Paniponi Dash! 3

ending illustration (by Makoto #2)

Her name's Watanuki... Hibiki Watanuki. And as part of the student council's information gathering squad, she's set on learning more about Rebecca, James Bond-style.. That odd creature next to her is a character by mangaka Yasuji Tanioka, one of the masters of gag manga.

Over in Saotome's class we're introduced to Suzune Shiratori and Otome Akiyama. And unlike Rebecca's class, the "mob characters" in Saotome's class are all the same girl... And check the drawing on the blackboard -- it's the neko mimi mode Shinkansen! ;)

Back in Class 1-C everybody's waiting for a late Rebecca to show up, especially Himeko. Rebecca finally shows up wearing a hat. Ichijou-san takes it off and... Rebecca's gotten an アホ毛 ahoge just like Himeko's -- of course, Himeko is overjoyed and jumps all over omega kawaii Rebecca. Rebecca grabs a hold of Himeko's ahoge and pulls it out.. and thar she blows. Seems Himeko just isn't the same without her ahoge -- doesn't quite have the maho she used to have :P Interesting stuff going on on the blackboard as usual during all of this, like this one: 「批判する人は多いが実行する人は少ない」 ("There are many who criticize, but few who take action").

Himeko's ahoge is put away for now, but it vanishes when Rebecca comes back for it. So what's a genius to do? Make a new one, of course. With a sample of hair from Himeko, Rebecca creates a new ahoge and uses Mesousa, already the loser in Mesousa vs. The Vending Machine earlier, as a test subject. They don't work (^^;;) Happens that it was actually a hair from Ichijou-san... go figure.

And randomly thrown in, we're introduced to Itou-san and Zoola.

The next day Himeko is back to her omega mahoness as usual, maybe even more maho than before. But whatever happened to Hibiki? A bone falls down from behind the blackboard.... Must've been that stuff Ichijou-san gave her (^^;;) And after the Itou-san credits... Jijii's scary...

So, as usual, random insanity. I don't really get it -- though I did... well, I tried to make an effort to get more of the references this time -- but's it fun. Becky omega kawaii! Guess we won't be seeing any more of Hibiki, though (^^;;)