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Touka Gettan on the news!

Summary:

Our news program is opened up by our hosts, Haruhiko and Shouko. After the introduction of Kamitsumihara, Makoto explains that she learned her art from Kikyou. This is the song that helped Momoka and the others disappear. Next, Touka’s first appearance is shown. Nene had welcomed him in the rain, as the stone sword used to ease the current suffering. Nene, who is now working as a different kind of maid, explains how Touka replaced Yumiko’s previous child. The girl was not capable of handling the stone sword and disappeared, so Touka took her place. Kaya explains that she had been in the form of a cat for a long time, and again expresses her love of Nene. After it is confirmed that Touka’s existence was brought through the stone sword, Momoka’s existence is questioned. Yuriko is asked, but she has long forgotten about Momoka. Makoto is interviewed next, and she notes Momoka’s unique personality.

Mo Moka is revealed to be Haruhiko’s fiance’s name. Asuna explains that when taken to Yuki-hime, she was given medicine so that she could return to normal. Although she is grateful for being saved, Kaya has taken a liking for her. Two guests, Masayuki and Kiyotsugu, enter the stage, and are questioned. Kiyotsugu explains that he had regained himself on the day that the stone shard fell out of his eye. Shouko then reveals a special display, Nene’s maid outfit. Masayuki becomes excited about this, but claims that he could never get close to Nene because of her fire power. The last person to be interviewed is Yumiko, who is now free of her previous inhabitant. She claims to be fine now, as she wishes to go outside and see the world. The last thing mentioned is Touka and Momoka’s meeting of each other.

Impression:

Touka Gettan does it again, taking another extremely unique approach to this episode. We were given a news report style recap of the series, which successfully filled in many of the gaps in the timeline. However, this episode seemed to break the rules a bit. This episode quite obviously takes place after the events of the first episode, as it looks back on all the events that have happened until then. It is also interesting that this show has completely proved me wrong in my predictions up to this point by doing this. Now I’m not even sure if the last episode will be the “past” episode that I expected it to be. On a technical and artistic side, I loved the black bars they inserted in front of the characters’ eyes. They really went all out to imitate a news program. This episode also had fanservice all over the place. I’m not usually a huge fan of Nene or Kaya, but come on. Who could have resisted the scenes they gave us in this episode? (not me.)

Many questions were answered in this episode, and I did my best to take note of all of them. Some were very needed, and others were things that we figured out throughout the series (well…some of us anyways). Touka had appeared in his usual form at night in front of Nene, and many of the people associated with the stone sword have dissapeared. Yuki-hime is revealed to be the woman that raised Nene, Kaya, and Aya. We have yet to find out what happened to Aya throughout this time. Haruhiko’s pen pal or fiance is named Mo Momoka, which is very ironic. Nene’s role is looked into a bit further, and Masayuki reveals some of his experience with her behind the scenes. It is also shown that Kiyotsugu has regained his body from Kiyoharu. Besides that, many of the characters are shown after the events of the first episode. Yumiko was interesting in particular, with her much calmer personality and different hair color. As usual, the only thing we get in the preview is the title “Hana” (or “flower”) and a picture of Touka with his long hair. We’ll just have to wait for the exciting conclusion of this show to find out what happens.