This is, in my opinion, the best (TV) episode of Maken-Ki! Two yet. Hands down. The nudity potential may be on the low end, but I think I speak for most when I say that Aki has long needed more attention and what better way to do so than by giving her an episode all to herself?
The writers took advantage of this filler format to give us as much soft-service as possible, with quite a few motorboat sessions and even some pervy bathroom antics.
For reasons that aren’t explained in great detail, Takeru gets knocked out by a couple of Agent Smith lookalikes wielding a toy mallet that looks like it came straight out of Popotan. Takeru wakes up on a remote tropical island handcuffed to Aki, who apparently also has no idea how she got there either (did they knock her out too?).
While going to the bathroom would be a challenge, you would think it wouldn’t be all that hard to avoid bathing for a couple days. But Aki would have none of that. To our great disappointment, she wears a swimsuit during the bath scenes, though even in a bathing suit Aki’s service moments are still great fun.
Here’s a photo recap of the more notable scenes from this episode, as well as some speculation as to where we might see changes on blu-ray:
Early in the episode we get a flashback to Aki’s teenage years. I think the pictures are pretty much self-explanatory on this one.
Takeru shows up in nurse Aki’s office with a bleeding noggin. If you’ve watched this show for even a few minutes, you could probably figure out why. No explanation is given- it isn’t needed. While patching Takeru up Aki plunches his face into her immense cleavage. This would be the first of many times over the next 20 minutes that Takeru would get some “innocent” motorboat action. They should have had a counter running in the lower corner.
More motorboating when Takeru wakes up next to Aki.
Moments after realizing they are cuffed, Aki mentions that she has to go to the bathroom. Because of course.
Takeru spends most of this episode engaged in an epic battle to conceal what we assume to be a towering erection. At one point, he slips into fantasy mode- where guess what?- he motorboats the shit out of Aki’s titties. You’d think with all the times he’s motorboated those puppies by now he’d aspire for higher heights.
I’m not sure if they add nipples here, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. The last pic in particular seems semi-promising. And remember that this sequence is in the realm “fantasy”, so they could get pretty raunchy here without making the character’s relationship awkward.
Unable or unwilling to get fully naked, Aki jumps in the shower wearing that ridiculously garish swimsuit from the anime’s first season (you might also remember her wearing something similar in her fanservice special). Of course, we have to assume she’s been wearing this insane swimsuit underneath her clothes this entire time or else she’s have to get naked to put it on, with would destroy the whole point of this swimsuit strategy.
Later on, while still cuffed to Takeru, she clearly changes out of the swimsuit and into new clothes (as proven by the wet T-shirt screenshot below), but that scene is treated like it never happened.
Anyway, during the bathing scene above we are given a nice dose of soft service that pays particular attention to her lower body, both front and back. The last shot appears to be more foreground object censorship, or at least potentially so.
There is good potential to see some nipples added during this scene, especially when Aki reaches up under her left boob and lifts up her swimsuit for some arbitrary reason.
I know a golden opportunity when I see one.
The episode ends with some nice soft service shots just before Takeru gets obliterated by Haruko and Kodama, who somehow knew exactly where to find them.
I’m not expecting this episode to be wildly different on BD, but it was still a very enjoyable episode all the same.
On a random note, I am very impressed by the art level of this production. When going frame by frame fishing for screen shots, it’s often quite striking how good even the in-betweener frames look. Xebec definitely did not cut corners on their animator staff for this one.
