As such, it’s a welcome development that helps ease the plot a bit forward… well, as far forward as a beach episode can anyway. Not that it’s surprising though, as we’ve pretty much seen this moment in the making for a while now, but at least it means we’ll likely won’t see much more of the goading and disagreements from the previous episodes. In any case, it’s pretty clear the conflicts he’s had with Yui the past few episodes are starting to mellow out a bit, to the point where it’s pretty clear that both of em’ at least respect and might even have some semblance of attraction to each other. I can’t help but feel like he loses some of those manly points ya know? Haha. But on the other hand, his unwillingness to peep with Valerio… I dunno. That worrying and assistance he lends to Yui when Cryska passes out, quite manly indeed. Next, we have Bridges beginning to change his attitude a bit toward Yui, as well as show off his manliness. It definitely felt like a sharp jab at the Soviets in general and it’s just a bit shocking, because I never would’ve pictured those words coming out of her mouth at all. For one, there’s the comment from Stella, where she says “I guess Russians can’t understand other people’s kindness”. Aside from the healthy amount of bikini shots and so forth, there’s actually a few interesting tidbits here as well. I mean, how else would you get to fit in some fanservice, obligatory peeping attempts (from Valerio of course), and the stranded on a deserted island trope!? Wait what? You’re telling me they fit in some small instances of plot and character development? No way!īut, it’s true. This is a beach episode after all, and it just ain’t the same with some coincidental events that would never happen otherwise. I mean, it makes sense that they’re trying to do both at the same area/time to save resources and time, but combining those two terms together just feels so darn strange to say the least. Still, if there’s one thing I that keeps making me laugh a bit is how they decided to combine a tropical endurance test run with a photoshoot.
This week, we get our obligatory beach episode, ripe with fanservice and attitude 180s from Yui and Bridges. It’s that time of the year for Tortilla Chips Total Eclipse… time to change the motor oil.