Yeah, I know, I should stop that. But I for some reason missed out on watching Toradora last week and instead decided to marathon episode 6 and 7 today.
Anyhow, Episode 6 was further development of our favourite evil idol, Ami. Taiga and Minori are determined to make her slip up and reveal her true personality. We also see the reason for her transfer to this school (to escape this creepy stalker guy). However, this didn’t work, and the guy is still following her.
Eventually, she does indeed take some cues from Taiga; and rather than cowering from the guy, she goes on a daemonic transformation, shows her true personality, and totally busts up his camera…
She also tries some seduction techniques on Ryuji, though refreshingly, they aren’t tremendously effective on him (he’s probably immune to such whimsy because of his lazy mother).
What the hell!? Minorin’s special move hits you with a powerful instant noodle attack, I take it…
Taiga Strike!
Well, thats a good thing.
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Into this!:
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Episode 7 shows more of the beginnings of Ami’s evil personality, now that she’s decided to drop the act. Its also the token pool episode; though surprsingly, it manages to avoid some of the usual cliches and become a pretty hilarious experience. Naturally, Taiga is insecure about being flatchested, so Ryuji embarks on the ‘fake-breast special ops’ as Minori describes it…
Fast forward to the next day. Kitamura somehow manages to become popular with the girls at the pool by just being there (he’s the old classic glasses guy with stupendous muscles. I wonder if he’s actually Shiki Tohno in disguise…) but the operation appears to a success, as the guys are in awe of Taiga’s supposed ‘growth’ over the past year. Kitamura actually can’t see a thing without his glasses; but complements Taiga’s hair in any case. But then, Ami throws Taiga about 20 Feet into the air (WTF?) and into the pool. She can’t swim, so Ryuji tries to rescue her. But she’s more worried about the fact that she’s lost a pad and refuses to be rescued. So Ryuji pushes her underwater and reinserts the errant thing. Unfortunately, this is just as humiliating for her by the sheer merit of having her chest touched…
Later, Taiga is upset at Ami for the throwing incident and is feeling humiliated. Their argument won’t stop, so suddenly, Minori reappears in her baseball uniform and proposes a contest of sports…
Minori being her usual balmy self; using Taiga for weight training…
Whilst buying swimsuits, Ami is wonderfully frank (and evil), suggesting Taiga should have a 10-year olds suit.
LOL. Taiga is impressed by Ryuji’s mothers assets.
Ryuji needs to stay up late sewing breast pads. That poor guy…
Haha. Ami’s internal thought process was fantastic…
Kitamura shows off his biceps. Fanservice!
Minori realises the truth of the matter straight away, though the guys are fooled.
Uh, yeah…
Well, that was a fantastic set of episodes. Toradora is great fun to watch and blog…
