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There’s a strawberry panic in my umisho!

Summary:

In the aftermath of the big swimming competition, nobody but Momoko wants to practice seriously. On the way home, Sanae decides to tell Amuro, Makio, and Kaname about how the swim team got started. Momoko had told Sanae that she would like to join a swim team, but the school did not have one at the time. Taking Masa’s idea, they decided to create a club for themselves. At first it was only Sanae and Momoko, but eventually a teacher decided to start helping them. Masa eventually got dragged in as well. The four of them finally proposed to the principle after cleaning up the swimming area, and he agreed. Amuro and Makio wonder what happened to the teacher that helped them start the club, so Sanae decides to tell them if they will keep it a secret. Sanae then tells them about the time that she guessed Momoko had a crush on the teacher. Seeing that she was too hesitant to say so herself, Sanae decided to tell the teacher for Momoko. However, the teacher confessed that he actually liked Sanae. This made Momoko run off in tears, but Sanae chased after her to comfort her. They exclaimed that they did not need men, and started making love to each other. A police officer stopped them, and the teacher eventually left the school.

Momoko catches up to the group sometime later, and Sanae takes the chance to run off. Momoko easily gets the group to spill the beans to her, so she tells them the true story. Sanae actually helped very little in building up the swim club, and the teacher was not the good looking person Sanae described. The teacher became attached to Sanae because of her flirting, and he eventually got kicked out of the school because of harassment. The group eventually walks by a store, where they see Sanae flirting with the clerk so that she will not have to pay. This shows them the true nature of Sanae. On another day, Makio comes up with the suggestion that the swim team should have a home page. With some positive comments, Makio decides to start working on it by herself. Her first attempt isn’t very promising, but after a bit more research, she succeeds in getting the home page quite a number of hits. When Amuro and Kaname inspect further, they find that Makio has altered many pictures to put the swim team members in different cosplay.

Preview: A encounter with some of the members from an opposing team….is there a chance for Seito?

Impression:

This episode was absolutely hilarious. I had to try to keep my laughs down so my dorm mate wouldn’t look at me funny (by the way, it didn’t work). It was easy to see that Sanae’s representation of the story was going to be completely false, but things like her and Momoko kissing were just so random that I couldn’t help but laugh. Typical things like all the crotch kicking also had the episode flowing. Despite being highly altered, Sanae’s story was actually really good. I loved the soundtrack that played in the background, and I still haven’t gotten tired of “Dolphin Jet”. Things like the confession also had me rolling because it was just like all the other romance anime that I’ve watched. I knew that there was going to be more after the credits because of how much time was left, and I wasn’t let down at all by the extra. Makio building a web page was something that I could obviously relate to, and the mistakes she made really had me grabbing my sides. Even better was the modified pictures. Wow, I am still laughing. The next episode is a festival one, and with Umisho being a summer anime, it should be very promising.