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This week on K-ON!!
When will the fansubs come out! K-ON!! fans spent much of the week camped out in front of their computers, waiting for the black smoke rising from Mordhaus fansubber websites to turn white, signifying the completion of the subs. In other places, murder, suicide, and general violence rates increased exponentially (cut to a picture of heaps of dead and dying K-ON!! fans lying on the street; with fires burning everywhere.)
Thank you for your RAAAAGE gaijin otaku, you made this week's K-ON!! review Metalocalypse reference easy to put in.
Onto the actual episode:
We learn that xenomorphs hentai tentacle monsters leaking water was lurking in the clubroom's ceiling; meaning that the girls of HTT couldn't practice there until Ripley and the Colonial Marines could go in and clean it out. Their attempts to practice elsewhere in the school were greeted with hilarious failure . . . they were chased from the classroom by a pitchfork-and-torch wielding mob from the other clubs; and while Yui gained +5 diplomacy for negotiating use of the gym, Mio failed her sanity check and thought she was at an American football game.
But that's okay; the next day, they went to go practice at an actual recording space. Unfortunately, all the girls of HTT fell victim to a . . . oooh look, a mirror! My gosh, I'm such a mess . . . wait, what was I talking about again?
Probably wasn't important. The important part was writing the lyrics for the songs being performed upcoming school festival performance. Apparently, HTT finally decided they'd wrung out all the mileage they were going to get from Fuwa Fuwa Time. While Mio explored her hitherto-unknown Scottish(*) ancestry (because sheep need lovin' too,) and Azusa declared her undying devotion to Ton-chan . . . Mugi and Yui missed the boat entirely; with Mugi getting her mystery club and light music club activities all mixed up, and Yui bringing in a take-out menu in lieu of lyrics.
Which leads us to the episode's B plot. And the plot is Yui-centric. Normally, this would be a cause to deduct a point from the episode's overall rating; except they did a good job of it this week. Yui's nattering on about eating lots of oranges to avoid catching another cold pays off in comic gold when Ui gets the cold instead. Yui, seeming entirely clueless, calls the girls of HTT over. They rush over in a panic, thinking Yui's caught another cold . . . only to discover that she's messing with their heads.
After the grown-ups put Ui to bed, they leave Yui to care for her (Mio and Azusa also steal her stuffed turtle, the freaks.) After Yui takes a few minutes to puzzle out Ui's kitchen organization; we discover that she's not only a competent cook (or, at least, one possessed of Nagato-level skill-acquisition speed,) but also aware that her carefree existence as a shiftless slacker carried on the shoulders on her overly-devoted (seriously, it's like Ui actively works to keep Yui dumb and lazy) sister won't last forever.
She then pens a bittersweet, multi-layered ballad about what one has to be grateful for and, quite possibly, the end of childhood. Reducing poor Mio to tears ("I'm supposed to be the lyrical visionary of HTT. Me, me meeee!")
Question of the week: Is Yui really as dumb as she looks, or does she just like messing with peoples' heads?
Nine clubs driven to distraction by HTT wanting to rock-and-roll all night, and party every day out of ten.
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