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Airantou goes Higurashi.

Summary:

As Ikuto reads through some mystery novels in Chikage’s library, he mentions that he has not heard of the author before. Chikage tells him that it is because the author was someone from the island, though no one knows the person’s identity. Ikuto is also introduced to Chikage’s mother for the first time. Noticing that Ikuto is late at home, Suzu thinks she sees a figure standing outside the door. Tonkantsu rushes out to defend Suzu, but they find that it is just a laundry hanger. However, there is an invitation below it. Ikuto, Suzu, and Mei Mei head out the next day because they have all received invitations to the hot springs run by a girl named Sakuya. When Ikuto sees Sakuya, he believes that she is an ordinary girl. However, her head falls off when she bows, and Sakuya reveals that she is a robot. Inside, the rest of the girls are taking their baths and waiting for Ikuto. Ikuto refuses Suzu’s offer to go into the bath with everyone else, and has tea with Sakuya instead. Chikage suggests a plan to bring Ikuto into the hot springs to the girls, but when she meets Ikuto she starts telling him of a mysterious being on the island. The girls become exhausted from being in the bath so long, so they spend their time cooling off afterwards. Everyone eventually hears a noise outside, so they go outside to investigate. Seeing a dark figure approach from the woods, Sakuya transforms to defend everyone. However, it turns out that the figure was only Shinobu who lost her way to the springs. Ikuto finally decides to take a bath, so he excuses himself. Seeing that everyone else is too exhausted to get back into the bath, Ayane decides to go after him. She quickly undresses and approaches who she thinks is Ikuto in the bath, but the a masked figure turns to her. She lets off a scream, which causes Sakuya and Ikuto to search for her. After hearing another scream from Ikuto, Sakuya enters the bath to find Ayane covered in blood. However, it is just because of Ikuto’s usual nosebleed. After recovering, Ayane expresses how mean it was for Ikuto to trick her like that, but Ikuto tells her that it wasn’t him. Above the three, a masked figure looks down upon them.

OP: Just like Mei Mei, Shinobu got added to the opening in a few places. The two have also been in the ED for awhile, but I didn’t feel like bothering for one screenshot.

Impression:

I knew exactly what was coming as soon as I saw Ayane’s bloody body, but it still made me laugh. I actually enjoyed this episode, even though it wasn’t extremely funny. Seeing that almost every anime I am currently watching has taken their trip to the hot springs or the pool this week, I was wondering how Airantou was going to do it. I almost thought that they couldn’t have a hot springs on the island. Ha, silly me. This show now gets it’s approval from me for being a real love comedy. Sakuya was a fairly interesting character. She is the cliched polite type but….she’s a robot. I don’t know what’s up with the masked person or why Chikage is acting all suspicious, but I guess we’ll see next episode. Unfortunately, I’m not in extreme suspense or anything. How could I be? On another note, Tonkatsu was awesome in this episode. He defended Suzu from that laundry like no other pig could have. “Get em Tokatsu!!”