Ah, finally, Kyousora gets an obligatory Onsen episode, one that doesn’t involve Mika being a scheming bitch or Kazuya reciting crappy poetry.

Too bad the episode focused on the Tarurotte and Soujiro, probably my least favourite characters out of the entire cast. Though, there was a fair bit of Kaon and Himiko to make up for it, so it was still a decent special.

Let’s not kid ourselves, Onsen episodes are all about fanservice and they packed a fair bit into this special. We get to see Tarurotte, the closest thing in Kyousora to a DFC in various states of undress and experiencing what looked almost like euphoria just from testing the onsen water. Meanwhile, her loyal guardian and manservant Soujiro knocks out all the other guests to prevent them from going inside the bathing area.

Kaon and Himiko are doing a bit of relaxing themselves, Himiko apologizes for selfishly asking to go to an onsen, but Kaon is willing to do anything to keep her happy so it’s not a problem. Suddenly, Tarurotte floats over and bumps into Himiko’s back, apparently a very sensitive area as she jumps up in surprise. Kaon asks her what’s wrong and Himiko insists she’s fine but lets out another gasp when Tarurotte’s tail brushes against her back. Annoyed, Kaon goes into mecha mode, ready to beat Tarurotte to a pulp, but is hug tackled by Himiko who tells her that it’s nothing to worry about and shuts her up with a kiss.

After their bath, Kaon and Himiko lounge around in their room and Himiko starts to sketch Kaon, the two smiling at each other uncontrollably. (I love yuri ;_;)

Meanwhile, Tarurotte has managed to find herself some manjyuu and runs back to her room to show it off to Soujiro. She asks if he wants one but teases him like a little kid when he tries to take one. The episode ends off with the two sprawled over each other on a futon and Soujiro with a manjyuu on his head.

Seems like the specials are getting less and less relevant to the plot with each passing one. I can’t even begin to think about where/how a visit to an onsen would fit into the main plot line. But then again, when did we ever need an excuse for an onsen episode XD

Tarurotte was always my least favourite absolute angel, not because she’s a DFC/loli, I have nothing against those, actually, on the contrary…Anyways, it’s just something about her that really annoys me, I’m thinking it’s her voice, it’s ear piercingly annoying, not to mention every other ‘word’ out of her mouth is ~nyamo/~nayno/~nya variant. Plus she reduced Soujiro, who was a badass in Kannaduki no Miko, into a girly manservant.

But that was more than offset with even more screentime for Kaon and Himiko (Chikane and Himeko), I can never get enough of these two. They need to hurry up and make a spinoff/sequel for KnM that doesn’t suck.

And of course, no bath related episode would be complete without a cut to Setsuna and Kuu taking one together.

Next special is out on August 24th, not that I imagine many other people are still watching this series ;_;

Side Note* Again, I apologize for the lack of/lateness of posts recently. Things should be back to normal starting Wednesday or Thursday.

~ Shirukii ~