Who knew it was so creepy when goldfish smile?
Thus might just have been my favorite episode of Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! yet, at least in terms of consistent laughs:
- Is saying someone is “air” really a compliment?
- Rigor mortis
- Great villain this time, and a great comic performance by Midorikawa Hikaru as Makuwa Uriya. He’s funny even before
Cupid’sZundar’s arrow strikes him – the king of self-analysis and circular thinking. Things only get wilder when he’s turned into a melon-head – though I confess, I don’t quite get the joke there (but it works anyway). - My first reaction to his “melon riddles” challenge was, why not just use Google-sensei? So of course, that’s exactly what the battle lovers did.
- Yamato’s rapt reaction as Ryuu solved the riddles – and even better, Yufuin’s imitation of it.
- Kinosaki shows up again – and he and his photographer wear wetsuits in the bath. That’s not allowed!
- Why, exactly, does Kinosaki use an abacus? And why do the lovers know how to read it?
- Yamato is way too innocent to play the Yamanote Line game…
- Ryuu’s ambition? I’m gonna be “Hugh Hefner!”
Do we actually have plot progression? Zundar seems to think this ridiculous plan was not as abjectly a failure as the others – it “had a little effect”, he says, though Adamas seems not to see it. Me neither. And next week, finally, it looks like a Gerou-neechan episode.
elianthos80
March 4, 2015 at 4:34 pm– Without air you can't breathe and there could be no Life – never mind melons! – on Earth. I'm leaning on a backhanded compliment interpretation. It's Tru BroLove!
– Lord Zundar's needle ammo is not limitless I suspect. If they keep failing he'll end up naked one day…
– For a moment at the beginning I took that giant snail – pardon, escargot – for a baseball mitt (shock! Lord Zundar is playing catch!). I still don't know why…
– The Adamas guys need more love.
– Isn't the abacus – as made of wood – a pun on the Kino- in his name?
– Dude, Ryuu is cosplaying the mighty mythological Renaissance-through-Classicism Narcissus/Venus crossover. That lush deep red modesty drape! Titian would be proud :,D
– Sometimes I wonder if the evil goldfish is just a evilly smiling red herring and there is no third alien faction at all.
– When Yumoto speaks I'd pay attention. We might just have gotten our explanation of Goran's chopping wood devotion this week about what's cool and what is not for a sento worker :p .
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March 5, 2015 at 12:25 amIt never even occurred to me but yeah, I guess the abacus is a pun on the name.