Episode 39 -
What a comedy of errors this episode was – worthy of the great bard himself!
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Ginji ends up in the hospital after chasing a rice ball down the side of a building while on assignment. Because of this, Shido was asked to take over the assignment and completed it, which annoys Ban even more. As they bicker, a nurse asks them for help and Ban and Shido think they can use the opportunity to finally settle the question of who’s better. I liked how Hevn complained that they ran off when they should have been there to visit Ginji and then runs off herself after a cute doctor, leaving Himiko alone with Ginji.
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The nurses ask Ban and Shido to get back their personal items which are letters from patients that the head nurse has confiscated and locked in her locker. The guys take the job at no cost to the nurses and will use it to determine who is better, with the loser agreeing to quit the recovery service altogether.
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As Himiko peels an apple for Ginji, Kazuki enters the room and thinks he’s interrupting something. He’s looking for Juubei and as he leaves to find him, he says that they “look good together” which puzzles them. Meanwhile Juubei has gotten caught up in a group physical.
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Ban and Shido need to get the locker key from the head nurse and go after her. Shido turns on his “cat” abilities, but Ban entices him away from the head nurse with a cat toy that he then tosses out a window and Shido chases after it. Ban approaches the head nurse and gets ready to use the Jagan on her, but Shido pops up with a hand mirror, calling it the “secret technique Jagan reflection”. As Ban rolls around the floor in agony and then starts an argument with Shido, the head nurse calls security on them.
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Kazuki is searching for Juubei and an old lady asks him for some assistance, thinking that he’s a nurse. At the physical, Juubei is asked what he does for a living and I loved his deadpan answer – “I work in the limitless fortress guarding MakubeX from harm.”
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Back in Ginji’s room, Himiko is still cutting up fruit for the ever hungry Ginji and he is amused to think that Kazuki may be right in saying that they look good together. Very funny straight-faced responses from Himiko – “you’ve got to be kidding” and “in your dreams recovery boy!” Ginji begins to choke on a piece of melon and Himiko leans over him to help. Of course this is the exact moment that Natsumi enters the room and thinks she sees Himiko about to kiss Ginji. She hurriedly apologizes for interrupting and runs from the room. The look on Himiko’s face was great when she realizes what it must have looked like and calls after Natsumi.
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An annoyed Hevn is stomping down the hall because he found out that the cute doctor was married. She spots Natsumi and asks her what’s wrong. Natsumi tells her about Ginji and Himiko and what they were doing. Ban and Shido are still trying to evade security and end up hiding in trash cans.
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Kazuki is still thought to be a nurse and is helping patients when the head nurse spots him and assumes he is a nurse in training. She drags him out of the room because of his attire, saying that he will set “the wrong example” because he is not wearing a proper uniform. And Juubei has his own troubles. The physical is getting out of hand and he thinks his life is in danger. Poor Kazuki! The head nurse has gotten him into a uniform and there’s nothing he can do about it because the head nurse has taken the key to his locker, telling him to get back to work. He sure makes a pretty nurse though!
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Himiko is in Ginji’s room, taking out her frustrations over the misunderstandings by beating up a stuffed bear. Ginji tries to calm her down and gets the stuffed bear thrown into his face. Hevn and Natsumi head back to Ginji’s room with Hevn saying that Natsumi probably has the wrong idea about what she saw, but Natsumi tries to convince her otherwise. Himiko tells Ginji – he still has the stuffed bear stuck to his face - that he may not mind all the misunderstandings, but she does and is going home. She turns to leave, but Ginji grabs her arm, asking not to be left alone and as Himiko struggles to get her arm free from him, she slips on an apple peel. So, when Hevn and Natsumi open the door, they see Himiko lying in bed with Ginji and both are groaning. Hevn immediately covers Natsumi’s eyes and both of them are blushing. Himiko is finally able to get off Ginji and turns to see Hevn and Natsumi at the door. Hevn tells her to feel free to continue what they were doing while Himiko tries to tell them that they have the wrong impression.
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The nurses are meeting with Ban and Shido and want to know where their letters are when the head nurse catches them all together. She chases the nurses and they tell her that she can have their work lives, but they want their love lives. The head nurse says that the hospital is not the place for a “singles mixer” and continues to chase them. Ban and Shido are watching all this and when the head nurse just misses catching a nurse, she begins to fall down the stairs. Lucky for her, Shido grabs her arm and saves her by pulling her back against his chest. She looks into his eyes, blushes and says that “it’s the first time that I’ve known the warmth of a man’s chest" and snuggles against his “muscular torso”. Ban seizes on the opportunity to take her keys and tells Shido to “keep her company” and runs off. Shido tries to follow him, but the head nurse won’t let him go.
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Ban gets the locker open and grabs the bag of letters, but Shido’s crows come in the window and take it from him, delivering it to Shido, standing just outside the door. Shido tells “snake for brains” that “it ain’t over till it’s over” and Ban calls Shido “monkey boy”. The head nurse is tied to a cabinet, but is gradually making her way down the hall as the other nurses watch her progress and with the head nurse calling Shido her love and telling him to wait for her. Shido runs up to the roof with Ban following close behind. They fight over the bag of letters and it goes flying off the roof. Where are Shido’s crows now? And when the guys turn from the edge of the roof, security is right there!
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Security returns them to Ginji’s room and Hevn apologizes for their behavior. The apology is accepted but they will still have to pay for all the equipment they broke. Ban and Shido start to bicker again and Himiko reminds them that they are there to visit Ginji, so they should be paying attention to him. Hevn and Natsumi remark on her “lovey” attitude. Emishi enters the room in a really good mood with a bunch of flowers and lipstick all over his face. Ginji asks him if something good happened and Emishi says that just as he got there, a bag of letters fell on his head. When he entered the hospital carrying the bag, he says that – “a pack of young nurses grabbed me and showed me their gratitude” – and he even got a few phone numbers. He says that he feels really lucky just as Ban and Shido punch him in the face! As he falls to the floor, he questions what he did to get hit and Ban and Shido say that they didn’t like him “taking the glory for other people’s hard work.”
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Ginji is holding Himiko back from attacking Hevn and Natsumi and she’s still trying to tell them that they have the wrong idea about her and Ginji. Hevn and Natsumi still think that Ginji and Himiko look good as a couple. Kazuki comes in the room to yell at them all for making too much noise and everyone stares at him in his nurse’s uniform in shock! Juubei passes by, strapped to a gurney, but hears Kazuki’s voice and stops. Kazuki asks him what he’s doing on the gurney and Juubei says that the doctor thinks there’s something wrong with his brain, so he is being sent for a cat scan. In a very noble voice, he tells Kazuki that “we shall meet again someday, until then, I bid you farewell”. Ban asks the “thread spinner” if he shouldn’t be taking care of “flying needle boy” “in his hour of need” and teases him about being a nurse and cross dressing. He also insults his techniques as Kazuki just gets madder and madder and then Ban starts in on Emishi – a “wanna be third rate entertainer”. Next it’s Shido’s turn when Ban calls him a “monkey boy" again and lists all his faults before going back to Kazuki – “a cross dressing nurse, who likes to cosplay” - and the room erupts in a full blown fight! Hevn and Natsumi walk down the hall to have tea in the lobby until things settle down.
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Ginji tells everyone to “give it a rest” and ends up flying out the window to land on some power lines. The electricity must have done him some good, because he’s suddenly all better and everyone else decides that they wasted their time in being concerned for him. However, as Ginji tells them all to live an “energetic life” Akabane shows up with a basket of fruit. He says that he was so worried, that he “dropped everything” and rushed to be by Ginji’s side. Ginji faints and ends up back in a room with Akabane feeding a very scared Ginji apple slices. Akabane tells him not to be afraid and to just open up his mouth and say “ah”. But why does Ginji’s “ah” turn into a scream? :laugh:
My favorite’s are definitely Ban, Ginji and Akabane… but really I enjoy all the characters a lot, and I can’t say that of much anime. Even though Ban and Ginji are clearly the anchors of the series, this is still a very fine ensemble cast!
