I said I’ll fix it!
This episode didn’t have enough action or cutesy acts from Murasaki, even though Shinkurou sparred and Murasaki played with another little girl. In light of that, I still greatly enjoyed the episode. I wouldn’t say that it had much character building, or really contributed much to the story line, but it did show us a little more of the quaint, everyday side of what our two heroes go through.

Summary:

In episode 5 we get to see Shinkurou go to the Houzuki household to spar, thus letting us see Yuuno in action. She, of course, is Shinkurou’s sparring partner. While Shinkurou will be training, Murasaki will have her hands full with Yuuno’s little sister, Chizuru.

On their way there Murasaki notices that there are a lot of families on the train. Shinkurou tells her how families spend time together on Sundays. This catches Murasaki’s attention so she thinks about her own family. Perhaps, just perhaps, Shinkurou is taking her back to the Kuhouins. She continually asks whether they are going to the Kuhouins. He reassures her that they are just going to Yuuno’s house, but this doesn’t sit well with her either. Aside from the fact that Murasaki is not a fan of the “vile woman,” Yuuno knows about the Kuhouins and that alone is enough to make Murasaki uncomfortable about their destination. But, once they arrive, she is put at ease when she sees how lovely the house and garden are. This is where she meets Chizuru.

At first, they don’t get along, but after finding out that Chizuru has a video game (Nintendo DS), she is all too eager to play with her. Yuuno and Shinkurou go off to spar, but while they are working up a sweat, Murasaki is busy doing everything wrong. First she breaks the screen on the DS because, let’s all remember, she is a competitive girl who doesn’t like to lose and she has never played with a Gameboy so she doesn’t know how delicate they are. After breaking the DS, Murasaki and Chi-chan move on to playing with dolls. This time, Murasaki is determined to make the frying pan holding doll hold the fork. The hand isn’t shaped to hold the fork, so she accidentally forces the arm off. This is the second thing of Chi-chan’s that she has broken so the little girl just gets sadder. After realizing that she has once again offended her host, she decides to fix the dolly. She forces the hand back in, offering momentary relief from the eye-burning tears before the leg falls out of place. Now it has become an all out war to save the doll. Chizuru doesn’t want anymore damage done, and Murasaki is determined to fix what she has wronged; thus resulting in the head popping off.

The tears come pouring again so Murasaki goes to get Shinkurou’s help; howver, she walks in him trying to work out of a struggle hold. She now sees what practice he was working on and is a little shocked. After talking to Grandpa Houzuki about Yuuno’s and Chizuru’s strife of being born into a family of killers, he goes to fetch Murasaki from Chi-chan only to find them fast asleep. Yuuno walks him to the bus stop and they head towards home. Luckily Shinkurou was able to fix the doll, but he’ll have to buy Chi-chan a new DS. He doesn’t have to money for this, but he promises Murasaki that he’ll get her one too. When they get back to the apartment, they find Yamie and Tamaki waiting in the room with dinner. Tamaki gives Shinkurou a heater even though he complains about not having the money to pay for the extra fee on his electricity bill, and they go through a whole week’s worth of food even though he (still) poor.

Thoughts:

I really do enjoy watching this show and I apologize for the delay in my blogging it. School’s out now though, so I can get back to working on it.

I kinda want to see how the whole broken game and promised game thing will work out. I’m guessing that Shinkurou will indeed plead to Benika for the devices. Chances are he’ll get them.

I also wonder if Chi-chan and Murasaki will ever get to play again, because that was kinda cute even though Murasaki was a major bitch about breaking toys.