Animal Yokochou 26

  
  
Opening #2: "Rabu chu yuu!!" by Ribon Girl - Like the Futago Hime Gyu ED, kids sing the new Aniyoko OP -- trying to appeal to their (supposed) target audience or something? (how about making the actual show appropriate for the target audience first?) -- with similar results. If it were Ami-chan and Kuu-chan singing it would've been perfect ;) Still some nonsense lyrics thrown in there, but it lacks the denpa feel of the previous OP (aryarya koryarya and such). That aside, the animation is excellent, with Ami-chan and Kuu-chan more than a few times cuter than they usually are, mahou shoujo Ami-chan (I've seen that rod somewhere before...) and Kuu-chan, especially. Does this mean we might see a mahou shoujo episode? ;)

  
Ending #2: "Sweetie" by Fumiko Orikasa - Once again excellent animation with an extremely kawaii Ami-chan. Song is okay, I suppose.

Just the A part for this week... Ami-chan and the gang go out to look at a blooming sakura tree on a hill nearby. No Aniyoko-style flower viewing or anything, just a nice picnic... nice tsukkomi by Kenta telling Ami-chan she needs to pretend to be a kid innocently playing with stuffed animals in case someone comes by ;) Of course, since Iyo's there something odd is going to happen... she pulls out a program which includes much teasing of Kenta. Iyo says she has pollen allergies so she can't do anything. Kenta pulls of her mask and she sneezes, knocking all the flower off of the tree. There seems to be one left -- Iyo says that you can do flower viewing even with that one flower that's doing it's best to grow (last week's Tetsunoshin had a similar theme...).

Of course there's a catch -- it's actually a painting of a flower by Yamanami... so now what is Ami-chan going to do since there's no flowers on the tree? Iyo's got a plan -- she plants some seeds which sprout into a sakura tree... that turns out to be a monster. Mahou shoujo Yamanami then makes his entrance. Kimoi to say the least (^^;;) His spell is something else, though...

アニ横アニ横、女児向け女児向け
Aniyoko Aniyoko, jojimuke jojimuke
Aniyoko Aniyoko, is for little girls, is for little girls

I had to pause a bit here since I was laughing so much. I'm sorry, Aniyoko is most definitely not for little girls, and saying that makes it even more obvious that that's the case ;) Ahem... anyways, Yamanami summons another giant tree and the two trees go at it with the one Yamanami summoned winning. Then it chases after Ami-chan and the rest, though it ends up being friendly in the end. Ami-chan and her family were planning to go look at the sakura tree, but now what are they going to do? Well, it turns out that Iyo has a beam that can grow flowers... should've said that first, you know (^^;;)