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I speak for the loli trees.

Impressions:

Well, they really are blitzing through stuff. I sat down to write just the highlights for the summary and ended up going on for far longer than I meant to. That’s a good thing though, let’s keep the nosebleeds and MUSUBI IS A SILLY GIRL to a minimum so we can have at least one fight an episode and stick to Seven Arc’s strong point, seducing people via violence. Worked for Nanoha and Inukami, I have no doubt it’ll work here too. The brief little fight between Musubi and Uzume was just awful though. Maybe it was animated okay. Maybe the choreography was alright, but I have no idea. The entire screen was covered in bright white fog. If you wanted to censor that scene, just give them freakin’ towels. Apparently the DVD sales are worth covering up 90% of the screen there.

Lots and lots of other sekirei and characters in general this episode. Homura/Kagari introduced ‘him’self properly to Minato, and we got to see most of the Izumo Inn sekireis. Plus, Tsukiumi made a brief appearance, mostly to swear at Homura. At the rate they’re going though, she’ll be hanging out with the gang in no time flat. We also got to see Sekirei’s version of the evil pokemon sekirei trainer ashikabi who collects the ones down on their luck for his own personal collection and/or use. She’s apparently going to be around and fighting fit for the next episode, so more power to him.

It wasn’t that bad of an episode overall, but the best part of it was completely blanketted in fog, so it’s hard to be particularly excited about the episode itself. Like I said though, loving that they’re cruising through all the background nonsense and sticking right to the important parts of the plot. Who knew?

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Briefish Summary (ugh, it ran long):

Musubi’s powers run out in midair. An image of the girl rushes up to them as they fall into a tree and into some woman’s yard. The residents tend to Minato’s wounds and redress the two. The landlady introduces herself as Asami Miya and the guy is Kagari (well, not really, but let’s ignore that for now). While feeding them a girl walks in in her underwear, Uzume. After learning that it’s a boarding house, Minato begs to be allowed to live there and Miya happily accepts, despite Kagari’s doubts. He gets a call and it’s revealed that he’s involved with the Sekirei too (SURPRISE!).

As Musubi showers, Minato lets his family know about moving. Musubi has shampoo issues and walks in naked and falls on him before remembering that he told her not to pull this. 

In the park, a totally thrashed sekirei  mopes on a park bench. A man comes up to her, she thinks he might be an ashikabi. He invites her to join his collection.

The next day, his sister, Yukari swings by with the clothes he asked for. The expected hijinks take place between her and Musubi as they clean up their old place. Musubi picks up all Minato’s belongings at once, and explains about the powers of a sekirei as they walk.

Once they make it to their new home, Musubi manages to get stuck in the door because of Minato’s crap. She casually blurts out that she’s a mighty sekirei yet again. Way to keep a secret, you crazy doofus. A girl spies on them, recognizing that Musubi is sekirei #88. She laughs to herself.

Kagari leaves for work at a host club in the evening. Musubi wants to ‘host’ Minato, if you get her drift. Miya distracts her with a bath while Minato beats a hasty retreat. Uzume walks in to join Musubi in the bath.

Minato thinks about the girl he saw as they fell and touches the tree. A vision of a girl touches his hand back, asking him to save her.

In the bath, Uzume notices Musubi’s sekirei tatoo and points it out, revealing that she’s a sekirei too.

Minato falls over from the shock and then there’s a carnage. Musubi understands everything and is attacking for the Sekirei promise. Uzume doesn’t want to fight and just dodges all her attacks before running off. Musubi remembers to be proper and takes a towel. Uzume hops outside and berates Minato for not being a good master and keeping her Sekirei under control. He tries to calm Musubi down, but she attacks anyway. Miya appears and blocks the blow and then smacks Musubi on the head with a ladel, saying that fighting is prohibited here before threatening bodily harm and leaving to make dinner.

Minato wanders off to his parttime job while another sekirei (Tsukiumi) looks over the city. Homura appears behind her. She vows to settle things with Homura, but ninja boygirl detonates some fire before disappearing. Tsukiumi swears at him/her as she/he goes.

Minato has a dream about the little girl. She glomps him and introduces herself as Kusano before she floats away, crying out to be saved. Minato wakes up to Musubi prodding him.

Homura gets a call. GEE, HIS/HER CELL IS THE SAME AS KAGARI’S. Could be a hint. Kusano keeps crying out to be saved.

Preview:

I counted about 5 sekirei all fighting or being groped in the preview. That has got to be a good thing.