The path to becoming an idol is a lewd one.
Even though the stripping in this episode is minimal it still provides plenty of fanservice in other ways mainly because its a pool episode and by pool I mean The Pool the famous one. Most of the fanservice doesn’t occur until halfway through the episode though so bear with it till then.
Tamotsu sees Niwaka watching an idol on tv that he knows nothing about because he doesn’t follow idols.
Arisa tells him about her and how she has become popular because of her coldness and looks. In other words she is pretty much a kuudere idol. This causes Tamotsu to take interest after looking at her for a bit and becoming an idol otaku.
Dear Stage is actually a real place in Akihabara. Here are pics of the outside and inside which you can see appear in the episode a few times.
Tamotsu now starts to attend the idol’s concerts. Apparently the audience is filled with clones of charlie brown as well.
Matome gets angry over him spending time at concerts instead of going patrolling with her to search for Bugged Ones. (Its not like I wanted to go patrolling with you or anything baka)
When he goes to watch a recording if you listen closely you can hear the original startup sound for GameBoy play when he switches something on.
Have to turn the volume up some but I’m pretty sure I’m not crazy and that is what I am hearing which makes sense considering the nature of this show so that would be an appropriate reference.
Angry over being ignored for an idol Matome leaves to drown her sorrows in burgers.
This is real. There is really a Carl’s Jr in Akihabara. Here are pics of it from the outside and inside which both get replicated in this episode.
Matome eats a bunch of burgers angry over the fact that Tamotsu is spending his time thinking about idols rather than helping stop the Bugged Ones. In other words tsundere gonna tsun.
Tamotsu meanwhile goes to a maid cafe.
More Kati just to remind you that no matter how many times they rerelease Akiba’s Trip 2 she will never get a route added in.
While he is there Kage a friend of his that was mentioned in the first episode arrives and after seeing him listening to music asks him why he isn’t using the best audio equipment and shows him his earbuds convincing him to go buy new ones.
This is the look of a man who has seen some shit. And I don’t blame him considering….
If a store clerk came up to me that looked and talked like that I would shit myself.
After some convincing he buys some new headphones so he can get the best audio when listening to his idol’s songs and spends a large amount for the headphones.
Same girl from last week from Akiba’s Trip Festa! making another cameo.
The two of them talk about how he will now go through some hard times being an audio enthusiast since if you know these types of people they always obsess over the best quality possible driving themselves crazy in the process.
When did this turn into a horror show? Just imagine that guy chasing you laughing with his head doing that.
After doing everything he can for the best quality possible he realizes the only best way to hear idols is to listen to them in person.
After getting a bill for all his expenses he realizes he needs to get another job and goes back to the agency for more work again like in the previous episode. Also that website isn’t real even though that is obvious but I still checked anyway just in case (if I made a show I would purposely put hidden sites in episodes with the contents being naked pics of characters).
Same girl from Akiba’s Trip Festa! from last week is back and gives him some jobs.
Matome takes the others out to go patrolling in place of Tamotsu because of him being busy with idols. Arisa says how much she would like to get discovered and become an idol as well when someone appears to promise them just that.
The woman hands them her card and after seeing who she is Arisa says the woman used to be a famous model that has now become a producer.
She says she sees potential in the three of them and wants to make them an idol trio. While the others don’t want to Arisa does and volunteers all three of them.
Idol training montage time.
Meanwhile Tamotsu is still working.
How slutty that is like a lewd orgy.
Idols have to be trained to shake everyone’s hands. Why has no one ever did a indirect handjob from an idol before? You always hear the indirect kiss joke because of two people drinking from the same cup but the same thing sort of applies to handshakes as well. Just go to one of those expensive handshaking events and right after shaking an idol’s hand run somewhere without touching anything else and then grab your dick. There you go you just got an indirect handjob from an idol (and every other guy that shook her hand before you as well since you now shook the hand of every guy that shook her’s before you did).
Looking in that window I can only assume he is thinking “the business world is just like how my hentai portrays it”.
This episodes cameo of Acquire-chan. Like I said before she is probably going to be hidden in each episode.
Doing all the idol poses and picture things.
People being smart enough to take pictures from underneath to get panty shots.
Showing the world your dick sucking skills is necessary to be a successful idol. Actually its necessary to be successful in anything. How well you can suck a dick will determine how far you get in life.
An advertisment for Akiba’s Trip Festa! on the screen which still has yet to release yet. Funny enough I have actually maxed out all five girls on the preregistration part because of it taking so long. I have literally no reason to play the prereg thing anymore because I have done everything you can. I can’t even do the daily gacha anymore since to get your daily ticket you need to use all 5 of your daily affection points up and I can’t since everyone is maxed out and I can’t give them out.
After everyone is done putting wieners in their mouth they now head to the next place for their idol training.
After finishing his other work he asks if there is anything that pays more since the other jobs are too small. So he is told about a cleaning job at a certain location which he knows right away is The Pool that so many jav are filmed at. She tells him that he might get lucky and see something there while working and he jumps at the chance. Its easy to see why that job would be paying a lot considering what you would be cleaning up. I think even people who do crime scene cleanup wouldn’t take such a job for easy to figure out reasons. “What do you do for a living?” “I clean up semen”
After being told to put on swimsuits Matome says she can’t because of the whole dying if her skin is exposed thing because of her weakness. As a result Arisa comes up with the solution of putting her in a one piece swimsuit instead.
Considering I just randomly guessed with taking screenshots and trying to hope they fit together I got that pretty close. Don’t worry there are proper stitches near the end.
Is that water or a giant pool of semen?
Lolis like to be peed on is what I think they are trying to say.
Kind of a shame that only Arisa got scenes during this part when they were filming.
When Arisa is asked to take her top off she agrees but unfortunately the others stop her from doing it.
I wouldn’t call that a scam I would call that doing God’s work.
After they continue to refuse the two of them then reveal their true forms showing that they are Bugged Ones and that they had planned on controlling Akihabara by using an idol that everyone listened to as a figurehead.
After fighting some of them they tell Niwaka to run so that they can do the fighting.
After failing to escape the men from before try to protect her and when that fails Tamotsu runs to save her since he was there in the room cleaning when this was going on.
After beating her she turns back to normal since she was just a normal Bugged One. He then goes to help Arisa and Matome whom are fighting the leader.
The guy has his priorities right on what to grab off first.
The leader being a high class Bugged One does not turn back to normal but instead dies. Not really deserving of that since all he wanted to do was see some breasts.
The woman from before wakes up completely normal again and saved with no memories of what happened.
As a thank you for saving her she agrees to be their producer for real since she does see potential in them and so they become real idols.
Normally I would think something like this would be self contained to the episode but since they are shown as idols in the OP its possible this will actually be something that carries over into future episodes who knows.
After their idol debut they see that they only got a small amount of fans appearing due to not having enough time to advertise themselves.
Even though they didn’t get a big audience Matome doesn’t care because she got to see how happy it made Tamotsu and him cheering for her. So like I said before tsundere gonna tsundere.
Omake
Drawing from the character designer for episode 3.
Stitches
Some stitches that Sanya made. Click to see the full size one.
So at this point I think we have seen everything that the two previews for the show contained when they were shown months ago. So that would mean everything from this point on would be all new stuff that you can’t predict based on those previous PVs. Like I said last week the OP seems to be showcasing the villains in the order they will appear so looking at that you can tell who will be the boss of the next episode.
I really hope they do a voice acting episode and the girls get recruited to voice act in hentai since that would fit in with the otaku theme of the series. It would be like Koe de Oshigoto and hopefully just as great. Still saddens me that we never got more episodes of that or even better an actual show.
