Cinnamon Ass - Reborn Like a Zombie

Honey and Clover Chapter 5

Takemoto returns home briefly to visit his sick mum and his step-dad, who takes him out for a quick practice of baseball while they catch up and Takemoto muses on his feelings for his parents. In the second half of the episode, Hanamoto-sensei drives Hagu, Takemoto, Yamada and Morita on a trip to a bath house - Mayama ends up turning up late after they're all horribly drunk and Hagu's crying because Yamada insulted her bust size (oh, and Morita runs around with a crab on his head for a while), before Hanamoto-sensei and Mayama end up in the baths together, where their rivalry over Rika is no less diminished.

Mayama was quite blatantly checking out Hanamoto-sensei's package at the end there. Crazy stuff. As usual, it's great stuff, and I'm liking the more dramatic flavour of the series that's developed since the crazy first episode while still leavening it with plenty of humour - this episode was a little on the superfluous side, although it was all very sweet and nice and lovely and all sorts of other insipid adjectives, as normal.

And then the next episode preview made me go nuts and wish it was next week already. "The Past, Tears, and Confession"! Poor Yamada...