Sayuri reveals her true moe soundbite

Episode rating: 9/10

Another Mai centric episode for great justice, also more love for Sayuri who is quickly rising in my ranks despite my initial dislike for her.

Sayuri and Kyon’ichi manage to avoid Mai’s expulsion by passing off the sword act as part of the program for the dance, this is backed up by Kitagawa for credibility. The three are later threatened by the prick president of the student counsel, but is quickly scared off by Mai defending Sayuri.

Later that night Kyon’ichi brings Ayu to see Mai to ask about Ayu’s missing item, Mai seems to be able to tell what Ayu really is but uses spoiler tags to hide the truth in an onslaught of ambiguity.

The rest of the episode is dedicated to Mai fighting off demons with the help of Kyon’ichi, whom she personally trained by throwing crap at him. And a SayuriXKyon’ichi de-tou where they pick out a ridiculously large stuffed animal for Mai’s birthday.

EDIT: KyoAni makes a continuity mistake! On my second watch through of Kanon 13 I noticed that during the Sayuri’s flashback to when they were ichinensei (freshmen), they were still wearing blue ribbons which supposedly indicates a sannensei (senior). Ichinensei are supposed to wear green ribbons. Tsk tsk.

EDIT to the EDIT: Skane says: With regards to the ribbon, it is not a mistake. According to the gamers, the ribbon colours are done in rotation. So you keep your ribbon colour until you graduate. You got lucky this time KyoAni D=

Thoughts

Pretty good ep, though definitely not as good as the last. There were some noticeable still scenes where KyoAni recouped some of the animation cost from last week’s waltz, which is understandable. But overall the animation didn’t suffer as much as I thought it would, the demon scenes were still done to a KyoAni standard.

Nayuki is getting screwed in KyoAni’s version thus far, she now exists solely as comic relief. What else besides acting like a sleep deprived university student has she done for the past 10 episodes? (Being Kyon’ichi’s slave and personal ATM machine doesn’t count) I’m no Nayuki fanboy, but this is a little harsh, at some point the moe effect of her sleeping in class and running into things is going to wear off. I hope she gets some goodness when her arc comes around or KyoAni will have to hire Ayu fanboys to wage war against the Nayuki camp onslaught at their headquarters.

I never thought I’d say this…but…*looks around nervously* SAYURI FTW! This episode rockets her over Shiori who has become a walking pharmacy lost much of her “not so sick/sad girl in the snow” appeal. Pikyuu~!

Preview

Kyon’ichi is not normal. ORLY? YARLY. ORLY? YARLY. NOWAI!!!

lawl, Kitagawa is sleeping too

Be careful what you wish for…

Forget Shiori, Mai is batshit loco

Sayuri’s a furry <3

~ Shirukii ~