Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

[ Episode 9: Fly to the Fiery Summer Festival! ]

Oh god, the beginning 10 seconds is such a damn freaking tease. Damn you, AIC.

Even more Ayame and Washizu! So finally Washizu understands Ayame’s liking towards the samurai (main character power). He also finally shouts out his love for “Ikaruga-san” but Ayame misreads it and thinks he’s referring to her. Washizu really knows how to keep his confessions clean. In writing or orally, he can’t do it right.

It was really obvious that Washizu and Torigaya’s (BTW, he’s still shrinking) plan would backfire, but the way it did was so stupid. Yeah, why did Torigaya go with multiples of three? Regardless, it set up interesting moments for the respective parties. Yoichi and Ibuki meet the Saginomiya siblings, not aware that it’s them, of course, seeing as how they haven’t even truly met (literally) face to face yet. Incidentally, they do take off their masks for the very first time here. Ukyou turns out to be more bishie than I would’ve imagined, if I did picture him as such in the first place. So apparently he’s in love with Ibuki as well. Perhaps that’s why he wants to kill Yoichi? Ukyou’s sister Sakon looks quite hot herself. Maybe I should pay attention to Yahagi Sayuri now. Elsewhere, Tsubasa and Angie (looking very hot herself in a nekomimi getup) are also participating in the festival.

Things didn’t really go the way Washizu wanted it to be, but in the end, it was nice what he did for Ayame; he did while screwing up, but he still did it. And hey, he got Tsubasa happy, though I couldn’t tell from her freakish costume. So the Saginomiyas set up the Ikarugas and Yoichi to a resort of some sort. Looks like this will be their last trump card to finally win.