English Dub Review: TenPuru: No One Can Live on Loneliness “Seeing a Turtle Is Good Luck”

Overview

All of the temple residents come together to celebrate Christmas. After gifts are exchanged, accidental intimacy is interrupted by harsh reality. Lurking treachery threatens Akagami’s place at the temple…

Our Take

The girls decide to have a Christmas party but the gift exchange turns lewd when the random gifts include a marriage license, nude photographs and a vibrator. Kagura buys everyone hot spring tickets. Akemitsu and Yuzuki reveal they coincidentally bought each other personal gifts, prayer beads. Kikki interrupts with bad news; Sect Leaders are to inspect the temple and may decline Yuzuki’s promotion if the temple is in a poor state. Yuzuki panics since their temple idol is held together with duct tape. Trying not to think about it everyone visits the hot springs, unaware it includes mixed bathing. Kagura also manipulates the staff to drug Akemitsu with sexual stimulants.

As the girls bathe, Akemitsu is revealed to be trapped nearby, having hidden in a panic after discovering the mixed bathing and now with a drug induced erection. Kagura exposes him as a peeping tom but is frustrated when everyone quickly forgives him, mostly due to their fascination with his erection. Kagura confronts Akemitsu privately, revealing he is interfering with her lifelong goal to turn Mia into the Erotic Queen of the Christoph family. Akemitsu realises Kagura has been manipulating Mia for years in her role as a Baldwin, servants to the Christoph’s. Kagura offers enough money to pay his debts and completely repair the temple, but under a very specific request…

Overall, what started as an episode with the usual hijinx and sex jokes, managed to leave me hooked with quite a cliffhanger. Kagura definitely had deeper motives, but gotta say, I loved her in this episode. Her plan is so ridiculous yet simple. If Kagura’s family is so loyal to Mia’s family, what does say about their friendship?? I think it’s possible she can be redeemed giving this show’s lighthearted nature but damn she is dastardly with that proposition at the end, I’m thinking Akagami takes it initially because it seems like it would be the right thing to do but the other girls wouldn’t just blindly take him leaving so easily and start asking quesitons, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see how it goes down!