivers a strong punch to momoko on the way home. At dinner, nobody has any idea where momoko went, until she comes back clutching her stomach. But she doesn’t say anything.

At night though, she finally tells Koushi, but of course it’s something hard to believe, especially since Kinu has been so helpful. Next morning though, Koushi finds a letter from Kinu saying that she’s leaving because Momoko seemed angry at her, especially over dinner.

In the end, Koushi gives Momoko the cold shoulder, without even explaining why. But on the way home from school, they meet Kinu being harassed by two gangsters. After rescuing her, they invite her back to the apartment again.

While Momoko is preparing dinner, Kinu is at one side sharpening a kitchen knife. Suddenly, she mentions that she’s an assassin, here to kill Koushi. In shock, Momoko spills the dinner onto Kinu. But when Koushi arrives, Kinu spins a story of how Momoko had destroyed the dinner Kinu supposedly prepared.

Even the rest find it hard to believe that Kinu is an assassin. For reasons such as how she can draw very moe doujins for Hanzo, and the fact that she does not seem to have any battle aura nor muscular body. Left with no choice, Momoko promises to protect Koushi well.

However, things don’t go well over dinner even as Momoko wanted to taste all the food for poison before Koushi eats them. Even in the public bath, Momoko can only end up being jealous of Kinu’s breast size.

At night though, Kinu invites Momoko out to an open space. There, she reveals that she is Tenten’s favorite dress-up doll, with the powers of whatever character she cosplays as. Thus a battle breaks out.

Unknown to Momoko though, Kinu had left a letter for Koushi to come find them. Koushi arrives just as Momoko deals a killer blow to Kinu. Not realising what actually happened, Koushi scolds Momoko and chases her away.

While wandering the streets, Momoko happens to meet Tenka’s oldest brother, who easily absorbs Momoko’s attack. At the riverside, Koushi is searching for Momoko as well, but meets Tenten and Tenka’s other brother.

Here, he finally finds out who Kinu really is. But ruthless tenten soons dispatches and destroys Kinu like the doll she is. As a final blow, she makes Koushi swallow a poison ball, guaranteeing death in a week’s time.

Thoughts

AH? Another filler character? We’re already near the end of the season and the plot is still hardly advancing. Looks like the stories will focus entirely on the tiger family. (unfortunately) The only thing Kinu provides is to look cute and provide for some sexy moments. (unneeded)

Poor momoko. I hate situations like the one she found herself in. Misunderstood by the one you care for, you can’t abandon him, yet being together will continue to choose pain. Whatever choice you choose is still painful.

Interesting things here and there, in this episode i guess. FIght scene was good as usual I though, but very short.

Finally new battle dresses for everyone in the next episode.

Apparently Koushi’s father and Old Landlady goes way back. Hence when he talked about how a lady friend would take care of them, Koushi and Iroha find themselves as Iroha’s neighbour. Old rules don’t change though, separate rooms for Koushi andMomoko. Not that it prevents misunderstandings from happening.

Dinner together pretty much reveals that Tenka and Hanzo are pretty the same type of guys. Love-lorn. Both soon are scolding each other for lacking guts and courage. Sanae soon pays a visit with her grandmother. Koushi is utterly relieved. At last, one NORMAL person.

Looking at the news about the fire at Koushi’s house, Iroha realized from the photo that it was started by assassins, a news that she shares with Momoko. (Nothing is done about it in this episode though)

A visit round the apartment by momoko and Koushi soon reveals who their neighbours are. Tenka, iroha, hanzo, mad prosecutor, and mad assassin who stays in the attic.

Anyway, the landlady holds a crazy Yaminabe (potluck) dinner as a welcome party. Pretty much insane stuff which only Momoko is excited over. Meanwhile, everybody else thinks about how to use the party to fulfill their dreams.

Iroha has her omelette filled with weird ingredients. Hanzo has some love magic Horenhapen activated with his hair. Tenko’s plan is to replace Hanzo’s hair with his own and feed it to momoko. Mad prosecutor has chilli hot dumplings, while assassin has her pineapple grenade.

Finally the party arrives, but of course nobody dares to eat anything, thanks to landlady’s soup. In the end, Momoko takes the first attempt, but luckily grabs her own tasty onigiri. Tenka is next. First K.O. after eating chilli dumplings.

Thus landlady is excited by all that’s happening, and reveals the challenge. Whoever eats the pink ganmo gets free rent for a year. Enough incentive for everybody to eat like crazy, even Sanae does so to save Koushi from dangerous food.

Koushi nearly dies from eating Iroha’s Tamagoyaki, but survives. Next to K.O. is Iroha who eats the Horenhapen with Tenka’s hair, thus falling in love with him. Next is mad prosecutor who falls in love with Hanzo. While attempting to prevent Hanzo from eating chilli dumpling, they end up biting into one at the same time. Double K.O.

Just as assassin feeds Koushi the grenade though, Koushi ends up picking up a Momoko who begs him to “eat her”. All the insane going ons revives the animals in everybody, scaring the assassin away. Momoko also gets disqualified after scalding herself and falling onto Sanae in a 69 position.

Only Koushi left. 1 v 1 challenge with landlady. But Koushi has his own tricks too, and going straight for Landlady’s chopstick, manages to get the ganmo as well. Oops, it falls out of the room after a tussel, and ends up getting eaten by Tenka’s cat. No choice but to allow pets in the apartment now.

Thoughts

Lovely. Even all the H-jokes are back. Like I’ve said in the earlier episode, this series is best when it focuses on the main characters, rather then trying to introduce other stuff. Definitely nice to see Iroha in something other than her school uniform

New assassin in the next episode!

Yup, with a little feeding, Tenka goes back to normal. He spins a story about how he has 4 other siblings and that they are now after Koushi as well. But as comrades in the battle of love, Tenka now wants to help Koushi. Koushi thinks that the story is all bollocks, but of course Momoko is totally moved by the story. This earns Tenka a stay in the house.

In the midst of drinking orange juice as comrades and getting high, Momoko appears in just a shirt after bathing. This of course makes Tenka all jealous, though Koushi does not think it’s anything good. However, Tenka does acknowledge that Momoko belongs to Koushi now. That night, he catches Momoko dressed real skimpily going into Koushi’s room. After hearing some very misleading statements, he goes crazy, totally unaware of the real situation inside the room.

Off to school the next day! Where they meet Tenka’s brother Tenchi. However, Tenchi pretends not to be the brother, putting everyone at ease. Later in school however, Sanae catches Tenka talking to Becky the ball. Seems that Tenka isn’t staying at Koushi’s house for MOmoko or to protect Koushi. It’s just to protect himself from his 4 siblings. This pisses Sanae off, who lectures him about love, linking it back to her own situation about enduring and sacrifice.

They meet Tenchi on the way home after school who launches n attack on Koushi. It’s blocked in time by Tenka though. All the real family history starts to spill out, revealing Tenka to be bullied at home, and to be the useless person who failed to assasinate Koushi, thus no longer loved by Tenchi.

Tenka then challenges Tenchi to gladiator soccer, no ball, just the aim of getting your opponent’s body into the goal. Koushi can’t tell what’s going on cause things are too fast, but everybody else can see that Tenka is getting trashed.

Just then, Tenchi reveals that Tenka had purposely lost. Tenka is much weaker, and purposely lost so that he’ll get hurt less. Though Tenka was the one who taught Tenchi martial arts, Tenka had started getting jealous and distant away from Tenchi once Tenchi become stronger. Crawling to his becky ball for comfort, “becky” starts to scold him instead. (actually, it’s just what Sanae said to him earlier) This revitalizes him, and he takes out his ultimate weapon, asking Koushi not to laugh at him.

Yup. Ultimate weapon alright. Cat toy. Tenchi falls for it totally, even though he had claimed it won’t work on someone like him. Thus he is pawned.

Momoko declares that there’ no problem with the rest of the siblings going after them, since they are a group of 5 now! (much to koushi’s horrory)

They return home to find their house on fire. (They shift to Iroha’s house tomorrow in the next episode though. That should be interesting)

Thoughts

Not enough of Iroha, Sanae and momoko. Although there are plenty of nice shots of Momoko at the start. Not that interesting a story though… need more laughs.

Ah… Momoko uses her ultimate skill to open up a hole in the rain clouds for the sun to shine through and dry her clothes. She then hears Koushi returning and immediately puts on her apron to go be a loving wife. Cooking… bathing…. but NO SLEEPING TOGETHER!

With what happens the night before, Momoko is left feeling a little down. She chances upon a call-in television program which talks about how the spark of your marriage might have seemed to disappeared. Of course, the host offers up 7 steps to bring that spark back. Fantasies start to run wild in Momoko’s head.

 Of course, Momoko follows the 7 steps, and obviously, the 7 steps do not quite work. First step, change your hairstyle. If changing the hairstyle to two strands does not work, four will not either.

Trying to make someone jealous of you when he doesn’t care two hoots about you would most likely not work either. Momoko ends up being innocently dragged into the guy’s obsession with trains.

 Iroha, Hanzo walks home together with Momoko, but they end up seeing Koushi and Sanae together, seemingly on a date. Iroha decides to help out Momoko, and the next two steps are carried out.

Momoko appears on a TV quiz show. This fulfils the step of doing something special, and also helps to demostrate a new side of Momoko. Intelligence! As incompetent as Iroha and Hanzo are, they fail miserably in getting Koushi to watch the TV, and Koushi ends up not catching the quiz show at all.

On the way home, Momoko catches sight of an abandoned cat, and decides to bring it  home.  Unfortunately, Koushi hates ALL animals, and  refuses to let Momoko keep the cat. (The next step to reigniting sparks is to keep a pet!) Momoko secretly keeps it though.

 

 Next step is a physical representation of your love. To momoko, this means shirts with the print “I love Koushi/Momoko”. Koushi expectedly refuses to wear it.

 Returning to his room, Koushi finds his room trashed thanks to the cat. This leads to a cold war between Koushi and Momoko. Left to cook instant noodles for his dinner, Koushi comments that it’s delicious, leading to more tears by Momoko, as she thinks her cooking can’t even compare to instant noodles.

In the end, Momoko cooks dinner for the cat as it was hungry, and as a “might as well” thing, cooked Koushi’s favorite dish, and they all sat down to enjoy dinner. Just then, Koushi remembers about the pair of shoes he bought Momoko, which he asked Sanae to help picked. Filled with joy, Momoko remembers the final tip/step is to just be yourself, and soon Momoko is back to her normal self.

Too bad the shoes don’t fit.

Next day, they meet an absolutely different  Tiger assasin, which prepares the way for the final story arc.

Thoughts.

OH MY. SHOES FOR MOMOKO!

Anyway, this episode wasn’t superb material, and felt more like a filler between story arcs. Although compared to the non-manga fillers we’ve been having, this is way better. It’s really refreshing to just see momoko again.  We’re back to the typical jokes created by momoko.

Saigou and Rabbit Girl

The opening scene sees Alice the rabbit girl being attacked by a bunch of Mobs. Saigou comes to her rescue, but is knocked out very soon. However, Alice is more than capable in fighting off the mob on her own.

Alice takes care of Saigou at the central park. Saigou is all shy and blushing when he wakes up though, and soon runs away, leaving his jacket behind.

 

 Alice manages to find out his name and school cause there was a bus pass inside the jacket though. Next day, she meets Koushi and Momoko, and with their help, tracks Saigou down.

Though Saigou has zero vocabulary, Momoko acts as a translator for Saigou, with Momoko explaining that people in love have a special connection, that’s why she can do a translation.

 Saigou is obviously in love with Alice, and buys her 50 roses, and vists her at central park where she’s busking. Surprisingly, they have a reasonable conversation even though Saigou doesn’t say anything.

 A chanced meeting in a bookstore the next day sees Saigou asking Momoko for help with ideasfor a date. Soon the whole gang is gathered at Koushi’s house for a brainstorming session. Even as Momoko gets a little distracted about dating Koushi instead, everybody finally agrees on a date to the amusement park.

 That night, we see that Alice is actually the top assasin from the uzuki clan. However, she is on the run (for unknown reasons), and is offered freedom if she kills Koushi. Oh, and Saigou will not come to harm either.

 Trip to the amusement park goes well, even if Iroha and Hanzo are working part time there. However, due to various luck of Koushi all assasination attempts fail. The fast crazy rides are making Alice dizzy. She cannot kill in front of everybody either, and finally persuades Saigou to distract Momoko for awhile.

 However,as Alice drags Koushi away, she’s seen by Iroha while iroha is picking up trash.  Alice succeeds in knocking out Koushi and carrying him into the haunted house. But as Koushi wakes up, he simple sees Iroha and Alice (in warrior form now) fighting it out.

 However, suddenly Alice is blown aside as Momoko arrives. Alice understands that she’s no match for Momoko, but even as she deals the finishing blow at Koushi, Saigou blocks and intercept. Touching speech makes Alice stops fighting. Meanwhile, Alice’s clan mate is “arrested” by Iroha outside.

 Thoughts

The closing was a parting between Alice and Saigou. It also serves as the animation of a new (probably one-time) ending song, which Alice sang at the Central park. Lyric translation can be found here.

At this this filler wasn’t the pits like last one. I actually liked Alice’s character design. She looked absolutely like a rabbit. Her seiyuu also did well I though. New seiyuu?? I couldn’t get any data on her. Mi~ka I think.

 I was so hoping that Momoko will fight, but nothing happened! Such a disappointment. We’re going back to the manga next week, focusing on Momoko and Koushi, so that should be good.

Koushi’s class has chosen to do a horror house for cultural festival. What seemed like a good idea for Momoko to cuddle up to Koushi obviously turns bad. Momoko is excessively frightened by the props, yet Koushi is totally heartless.

Add in the appearance of a girl who disappears when Momoko sees her, and rumours in school about a girl who haunts classes who do haunted houses for cultural festival.

A little research discovers that the girl of the rumours was actually in Koushi’s father’s classes last time. Koushi’s father looks exactly like Koushi! Speculation thus arise about how the girl must have wanted to confess to Koushi’s father, but died before being able to do so.

Suddenly the mysterious girl appears at the library door. We find out that she’s actually of the same class, just very much invisible. She interacts plenty with machines, thus is too shy to interact with people. All that happened previously were just a series of coincidence. Oh, and she happens to have a crush on Koushi.

She likes the attention she gets as a ghost, and continues to pretend to be one, thus earning a date with Koushi.

How to pretend to be a ghost.

Anti-gravity devices are a must.

On demand fireworks must be available from your house so that you can distract people while you set up your machines.

Problem is though, ghost arn’t supposed to use toilets.

Be prepared to fight exorcists.

Hence at deserted toilet, the girl meets Iroha, who proceeds to do an exorcism, as she doesn’t want to give away Koushi. But Momoko interrupts, saying that she feels for the girl, and the girl should be allowed to confess her love. However in the midst, she sprained her ankle.

Be prepared to fight class bullies.

Finally it’s time to make a confession on the roof to Koushi. But instant rejection! However, everybody arrives expecting the girl to rise up to heaven. No choice, got to do it. Must wait till everybody disappears before floating back to earth though.

Next day, we see the girl back in class, totally shy and invisible again.

 

Thoughts

This was a lame excuse as a filler. Totally useless storyline, lacking humour as well. Heck, even the quality of the animation dropped. Watching the OP and ED over again was better than watching the episode itself. Worse episode in series. Enough said.

Kameta Inaho. New teacher teaching political science and economics. Shows off her knowledge of school rules during assembly. In fact, she’s even better at the constitution and laws than Koushi, who is so stunned by her he starts to feel faint in class. Cuddling up to him, Kameta-sensei ends the class to bring him to the sick bay.

After school sees Kameta-sensei inviting Koushi to her house. Iroha and Momoko are rejected from following because the car sits only 2! After Kameta-sensei keeps smiling at Sanae, Sanae gets suspicious though, and follows the two of them. Initially she mistakens Kameta-sensei as an assasin, since she was carrying a hammer. But is as surprised as Koushi when Kameta starts hugging Koushi instead. When both leaves the room, Sanae finds a old notebook with full details of Koushi’s family line, causing Sanae to be suspicious again.

Next day in class sees Koushi opening his bento only to find a bra inside. Quickly accused, Kameta surprisingly did not defend Koushi, but instead holds a trial instead.

Kameta acts as persecutor, while Sanae serves as defence lawyer. First witness is the PE teacher who spins a tale of Koushi skipping PE class. The teacher then spots Koushi coming out of the girls changing room, going into class, eating his bento and hiding the bra inside the box.

Surprising everyone though, Kameta suddenly turns on the PE teacher and announces that he must be lying. Already Momoko has testified that she forgot to put food into Koushi’s bento. So the PE teacher must be lying! and the bra must have been stolen by the PE teacher! Most surprised was Sanae.

A costumed Sanae then appears confronting Kameta. Kameta immediately recognises that it’s Sanae and reveals herself as an ally from the Tortoise family, doing everything for Koushi.

That night sees Kameta snuggling up to Koushi at his house. Even as Kameta detects Momoko evesdropping, Kameta gets Koushi to declare how much he hates martial artiste. As a finishing blog, Kameta goes then goes to the kitchen to tell Momoko how she’s an obstacle to Koushi’s dreams.

This leaves a devastated Momoko, who goes out in the rain, only to be seen and comforted by Sanae, who assures Momoko that she is useful.

At night, Kameta sets her plan in action, but is swiftly and harshly rejected by Koushi.

Knocking him unconscious, Kameta drags him to a wedding ceremony, and is about to get married with him when Sanae rushes in and grabs Koushi and runs away.

Thus a massive battle occurs. You get the first look of the tortoise costume with strategic placing of tortoise shells. Tortoise lady is more than a match for Horse kicks with her shell.

Climax occurrs when Tortoise lady accuses him of loving Koushi, even as Sanae is saying that Tortoise lady can’t fall in love with Koushi. This enrages Sanae who delivers a Naruto kick into the sky. But as Sanae lands, Kameta shouts that Sanae likes Koushi too, causing Sanae to land painfully on her knees instead.

Suddenly a hurricane occurs though, blowing debris into an unconscious Koushi. Soon both girls are concentrating on defending Koushi. From this, Kameta recognises Sanae’s strength, and determination to defend Koushi. (Of course shredding both their costumes). Sanae’s love is stronger than Kameta’s.

All that’s left is for Momoko to save the day. Momoko is called by Sanae. Such self-sacrifice. Before the episode ends though, a glimpse of 3 new girls who all want to marry Koushi!

Thoughts

Once again, Koushi is just some decoration in the episode. Not that I’m complaining.

The humour level is back! I like! And I’m quite sure that Sanae kick during the battle was a naruto parody. The whole battle was simply top notch humour. (maybe not. I’m not quite sure why I was laughing throughout though)

My usual complaints. I want more of Momoko. Why is Sanae always the main focus.

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