I thought it was fishy as well that Mariya gave Kanako a free bag. It has some sort of THING in it which is hinted to either be:
1. It’s slimy.
2. It has an unpredictable growth rate.
3. It’s able to devour an elephant whole.
4. You’ll find it cute when you get used to it.
5. It might not be from Earth.

Awesome THING. Of course, Matsurika “lied” saying that nothing was in there and smashed Kanako’s books in the bag. I think a fat, stout Otaku who is sex-hungry is in that bag. Why else will it have creepy eyes and can fit in a bag? That has to be it – a fat, stout Otaku. If Mariya were to give me that bag, I’d scream “TRAP, TIME FOR SUM BUTTSECKS!” Then let that Otaku have buttsecks. It’s only fair, right?

I’ve said previously that Kanako might just be a childhood friend of Mariya. It makes sense for why Mariya would treat and play with Kanako with such care, doesn’t it? He just seems to hide a lot of his past and really… pretend to make Kanako suffer. I really wonder how this will end ^[1]. Seriously, if Mariya was the one who made Kanako get hives if touched by boys, then it would be really interesting to see how Mariya will romance her. If at all. Matsurika seems to be the ‘eye’ of the story because she’s able to analyze a situation and make things look easy (like the picture above).

So uh, tentacles to rape methinks? These girls just wanted to replace Kanako’s pencil box with a whole dried Bonito. Weird girls; they seriously only know how to torment people with marine animals ^[2]. Initially, I thought that THING was going to rape those girls but eh… Kanako came. The bag was just hungry, like every other living creature. Funny at how they responded; they said they were feeding it :3 Still, they got straight to the point and pretended to throw that Rosary that Mariya lent to Kanako right out the window. Now Kanako thinks she has to pay 15 million yen ^[3].

Oh and, what they really threw out were nekomimi ears.

What’s with people wanting to wear nekomimi ears? Give me cat ears and I’ll feel weird. Last thing I ever wore was reindeer ears – which only stayed on for a few seconds. But if that’s your thing ok – I’m not going to judge you. Main reason I don’t like it is because it reminds me of bestiality ^[4]. And that’s totally not my fetish. Though, I have to say that Kanako does look cuter with it. Maybe it’s her gym clothes that makes her look nice to me. Hmm…

So now, Kiri said she’s dating Kanako and Ryuuken said she’s going to protect Kanako. Kanako also has a rich guy (or trap) after her. How in the world did she get into that mess? Here are my ideas about why Kanako became acquainted with so many girls: 1) Kanako is seen as a manly person, so girls want to be with manly people, 2) Kiri said she’s dating Kanako so that the girls who adore Ryuuken will buzz off ^[5], 3) Kanako looks too girly so the manly Ryuuken thinks of Kanako as a princess, 4) Kanako is a childhood friend of Mariya, 5) The bourgeois people of the school likes to pick on slow commoners, 6) All the girls in that school are lesbians so they like to take what they can get, 7) To make it so that Kanako won’t reveal Mariya’s secret, he went and hypnotized everyone to treat Kanako with care and then later make it so that Kanako will never betray Mariya, or 8) Ryuuken is actually a guy like Mariya and wanted to get into Kanako’s pants. IT’S ALL POSSIBLE!

The ending was generally… not interesting. That’s all I have to say :P

Overall this episode was entertaining and veered me into adoring Kanako. I mean, she made a lot of innocent faces that is, generally, cute. Sure I like Mariya as well (but not in that way) but this show focuses too much on Kanako that well, I can’t “focus” on him as much. I would appreciate it more if it showed the happenings of Mariya instead of Kanako… but as Mariya isn’t the type to be slow/an airhead the past few episodes focused on Kanako. If I think about it, a show focusing on Mariya might just move the genre of this show to Hentai, don’t you think?

People also spectated that there was a Final Countdown song and really, I can’t fathom why such a song was played. If I were to come up with a reason why – the foreshadowing reason – I would say it just meant that some yuri action is finally coming up :D

Notes:
1. Wtf? Already? But there’s still 9 more episodes to go!
2. *sigh* These girls sure are slow. Use something more deadly instead, for loli sake. Like placing tacks on Kanako’s chair. Though, that would hurt :[
3. From what the calculator said, $168,873. Wow, that’s a SHIT load of money.
4. Weird but true. A cat girl just isn’t my thing but a cat is fine too. As long as they aren’t nymphs. Dogs aren’t fine. Anything besides a cat isn’t fine. I think. Those types of things creep me out.
5. I think this is true… from what the last few chapters of the Manga said.

Related posts:

• Maria+Holic – 05 – Chronicles of Friendship
• Being an Otaku Sucks #1 – Otakus are Perverts
• Maria+Holic – 06 – Mariya has a sister complex
• Being an Otaku Sucks #2 – Otakus have disgusting fetishes

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