OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)A Mokke becomes a zombie and Mitsuba wanders the school.OUR TAKEIt seems we’re still in the lull period as this week’s episode has decided to be split up into two stories! The first, Mokke of the Dead, is basically a comedy short practically straight out of those After School Hanako-Kun episodes that focuses on the bunny looking mascot creatures, the Mokke, getting infected with something resembling a zombie virus and terrorizing the school with it for about ten minutes. I reviewed those shorts back when I had no reference point for the show itself, and if you back and look at those reviews (please don’t), you’ll see I’m basically floundering my way through talking about characters and a world that I have no clue what to talk about. And I don’t really plan to go back and watch them again now that I DO have the reference point, but I suppose my point here is that this feels like a comedy bit as a calm before the storm as the plot starts to ramp back up again. The first two episodes introduced the dilemma of Nene being close to death, the third was about everyone (or rather just Kou) coming to terms with that and thinking on how to possibly save her, and the fourth was Nene meeting the old human Hanako. But it’s time for things to start moving forward, which leads us into……the second half, which focuses on Mitsuba, the current Third Wonder of the school, having obtained that last season when Hanako’s twin brother Tsukasa made him eat the previous Third Wonder, an unnamed bird ghost man. Ya know, I’m starting to think this show is pretty weird. Anyway, this segment mainly focuses on him drifting around the school and reflecting on how he didn’t have many friends in life, and even almost getting exorcised by Teru, the more malicious of the exorcists, but then being saved by his friends, Sakura, Natsuhiko, and Tsukasa. What’s also weird is that the Wikipedia article for the show lists them as antagonists, but I’m struggling to come up with something they’ve done that was all that antagonistic. They sure like to scheme a lot, but it doesn’t seem to lead to anything so…kinda hard to think of them as the big bads, at least for now. They’re definitely up to something, as Tsukasa reveals he’s brought in the previously unseen Fourth Wonder, a girl with glasses, but whatever she’s supposed to be doing here will have to wait until later.
