JK Meshi turned out to be total crap so I'm not going to make any attempt to follow it. All of the episodes I've looked at have been the same, with dreadful art, and no other redeeming features.

So first on our menu is Ani Tore EX, the exercise show without Hinako. Ep 5 is aerobics, while wearing animal ears.

Ep 6 introduces our last girl, who is shy and wears glasses. Her thing is leg lifts.

Ep 7 is about doing pushups and clapping your hands each time you rise. Or so they say. It's actually about the flat one groping one of the others.

And ep 8 is more aerobics while wearing animal ears. (The one with purple hair is the crazy one.)

Hakone-chan continues to be a travelog. In ep 6 someone built a new hotel/spa/waterpark right next to the traditional one, and it turned out to be another hot springs spirit who is a long time rival of Hakone. She challenges Hakone to a duel which turns out to be a real let down. But Hakone gets really big (ahem) in preparation for it.

Ep 7, the competing hot springs spirit Miya apologizes and invites everyone over for a swimsuit episode. Hakone has shrunk again and has... interesting... taste in swimwear. Ends up with Miya and Hakone fighting again, except that they get interrupted and chased by monkeys.

In ep 8 we ride a cable car to a different hot springs in the mountain. Hakone gets scared because she thinks there are demons there.

And in ep 9 we take a bus to Otamagaike, where there is a commemorative stone about something that happened 300 years ago. Something called the "Hakone Checkpoint". A woman tried to sneak by it and was killed by the Samurai guarding the place.

And her ghost remains there. Hakone is scared, until it turns out they know each other. What the ghost really wants most is a bath, and Hakone creates a hot springs there and she and Miya and the ghost all bathe together.

And the ghost is freed and goes to the afterlife.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 07:15 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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