I see what you did there.
So Zange isn’t exactly moving in with Jin, but tensions between Zange and Nagi continue to increase as Nagi starts to capture some of Zange’s fanbase.
Summary
A flirtatious girl in religious clothing. Can it be anymore ironic?
Picking up where we left off last week, Zange shows up at Jin’s home while Nagi and Tsugumi are there as well. Zange treats Jin to a well-made dinner (assumed to be made by Hakua and not Zange herself) and tries to get him to leave Nagi for her. Tsugumi (and eventually Nagi) interrupt Zange’s flirtation with Jin and ends up in a cooking competition with Nagi and Zange. Zange’s dish turns out to be a burnt pile of trash since Hakua refused to help Zange with the competition. Tsugumi’s dish consisted of (surprise surprise) fried eggs and vegetables. Nagi’s dish looked the best but had a strange taste to it. I’m not too sure what became of the outcome of this battle, but from the looks of it, nothing has changed.
Couldn’t get the TL note in here, but it basically says that Yamakan, the director of Kannagi, was previously sacked by Kyo-Ani after directing four episodes of Lucky Star.
Later on, there seems to be an official Nagi fanclub starting up around the school. Students from the school start to praise Nagi as she randomly appears around school and socializes with them. This is great for Nagi as her powers as a god seem to slowly return, however the faculty at the school are starting to worry and see her as a problem. Zange also see’s this as a problem since Nagi is basically taking away some of her fans.
Take that! Volt Lighter!
Nagi is eventually caught by Suzushiro-sensei who apparently knows of Nagi as a deity and is also Hakua’s dad. Although Suzushiro is on Nagi’s side, Nagi is placed under interrogation from Hagashima-sensei while Suzushiro goes to talk to the principal. As Nagi’s fans start to chant her name outside of the room, Nagi starts to feel more power within her and is able to shine a light through her wand.
Okie Dokie.
Nagi’s situation is finally settled as Suzushiro manages to get Nagi enrolled into the school. Suzushiro happens to be a teacher of religious studies and a priest, explaining the reason he would know of Nagi. He also asks Nagi to free Hakua from Zange’s possession in which she gladly agrees to.
Not sure why Zange is scared of her “dad”. Maybe it’s just Hakua.
Zange continues to intrude on Jin and Nagi, however it seems that Zange has a problem with Nagi being able to call upon Suzushiro for help.
Impressions
LOL Tsugumi. Fried eggs and vegetables are really all you can cook, aren’t they.
Another great episode. The first part with the cooking competition seemed kind of random though. Of course they had to wrap up the loose ends from the previous episode, but after that it seemed like the rest of the episode had nothing to do with it. I guess some random fun is good once in a while though. There wasn’t much in the episode that was worth mentioning, but I’ll try to share a few moments.
No means no, I guess.
I thought the part where Zange and Hakua not cooperating with each other was kind of interesting. Could this possibly lead to to more problems with Hakua rebelling against Zange? This could prove to be an important plot element later on in the series, but then again it could totally be just for silliness.
A bit of comedy from a serious man. Neato.
Not sure how Suzushiro’s role will play in the later episodes, but he seems to be very knowledgeable and perceptive. He’ll probably show up whenever there’s stuff going on with the deity stuff and no some much the comedy stuff (except that one part with the eye twinkle =P).
Akiba is watching his role slowly fade away into the background.
Speaking of side characters, the members of the art club haven’t gotten much screen time lately. I want to see much head asploding nosebleeds from Takako, more funny references and outbursts from Akiba and more random moments from Daitetsu. Hopefully it’ll happen, but I’m not holding my breath.
Love Nagi’s face here.
I like how Nagi kind of turned her attention to the food instead of what was going on between Zange and Jin in this moment. It wasn’t until Tsugumi butted in when Nagi finally said something. It proves a little that Nagi doesn’t care much for Jin other than someone to give her a place to stay and cook for her.
Volt Lighter strikes again!
My favorite part of this episode has to be when Zange goes “Whoa! So bright!” in that surprisingly uncute voice. It totally caught me off guard even though it was so obvious she was coming. I dunno why, but it has me cracking up every time I see it.
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Yeah, if she was flirting with Richard Dawkins.
The episode was not as LOL awesome as the previous one, and not as meaty and nuanced as ep 02, but it forwards the story now that the character introductions are mostly done.
Woah! So bright!
@ Animanachronism
Richard Dawkins would’ve liked the whole thing. He’d probably make a meme out of it.
Uwaa, mabushii~!
*insert Yaranaika reference here*
I admit to snickering a bit at Yamakan’s ‘testimonial’. At least the guy isn’t too bitter (I think) about what happened, but it’s as close as a ‘take that!’ as he could give to his old employers, given how good things have been going for Kannagi.
Also, I was under the impression that it was *Zange* that was the expert at cooking, and it was Hakua who didn’t know how to cook. Might be mixing things up though, as it’s been a while since I read that chapter of the Kannagi manga.
Anyone else notice how Nagi seems to have dropped her ‘ojou-sama’ voice entirely when she was with Tsugimi? And that the ED artwork seems to be drawing some well-known personalities? There was the one done by the Little Busters artist the other week, and now we have Hidamari Sketch’s manga-ka contributing for this week.
Nagi the Idolm@aster! Her new found power is really… Something else. Best part of the episode had to be the fanclub testimonials and the 8-bit Nagi.
@IKnight: Hah!
@ghostlightning: Yeah I felt this ep was kinda lacking, but still fun nonetheless.
@Myssa Rei: Well I’m not sure what it’s like in the manga, but listening to her “conversation” with Hakua seemed to imply that Zange didn’t know what the hell she was doing.
Also, about the whole ‘ojou-sama’ act. It may just be because Zange is around that she drops the whole act. She still seems to act that way around the students and what not sometimes.
@Yamcha: I especially liked the testimonial from the guy in the paper bag mask.
Oooh, I just noticed that the top banner now associates with whatever show the page is on. Neato.
Edit: Wait a sec, maybe that was just a coincidence? O_o It didn’t do it after I refreshed the page. ^_^
Looks like I win and Zange isn´t staying with Jin. As for the food competition, by elimination looks like fried eggs and vegetables win, hehehe. By the way, wath kind of god power is a star shaped flashlight?
As much as I enjoy Kannagi, this episode jumped around too much and nothing was really resolved (with the exception of Nagi joining the school as an official student). It was really awkwarrrrd.
I’m not sure where they’re heading with this series. At first the premise seemed really interesting but now it seems like it’s just going to be another typical slice-of-life series with a heavy focus on “school life” antics and with Hyakko, ToraDora and Today in Class 5-2 don’t we already have enough of those this season?
Nagi is rapidly falling into the role of typical tsundere. Jin is becoming the clingy insecure male lead (after 4 episodes of complaining about Nagi, now he’s worried about her leaving? WTF?) and Tsugumi is just your average girl-next-door with a crush. She’s barely visible as a background character. She’s terribly bland and boring.
Hopefully, they’ll give the girls at the Art Club more screentime since they have more personality than Tsugumi.
The only bright spot (in the last 2 episodes) seems to be Zange-chan who has an interesting quirk (inhabiting the body of a girl who has a crush on Jin) and has as much of a sharp tongue and biting personality as Nagi making her a perfect foil for Nagi. Maybe almost too perfect. Time will tell whether Nagi will reclaim her status as the ‘lead’ girl or whether the episodes will continue to focus on Zange and her competition with Nagi. Thus far, I don’t really see any reason for Nagi to continue to stay with Jin since she no longer relies on him for his ability to assist her in exercising impurities.
I hope this series goes back to its supernatural roots soon, but from the looks of next week’s preview it doesn’t look likely.
I’ve noticed a lot of the series that have premiered lately have started to sort of taper off and are not delivering on the promised potential of early episodes. Hopefully, they can pick up and give us a strong finish to justify wading through a mediocre middle.
The two best part of this episode is…
- Hageshima sensei and
- Zange’s uwaaah, mabushii.
and of course Nagi-sama new power up, the spotlight wand… lol
@jj: That actually sounds like a good idea. Maybe you can convince impz to have it done.
@Denisu: It’s not much, but I think it’s just a hint that Nagi’s powers are returning. Of course being the comedy Kannagi is, they have to give us the red herring and make it seem like she gained a lot of power at that instant.
@Halcyon: Zange has been pretty much the focus of the show for the past two episode. Now that they’ve established the rivalry between Nagi and Zange, hopefully they can move on with the series and give us more solid episodes. As for Tsugumi. I really liked her in episode 3 (the school episode) as she gave us a bit more comedy there. However, lately (along with many of the side characters) she’s been taking the backseat more often than not.
@Kazearashi: Hageshima was pretty amusing, but I loved the “Uwah! Mabushii!” part the best by far.
@ Halcyon
Nagi starting to become a tsundere? I personally don’t think so. To me she is just crazy (in a funny and good way). Also, I don’t think she will ever be interested in Jin just by the way crazy way she is.
@Silver
Nagi is tsundere. She’s spent most of the series (so far) beating up on Jin (most notably kicking him between the legs) but she’s also had some dere moments with Jin and feels somewhat threatened about Zange moving in on or taking away Jin. Nagi is more like a cross between Horo (from Wolf and Spice) with her playful mischievousness and Shana (from Shakugan no Shana) with her superiority complex.
@Shokkeru
I just think it’s weird that they’re focusing more on the sibling rivalry this early on in the series over the relationship between the 2 supposed “lead” characters. The focus of the series went from Nagi being this helpless god slowly losing her power and having to rely on a human to a popularity contest between 2 gods with Jin being the prize. It just feels a bit disjointed and out of place like the last episode or two didn’t really fit in with the premise of the series.
I personally heard it as “Ou! Mabushii!”, as from the main character of that epic anime Gundoh Musashi. :3