hontou ni sou omou?

Swimsuit fanservice and the relentless waves of humourous scenes! Of course, lots of my favourite character: Asa-senpai, you look gorgeous as always!

Already we start with Nerine declining to jump into the pool from the diving board because her breasts adversely affect her balance. And Mayumi does the bubbling equivalent of orz. A real LOL moment for me. In any case, Mayumi has a magnificient arse as displayed when she launched her pre-emptive strike before Itsuki could diss her about her chest. Given she’s not loli, I doubt any of the usual suspects will append D to describe her FC. Poor Mayumi! Though she might get points from the heterochromia fans desu.

Did Primula have this big an appetite in the original series? She’s become a Nagato Speed Eating Machine! These Nagato Emulators seem to popping up all over the place! LOL

BTW nice Gendou impression, Itsuki. Needs MOAR white gloves though. Second time SHUFFLE! has made an Evangelion reference?

Nice follow-up with Rin nosebleeding after a possible Magikano homage.

Hmmm… Itsuki has replaced Kareha with Asa in his Classical Greek version as compared to his Arabian Nights iteration. Speaking of which, I’m slightly disappointed that Kareha and Tsubomi didn’t join in, always funny to imagine Kareha trying to put the moves on Asa. LOL

Quite a contrast. Rin actually wants to know what Asa’s wish is (if she catches the magical wish-granting fish) but regrets asking Kaede.

I just get the feeling that asread enjoys being Kruel to Kaede; in this case, she panics after Rin and Nerine have gone MIA for more than two hours or so. More power to the studio! LOL

What could Rin and Nerine possibly be doing completely naked!?
*dun dun dun*

Could be reading too much into the beautiful eye catch (those Verbana Academy school uniforms are quite something!) but I think it does show how, Earth-friends-wise, the princesses have a different ‘clique’ - Nerine is understandably closer to Asa as she taught her how to cook tamagoyaki and she was the first to ever-so-gently confront Asa over her feelings for Rin. Whereas Sia seems closer to Kaede; afterall, they’ve even kissed - though that was probably Kikyou rather than Sia in the driving seat.

The stress starts to strain Kaede’s self-control… *cue eerie music*

Kaede: ~Every breath you take / Every move you make / Every bond you break / Every step you take / I’ll be watching you ~

I tend to find Sia very irritating because her voice grates on me. Kikyou’s voice is just so much more appealing. But this scene was just so hilarous. Now that she thinks that Rin is doing the full monty with Nerine and Mayumi, she despairs as she’s offered her nekkid self to Rin before but he had refused her. (Though not as nekkid as the Kaede Bed Attack.)

OMFG! Asa-senpai *really* should be Head Wife of Rin’s harem given how well she is able to handle the others (except when Kaede is armed and dangerous).

*cue Empty Pot BGM*

Welcome back to paranoid jealous psycho Krazy Kaede! Yuko Goto does some brilliant work here.

Asa is understandably nervous - like Rin, she’s also been physically attacked by Kaede. Both also shared the distinction of being the only members of the SHUFFLE! cast who have been at the receiving end of Kaede’s Death Note.

Kaede’s slow knocking was really terrifying. I await the inevitable ‘Here’s Johnny!!’ parody. Or changing Kaede’s chopper to Rena’s cleaver and having her go ‘USO-DA!!!’

Jungle Jane Asa also so gorgeous!!

Saber is missing her Excaliber. And the artifact second from the left looks familiar but I can’t recall what it’s supposed to be a reference to…

This scene, with the changed voice and thundering giant steps, brought back many pleasant memories of the Cardcaptor Sakura episode about the Little card.

Despite everything being Rin’s fault this time, the girls show appreciation for his efforts in trying to set things right. And Asa praises them: ‘Minna ii ko wa ne…’ (You’re all such good girls…) Very oneesama and very Head Wife. As expected of Asa-senpai!

Nani playing? LOL

As Omni has pointed out, SHUFFLE! Memories was not really worth watching. Mainly repetition and the story didn’t flow as well either. But I did enjoy all the new material like the new ED/OPs and this episode - might have worked better if the former were packaged as DVD extras and the latter as a standalone OVA.