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Uguu~

Summary:

When a young girl lands on Earth, she can only observe how peaceful of a planet it is. At home, Mikan realizes that she had forgotten to tell Rito to buy something while he is out shopping. Lala states that she will go tell him since she needed to buy something too, but Zastin is worried that she wants to buy something useless again. When Rito meets Haruna in the city, he takes the chance to help her with her own shopping. When Lala meets with friends afterwards, however, Rito leaves her in order to do his own purchasing. After buying some taiyaki, Rito sees the girl from earlier looking at him. Believing that she is actually looking at the taiyaki that he bought, he offers some to her. After eating it, however, the girl expresses that she has been searching for Rito. When the girl’s arm turns into a blade, Rito realizes that she is an alien.

Rito runs from the girl as she attempts to kill him, but she finally corners him. Before her blade can cut Rito, however, Zastin appears to save him. Lala appears as Zastin engages in combat with the girl, and Mikado shows up to tell them that the girl’s name is Golden Darkness (Konjiki no Yami). After telling them that Yami is an assassin, however, Mikado simply leaves. Because of one of his usual mishaps, Zastin is taken out of his battle with Yami. When Yami goes for Rito next, Lala decides to stand against her. Lala runs from Yami as she constantly changes her body’s form, but she finally takes the chance to send a counterattack with her own weapons. Lala seemingly captures Yami when she is distracted by the school principal, but she easily escapes afterwards. Yami wonders why Lala is going so far to protect Rito, when she had heard that he planned to marry her for evil intentions. Lala convinces Yami that Rito is not this kind of person, but she is unable to stop the job that she has already accepted. Yami believes that Lala would never understand her, but Lala agrees by stating that she left her planet to learn all of the things she did not know.

A ship soon appears in the sky, and Lala recognizes its passenger as an alien named Lakospo. She easily sees that he had lied to Yami to get closer to her, but she refuses to marry him like all of the rest. Seeing that Lakospo had given her incorrect information, Yami quickly turns on him. Yami is almost overtaken by the creature that Lakospo summons against her, but Lala and Rito stand in front of her to protect her from its attacks. When Lakospo threatens Rito, Lala sends him back into space with her own attacks. When Yami wonders why Lala saved her, she states that it is unforgivable for Lakospo to do such things to a cute girl. Yami is touched to be called as such, then deciding to stay on Earth with Rito and Lala for the time being.

Preview: School sports festival.

Impression:

This episode needed more Sonic Form…..or maybe Witchblade? Lakospo totally reminded me of Garlic Jr. too. After doing a bit more research, Yami seems to have a lot of similarities with the character Eve from Black Cat as well. Both characters are even played by Fukuen Misato (Patty in Devil May Cry, Yin in Darker than Black). Putting all the random similarities to the side, Yami was pretty win. I guess this probably only makes Rito’s harem even bigger, but it’s never too bad to have more lolis. One complaint I do have about this series though, is that characters seem to be cast aside after being introduced for the most part. It just kind of makes everything episodic, and it’s really lame not seeing a new character again after she has been introduced. I’m also having some problems with the presentation of each episode. Small things like having absolutely no bgm track in scenes just makes things boring when they would otherwise be pretty funny. I guess I’ll just have to try to stay enthusiastic about this show though, since I have no intentions of dropping it as of now. Next week is the typical sports festival episode. Time for more fanservice?