Minami-ke Okaeri – 03: Runaway Touma

This ain’t no Jello boy NO JELLO pudding

The ultimate gift for women has finally been discovered! We must find this store by the station at once and identify this grand pudding that can serve as tribute to Haruka nee-sama. Not only must this retailer be identified so that we may save it from this economic downturn, but we must find out the brand, its manufacture and then seize and disseminate the recipe and take control over the means of production to arm every man and lesbian with the ability to appease females everywhere. Production must be nationalized so that a steady supply can be guaranteed and not subject to market forces that might produce scarcity due to overwhelming demand. Great scientific and cultural discoveries, aside it was a rather Touma centric episode this time, though sadly it seems Touma was better animated than Haruka in some scenes. It’s rather odd to see Takeru coming to the rescue and actually succeeding for once, usually he gets shot down towards the end. BTW is it a bad thing that the first thing that came across my mind after hearing that the three Minami sisters shared a cup of pudding was ZMOG INDIRECT KISSU? …I’ll got back to my corner now.

Oh Haruka, next time buy in bulk, it’s like construction better to have too much rather than too little.

Takeru to teh Rescue? Either the stars are aligned or Takeru is going up on Reiko to join the Shiratori club…

I was expecting either rocks or clothes for Mako-cakes…

Natsuki is a classic dumbass whose skull must certainly be thick, not only is he oppressing Touma but he serves as Hosaka’s gofer and yet has the gall to make Haruka angry. I suppose the run down for marrying Haruka among the guys and nominally guys has Natsuki as dead last. Where as Hosaka had at least managed to feed Haruka through Curry no Yousei powers and gotten praised for it Natsuki is losing points faster than a CoH player down three victory points against Sepha (yeah I need to start playing again). Even Mako-cakes has more points than this guy. Natsuki and the other Minamis go MIA and already after given a chance for a running start he blows it big time. I guess when you are the strongest person amongst sheep that Natsuki feels that he’s entitled or something. I can’t wait for Banchou Haruka to fix him when they meet face to face again. So far Haruka is still up two on the field of combat. IIRC correctly Natsuki even got beat by Mako-cakes in the Hosaka cosplay by Haruka department. Even his later ploy to get Haruka to talk to him was a failure, if he really wanted to learn how to make sweets he’s already best buddies with Hosaka. As such Natsuki even fails at being a dirty sneak. Oddly enough I had a bit of trouble telling Natsuki and Akira apart as well, I guess they should start selling the Mysterious Minami Pudding to raise funds to supplement the animation budget.

Poor Uchida can’t get a break, but fortunately she demonstrated a good degree of situational awareness. Kana being kind was rather scary…usually Kana is busy being BOSS, but it was almost as if a bit a Haruka was leaking out. I was scared Kana was saying so many considerate things I had to check the alcohol content on my drink to make sure I wasn’t too wasted. Kana was letting her minion Uchida rest and saying things like thank you…Nevertheless I guess now we now know the Banchou gene is indeed dominant to the point that the Kana who seems to have inherited most of the recessive traits is capable of dark mode too. Here I thought that Kana’s default mode was not as evil as I had dared believed possible. I was wondering what was in the box, a heart broken Takeru perhaps, clothes for Mako-cakes maybe? I did not expect the doom of men to show up in force.

I suppose it is a bit poetic how women brought down the wrath of God by eating the apples, and now the red devils have come back in force to become the bane of this band of merry lasses. I know that it is possible to have too much of a good thing, but there are other ways of fixing apples, juice, tart, pie, fruit salad, chips, sauce, etc. You can always use them as projectiles; it can cause a sizable welt if given enough velocity… Poor Touma becomes the second casualty of the Ringo Menace after Uchida surrenders after two baked apples. Worse still for Touma the terror did not end when she got home because her idiot brothers thought there was some hidden meaning in the apple or something, so at least Uchida got off rather light in contrast.

Kana is BOSS.

Goddamn Lit Majors over analyze everything…

ab.net is down again…

I don’t know about Chiaki these days, it seems that her intelligence was just down graded for letting Kana cook. I suppose the purple plate disaster has long since been forgotten now, but to forget the Ballad of the Curry no Yousei is just atrocious. Even with her tight nit circle of people who are allowed to be around Haruka, Mako-cakes still remains undetected and is one of those trusted few, I guess Shock and Awe does work… Still if it’s any indicator of how much Banchou Haruka regards Natsuki with contempt it was amply demonstrated in how she wasn’t even really giving him a recipe. Touma was getting kind of one-sama-ish there with Chiaki, but it soon fell apart when Touma started drinking from the carton LIKE A MAN. If Mako-cakes is on the fast track to losing his manhood, by middles school Touma might be awfully manly to compensate. It’s as if this time it will be Touma who might end up spreading brokenness until her ally arrives. I know for certain that this vacillation between being a guy behavior and blushing and crying is making me confused as all hell. It’s almost as if a bit of Mako-cakes had rubbed off on Touma because with Natsuki in the picture some one is bullying Touma for once. By Jove we have get crying Touma, and blushing Touma in rapid succession. Touma sure is lucky to be able to runaway to the Minami house whenever things get crappy in the other Minami home. Wish I could do that, but people always seem to have problems with me bringing a gun into their home and storing ammunition, fucking pansies.

Yeah he hast to dress up like a girl first, rule 63 in…

I see the Purple Plat Massacre has since been forgotten, I suppose it was Hayami’s juice

INDIRECT KISSU!

Speaking of Mako-cakes I wonder when Touma’s other half is going to show up… the longer the lull the more I think that something terribly broken is going to happen. We all know it’s coming but this wait is dreadful. If Kana the Kind is making me uneasy then the return of Mako-cakes is like running smack into a Panzer VI in a night action. I can feel the earth shaking, the slow grinding of its treads, and the electric hiss of the turret traversing as it searches out its prey. I digress though. The music oddly enough was rather catchy, though I feel like curry again… Speaking of music blaxploitation music returned to make omelets more interesting. Still bright ideas don’t always work and if you really want to keep people away from your food, disguise them as leftovers.

Next time Touma finally meets Banchou Haruka and has no escape route… I’ll go make that curry now and buy my family pudding for Lunar New Year.

For a good time call Haruka at…

Pouting Touma…

Blushing Touma…

Hey Touma, LET”S BE FRIENDLY.

Haruka needs more AMAZING animation not QUALITY animation damn it.

Varying degrees of want, yes?