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LOVE AND PEACE!

Summary:

Kai walks out of the clinic with a bag of medicine, but he panics at the sight of his classmates. Noticing his strange actions, they wonder if there is anything wrong with him. Kai puts it off as a cold, before running away. Unconvinced, Mawari decides to investigate Kai. The next day at school, she follows him everywhere until he takes refuge in the boy’s bathroom. Inside, he gets out the cream that he must apply for the rash on his bottom. Saru does not agree with Mawari and the others’ beliefs, so he runs outside. He passes by Kai’s doctors, and misunderstands their conversation by believing that Kai will die soon. In reality, they were complaining about his rude actions.

Saru meets Kai on the school rooftop, expressing his sadness about his condition. Kai makes Saru swear not to tell anyone else, and the situation does not become clear to either of them. Nagasumi and the others find Saru’s extra devoted actions towards Kai strange, so he takes Nagasumi outside to tell him what he has learned. This makes Nagasumi treat Kai with respect as well, as he gives him pictures of San and invites him to his home that night. The girls are still confused, so Saru drags them all into the hallway to explain the situation. This moves them all to tears, and the whole school gets involved by holding a party for Kai.

Kai basks in his glory even once he gets home to his submarine, but he becomes confused after watching the TV. Seeing all the events that are happening, he despairs at the thought of dying. He seeks out Saru that night, bringing up that the doctors said he would heal with medicine. After slapping him, Saru claims there is no way this could be true. Kai despairs further at his impending death, but he arranges one more thing for him to do before he dies.

The next day, Nagasumi arrives at the school where Kai stands in front of the news and many students. Even though San is Nagasumi’s wife, Kai fights for her. He takes off his helmet in the sun, and begins slashing at Nagasumi. Although he tries to act cool, it becomes obvious that Nagasumi cannot face it. Nagasumi punches Kai in his despairing state, so Kai falls to his knees while begging for people to like him. San appears in front of him to make him realize that she has friends all around him, and Nagasumi breaks into tears. After realizing that he is not alone, Kai falls to the ground. The next day, Nagasumi takes off Kai’s helmet in anger from the misunderstanding that was caused.

Preview: Trouble for Nagasumi. Kai makes a move on San?

Impression:

There were a lot of funny parts in this episode, but I don’t know if the anticlimactic end came off very well for me. I kept what was really happening in the back of my head the whole time, and I totally saw what was coming as soon as I saw the nurse laughing in the beginning of the episode. I found a lot of the earlier parts of this episode really funny, with Mawari following Kai around everywhere and San’s usual silliness. Everyone’s misunderstanding was pretty hysterical too. Was that a gold fish scooter? The TV parody had me giving this episode Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei parallels, because it represented the media’s blowing things out of proportion. I was also a bit confused about why Kai needed his space suit at night. I thought he was only afraid of the sun? Nagasumi looked pretty cool at the end of the episode, but he’s obviously only human against a big sword. The Saru shirts were pretty great, and I wonder where Nagasumi got those San photos. The highlight of this episode for me definitely had to be Luna’s “LOVE AND PEACE” though. There’s only two more episodes left, so I hope we can get some great stories to cap off this awesome series.