A wild MissingNo. appears

First of all, FUCK YEAH I’m blogging again! Feels good to be back and slightly less lazy, just slightly. Second of all, many thanks to lolikit, whose post informed me that the .avi raw of this episode was made of artifacts and fail. Incidentally, I’ll be blogging this series in tandem with him, so look forward to that if you’re at all remotely interested in either of our ramblings.

We start off by getting a reintroduction of the Roses and whatnot. Just in case you forgot who Sachiko is. But you didn’t. No one forgets who Sachiko is. It’s Sachiko.

The Rose mansion is aflutter with talks of the play which they will be showing at the upcoming school festival, for no apparent reason but to illicit one of her petite soeur’s funny facial expressions, Sachiko decides on one whose main characters fit Yumi and her little brother perfectly.

By now, a staple presence in any school event, the guys from Hanadera head over to Lillian to help out with the play. As everyone seems to be settling in and the play looks to be taking form, Sachiko (again, for on apparent reason) tells everyone to forget all their roles and arbitrarily dictates new ones at her discretion. Instead of being irked at the wasted time spent memorizing roles and preparing costumes, everyone seems to take the suggestion in good humor.

After rehearsal, Yumi, Yoshino and Shimako are heading home when Yumi stops in front of Maria-sama’s statue and begins to nostalgia bomb about when she became Sachiko’s petite soeur, she outright denies her reminiscence to the other two, but her lie is written on her face.

As rehearsals continue, Yumi begins to notice that Kanako isn’t exactly in high spirits about the play. When she confronts her about it later at the rose mansion, Kanako reminds her of her disdain for all being with a penis and how displeased she is by the fact that she has to portray one in the play. However, she does not break the promise to be in the play that she made to Yumi, despite voicing her desire to.

Later that day, during cleaning duty, Noriko stops Yumi in the halls to tell her about Touko, who has been skipping drama club activities for some reason. While it’s reasonable to assume that the school festival play is taking away some of the time Touko has for the drama club, she shouldn’t be completely absent from their meetings. But nevertheless, after some discussion in the Rose mansion, everyone agrees that Touko should be dismissed from her duties in the school festival play to free up time for the drama club, sending Yumi to give her the news. Instead…

Confrontation.

Confusion.

Accusation and first lie.

Presentation of evidence refuting first lie.

Defensive bantering and second lie.

Pointing out of flaw in second lie and demand for truth.

Admission of lies and concession of truth.

Make up sex.

So from what I understood, Touko first tells Yumi that she just doesn’t have the time for the drama club, or that it’s on hiatus or something. However, Yumi’s done her research and presents a copy of the drama club schedule. Touko then explains that she’s just gotten bored of acting, a pretty stupid lie since she’s skipping the drama club to practice for the school festival play. Yumi finally drags it out of her that one of her upper classmen got pissy that Touko got the lead in the drama club’s upcoming play, so Touko shoved the role back in her face and quit. Yumi’s puppy dog face manages to convince Touko to go back and give the drama club another chance.

Preparations for the school festival continue and everything seems to be ready with time to spare on the eve of the festival.

Thoughts

You’re a wizard Harry Yumi

I-I’m a what?

Wow, an actual OP, that kinda caught me off guard. Whatever happened to walking slowly?

Marimite season 4 looks to be more of the same, Sachiko’s still insane in the membrane, Yumi still wears her heart on her face, Rei’s still a dyke, Sei…we haven’t seen, but she’s probably still a dyke too. Which is all well and good, Marimite has kept the same feel with few deviations from day one, and it’s worked! I’m a little disappointed that the characters come off as static, showing no sizable growth in personality, except perhaps Yumi, Sachiko and Touko. However, the character dynamics are laid back and fun to watch, so meh.

Rape is imminent.

Oh Sachiko, you so crazy. I look forward to many more of your dere moments with Yumi. The relationship between these two has become rather predictable, anytime there’s any conflict between them, it will undoubtedly be caused by come stupid misunderstanding that could have been cleared up in seconds if either of them had just voiced their concerns instead of playing mind games on themselves. You think they would have figured that out by now, but alas. Still great fun to watch Yumi’s facial expressions though.

This, however, was a dick move. I could have done without being blatantly told the result of the Touko-Yumi-Kanako soeur triangle. The mystery is gone D:

But on the bright side, victory to the loli! Sieg heil.

Isn’t it sad Kanako ;_;

~ Shirukii ~

Aside: As usual, any summary flaws as a result of watching this raw should be noted in comments and will be promptly correctly. Also, keep an eye on notdotq, where lolikit promises to do a real post when he actually watches the episode.