Umisho – 07
Initial D…..in MY Umisho?
Summary:
Amuro loses one of her hair bands while practicing for the upcoming competition. Seeing that she seems to have lost all of her strength, the swim team believes that she needs it to function properly. The team chases after the hair band all over the school and into the city, but they continue to lose it after various events. After returning to the club, Amuro guesses that her weakness could be the result of the curse her grandmother told her about. The team starts trying to find replacements for Amuro’s hair band, but none of them work. Kaname remembers that the bands were an important gift from Amuro’s grandmother, and after he tells this to everyone they decide to go out again. They try different things this time like distributing flyers and checking inside shops, but this doesn’t do any good either. After meeting, the group sees the band attached to the back of a running train. They chase it to no avail, and even decide to pray for it afterwards. To their surprise, they find the band attached to the Buddah’s head. Everyone stacks on top of each other to reach it, but Amuro quickly retrieves it herself. They see that after she had eaten something, she turned out to be completely fine. Amuro thanks Kaname while walking home with him, and reminds him of the place where they met for the second time. When they return home, Amuro’s dad tells Kaname that the curse Amuro’s grandmother talked about was a lie.
Preview: The big competition starts.
Impression:
I think I actually had to try to make that summary because there wasn’t really much to summarize. The episode could probably be summed up like this: Amuro loses her hair band, and everyone goes out to get it back for her. The majority of the episode was straight up gags based on that. With that said, there were plenty of laugh out loud moments in this episode. The first one was probably Kaname’s “bumping into” Momoko. I also love how Mirie was the only one who was sensible to think that they shouldn’t run out into the city in their swimsuits, yet she is actually the weirdest one of the group. Her purchase in the store was so over the top. The Initial D spoof totally caught me off guard, because I didn’t think this anime was going to be one to do parodies like that. The preview from last week was also extremely misleading because it had me thinking that it was going to be a Maaya centric episode, but she had a total of two short random parts in the entire episode. I doubt the next episode will be the same, because it is clearly about the major swimming competition….and an American on the other team with a huge rack.
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What a bunch of loony toons. Shizuoka sempai is just so weird. Cant wait for next wk:D
The car drifting reminds me of Wangan Midnight.
Note to self: When visiting Japan, dye hair blond to match expectations. It seems like every show this season has the prerequisite sexy blond American character. They are loud, arrogant, and dress promiscuously. However, the Yamato Spirit of Japan shows the poisonous foreigners their faults, all while teaching those who lament their “backwards” traditional culture in Japan that their way of life is indeed superior. You can correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m guessing it’ll happen next week, again. Example: Kaze no Stigma, Zetsubou Sensei, and now Umisho that I can think of this season off the top of my head. Happens in a million others. It’s okay, I still got love for my countrymen.
I like different animation sytel but I still have to get use to the extra shinny multy coloured hair.
Lazy McChan > I love Mirie BECAUSE she is so weird. Her trying to buy that….thing….was hilarious.
Sniper > It’s definitely a Inital D spoof. I haven’t watched Wangan but I know it’s a lot like Initial D as well.
Rentington > Well I guess I need to go out and dye my hair blue, green, red, purple, etc. because the last time I checked all azn’s hair was black xD. But yea, I definitely agree with you. It’s always the same pattern.
Tokki > Gradient hair xD
Rentington – Well blond is my favorite color~ But Kaere is technically not American. But I won’t complain. :3
Fang-tan- Actually, that’s true. She is originally from Japan, I gathered… Or maybe duel citizenship between Japan and a western country… Who knows. She is, however, the hottest character on the show.
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