Summary:
The first part of this episode introduces Kagerou Usui. He is the class president of Itoshiki-sensei’s class, but no one notices him, ever. Even in middle school, he would be cut out of pictures or ignored. Because he wanted to be noticed, he became the class president in high school, but he is unneeded because Chiri does most of the work anyway. His name is a play of words off the term, Kage ga Usui, which means overshadowed. Usui (thin, diluted) is also referencing about his hair loss problem. Well, by chance, one day he runs into sensei talking to Kafka and Chiri about being overshadowed, and therefore forgotten. He thinks that sensei is talking to him also. Itoshiki-sensei gives examples of things being overshadowed:

1. Other inns being overshadowed by Hinata Inn (lol I haven’t seen a Love Hina reference in a while)
2. Other Curie family members being overshadowed by Marie Curie
3. Other Shinsengumi members being overshadowed by the famous ones
4. Saiyans vs Krillin
5. Kaere being overshadowed by Chie-sensei’s ridiculous body
6. Turning in a lost 1000 yen bill being overshadowed by turning in a suitcase filled with money to the police
7. and others… idk. there’s ridiculous amounts of kanji that I don’t know.

I know you like how I got all the important parts in this one picture

Well, Kagerou gets mad because Sensei and the others didn’t know he was there the entire time, and no one knows who he is. Even kawaii kawaii Meru-chan responds with a, “How the fuck would I know, retard?!” Well, Kafka comes to a conclusion: there is no way a person that overshadowed could exist, so he must be a spirit elf or sprite (she uses the word yousei: 妖精). Kagerou gets depressed and dissapears.

In the second part of the episode, Itoshiki-sensei is dragged in to class by Chie-sensei. He was late because he wanted to spend more time in summer break. After the traumatizing experience of getting scolded by Chie-sensei, Itoshiki-sensei makes his class go through hinankunren (非難訓練) or criticism training. Sensei realizes that people get stressed out only because they don’t have enough training to deal with criticism. Well, it just so happens that the criticism training instructor was at the door at his class. He goes through Itoshiki-sensei’s class and insults each person for the training. He says that the shampoo Chiri uses smells like cheap gum. Then the instructor makes everyone start yelling, “gum shampoo” to make Chiri pissed. He also calls Harumi (doujinshi writer) a “manga megane” and makes other insults at other girls in the class. When he gets to Kagerou, he skips over him. However, a godly wind blows, and the wind blows Kagerou’s hair to show off his balding scalp. Then, everyone recognizes him and notices him due to his shining bald head. However, Kagerou doesn’t like how everyone just stares at his bald head. He knows that he will be made fun of every day, and Kafka realizes it too. So, Kafka grabs Chie-sensei and tells her to insult Kagerou. Kafka thinks that by having a beautiful woman insult him, and not other classmates, he can get over his bald head. Well, Chie-sensei does insult him, and Kagerou gets depressed. But he also gets heavily turned on by having a beautiful woman treat him badly. He asks for more insulting, and she does. However, after the second set of insults, another wind comes, and blows his hair in over his bald head. He then becomes invisible once again, and everyone’s attention goes to Itoshiki-sensei being kicked by Matarou.

Thoughts:
Overall, this episode was alright. There were certain moments of great lol-ness, but having the entire episode be sort of about Usui Kagerou was getting a little old. In the beginning of the episode when Itoshiki-sensei was giving examples of things being overshadowed by other greater things was quite hilarious. Chie-sensei at the pool was pretty ridiculous. She can’t be Japanese and have those huge boobs. It was awesome when Chiri sadly said, “So, Chie-sensei was a big boobed person, huh?” and Meru shook Chiri’s hand in an alliancing fashion. It reminded me of that one part in the Mahou Sensei Negima manga recently where Anya was getting pwned by all the big boobed girls in Negi’s class, but as she walked into the bath with Yue and Nodoka, she yells, “My friends!!” Ahh, Yue and Nodoka… those guys. jk. No one likes them anyway…

Pechapai (small breasted) is alright, only if the girl is ridiculously awesome. An excellent example would be Nagato Yuki. Kyonyu (big breasted) is usually awesome, unless it’s too big, or the girl is not awesome. Who is a kyonyu but not awesome? Well… Nerine.

This is a nice use of colors

What’s with this show and ridiculous kanji? I mean… damn. I can’t even distinguish some radicals sometimes. Good thing I looked up Hinankunren… I had no idea what that was…

-clazy
“Yay for my 5th grade level Japanese!”