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Just finished Seitokai no Ichizon. I've gotta catch up with Railgun again.

Seitokai no Ichizon 08:

Also: aluminum hydroxide.

Seitokai no Ichizon 09:
Obviously the weakest in terms of jokes; and for a series with an overdependence on irrelevant parody shoved in for no reason, this can be a very destructive and bad thing.
This series opened up on a Lucky Star parody for a reason: it was like an attempted challenge to Lucky Star in terms of being a school setting slice-of-life with loads of references.

When you add drama to the mix of a series that is really driven by parodying cliches and making references (in this series, most of which aren't even that relevant to the actual situations), you start to realize how weak and poorly written this thing is. The dialogue is written so that you're sitting there and expecting a punchline for most of the series; and honestly, it does amuse me. However, that's not how good dialogue is done. Good dialogue means that the listener wants to hear what these characters have to say, expecting nothing, and letting the words soak into them, amuse them, outrage them, or affect them in some way. This is a major weakness: when they try to break from the loop that they've used the whole time, the viewer is expecting some laughs to pop up on a consistent rate by waiting for the punchline; but when the series tries to take the spotlight off the laughs, you're bound for disaster considering the viewer is bored out of their mind and it's not what they wanted to watch. This is exactly the problem when the episode has a plot about Chizuru meeting up with an old friend from junior high school named Kanade who she lost contact with due to dramadramadrama during middle school and now wanted to make amends about the dramadramadrama from the past. The plot is stale and boring, and in a series that tries to make cheap laughs, this is horribly boring.

On another note, I loved how the action manga Minatsu was reading was an obviously Bleach parody with look-alikes of Ichigo, Orohime, Chad, and Uryu. Nice gags from here were the fortune telling thing and the whole H-games vs. BL thing between HAREM MAN and Mafuyu.

Seitokai no Ichizon 10:
-I can't believe they remembered the whole "MOKYU!~" gag.
-The Endess Eight reference was something interesting and subtle I caught onto.
-Sucks that they were too lazy to show us the play they put on.

Seitokai no Ichizon 11:
I AM THE KAICHOU! I AM KAICHOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU!~
I didn't even laugh during this episode, but this one had a few touching parts to it. This episode, minus Mafuyu confessing, could have been a great way to end the series. In a very vague sense, it would have ended as "HAREM ENDING"!!11!!!!11
Not only that, I liked when they defended Ken against those two guys from his junior high that were talking trash about him, and how that entire sequence was done.
Mafuyu confessing was kind of sudden.

Seitokai no Ichizon 12:
The Rocky theme parody was awesome.
"Your face is too close." reminded me of:

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One of my favorite lines from the episode:

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Holy crap, the fabled Nakameguro really exists. I never would have seen that coming.


Interesting, it seems the animators remembered the point about Mafuyu not usually wearing panties and decided to show a bit of her ass in this scene.

The BL-like sequence was pretty funny too.

I really liked around the last minutes, it really goes into the real character of Ken's relationship with the council and each one of theme and circles around all of the cryptic flashbacks from the episodes; and for that, it was a decent ending, even if it wasn't lolharem ending like this scene from the exact same episode:



But in the end, I'll have to say this about the last episode:


I'd give this a solid 6/10 or 7/10 as a series as a whole.