It’s (finally!) Special A episode 4. In this episode, we get to see Kei’s family, including Kei’s troublemaker little brother, Sui. Hikari decides to try to tutor him, but can Hikari do anything about the real reason Sui is causing such problems?
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- Hikari goes to Kei’s house to see his family, which she hasn’t done in quite a while. However, Kei’s father turns out to be a whiny loli-shota who wants to see Hikari’s wrestling moves.
- Hikari then sees Kei’s little brother, Sui, who is basically into a rebellious stage at the moment. Kei and Sui’s father has an idea, though: to get Sui back under control, Hikari will be his tutor. (however, Akira is rather upset that Hikari has to go to Kei’s house every day as a result).
- Hikari soon learns how Sui has driven away his past tutors as he hurls insults at Hikari non-stop. However, this still doesn’t keep Hikari from trying.
- Hikari takes Sui outside the next day since “there is more to learning than what is in books.” Hikari then catches a dragonfly, but Kei shows up having caught three. Hikari sees this as a challenge and she and Kei proceed to fight over who can catch the most, but of course Kei ends up winning.
- Afterwards, Sui yells at Kei, calling him a “robot behind a human face” for being so perfect. Sui says he doesn’t care about doing anything since he wouldn’t be able to beat Kei at it anyway.
- The next day Sui expands on that, telling Hikari that Kei doesn’t care for him, and that his expression never changes no matter what, but Hikari tells him that that isn’t the case. Sui then asks Hikari if she loves Kei, which of course causes Hikari to get all flustered.
- Kei then shows up and tells Hikari to not concern herself with Sui anymore. Sui gets angry and runs away, but Hikari eventually finds him. Sui tries running again, but Hikari grabs him, but as a result ends up hitting her head on a railing really hard.
- Sui decides to carry Hikari home (and Hikari lets him!) until Kei finally catches up to the pair. Kei thanks Sui for bringing Hikari that far, and Sui is happy that Kei praised him.
- The next day, Sui comes to the school and tells Hikari that he thinks he’ll get Kei to tutor him from now on, since he thinks he’ll be more effective. This, of course, horrifes Hikari as she loses to Kei once again…
This is yet another OK, but not great (but not bad) episode. I guess the main things accomplished here are that we see Kei’s family, we have a one-shot problem solved, and finally someone vocally asks the most obvious question: do Kei and Hikari like each other.
However, other than that, it’s largely just more competing between Hikari and Kei which is seriously starting to lose it’s novelty at this point.
About the best thing about this series are the faces Hikari makes, but while funny, that’s hardly enough to carry the show. Other than that, what was funny about this episode? Nothing, really. Not that this was supposed to be a funny episode from start to finish, but I’m trying to figure out the point of this series.
Hopefully it’s more than “Hikari and Kei like each other but won’t say so” and “Kei beats Hikari at everything” because they are both about to wear out their welcome, and we still have 20-something episodes to go.
