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More Momoka is fine by me……….wait, what are you doing!?

Summary:

As Momoka is walking to school, Touka and Makoto notice that some of her hair is cut. They find this strange, but don’t think much about it. After they reach school, Momoka finds that her shoes are missing from her locker. Kikyou appears to give them to her, which shocks a lot of the students around her. As she walks through the school, it seems like the rest of the students are avoiding her. Momoka tries to get Touka’s attention on the top of the roof, but Asuna drags him off to have cake with the butterfly sisters. When Momoka returns to her shoe locker, she finds that her shoes have been filled with tacks. Meanwhile, Touka has been dragged into a game by the butterfly triplets and Asuna. Momoka wonders why so many bad things are happening to her, like finding a used condom in her lunch box. She does not have the energy to enjoy Nene’s food when she returns home, and she cannot speak to Makoto the next day. Momoka passes by a humiliating picture of herself, and she embarrassingly sheds it in front of all the boys looking at it.

Momoka becomes excited after receiving a gift from a girl, but opens it to find that it is full of bugs. Momoka continues to be treated horribly throughout the day, as people bump into her and she has balls thrown at her in the gym. In other places, Touka finally manages to win the game he is playing. His reward is Asuna, but this isn’t what he asked for. After fleeing from the sight of dead bloody chickens fall from her gym locker and having an insulting letter sent to her, Momoka reaches her limit outside. Her powers as Sei come to the surface, as many of the school’s windows shatter in front of her tormentors. Touka senses Momoka’s call to him, which makes him run from Asuna and go to her. Momoka starts crying at the sight of Touka, even though she is happy. Momoka mentions that her heart resembles that of a newborn child’s, and Touka wipes her tears which come from her heart’s feelings. The next day, Momoka describes her hunger in a silly way as usual to Touka as they head to school. While this is happening, the butterfly triplets watch from a small screen.

Impression:

This episode made me very angry, but that’s actually a good thing. What that means is that Touka Gettan has succeeded in making us feel very attached to the characters, something that a lot of anime are failing to do these days. The horrible ways Momoka was being treated reminded me a lot of Jigoku Shoujo, and it just had me screaming for revenge. Some of the things like the used condom being placed in her lunch box were just disgusting, and it really brought out a lot of hating emotions in me. Of course, it made me extremely happy when Touka came to the rescue. Love power! I finally get to talk about the reverse chronology again, as this episode really strengthened the events of episode 21. It really helps to show why Momoka became so attached to Touka in particular. The episode also went in a full circle, with the triplets watching the screen in the beginning and end of the episode. On a lighter note, Momoka going into her cartoonish form was really cute, and Touka imitating her “heehee” was hilarious. The next episode is titled “yome” or “bride”, so I suspect that it will have to do with Momoka’ arranged marriage with Haruhiko. If I’m not mistaken about that, we’ll probably get to learn exactly how that fell apart.