Short Synopsis: Michiko catches a cold.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 9/10 (The clear winner of the “most original fish-placement”-award)
This episode showed that Hatchin isn’t the only one who is made out of awesome and win in this series. Hatchin may be the Wonder Woman of this series, but Michiko also has proven to be downright awesome to watch. Especially in this episode, where she caught a cold and was supposed to stay in bed, her stubbornness made the entire episode a delight to watch.
You also have to love the weird ideas that the creators put into this episode. A psychedelic doctor/fraud who pulls fish out of his patients’ bellies?What? The visions Michiko had were also hilarious. Never thought it would be this disturbing to see Hatchin with an evil laugh…
But progress has been booked! Michiko actually tried to hide from Hatchin that she’s been smoking and drinking, despite her cold. It might be because she didn’t want to get into any useless arguments with her, but at least it’s a start: she’s finally starting to take Hatchin into consideration. Hatchin on the other hand has started breaking rules because of Michiko’s cold. I loved that line “If you need to become an angel, I’ll become the devil”. It’s a phrase that you see in more anime (out of the top of my head, Kaleido Star also used it), but the context in this episode that it appeared in is most definitely interesting.
And it’s finally confirmed: Hiroshi’s still alive. Okay, so Michiko was drunk and sick when she saw him, but his images were somehow different from the visions she had after that.
When did she say “angel”? Hatchin said “god” and she meant the charlatan who called himself Deus (and god). Did you think it referred to Michiko?
Finding it funny when behind every Hiroshi look-a-like stands a woman, it prompts a “who the hell are you I will kill you” response from Michiko. It’s gloriously natural.
Made me think back a few episodes to when Michiko got seduced and tells her seducer confidently Hiroshi loves no one else but Michiko. Yet standing outside the window is Hatchin, evidence of Hiroshi’s unfaithfulness which Michiko loves unconditionally. Her loyalty to others is impressive.