Kyoko goes to Tsukune’s school to try and uncover its secret.
Impressions:
Wow, this episode was huge. It’s really the first episode of the entire season that is actually important in some regards. Everything else has been rather unimportant, some small character development bits and random ecchi slapstick comedy. But here they all of a sudden threw together a lot of aspects of good plot. First off we have Kyoko investigating the school which I just knew was bound to happen after the episode where she saw all of them fighting. That paired with Moka splitting in two and actually talking to her other half and learning that effectively both Moka’s like Tsukune. Then, to top it all off we have the boundary breaking, which was just casually mentioned before as being effectively an apocalyptic event. So, yeah, it was pretty damn big. They cold have taken any one of these three things and made several episodes out of them which would have been better then the fluff type stuff that they usually have. It almost gets me depressed when I see that there is some potential for interesting plot and complex feelings, they just hardly ever feature them.
I am curious how much Kokoa will be involved in the last bits of this season. Her arrival seemed like it was such an important thing and could lead to a lot of things, but for the most part it hasn’t’. Kokoa has just been a point of random comedy throughout most of the series or she’s the things that caused these unimportant random events to occur. There’s still some room for he and the dilemma about her “real” sister, but it’s going to have to take a back seat for sure because the boundary breaking is a pretty big thing.
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After seeing episode 12, I got to say it makes this one better. Compared to the manga, this season is all over the place but we are getting a bit of a story. I think we are getting a season 3 so can’t expect Tsukune to pick Moka but it’s pretty close. Thanks for the reviews!
Real problem with Kokoa is she is out of place. Have to rewrite events to account for her presence and so making her have an impact is a bit tricky. Though since they are rewriting most things I guess they can make her as prominent as they want. Too bad they wanted to focus more on comedy and censored panty shots. There is some plot in here that they could have expanded for different arcs and episodes. It is disappointing if you know what they could have done.