Maria-sama ga Miteru S4 02; Imoutos are awesome

January 12th, 2009 by Shirukii

Sachiko is not amused

Doremi, you guys are walking way too fucking fast, while I lag a bit behind. But I still beat lolikit to a proper entry.

The school festival has arrived and everyone is having a grand ol’ time. Yumi and Yoshino man the gates of some shrine restaurant. Yoshino goes at it with particular enthusiasm since it’s her first school festival since she almost died, while Yumi would rather be in the throes of pleasure, writhing in bed with Sachiko tending to a vending booth.

Outside, Sei and Youko catch a girl trying not so inconspicuously, about 5 meters from the main entrance, to hop the gates into the festival. After some interrogation they get that the girl, Yuuko, claims to be a relative of one of the students, but does not have a ticket as she ought to, and isn’t on the guest list either…hmm…rather fishy, or maybe that’s just the usual scent of pheromones that wafts about Lillian.

Back inside, Yumi takes a quick break from her post to greet Kanako, who perpetuates her loner status by standing around wistfully holding the tickets that were supposed to be passed on to her family members. They chat for a while until Touko comes along, causing Kanako to bolt away. Yumi exchanges pleasantries and meal tickets for free weiners with Touko, but is suddenly dragged back to Yoshino and the photography club, who are taking pictures of the roses at work for the next edition of the newspaper. Yumi returns to find Touko has excused herself, but ended up accepting Yumi’s offer of gratuitous sausage, leaving her thanks.

After finishing up at the restaurant gate, Yumi heads inside the school where she meets up with Sei and Youko, who suddenly realizes that Yumi and Yuuko are strikingly similar both in appearance and mannerism. The three make their way to Sachiko’s classroom to see her, but she happens to have been called to the nurse’s office, so they opt to fool around in her class’s candy grab games to kill the time until she returns. In the midst of their crusade for chocolate, however, they’re interrupted by Kanako, who comes running in begging Yumi to hide her, having met someone she’d rather avoid.

Sachiko returns soon after, gives Kanako a stare that would make me shit myself if I were ever hit with it, and orders her and Yumi to come with her to the nurse’s office. She explains that she’d been called to the nurse’s office because her father was there, but found that odd since her father left for New York the night before, she went to check it out anyway and instead found Kanako’s father there. Kanako is reluctant to see him at first, but Sachiko coerces her to do so with relative ease.

What follows is a touching reunion where Kanako confronts her father about being a lying adulterer and blames him for breaking up their family and coming between her and her best friend, who he slept with. But her friend, who unsurprisingly turns out to be Yuuko, follows soon after and explains that Kanako’s father did not ruin her life, and that she genuinely loves them. They laugh, they cry, they hug, and Kanako finds out she has a little sister!

Teen pregnancy, bringing families together again. D’aww.

The festival winds down with the bonfire folk dance, where Yumi and Sachiko traditionally find each other idling around by their lonesome. Sachiko takes Yumi for a walk to the statue of Maria-sama and delivers a touching speech about how the two have been sisters for a year now and how despite her best efforts, Sachiko couldn’t come up with a way to celebrate it because having Yumi as her soeur seems so natural that this day feels like any other. Yumi is brought to tears by Sachiko’s spiel, but her bliss soon turns into shock as Sachiko then tells Yumi to choose a soeur of her own.

Thoughts

FWOO FWOO

Ah the dramatic wind, an anime staple that tells meteorologists to shove it, because high pressure system be damned, a dramatic revelation needs to be followed by a strong gust of wind.

Maybe it’s because I’ve long since forgotten Marimite’s time line and any events that preceded the fourth season, but this came out of nowhere to me. Was this hinted at at all before now? I was always under the impression that Sachiko was rather protective of Yumi and didn’t really want to share her with anyone else. In retrospect, that may just be a result of the “Crazy Sachiko” persona that all Sachiko fans seem to push onto her.

I’m going to assume that Sachiko’s reasoning is that after experiencing the joy that having une petite soeur has brought her, she wants Yumi to follow suit. But I could have sworn she was really possessive of Yumi before. Even the look she gave Touko and Yumi as they ran off together reeked of “If anything happens to my little sis I’ll tear that girl’s head off, dip her twindrills in the resulting fountain of blood and paint my kitchen with it”.

…am I just imagining things D:?

A wild Touko appears.
FIGHT          BAG
PKMN         >RUN

As for the race for Yumi’s rosary itself, things seem pretty one sided. Kanako can’t stand the competition, and doesn’t seem to really like Yumi anyway, still unable to completely detach herself from the ideal of Yumi that she had built up in her mind. That, and she’s only using her as a means to get over Yuuko. While it looks like Kanako will resolve a lot of the issues she has with Yumi and humanity in general and becoming less of a nihilistic bitch as the series progresses, I’ve still got my money on Touko. Largely thanks to the in your face symmetrical docking shot of the two in the ED. *bitter*

Yup, still a dyke.

~ Shirukii ~

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10 Responses to “Maria-sama ga Miteru S4 02; Imoutos are awesome”

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  3. on 13 Jan 2009 at 12:20 am3 lolikit

    I love how “Crazy Sachiko” has become a persona that “all Sachiko fans seem to push onto her.” Shirukii, Shirukii, Shirukii. Lovely Kitsune pioneered “Crazy Sachiko;” I merely ride on the coattails of my hero.

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  4. on 14 Jan 2009 at 12:52 am4 Siva

    >>“If anything happens to my little sis I’ll tear that girl’s head off, dip her twindrills in the resulting fountain of blood and paint my kitchen with it”

    You made me realized that the word “Crazy Sachiko” wasn’t enough to describe her character LOL

    >>”I’ve still got my money on Touko.”

    How smart you are that put your money on the winning side?

    And running is………………………………………….. also fine too.

  5. on 14 Jan 2009 at 12:54 am5 Os

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  7. on 15 Jan 2009 at 8:35 pm7 ItAintEazy

    Last comment was tldr.

  8. on 29 Mar 2009 at 4:02 am8 Gar

    Hey Shirukii, I was just wondering if you dropped this anime and/or are going to stop blogging about it. I am just wondering because you have not posted an episode review in a long time, and the series has finished airing…

  9. on 29 Mar 2009 at 12:34 pm9 Shirukii

    @Gar: Yea, I dropped it, I was blogging it in tandem with lolikit of notdotq, but he stopped posting and the whole thing sorta died from there since our combined discourse was the original point. Sorry! I’ll be back in full blogging form soon though, right after exams finish in April!

  10. on 01 Apr 2009 at 9:24 pm10 Gar

    Hooray :D

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