It’s Special A Episode 3. Hikari still has to do one command that Kei orders her to do due to losing the bet in the last episode, but he only asks Hikari to do something simple: make a bento. But is it really that easy?
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- Hikari demands what Kei’s command to her is, since she lost the bet about the number of moves to win in the last episode. After some thought, Kei decides what horrible action Hikari must take: to make him a bento.
- Hikari starts to make a bento at home, but her mother ejects her from the kitchen due to Hikari causing mass destruction in the kitchen whenever she steps foot in it. As a result, when she gets to school, Hikari asks Akira to use the kitchen there.
- Akira soon learns why Hikari is banned from the kitchen at her house as Hikari soon obliterates the rice while trying to wash it and sticks the resulting soup in the rice cooker, which results in a nice hard mess when it’s done. Hikari tries to fashion in into an onigiri, but it ends up being more like a cannonball.
- In the meantime, Kei is freaking everyone out by being in a good mood while the Student Council President notices that Hikari is cooking and starts hallucinating that she might be cooking for him.
- Hikari fails several more times washing the rice and decides to do some research. She ends up reading about a type of nearly indestructible rice and tries using that. After several attempts, she still can’t seem to get it.
- Akira offers to help, but Hikari tells her that she has to do it on her own. Tadashi then shows up and tells her that all Kei wants is a homemade lunch since he’s never had one before, and whether Hikari did it entirely on her own or not doesn’t really matter. Hikari decides to ask Akira to help her after this and Hikari finally gets finished.
- Hikari is about to give the rice balls to Kei when the Student Council President shows up and grabs them. However, once he takes a bite of one, he drops them and remarks how horrible they are. This crushes Hikari, but Kei says he’ll still eat them, and does, saying that, despite what the president says, they’re good.
It’s quite unfortunate, but this series seems to be going into the tank fast. There wasn’t very much funny in this episode, and the attempts at humor that did exist seemed to come from a set of animators who were high at the time.
I mean, the utter lack of cooking ability (and HOW she is bad at it) is sort of funny, but “I’m horrible at cooking” is about the oldest joke in the book, and it’s hard to get an entire episode out of that one joke.
I think one of the other things which is straining any enjoyment of this series is the utter lack of school life like things going on despite being at school. I mean, I kind of brought it up half-jokingly before, but I mean really: do the members of the Special A ever do school work or go to classes?
I seriously hope this series starts getting better, especially since this is one of the few series that actually looked like it had potential this season. Maybe it will get better - we are only 3 episodes into the series, so we have quite a ways to go, but it’s not off on it’s best foot.
