天下制覇

A dangerous Yasumi x Sunao encounter.

First off, stop asking me why I’m numbering them the same as the episodes, dammit. I don’t really care what Johnny Anime Ripper decides to number his torrents, in the show, they are labelled as such, so I will refer to them as such. Besides which, “Episode 4: Pote 7 – Speaking of February, It’s Spring! & Pote 8 – Sneezy Morning” is up there with HiMM’s “Episode 5 – There`s a rumor that this boy in the midst of puberty who inherited his parents` fortune and is living all by himself with no supervision has surrounded himself with tender young girls in a huge mansion, thus living out his fantasies and creating his own world of desire as he makes them serve him,” only without the intentional humor value.

Impressions:

Two moments really stand out for me on this one and took me totally by surprise. It’s pretty rare for me to actually really really laugh at a show, but Potemayo managed to nail it twice this episode. I’ve totally reversed my opinion on Nene, bring on more of her, even with her irritating voice. More Sunao x Yasumi moments also have the potential for some great hilarity.

Summary:

Mikan’s mother is sweeping outside and yells at Yasumi to get ready to go. He staggers into the kitchen to find Mikan making food cutely in an apron and whatnot and yells at her.

As he eats, he notices that she’s made an extra lunch. She refuses to answer who it’s for, and he correctly guesses Moriyama… so starts shovelling it down his gullet.

On the way to school, Yasumi is storming ahead of Mikan, and doesn’t seen Sunao as he turns the corner. Sunao’s glasses get knocked off and then Yasumi accidently steps on them. As Sunao is groping around for them, he finds Yasumi’s leg… then reaches up further to find… well… let’s just say that Mikan and I were both flabbergasted while Yasumi had to come to terms with another man’s hand on his bits.

Sunao finally gets ahold of his glasses. Mikan takes the chance to get up close and personal with him since he can’t see well, but Yasumi yanks her away. She then scolds him to apologize. Kyo and Nene were also there and saw it all, to Mikan and Yasumi’s chagrin.

Mikan, Yasumi and Potemayo fall into a short series of dream sequences about how they’d repay Sunao. Mikan has the wifely duties, Yasumi pictures himself as a slave, and Potemayo has some kind of bizarre dream about dancing flan and then riding a rocket into space.

The school bell rings and they all go trotting off, Nene at this point riding on poor Mudo. The bell rings once more and they barely make it to class in time… except for Sunao, who has lost his way and is in a restaurant somewhere. Sunao finally makes it to class, right before the teacher, though Potemayo’s taiyaki breath betrays their stopover.

Guchuko is chilling in her normal spot. Her stomach is rumbling and Kyo’s mom comes out with a donut, then heads back inside. As Guchuko appraoches, we see the usual string and basket trap. Guchuko is not amused. We hear a rustle and mom pulls on the string… but Guchuko just used her scythe to hold up the basket and wanders off with the donut.

Back at school, Mudo is fawning over Potemayo. While he reads for the class, Potemayo makes a giant paper chain to play with. Guchuko is outdoors and eating her donut whil thinking of Kyo. Potemayo runs by and knocks the donut out of her hands… so Guchuko laser fries Potemayo.

After school, everybody is heading home. Mikan starts daydreaming about taking care of Sunao, but Yasumi is there to take her away.

For side B, everybody is visiting Nene’s mansion to go swimming. She greats them in a bathing suit at the door. Potemayo tries without sucess to blow up an intertube and is then flung aside when Kyo rushes out to stretch before swimming.

Kyo’s having a blast in the pool and Mudo tries to jump in, but is lassoed by Nene’s butler and told that he has to serve her. Sunao is also wandering around without his glasses and runs into a tree.

Yasumi is lurking outside, thinking about Sunao trying to seduce Mikan. He tries to ring the doorbell, but is too embarassed to try to talk his way in. Meanwhile, the chicken is harassing poor Potemayo, and she leaps at it, only to headbutt and knock over Sunao.

Yasumi sneaks over the wall while the others recover. His intrusion is immediately sensed by the security cameras and the maid deploys the laser defenses.

Meanwhile, Mudo deploys the tropical fruit buffet as Yasumi gets swept up and out. Everybody eats, with Sunao blindly stabbing his plate, unable to find the food. They thank Nene and say how amazing her home is. Nene’s mother finally shows up, and everybody is amazed that she’s 40 years old.

We get a quick look through the charms of people of various ages. Potemayo feeds Sunao while Nene’s mother tries to ingratiate herself to the group. Nene punches her and tells her to go away and they start arguing. Her mother is then trampled by Nene’s three brothers, happy to have Nene back in the house, but she casually punches all of them and heads over to Mudo instead.

The other three classmates, in a truly painful Lucky Star moment, are arguing about what movie they should watch and why.

Back to Nene, Mudo and Nene have a little moment where she reaffirms her control of the poor guy. She demands a honey bear from him, and as he reaches into the cooler to get it, she yells “service” and pulls his pants down.

Movie girls apparently decided on a movie. Whoopie?

Potemayo is doing her best to swim around and runs face first into Kyo’s chest, causing Nene’s brothers to start flipping out.

Back to the movie girls. It’s a horror movie. *shrug*

Mansion again! The barbecue is finished and they’re all enjoying it.

Movie’s finished.

That evening, they’re setting off fireworks. Nene blows off her brothers to go play with Kyo instead. Mikan and Sunao are playing with the lame sparklers. As the last ember from Mikan’s sparkler falls, Potemayo catches it on a plate and offers it to Sunao.