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Coffee-tachi 19-20

In which a tentacle monster drips pearlescent slime on a Japanese school girl. Yep, that happened this week.

So yeah, fell behind again. Last week kinda got away from me and then I spent the whole weekend watching Evo. I'll catch up again, though. Always do.

Except for when we were doing Magiranger, but screw Magiranger.

Anyway, these two episodes properly introduced Sakurai Yuuto and the best Imagin ever, Deneb. I'd forgotten how fun they were right from the start. Yuichi Nakamura, who played Yuuto, had also very infamously joined the cast of Kamen Rider Hibiki just a couple years earlier. His character, Kiriya, was brought in because new writer Toshiki Inoue can't fathom a show that doesn't have an unlikable douchebag whose sole raison d'etre is to make the lives of everyone around him more miserable. It's really fun, therefore, to see Yuuto try to act all cool and dickish around Ryotaro, only to revert to being a sullen, immature brat when it's just him and Deneb. Nakamura's casting for Den-O was met with a lot of hostility at first, but it's really easy to see why that opinion changed so quickly.

Watching these episodes, especially the end of #20, really makes me wonder again what the writers' original plans were for Hana. There are a lot of times when it seems that she and Ryotaro might have had some romantic chemistry before, well... the stuff we'll be seeing in a couple weeks happened.

Stargazing flashback count: 4