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That isn’t moe either.

Summary:

Nagasumi and San talk about all the work Luna must do for being an idol, when Luna expresses her troubles about the next job. She needs someone to help her with the role of a boyfriend for an upcoming drama. She will not accept Nagasumi’s offer to help, so she has San help her instead. The next day, the family becomes frightened at the sight of San playing the role of a manly man. On the way to school, San tries her best to play the role of Luna’s boyfriend by covering a puddle with her coat for her and defending her from a cat. Luna decides to have someone else help her instead, and when she announces this at school, Luna’s followers show up to cause havok. This makes all three factions show themselves again: Sun, Lunar, and Mawari’s girls. San shows up suddenly in her manly getup, which makes the Sun team wonder what they have been fighting for. Gouzaburou also shows up and panics at the sight of San. When they get home, Luna gives up on San, and reverts her back to normal. She instead decides to practice for another role, and this time asks for Maki’s help. Maki refuses at first, but becomes convinced after San asks her to help.

The next day, everyone finds that Luna has a puppet on her hand that can talk extremely well. The class gathers around Luna and the puppet as it talks about her love for San. However, Maki goes on to talk about Luna’s negative traits, which causes Luna to get angry at her. When Akeno discovers what is going on, she warns Luna not to take Maki anywhere a television broadcast. Luna will not give up, so Akeno gathers help from the fish brothers and Kai. They attempt to stop Luna before she can reach her manager in the limo below, but Maki uses her rocket shell to jump out of the window. Luna looks up to see San fighting Akeno for her, and Akeno finds that San is fighting for her friendship. Maki excitedly flies towards San, but Luna falls from a very high distance in the process. After Luna has recovered, she has San help her with her script normally. When Nagasumi asks why he cannot help, Luna mutters under her breath that she would it would cause problems if he did. Maki shows up again in her frightening puppet suit, but she is soon attacked by the Michishiro cat.

Preview: Masa background story?

Impression:

Ah, it had to come sometime. This episode just wasn’t as epic as the past few we’ve been given. San’s otoko form was a real turn off, and although mini Luna was pretty funny, it didn’t save the episode. Even if it didn’t last long, I hoped to never see the Sun and Lunar faction wars again. Some of the funnier parts of the episode included San coming out of her otoko form (give me back my beard!), Maki’s interaction with Luna, and of course the usual over the top ending (let’s call an ambulance…). I do think that they used to soundtrack quite well as usual, and it was kind of fun to see the cat from earlier episodes reappear randomly. The end of the episode explained why Luna wouldn’t accept Nagasumi’s help, and it’s obviously because she would develop feelings for him again if she did. I’m kind of interested in what these hand gesters mean, because she only other place I’ve seen them is in Zombie Loan. Hopefully the next episode will be more interesting, with a new character related to Masa showing up.