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2D > 3D

Summary:

A fellow club member of Remi’s wonders why she has only taken pictures of Miyako at the match she attended. She tells him that there was no meaning in taking pictures of anything else, before continuing to work on her Miya Miya stand up. The boy jokingly suggests that Remi introduce Miyako to him, making her extremely angry. Satori attempts to convince Kirino and Sayako that she does not intend on joining the kendo club, but they easily see that she is interested when she attempts to walk away. Yoshikawa-sensei finds Ishida failing at a video game in the teachers office, so she shows him how it’s done. Yoshikawa suggests that they have a match later, but they are interrupted by another teacher who lets Kirino and Sayako in. The two girls present a list suggesting various nicknames for Satori, but Ishida again tells them that she cannot join. The two girls express Satori’s love of kendo, but Ishida still doesn’t believe it is possible. This sends the two girls running out in tears, which Miyako sees from inside the school.

Danjuro invites Miyako to club when class is over, but she tells him that she will be busy with cleaning duty. This isn’t true, of course, as she goes to visit Satori who is cleaning by herself in another classroom. As the other students have put off their duties, Miyako offers to help Satori in return for her help at club earlier. When Satori again reveals her liking of kendo, Miyako quickly gets to the point by demanding for her to join the club. Satori tells her that she is busy studying so that she can go to University, but Miyako makes her realize that not joining a club is not helping her at all. Miyako plays with Satori even more, showing that her own test scores have gotten better after joining the kendo club. Miyako deals the final blow by revealing the rest of the benefits of joining the kendo club, easily catching her prey. With this, Satori signs up for the kendo club to the happiness of all the members. Ishida meets Kenzaburo with news of his now complete team later, but the various needs to prepare for a national tournament are brought up.

Looking back at how much the kendo club has progressed from the time it was just himself and Kirino, Ishida decides to kick it into high gear and express his hopes to all of the kendo members. Satori enters the room shortly afterwards, revealing that she has convinced her parents to let her join and that Yoshikawa-sensei had helped her. Ishida also has Kirino and Danjuro help Satori with her studies. He then excites the girls when he further reveals that they will be having a training camp, but Kirino and Satori are quickly disappointed to find that it is just taking place in their usual club room. As a consolation, Ishida reveals that Kenzaburo’s kendo girls will be coming over to help them practice. Yuji tells Tamaki that he had gone to a training camp in middle school while riding home with her, before seeing her off as usual. Tamaki tells her father about the upcoming training camp, but he worries a bit when she mentions that Nakata Yuji will be there with her. Before Tamaki heads to her room, her father tells her to give everyone his regards. Tamaki starts to go to sleep, but not before running out to get a TV schedule. She expresses her gladness that she will not be missing one of her series, before going to sleep with thoughts of the upcoming training camp.

Preview: What lord do you serve!!!

Impression:

Haha, wow. It was only like a week of absence, but I really missed Bamboo Blade. This episode was really funny, and had quite a few developments. Kirino and Sayako’s antics were as hilarious as ever, especially with their nicknames for Satori. Miyako was just awesome, using her devilish powers to easily make Satori officially join the kendo club. It was so funny seeing representations of the catching of her prey. Meanwhile, her fangirl Reimi somehow got a full sized stand up of her! Yoshikawa-sensei got more screen time than ever in this episode, making me believe that she will become a regular part of the cast. Hey, who doesn’t want more sensei service? They inserted some recap in this episode through Ishida’s thoughts, but it was actually quite enjoyable. It definitely wasn’t a Gundam recap, if you know what I mean. This episode also made me believe that an animation from manga adaption could make a series a lot more enjoyable. For example, Tamaki’s chewing noises were absolutely hilarious at the end of the episode. I haven’t read any of the manga, but I don’t think they could have had the same effect with text. It looks like we’ll be seeing the return of Kenzaburo’s team next week, as I suspected we eventually would.