Okay, which monkey was the one who introduced crack to the writing staff of this series? What on earth did I just watch for the past 20 minutes?!
Seriously though, this was just amazing. Uta Koi already was the single most original series of the season, but this episode was just one giant middle finger to just about every anime storytelling convention. This was just outright bizarre from start to finish, it was completely silly in every single way, and it was glorious. People need to make more filler episodes with the mindset of this episode.
I think every single one of us made some sort of Yugioh joke when we first learned of Chihayafuru. I mean, from the outside a series about a card game does seem awfully similar if you’re unaware of any sort of context. I however never could have expected that a year later,this series would come along and actually transformed the 100 poems into flippin BATTLE CARDS, complete with its own set of rules and powers, leading to bizarre situations in which someone was able to summon himself on the battlefield to do massive damage.
I love how this episode made a complete fool of itself (the grand prix had me in stitches as well), but at the same time it didn’t skip on the historical references. This episode also introduced a ton of new characters and famous figures. Did any of those make an appearance in the OP though? How many more of those guys will this series introcuce?
Rating: 6/8 (Awesome)
The pair at the bottom right appears in the OP (aprox at 2:07 in ep. 5) From what I managed to count up till episode 5, and not counting the narrator, minimum 11 of the characters that appear in the OP have been introduced.
Well, it’s full of jokes that made me laugh all the way through, the way it made fun of their characters by using the personality of that character was brilliant and I just love Yasuko’s positive translation of Emperor Yozei’s thoughts, this pair will live a long happy marriage life XD.
given the format the first half had it’s safe to asume that several of the pairings in the next half will have the half/one full episode treatement and whill mostly have 3 recurring characters concretely the 3 that appear after Komachi in the opening, especially the red haired girl since most shots in the OP are of her.
But I loved this episode the part about the host club was comedy gold and then the card battle started and I just lost it that very moment it was glorious.
Uta Koi was the last anime I expected to have a filler episode, but it was awesome! Komachi’s brutal rejection of Yasuhide at the start and his poem in reply was hilarious.