Anyone who's ever seen a John Hughes
movie is more than likely familiar with the moments where whatever
silliness we've been viewing is torn away for a moment of honest
drama, usually in the form of a speech. Actually it wasn't a
phenomenon reserved for his films as many 80's films would have those
surprise dramatic moments. Seriously; just check out the death of
Evil Ed in Fright Night or the cassette tape part in Night of the
Creeps. It's a very difficult tonal shift to pull off correctly but
by god Ninninger did it this week in what was an otherwise goofy
episode.
Things kick off with Starninger
continuing his efforts to kill the kids, mainly Takaharu. This
results in a constant mess at the dojo which has Fuuka rightly
pissed. So much that she bans all future assassination attempts
within the house. Meanwhile Tsugomori makes a telephone monster he
hopes will trick the kids into losing their transformation devices.
After a quick battle, Kinji and Fuuka have a conversation where he
apologizes for any rift he may be causing between the siblings before
sharing the story of his dead family with her too.
Now we get to the part where the
episode almost falls apart. The monster calls Takaharu and pretends
to be both Fuuka and Gramps while coming up with a story that it
stole her changing shuriken and that grampa says they have to gather
the others to save hers, oh and that a complete stranger who happens
to be helping them will come to pick them up. Taka being a massive
idiot falls for it and convinces Nagi, Yakumo, and Kasumi (the
supposedly smart one) to give him their shuriken. After he gives them
away, they all realize he's been tricked.
The monster then tries a similar
scheme with Fuuka but it quickly falls apart since she's smart enough
to ask questions and has something called social skills.
After the others meet up with the
beast and commence fighting without the ability to change, Fuuka and
Kinji show up to take him on proper. During the fight she fakes being
a klutz so she can get close and steel the shuriken back. During the
next stage of battle the monster tricks everyone by using their
voices to make them believe that everyone else is in danger. Guess
who doesn't fall for it? If you guessed Fuuka you've earned a cookie.
Even during the giant robot fight while the beasts sound attacks
prove too much for the others, she has her giant robo dog howl so
loudly that it breaks the telephone receivers. Basically if there was
a problem, she solved it. Since Kinji helped out, she allows him to
attack her brother in the house again, but only during certain hours.
After all the nonesense we get this
bizarre ending. Takaharu is doing some solo training at night when
Fuuka comes in to join him. She's realized that she still has to look
after him (cause he's really dumb) and thous she must become stronger
than him. He believes she can do it as they share the same
grandfather, She believes she can do it cause Taka is her brother,
then they continue to train through the night. It's such an odd and
deep scene that's completely different from the rest of this show and
yet it works towards improving both characters.
Next time, Kasumi is in the spotlight once again. Will it be a repeat of her shitty performance from episode
five? Stay tuned to find out.
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