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        This episode begins at Flawless with Kisaragi apparently doing battle with a Tayutai, she tries her best but she can’t seem to do it any harm. When the Tayutai has Kisaragi in a helpless position it starts laughing at her and just goes away on it’s own. Then get a skit between Ameri and Mashiro involving panties, it seems that Mashiro never figured out that panties are a integral part of modern girl’s clothing, and Ameri asks Mashiro if it was breezy in her school uniform? Finally, after much stress on Ameri’s part, Mashiro agrees to wear panties, and Ameri will even loan Mashiro a pair of her own. A little while later, Yuuri walks in on Mashiro’s and Ameri’s’ panty session, and he gets the once over from Ameri.  Yuuri gets all hot and bothered from listening to the two girl discuss panties when they get a visitor to the house, Kisaragi.

       Kisaragi takes Mashiro to flawless where she shows her the aftermath of the battle with the Tayutai, Mashiro tells her that it was one of the three strongest and that normal humans can’t beat it. Kisaragi gets even more upset when she finds out from Mashiro that they’ll need Yuuri’s spiritual powers to defeat it because Flawless has always protected itself. Kisaragi doesn’t like the idea that Yuuri’s long linage means something, she isn’t ready to buy the idea that inherited traits and experiences mean more than work (?). Later Kisaragi stops at Yuuri’s house to see him, and she watches him maintain and repair his  motorcycle, Kisaragi makes asks him some rude questions and she gets chewed out by Ameri and Yuuri asks her to leave. Later, as Kisaragi is taking the train back to Flawless, she thinks that she may have judged Yuuri without really knowing anything about him.

       The next night, Flawless is infiltrated by the same Tayutai from before, and it places some spider-like mini-demons around the school and it also looks like it’s been stealing some of the student’s panties. The next day we see that Kisaragi and Yumina are observing Mashiro and Yuuri training, but it seems that she doesn’t ask them for their help. Later, we see Kisaragi standing before Flawless’s student body talking about how they’re going to police the grounds. Then we see that Kisaragi has brought Mashiro and Yuuri (dressed as a girl) to the school’s grounds, while the students are posted all over the campus, Mashiro and Yuuri-ko go inside to do a sweep of the dorms. Mashiro and Yuuri soon encounter Nue (one of the big three), Nue says that they walked right into her trap, and she begins to attack Mashiro. Poor Mashiro is soon getting the tentacle treatment (nothing goes better with panties than tentacles) from Nue, Yuuri wants to help her but Kisaragi asked him to hide his powers until she gives a signal.

      When Kisaragi gives the attack signal, all the girls begin to kill those little spiders that Nue placed all over the school’s grounds, and thoose attacks seem to weaken Nue so Mashiro is released from Nue’s tentacles. Kisaragi shows up and tells Nue that she can sense Tayutai and their powers to some extent, and she tells Nue that she knew it was a trap and setup one of her own traps for Nue. Kisaragi uses the school sprinkles to neutralize Nue’s lighting attacks, Mashiro uses her spiritual power to trap Nue inside the building, Kisaragi uses her sword to wound Nue, and Yuuri uses a punch laced with his powers to finish her of. When Nue vanishes, a small Tayutai that looks like a human girl appears, Mashiro says that’s Nue’s true form. Nue stole the panties from the students because they look cute and she wanted to try them on, and we find out that she took her other form to keep from being bullied by humans or Tayutai. Kisaragi makes her a deal, if Nue follows the rules she’ll protect her if anyone tries to hurt or bully her.

        Nue doesn’t believe that humans will keep their promises, so Kisaragi makes a bet with her, if Kisaragi keeps her promise for three days then they have a deal. Later, at Yuuri’s house, we see Mashiro, Nue, Yumina, and Ameri going through the panty selection process, Nue likes the red lacy ones, Yumina likes a pair that’s white with a bear picture on it (WTH, is that what I think it is?) which Nue calls childish. Soon, Mashiro and Nue are in a shouting match about which panties are more daring, and how she’s gonna show them to Yuuri for his approval. Yuuri’s father magically appears in the room and he begins to give his opinion on which type of panties turn men into animals. The whole time this is going on, Yuuri and Kisaragi are outside the door listening to the whole thing, Yuuri is getting very excited about the panty talk until he figures out that his father is in the room and he goes off. Kisaragi calms him down by talking to him about his motorcycle, and soon Mashiro and Nue are chasing each other around the room like little kids. Well, that’s all for this episode.

        Well, I really enjoyed this episode compared to episode 3, which I felt wasted a lot of time on nothing, but this episode hit all the right harem buttons for me. Firstly, this episode had plenty of ecchi humor, I love how shocked Ameri was over Mashiro’s lack of panty usage, it was to be expected that Yuuri and his father might forget to explain a little detail like panty usage to a teenaged girl, or maybe it’s a secret desire to keep all the female visitors to the Mito household nice and breezy. And speaking of panties, I assume that all those panties are Ameri’s, if so, she sure has hell has a lot of panties. If I was Yuuri, I would make a game out of trying to guess what type of panty she’s wearing that day,  like Kusanagi from Blue Seed does with Momiji. I slso liked how Yuuri got all hot and bothered every time he listened in on all the panty talk, I find this reaction more normal than his reaction to Mashiro’s offers of sex. I also found myself liking Kisaragi more this episode, while she still shows an exterior image of aloofness, she now comes off as more human and likable. One thing I still find annoying is the whole idea of the elite Flawless school, are all those girls students or prisoners, and what’s the point of keeping them locked up like that, are they trying to protect their virginity or turn them into yuri friends? I would love to see a guy stroll naked through the center of their campus, kind of like Akira’s scene in the first episode of Eden of the East, that would raise some interesting questions. This episode also introducted a true loli characther into mix, at first I thought that Yuuri step-sister Yumina was going to fill that role, but it looks like Nue is going to be the lolicon bait (even though she’s very old, she’s still is a loli at heart).

        Well, it looks like the harem collective is now complete; we have the girl next door, the girl of destiny, the imouto girl, the loli girl, and the serious and quiet girl, so all we have to do is sit back and watch as each girl peddles her wares to Yuuri. As long as Tayutama keeps up the humor level and the action level of episode 4 I think that it’ll be alright.

       This episode begins with Yui walking in on Ritsu who’s looking at a photo album of the school’s last Light Music Club, Ritsu wonders what era it’s from, and Yui wonders if this is how a band should look? A while later, Yui is having a problem with the skin peeling off one of her fingers and this sets Mio off, and of course Ritsu only continues to push Mio’s buttons. The school’s young music teacher sees that Yui is having problems and she treats Yui’s finger, when Yui asks her if she plays the guitar, she says some of her friends did. Mugi sees Yui and the teacher interacting and it looks like she’s taking a interest in, or a liking to the teacher.

       Later, the girls find out from Mugi that their application to use the stage during the cultural festival was turned down because they’re not an official club. So, the girls go to see Nodoka, and they find out that she doesn’t have a copy of their application form in the school’s official club book even though they claim it was turned in. But, in the end, Ritsu screwed up and never turned in the form. So, Nodoka helps them fill out a new application, but they have a small problem, they need an advisor for their club. Yui and the girls immediately think of the school’s young music teacher that helped Yui, Yamanaka Sawako.

       When they go to ask Sawako to be their advisor, she says she can’t do it because she’s already advising the woodwind club, so they resort to blackmail. Sawako was in the old Light Music Club, and that they have pictures of her from her high school days.  Sawako makes a mad dash to get to the photo album before the girls can return to the clubroom, but she finds out that she’s too late because Ritsu has already removed the photo. As Sawako begins to do a Mio-like zone out Yui puts her guitar in Sawako’s hands, and Sawako falls back into her “death devil” mode and rocks the guitar in so many ways that it scares Mio. Then we her Sawako’s story, she became a wild child because a guy who turned her down because she wasn’t wild enough for him, thus the “death devil” was born.

         Well, Sawako listens to them play and she says that they sound messy and she asks who the vocalist is and what the lyrics are? So, that evening Mio sits down and begins song writing, but she at a loss until she gets a text from Mugi about Sawako. Mio gets inspired and begins writing the song when she thinks about the idea of Mugi having a girl crush on Sawako. Well, when Mio brings the song to the club she won’t show them the lyrics until Sawako has to snatch them from her. After hearing the lyrics, Yui likes them, Mugi is too busy girl crushing to notice, and Ritsu doesn’t know if they’ll work. When they asks Sawako what she thinks of the song, she thinks to herself that the lyrics are too light and fluffy, but she also thinks that if she says that she likes these light and upbeat lyrics it’ll raise her standing, so she says she likes them.

       Then it comes down to who will sing them? Mio doesn’t want too, Mugi says her hands are full with the keyboards, Ritsu says she’s too busy with the drums to sing, so it looks like Yui wants to give it a try, but she tries to play it off like she doesn’t want to even though she really does. But, we see that Yui can’t sing and play the guitar at the same time, so Sawako decides to give her some special training. Once all that is taken care of, Nodoka tells them that she’ll schedule their debut at the cultural festival. When Yui returns with Sawako after a week of special training, her guitar sounds great but she lost her voice from practicing too much, and the singing job is given to Mio, oh my. Well, that’s all for this episode.

       Well, I was wondering when the whole issue of who was going to be the singer for the band was going to come up, It seems that the girls were just too busy practicing and eating goodies to worry about a little thing like lyrics and a singer. I was also wondering if the Light Music Club was going to be one of the few clubs in anime to not have an adviser, it just seemed so out of place. But, the real kicker in this episode was Mugi showing a girl crush and maybe some Yuri tendencies towards Sawako, but it shouldn’t have really surprised me that she picked Sawako, who on the exterior is kind of just like Mugi, gentle, refined, and soft spoken. But, Mugi better watch out because Sawako’s slightly Yandere tendencies might be more than our poor innocent Mugi can handle.

       But, I think that Sawako’s main job in the series will be to make the girls get off their asses and spend more time practicing and less time drinking tea. After Sawako spends only one week working with Yui we can see that her guitar skills are greatly improved, her music has more energy and force, plus she sounds much tighter in her guitar playing. What will be interesting is watching Sawako changing between her cute and pure school teacher routine and her inner death metal rocker bitch, yea let the dark side out. I also think that she’ll be the one that will unlock Mio’s inner temptress for her stage persona. Well, at least this episode answered the question of whether this anime would end with the girl’s cultural festival performance, there’s no why that they can drag out the three remaining  days before the festival to take up the rest of the series, so it looks like there’s gonna be more light music after the cultural festival is long over.