Episode 5 - HS




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The con man is quite an interesting character. Of course pretty much everybody in this show has good lines and thus he's no exception as such, but still he has formidable integrity for somebody doing business as petty as selling charms to middle schoolers. Karen's meeting with him also demonstrated how Koyomi was 100% correct about this opinion on the Fire Sister's fight against injustice. In the beginning I thought he was just subjectively talking as a big brother and from the higher place of a real aberration and a minor expert, but after this episode it's quite clear he did really know his sisters. Karen might have been the one invading the con man's base, but just like Kaiki said, she was even too stupid to have achieved that by herself, and consequently Kaiki was in complete control of that confrontation. She was really only playing a hero game.

Other than the more deep aspects of the plot, the classic scene of Araragi's towel falling (why the hell was he even sticking to such a lack of an outfit with Hanekawa still in the house?) and the useless breast grabbing ticket were funny.

I'm looking forward to the beginning of the next ep to see Karen's reaction to the last scene.