Let us talk of the love between Pear and Chestnut.
Class 2-4 are once again on a field trip, this time to a pick your own pears farm. The characters actually comment on the disproportionate number of field trips they seem to take the school. They also all sing the theme song on the bus. WHICH IS EXCELLENT. Cast singalongs are always awesome and if they are not quite in tune, all the better. Makes it seem more natural that way.
So anyway, at this farm are Kuriko and Chojuro. Chojuro is a pear who is love with Kuriko, a chestnut of a tree the other side of the gulch there respective trees are adjacent to. Kuriko is knocked off her tree when Ten flies into her during a fight with Ataru. Chojuro is distraught, but then Lum picks him, and throws him at Ataru’s head when she sees Ataru flirting.
This leads to Chojuro being embedded in Ataru’s head and he is able to control Ataru’s body. Meanwhile Kuriko has done the same with Ten’s body, and the pair try and embrace, much to Ten and Ataru’s annoyance. Lum of course mistakes this show of affection for Ataru and Ten finally getting along, until Kuriko is knocked off Ten’s head. Lum then considered putting Kuriko on her own head so she can kiss Ataru, however Ataru has other plans and snatches it away, intent on putting Kuriko on other girls.
First it ends up on Sakura, however she can overcome Kuriko’s control. Then it ends up on Megane’s head. Then Ryuu’s. Then Kotatsu Neko’s head, he however doesn’t seem effect and throws Kuriko away, causing her to land on Mendou’s head. Of course. With Ataru and Mendou refusing to embrace, Chojuro and Kuriko ask if there is no couple in love amongst the field trip.
To which Sakura utters perhaps the truest statement of the series and replies to the lovelorn fruit that no-one present is capable of a true relationship. Then Lum points out that the Chojuro and Kimiko could just snuggle together without needed to be on two different people’s heads.
And so we end with the class back at school and Ataru with both Chojuro and Kimiko living on his head…
Like the Kitsune episode, this maybe as near perfect as the UY TV
show gets. And once again Yuichi Endo is the animation director. So
hooray for Yuichi Endo.
Not only is Yuichi Endo neat, scriptwriter Shigeru Yanagawa is too. This is fantastically written episode from top to bottom. So far 2 for 2 on funny, funny scripts from Yanagawa. All round great episode.
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Screenplay: Shigeru Yanagawa
Storyboard: Naoyuki Yoshinaga
Director: Naoyuki Yoshinaga
Animation Director: Yuichi Endo