M.Night Satajito Shyamalan’s in it, after all.

Short Summary:

Senkawa continues to complain about sharing Birdy’s body and despite Tute’s attempts Birdy continues to ignore Senkawa’s pleas. Tute decides to make lunch and do general housecare to make things easier on Senkawa. Nakasugi’s friendhip with Hayamiya leads Senkawa to get a bit closer to her and meanwhile Muroto (the reporter) tries to guilt his former teachers into buying his books. An important trading partner with a company, Satajito Shyamalan, arrives for an important interview with a woman named Sanada.

Tute discusses Geega’s disappearance with Shion’s manager and Birdy reveals to Senkawa she doesn’t actually know what the Riunka is. Geega/Bacillus meets with a different man than before (which may have been Shyamalan in the first episode, with the many dolls in his room) to discuss giving the Riunka to them instead of Shyamalan, but his priorities seem to be centered more around eating Birdy. He shows up at school an manages to damage Tute before going after Birdy. He interrupts Senkawa and Nakasugi and captures the girl; Senkawa manages to fight (albeit poorly) in his own form long enough to get back Nakasugi and to transform into Birdy. She heads to the swimming pool, fights Bacillus and ends up being saved from being eaten by a damaged Tute. Unfortunately, Tute ends up heavily damaged, but gives Birdy permission to exterminate Bacillicus. Afterwards, the mysterious person with a bird on their shoulder looks on, approving of the decision to kill Bacillicus, and Birdy remembers how she first met Tute while the robot shuts down permanently.

Next Time:

Return To Birdy’s Home Planet.

Thoughts:

TUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!! It’s a shame the most entertaining character in the show has been killed off at episode 3, his weird goth persona juxtaposed with the stoic (yet also emotional) robotic one was great to watch. I’d have thought that Bacillicus’ HUEG FIRE BLAST (which came out of NOWHERE) wouldn’t have harmed him, especially as he’s survived lots of blasts like that before, but perhaps the damage he already sustained was too great. Hopefully, he’ll be back in some way, shape or form but I’m not going to get my hopes up.

Senkawa  becomes an even further annoyance, still complaining about the situation and I wish he’d just hurry up and get used to it; the whole school life thing is continuing to wear thin as well, as his friends aren’t interesting at all now (except for miscontruing Tute’s relationship with Senkawa as a homosexual one har har) and I also don’t normally care about love interests in shows and Nakasugi’s no different. The only possible use this could have is if, as I said before, the Riunka comes into play somewhere in their relationship, but even so that seems a long way off.

There was some subtle plot developement as well, with more being revealed about who’s after the Riunka. It seems there’s one group, including that guy with the sunglasses talking to Bacillus, Mr. Doll Fetish Satajito Shyamalan with his company and the mysterious person with a bird in their shoulder (who still hasn’t done anything but stand on buildings). It’s nice to see that things are developing slowly outside of the Birdy and Senkawa situation and still giving a nice dose of action to accompany this (though the point of Reporter Man still completely eludes me).

As we’re going to infinity and beyond into outer space next episode, that means less Days in the Life of Senkawa’s Friends (woot) but more of Senkawa complaining (crap).

Love Bentou. A parting gift from Tute ;_;