There is something about the fourth episode of series. Gurren Lagann’s 4th episode was done by a different studio, full of crack, and weird animation that most people ended up angry over it.

Nyan Koi! has done the same thing, except that this is just… crack.

I will come right and say this now before I begin my description- I did not like this episode. My words may be biased.

Now-

This episode introduces a new character, Ichinose. In the beginning everyone believed he was in love with Mizuno. After all, he watched her adoringly at track practice and seemed to really like her. So he challenges Junpei. Of course, Junpei ignores this.

Unfortunately for him, Ichinose is persistent and goes to Junpei’s classroom to give him a more direct challenge… but then passes out. Turns out, Ichinose has a cold.

Junpei, Mizuno, and Kana all take him to his house… which looks to be part of the Japanese underground (that’s what the fansub I watched says, they might mean Yakuza.) While there, Junpei meets Ichinose’s cat- a male cat named Josephine and has a giant red bow tied around it’s neck. Josephine instantly recognizes Junpei and asks him to help his master fall in love.

Ichinose’s grandfather leads Junpei to where Ichinose is, where he begins to spazz out asking Junpei for a duel again and freaking out about the lightning. It is there, where Ichinose is revealed to be a woman.

And then she pretty much falls in love with what Junpei says. And that’s pretty much the ending of the episode.

My Thoughts
Like I stated before, I did not like this episode. The animation, while still decent, did a lot of the whole ‘weird anime cliche shit’… like people turning into formless blobs, angry purple smoke, lightning behind them… all the stupid stuff that anime is famous for. It was all complied into this episode and really made me dislike this episode. It was too much of silliness, not enough of plot.

The only part I really liked about this episode was Josephine.

I’ve already explained somewhat of what Kobato is about in a previous entry, so I won’t go back to what this show is about and hop right into what was going on.

Kobato is living in the playground… well, it appears a lot of rain has decided to strike upon poor Kobato. Luckily for her, Sayaka sees her and offers her a place at a friend’s of hers… Chitose… sound familiar? In fact, does she look familiar? She should. Chobits characters abound. Including twin daughters- Chise and Chiho.

Anyways, she ends up living in those apartments and somehow forgets her umbrella the next day, borrowing from a baker at a pastry store. The whole plot of this episode seemed to revolve around this one girl, Mitusumi(or something) and her love/hate relationship with a fellow student… Kobato helps her and gets another candy… and we get an appearance from Kohaku and Shuuichiro of WISH.

My Thoughts
This episode was cute. There were a lot of inconsistencies… for example… in the beginning, Kobato has an umbrella… and then it’s magically gone. She suddenly doesn’t even own one. There were more, but that is the major one.

Either way it was a cute episode and I’m still satisfied.