Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

A new Haruhi-chan and Churuya-san sneakily appears, and they were actually pretty enjoyable.

Haruhi-chan was about half of what the premiere’s length was, but what lacked in more time made up for in quality. The beginning was really cute and funny when Haruhi was going nuts over having no one come to the clubroom for advice and such. Someone actually did come by, but after opening the door and seeing Haruhi use a desk for physical endurance of some sort, the SOS-dan just lost a potential client. The second half got more interesting as we find Yuki playing an eroge of some sort, alarming Kyon. I don’t judge Yuki’s interests, but that was was unexpected, yet humorous at the same time. Those bunny headphones are quite adorable, though. What’s more, they’re wireless USB headphones! Ryoko’s sudden appearance was random, but for the time she had, I enjoyed it.

On Churuya-san’s side, Ryoko (or more appropriately, Ashakura) makes an appearance here, as well, in the form of Yuki’s back-up, a puppet with exactly the same build as Churuya-san. Ashakura seems to have an affection for Kyon and reacts when she sees Churuya-san with him. I was expecting her to do something out of line, but I guess her “sore muri” phrase was enough. There were a lot of good short segments in this episode. From playing Janken, to the firefighting, to getting blocked searching for smoked cheese on Google… hopefully these two get better and better!

As before, you can always check the episodes out at Kadokawa’s YouTube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/KADOKAWAanime