Hizune and Masotan Episode 3: Masotan is very cute and looks like a dog! What's the secret of her charm? ......

The impact of the first two episodes was so great that I feel like I've cooled down a bit in the third episode. I finally got used to or tolerated the strong personality of Hizune Amakasu. ......I'm ready to run through this story with Hizune Amakasu! I'm ready to run through this story with Himine Amakasu!

The third episode is about the Gifu Air Base training for the air festival. The detailed depiction of flight in this part of the story must have tickled the hearts of military fans. By the way, I am not that familiar with the story, so I can't dig it that much. But I think it's good to be caught up with all sorts of hobbies. Anyway, the part where the heroine Hishine peeled her eyes off because of G was very interesting, because I wondered if they would make the heroine go that far.

In this episode, we see that Hishine is given a TAC name (Tactical nickname given to pilots) and that Masotan is not happy with her because she is attracted to Mr. Moriyama, the former D-pie "Forrest". I should also talk a little about "Masotan is cute" which I have not mentioned so far. The word "forest" makes Masotan react with "Where is it? Masotan's reaction to the word "Forrest" was very cute, like a dog, and his voice was also very cute!　The voice is done by Matsunojo Kanda, a storyteller, not a voice actor. Maybe that's why it was so original to hear a dragon's voice like this. I was also impressed by the sensibility of the director, Higuchi Shinji, who was inspired by him. The fact that he is a storyteller but does not speak is surreal and amusing, but I felt that Masotan's feelings were expressed just by his cries, and although the previous episodes were good, Masotan in episode 3 was especially good.

The final maneuvering flight of the program, in which the pilot tail leader is in charge, is supposed to take the audience by surprise, but engine trouble makes the flight impossible. Since the cause of the problem was the training with OTF, they decided to take the responsibility, and Hishine was to fly alone. At the same time, Mr. Moriyama discovered that Masotan was actually shy. Masotan was so shy at the air festival that Hishine showed her best magicress-like personality to blurt out her inner feelings, and Masotan (heartened?) came back to life. Masotan is (heartened?) revived. The climax of the episode is that Masotan successfully survives the maneuver flight. The scene between Kakiyasu-san and Moriyama-san during the flight was also very good, and the conversation between the two of them was so good that you could smell that they had a past that only they knew about (the acting of Rie Kugimiya and Chiwa Saito was also worth watching). Of course, there was also some foreshadowing mixed in that had something to do with the miko.

Moriyama was asked by Hishine to give her a TAC name, but both his "Forest" and Kakibo's "Persimmon (persimmon tree)" were too easy, so Amakasu decided to go with "Sweet" instead. The final punchline is that Amakasu chose "Hishine" instead of "Sweet". それだけなのにピアノと“ララララーラーラーラー♪”というBGMでウルッと来ちゃうのはなぜだろう。

So, today's comment is, "I know it's a little late to say this, but isn't it bad that the dummy cockpit is unmanned?" (by Soda) ...... I've been thinking that for a long time! So, episode 3 was interesting too.

(by Junichi Tsukagoshi)