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Eri takes the whole class out on a luxury cruise when the boat crashes, stranding everyone in the middle of the ocean.

Summary:

• We see the four girls on a huge cruise ship out in the ocean. We find out that its’ Eri’s boat and she invited all of the class. We see them all doing various things. Eri goes to get a huge tuna for everyone to eat and we see Harima by himself in the freezer because he has to work on his manga. He ends up helping Eri carry the huge tuna and tries to cut it but fails.
• We see Tougo and Harry riding a Kayak and they meet up with the boat Just then Harima notices they are heading straight for some reefs so he tries to tell the chef who is steering the boat to go right, while Eri is telling him to go left. They end up crashing, breaking the engine stranding them.
• We see a shot of Hanai waking up in some bed in a small village. He wonders what he is doing; last he remembered he was still on the kite. He is greeted by a villager who looks identical to Yakumo, only tanner. He finds out that everyone in the village looks exactly like his classmates and have practically the same names, except for Yakumo’s look alike who is called Yakumo. He is led tot eh queen, Eri look alike, where he finds out they are preparing to sacrifice Yakamo to some demon.
• Hanai objects and says he will go to defeat the demon. He goes out tot eh forest and eventually he activates some statue which is supposedly a god and it fights off the demon pig.
• Hanai is a hero there but he decides to head off, not belonging here. We then see everyone on the boat all had this vision as a dream, everyone sharing the same dream. However Hanai just then actually does fly above them, wearing the village clothes turning out not to be a dream.
• Everyone is still waiting on rescue, on the stranded boat and Tenma sees an image of Karasuma in a penguin suit. She just stares at it and gets from the look he has that he wants her not to give up. Everyone around her says they won’t and resolve to fix the boat.
• Just then a huge wale comes at their boat straight on. Everyone ducks, preparing to be destroyed by the wale but the wale stops, seeing Yakumo, and falls in love. Eventually the wale pulls their boat, although we see it is headed past their destination.

Impressions:

Overall this episode was great I thought. There were numerous parts that were extremely funny and it kind of had a small parody bit with the whole Hanai on an island with the people looking like his classmates, for the rest of it it all seemed to be focused on the boat trip and being stranded, usually the episodes being broken up more.

I still find it hilarious how Hanai has been on the kite for so long. Akira even noted how Hanai must have been on the kite for days now. I loved the dream itself, although it turned out to be not really a dream, like it was real but it was still funny how all the people looked exactly the same except were tanned, and how Hanai noticed this and expected who would be the queen and so forth.

Also, even though this is a small unimportant thing, I liked seeing the girls in their swimsuits :D At least they came up with a plausible way to show them during the winter, because of the whole cruise thing.

Wow, the preview for the next episode surprised me, mainly because of how serious it seemed. Being as how it is the second to last episode next episode, they are likely to be fairly important and filled with a lot of character development. The preview seemed to be all abut Harima and Yakumo so it will be really interesting to see how that plays out.