School camping trip episode consisting of several threads that somehow managed to get weaved together. There’s the Becky-Kurumi group, the search for kappa and missiles by Serizawa and Miyako respectively, Rei’s Chinese cooking and Class Representative Ichijou’s rainmaking. Continue reading ‘Pani Poni Dash! 5′

Becky springs a next-day test surprise on her class. Their overnight study session inevitably becomes a pajama party. We finally get a chara-stats intro to Igarashi-sensei whom I liked immediately because she is a drunk and a disillusioned teacher. Nowhere as wacky as Yukari Tanizaki but seems to have similar emotional scars regarding her profession. Completely unlike Minamo Kurosawa (Nyamo - whom I think is about as badly damaged as Yukari but hides it better most of the time) in terms of characterisation but has got a similar feel in terms of being a character that could be a real person. Continue reading ‘Pani Poni Dash! 4′