"Combat waitress" puts me in mind of Ranma 1/2's Ukyo and Shampoo.
... my god, you're right. *just finished the Ranma manga!* Only, not Ukyo so much as Shampoo. But I'll never think of "combat waitress" the same way again!
Before you realize what this episode really is, it's horrid, isn't it? While I was watching it for the first time, I was absolutely horrified that people actually love the series - nay, enjoy it all - until Kyon's narrating became rather transparent and it clicked.
I loved Yuki and Itsuki's dramatic, "plot"-forwarding conversation the best - it vindicated the painful experience of listening to brain-frying anime plot dialogues that make no sense whatsoever.
Oh man, I want a history project like that. We're going to have something like it, but not really - just a preparatory vid for kids coming into the same class next year, but we're free to direct it any way we want as a class. No room for horse-and-cart monologues, unless we come up with something that insane.
"and while we're unable to transition to the next scene, why not have a shot of the sky?"
... my god, you're right. *just finished the Ranma manga!* Only, not Ukyo so much as Shampoo. But I'll never think of "combat waitress" the same way again!
Before you realize what this episode really is, it's horrid, isn't it? While I was watching it for the first time, I was absolutely horrified that people actually love the series - nay, enjoy it all - until Kyon's narrating became rather transparent and it clicked.
I loved Yuki and Itsuki's dramatic, "plot"-forwarding conversation the best - it vindicated the painful experience of listening to brain-frying anime plot dialogues that make no sense whatsoever.
Oh man, I want a history project like that. We're going to have something like it, but not really - just a preparatory vid for kids coming into the same class next year, but we're free to direct it any way we want as a class. No room for horse-and-cart monologues, unless we come up with something that insane.