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:: Episode 13: Return of the Log
   Natsutai Kaishi (Beginning of the Summer Tournament)

Summary


Nishiura is in the middle of their practice when a practically dying Shinooka staggers onto the scene. She's done collecting Tosei's data, and boy, did THAT require a lot of hard work! Momoe wants to go research the data with Hanai and Abe, but first, Mihashi wants to show Abe something. He whips out the log from episode two, and poses on top of it with no problem! Abe is determined to make Mihashi famous. The following evening, Mrs. Mihashi and Mrs. Hanai have lots of fun being annoying chatty housewives while Mihashi practically passes out.


Opening ceremony tiiiiime! The teams are gathered outside, and start marching into the stadium one by one, yelling "ONE TWO, ONE TWO" repeatedly. It is apparently a very amazing and touching sight to behold! After the seemingly pointless ceremony, the teams go back outside, where Momoe meets up with her team as well as Mihashi and Hanai's mothers. She sends the team off, and has a typical mother conversation with Mrs. Hanai and Mrs. Mihashi.


The following evening, Hamada introduces Nishiura to two of his nerdy friends who will join his cheering squad, Kajiyama and Umehara. Like most nerds, they were really nervous to meet so many sports players, but since this is Nishiura we're talking about, nobody beat each other up. We learn that Hamada has elbow problems due to throwing so much - he really is a baseball person after all! Umehara and Kajiyama hint that maybe there's more to Hamada's being held back a year than plain ol' stupidity.
MEANWHILE, Abe is desperately trying to make Mihashi memorize some of Tosei's data, while Tosei has a heartwarming moment of their own. Their match is right around the corner!


Best parts

  • The little Tajima and Mihashi moment with Tajima redrawing the one on Mihashi's back. THEY'RE SOOO CUUUTE!!!
  • Izumi and Sakaeguchi being dorky before the opening ceremony!
  • Aoi and Ryo sounded SO awesomely goofy when they called Mihashi noisy almost at the same time.
  • Hanai's interaction with his ma.
  • Hamada's nerdy friends!! YAY!!!


    Redrawn scenes

    This is the first episode with Aya Kano (written with different kanji letters from Kano the Oofuri character, just FYI) as the art supervisor! She just so happens to be the best supervisor behind the scenes of Oofuri. Seriously, marvel at this episode! All the changes made were minor and insignificant.


    Mirrored!


    The mysterious number ZERO!


    Momoe's front hair was shortened for this entire scene! I'll only show one picture of it to avoid reduncancy.


    A zoom-in, a reposition, AND a flip?


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