anime episode summaries

1. Eri-chan asks around whether men like nikujaga or curry better. She even asks a boy she dumps. Harima tells Eri not to play with boys’ feelings. Eri goes grocery shopping for nikujaga ingredients (apparently men like that more, according to her survey). She wants to make dinner for her and her dad. Unfortunately, her dad is flying elsewhere because of work that night so they can’t spend time with each other. It starts to rain. Harima happens to be there with an umbrella and so he and Eri share and he walks her home. Harima tells her he likes curry better.

2. Yakumo-san, sensing Hanai-kun approaching, hides from him. Sarah-chan (Yakumo’s blonde friend from the tea ceremony club) covers for Yakumo. It’s lunch time but Harima-kun and Karasuma-kun are skipping lunch (Harima’s broke). They drink from the fountain to satify their hunger instead. Harima decides he likes Karasuma and asks him whether he likes nikujaga or curry better. Karasuma says curry. Tenma overhears them and decides to make curry obento for Karasuma. Yakumo ends up doing most of the cooking. Next day, Tenma gives Karasuma her curry obento. Harima overhears Tenma’s friends talking about her bringing 2 servings of curry. Harima runs, thinking it’s for him. Tenma, being the klutz that she is, brought two boxes of rice instead. Karasuma turns the rice into onigiri. Harima sees Tenma and Karasuma having lunch together and his eyes ignite.

3. Yakumo goes to 2-C (Tenma’s room) because she got two boxes of curry. Sarah tags along. From the corridor, Yakumo senses Hanai. Hanai tells his male classmates that he’s leaving to see Yakumo. His classmates want to come along, too. Yakumo opens the door and sees the men fighting. She runs back to her class. Back at home, Yakumo asks Tenma whether she had trouble with her obento. Tenma happily replies no.

4. Itoko tells Harima to go to school. She finds him frozen and dejected on his bed. He doesn’t want to go to school. Harima watches an educational children’s show and he learns about optical illusions. He then watches a samurai series and the episode was about the hero letting go of the girl he likes (Harima cries). He then watches a Star Wars rip-off and he sees a scene where the hero (Luke Skywalker look-alike) tells the heroine (Princess Leia look-alike) they’re siblings. Harima then concludes that Tenma and Karasuma are siblings and that everything was a misunderstanding. Itoko then barges in and tells him he has a guest named Ten… Harima runs and discovers it’s Tennouji (the big bald guy who’s always challenging him to a fight). Tennouji beats him up yet Harima won’t fight back. Back at the Tsukamoto residence, Tenma and Yakumo are making onigiri for tommorow’s obento. It starts raining on the badly beat-up Harima.

Hanai-kun, trying to impress Yakumo-san, volunteers his class to clean the swimming pool (he was the class rep). The class ends up playing hockey instead, using their mops as hockey sticks and a bar of soap as puck. Nobody wins the game though since they spend most of the time chasing each other around or fighting or trying to impress the opposite sex (not that interesting of an episode, IMHO).

1. Tenma-chan gets locked up inside the gym’s storage room. She falls asleep and when she wakes up, it was night time already. She gets hungry, finds a pack of bread, and eats it. The bread turns out to be super spicy so she turns on the sprinklers to get water which then gets everything wet, including her clothes. She takes off and hangs her shirt to dry. Then Karasuma-kun, who happened to be sleeping in the same room where Tenma-chan is, wakes up (the spicy bread was actually his). She hugs him in joy, thinking he’s come to save her, but then she realizes she’s shirtless (puni!). In her embarrassment, Tenma jumps off the window (and it’s from the second floor, too!) and runs away crying.

2. Harima learns that Tenma already likes somebody so he becomes paranoid of every guy she comes in contact with. He resolves to beat the crap out of whoever he is, but he is certain that that guy isn’t Karasuma-kun because Harima thinks he’s too weird. ]Then he catches Tenma-chan looking his way affectionately (Karasuma-kun is at his back!) and happily concludes that he’s the guy Tenma likes. Harima then plans to propose but on his way, he gets run over by a truck. He suffers from amnesia and forgets what has happened recently.

3. Tenma-chan visits Harima at the hospital and Harima is overjoyed but nervous as well. Itoko-sensei’s with Harima but leaves him when Tenma arrives. Harima panics but Itoko gives him a communication device (kinda like a mic and receiver) and she coaches him on what to say during his conversation with Tenma. It starts out fine but then Itoko makes him say embarrassing things. Itoko then cuts off the transmission so Harima is left alone. After talking for a while, Harima resolves to propose (again). He tries to hug and tell Tsukamoto he likes her but Tsukamoto has already left him while he was busy thinking, and so the one he gets to hug was Itoko instead.