NouKome – 04
Guest appearance by Miya Tachibana
Could things be looking up for Kanade? And what exactly is Chocolat? I know I gave out a lot more chocolate than I’d prefer to with Halloween, my least favorite holiday. But that’s in the past now and we head into November with Episode 4 of NouKome.
A New Classmate
Everyone in class loves a new pet
Of course Chocolat was going to end up going to school with the rest of the gang. Whatever the heck a “Studies Assistance Pet” is, she’s probably exactly that anyway. But that doesn’t make her any less popular with all the guys in the class, or even the girls. Not that her presence helps Kanade’s reputation at all, since she mentions that he “kunya-kunya, funya-funya”s her in bed. All the guys want to beat him up, and all the girls are afraid he’ll do that to them, even if the one with a handful of Chocolat’s boobs is Yukihira (seriously, that went on way too long, Yukihira).
This guy doesn’t even count as a trap
Things might be looking up for Kanade tho, since the choices seem to be getting less bad, this time requiring the choice between Harem Time with popular students or something that feels really good. Even if they turned out to be not that good, with a harem of the most popular boys in the school (and an omake of a coma where he dreams he’s surrounded by women for the other choice), they’re still better than having to debase himself in front of everyone, as normally happens. The explanation comes from Douraku-sensei, who confirms it’s because he’s actually completed some of the missions. We also get our first confirmation that she’s been through the exact same thing, although there’s a mental block that keeps her from talking about it, just like Kanade can’t tell others about it.
Besides, there are things he just doesn’t WANT to tell anyone
A Challenge From the Best to the Worst
Seira and Souga invite the ‘winners’
The gauntlet has been thrown, and I’m not sure about how I feel about it. We get to meet two of the popular students, one of them a girl from the OP, seitokaichou Seira Kokubyakuin, along with fuku-kaichou Souga Shishimori. The Popularity 5 (Seira, Souga, and Konagi, as well as a guy with green hair and the ring-curl big-boobed oujo-sama from the OP) and the Reject 5 are going to have a ‘battle’ on stage, although it’s more like the Reject 4 + a wildcard (hands up if you think it’s going to be Chocolat… wow, that’s a lot of hands).
Nobody wants to be near Kanade
This is kind of what I was worried about with the “Reject 5” designation, that in addition to being the butt of jokes for the show, they’re the butt of jokes for the whole school. That hasn’t really seemed to be the case to this point, but it really does seem like Seira’s playing them for a laugh so far. But as usual, it gets worse for Kanade, as he’s got a pretty tough mission: have all the girls participating in the battle say they like him. Now, thanks to the malleability of “suki” in Japanese, it’s not like he needs all the girls to confess to him, or kiss them like Keima Katsuragi. But it’s still going to be a tall order, perhaps allayed a little bit by the flexibility of definition that the tasks have shown so far (perhaps even if they’re saying it falsely, it’ll count).
Bonus Reject 5
Another episode of NouKome that just ran by with the normal great flow that the show has. It really moves from one gag to the next to the next without feeling rushed or without feeling like it has too much downtime, even layering them so that there are multiple things going on at once, like the sequence with Furano fondling Chocolat, Ouka impersonating Kanade, and going right into her feigning embarrassment and wearing spats. It’s really the best thing about the show, because it continues to be an experience that’s greater than the sum of its parts if you try to deconstruct it.
Like I said, I’m a little concerned that they’re having a laugh at the “Reject 5”, although if you’re going to name people the Reject 5 in the first place, they’re going to be targets, aren’t they. I just hope that we’re not just in for humiliation of Kanade, Furano, and Ouka. Especially Ouka, although I don’t know if anything really can humiliate her, more than temporarily.
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POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 167 comments
Chocolat should be easy then.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Furano’s gonna be the hard one…
POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 175 comments
poor kanade really sure got the TRAP harem is one thing yet go the female harem cue the coma.
i wonder who even put that curse of kanade?
POWUH: Meta Resident and Werewolf Chaser with 1270 comments
So we finally have the visual abt the next R5: the bandaged face guy (?) frm the OP and he not a megane bishie like wht we speculated XD I wonder is he the “chunibyou” type? And interestingly, it seems like Seira can’t contact/find the last R5…..
Manharem Time was hilarious XD I’m not sure evading “drilling” is better than making a joke of yourself but w/e, at least the involved persons won’t be remembering it. And lol @ Flippant God. So God is just an admin and there a system to it? Kinda reminds me of NIS “The Guided Fate Paradox” and the Disgaea games in general XD
It seems like Seira also knows something abt the Chocolat…. Her comments abt her being “unnatural” is interesting. I’ve seen a theory abt Chocolat actually being a dog angel since they say dogs go to heaven and this gives more
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Well, Chocolat really has seemed like a dog throughout the whole series, and they certainly don’t play that down with ‘Studies Assistance Pet’ (that’s better than “onapet”, tho).
As far as the god administrator not having the ability to change things that came before, that’s an interesting kind of twist, and one wonders what kind of twisted former god came up with that.
POWUH: Meta Resident and Werewolf Chaser with 1270 comments
What “onapet” btw?
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POWUH: Meta Resident and Werewolf Chaser with 1270 comments
http://images.wikia.com/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/5/5f/What_face.gif
Thanks for the TL anyway.
Crap just realize the first comment frm me is missing the ending part >_> Me derp.
Considering the God figure in the “Trinity Universe” game is pretty much the final boss and ROYALLY trolled most of the cast….. Yeah.
POWUH: Meta Team and Spammy Tamer with 7115 comments
Basically, Furano’s saying that Chocolat’s reason for being there isn’t ‘studies assistance’, it’s fapping assistance. 🙂