Anime Infatuation

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Loved this episode, best so far! We finally meet the doggy character and see Akihiko’s hilarious delusions about being a Star Ranger.

Miki is given instructions to take her delivery outside the gate and shout towards the house. However, she sees a doorbell and walks through the front garden and encounters…a great monster!

The ramen is ruined, and Megumi overhears Miki explaining what happened to her mother. Megumi forms a plan, she must befriend this person!

She follows Miki to the house and discovers it is not a man but a dog that makes Miki fight so seriously!

Every time Miki tries to defeat him the ramen gets ruined, the more the ramen gets ruined, the angrier her mother becomes!

Can Miki ever defeat him?

Meanwhile Akihiko is watching Star Rangers; it’s pretty funny seeing him 30cm away from the TV, he’s clearly obsessed! He really wants to be a Power Ranger Star Ranger! His opportunity arises the next day when a distressed little girl says she has lost Toshiyuki, it reminds him of a scene in Star Rangers and he cannot resist!

All the characters get labeled as a Star Ranger colour…whether they like it or not!

Poor Akihiko (Red!) doesn’t realize Toshiyuki is none other than the fearsome dog!

Yes Muteki Kanban Musume is pretty silly, but I loved the Star Ranger obsession, it made me giggle, and the little dig at Kankuro for not remembering his name was a good continuation of the joke! The music at the start of the episode introducing the purple cloud of the ‘evil thing’ was great too. I’m still enjoying the manic toothy faces of Megumi and Miki as well, even her mother seems funnier now.

I was hoping being able to read this at a faster pace, and that a manga style would appeal to me more. I was rewarded, not only with beautiful character design, but a change in the storyline which made it much more palatable and realistic to me.
Firstly there was no hint of the Ayano character, so you don’t get the pointless character intro at her shop, or Haruma choosing a present for her.

You don’t get to see how much Haruma is paying out for Choko so you don’t feel she is leeching off his compute/air con money, but you also don’t get that cute moment where he’s selfless and enjoys seeing her happy. Well not spoken:

The change that made me happy was the separation plot. Instead of Choko wandering after a balloon and teddies like a ditzy little girl she wanders off with two thugs. It seemed more reasonable and forgivable that she’d get targetted by bad guys rather than wander off on her own.

When Haruma realises what is happening and yells at her to run away, she doesn’t start crying. As Haruma is getting beaten up for her (!) she pretends she is ushering over a policeman to scare away the thugs. I like the fact that she comes across as more intelligent.

Even better he doesn’t give her a gift to stop her crying, so I don’t feel annoyed, and the kiss is no longer for a gift - it’s to make his wounds feel better, and it’s much sweeter. I prefer this kiss picture.

I guess the main advantage of the anime is that you see her enjoy the snow and see a wider range of facial expressions but she is much cuter in the manga.

So yes, this is an enjoyable read, so I’ll go and read some more. :)