English Dub Review: TenPuru: No One Can Live on Loneliness “I Just Got a Little Turned On”

Overview

Akagami’s unease around Kagura pushes Mia to force them together. With the temple approaching destitution, Akagami, Mia, and Yuzuki call on the temple parishioners to help them pull through. However, their responses aren’t quite what they expected.


Our Take

Following the kick to the groin Akemitsu develops a Kagura-phobia so Mia decides to make them friends by locking them in the shed for 24 hours. Kagura determines that Akemitsu is too nice to ruin her friendship with Mia by revealing her secrets. After escaping the shed by kicking the door down she decides to focus on having Akemitsu sleep with Mia, in the hope that it’ll solve all her current problems. Tsukuyo has a sex dream about Akemitsu but Kagura deters her by showing her a video of Mia and Akemitsu, convincing Tsukuyo they are dating.

Mia cluelessly confirms she is attracted to Akemitsu, making him her ideal training partner for resisting lewdness, leaving Tsukuyo jealous and angry at Akemitsu. Kurage ends up revealing the video was just Mia and Akemitsu playing Twister. The temple runs out of rice and is forced to ask for tribute; a form of voluntary rent paid by people living on temple-owned land, but no one donates them anything except for one woman who happily donates enough rice for weeks. She remembers how everyone used to offer regular tribute because they respected Yuzuki’s mother Tsukina, but after she left the practice was neglected. Akemitsu is curious as to why Tsukina chose to leave…

Overall, another good episode. While I was weirded out by the rice transaction, Kagura was up to more mischief as she tried to play with Tsukuyo’s feelings with that twister video. It was comical how she ended up being the only one tricked by it. Even her little sister instantly spots the game mat. Tsukuyo slowly coming to terms with her feelings for Akagami is cute. She’s dreaming about him, thinking about him nonstop, etc. She better put some pressure on him before Kagura gets Mia to do it. I think it’s cool that at least one girl in the shrine didn’t fall for Akagami just like that. However, this may change in the future. But with two episodes left, how could they possibly end this?