English Dub Review: TenPuru: No One Can Live on Loneliness “Jealousy”

Overview

The residents of Mikazuki temple engage in their end-of-year tradition of pounding mochi. Several of them get hot and bothered while dealing with some of the implications of all the pounding going on at the temple…

Our Take

As New Year’s Eve begins, the temple prepares Mochi; Akemitsu and Mia struggle when Kurage points out the lewd symbolism of pounding Mochi. Akemitsu is shocked when Kagura has Mia perform bunny girl penance. Mia almost faints from lewdness. Yuzuki is ready to punish Akemitsu until she realizes bunny penance is not a real thing. Kiki asks Akemitsu once Yuzuki becomes Head Priest, will he become a priest himself, or leave. Everyone visits the Shinto shrine for New Year where Akemitsu decides to compliment every girl on their Yukata.

When he gets to Yuzuki he gets so flustered he accidentally makes an inappropriate request. Kagura has flashbacks involving Mia’s mother making unusual demands for Mia to have sex with a man every three days or she will be returned home, resulting in Kagura making fake photographs but Akemitsu is a problem as Mia is in love with him, and love is taboo to the Christoph’s. Akemitsu rejects Kagura’s money, preferring to help Yuzuki himself. Kagura is infuriated; Mia loves Akemitsu but Akemitsu loves Yuzuki, and if Mia’s heart is broken she may never have sex with anyone. She yells at Akemitsu but realizes that she cares more about Mia than she thought…

Overall, this was quite a crazy episode. Kagura seems like a good person at heart who’s simply looking out for Mia. It may have started as a business relationship but she’s clearly grown to care for her as an older sister of sorts, and just wants her to be happy. Photoshopping pics of dudes next to Mia just to keep her twisted family happy seems like a crazy-ass request, And with the way it ended, the question is, how will they handle their situation with this new realization on Kagura’s end??