Short Synopsis: Hatchin gets used to life within the circus, when she meets a certain Michiko
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent)
Seriously, Hatchin is an awesome character. At this point, I don’t care what kind of direction this series is going to go into: when she’s around, it’s going to be lots of fun either way. Another thing I like so much about this series is that it rapidly switches from hilarious comedy to powerful drama, and especially this episode was good at that. The news reporter in this episode was hilarious, even though he was trying to deal with such a serious topic as child exploitation.
It seems that Michiko didn’t have to search long for Hatchin. I’m not sure what part I missed where she found out about the circus, but I expected a lot more time to be spent on it. I’m still surprised at how long it took for the two of them to make up: normally things like these are resolved in one episode, in extreme cases two. The way they made up was also delightfully far from cheese, and it felt really true to their characters.
In the end, Michiko’s pride and Hatchin’s responsibility just remain adorable. I loved it when Michiko found out that Hatchin preferred her to the fat lady Michiko, and Hatchin, even though she despises Michiko, did rescue her in the end. There are a lot of things in this series left unsaid by the two of them, but that’s also what makes them such great characters to watch.
Hatchin is made of awesome in this ep! Her love-hate relationship with Michiko is really shaping up to be something else.
This was overripe with deusexism but nonetheless highly entertaining. I’m afraid the irregular scheduling is totally ruining the popularity of this outstanding series. It’s a bit like Cowboy Bebop of which initially half of the episodes weren’t aired at all due to censorship issues.
The scene in which Hatchin imitated Michiko was just great and the scene in which she jumps into the ocean together with Michiko was simply awesome. Of course, Hatchin doesn’t despise Michiko at all. Rather she detests a part of her character, especially her irresponsible side and Hatchin behaves much more adult in comparision and for her age. Still in the end Michiko has more life experience. So their relationship is disharmonic but being as different as they are that’s hardly avoidable.