Episode 12 – 「A Maid, Even at the Sports Festival」
This episode focuses on light hearted comedy, in line with the rest of this series. The sports festival, and the resulting conflict between the boys and girls (in a friendly way, mind you) leads to most of the hilarious scenes this episode.
Misaki’s demon-like determination to prevent the boys from winning any of their prizes (like the right to play heavy metal music in the morning, or steal a kiss from a girl) makes most of the episode consist of funny confrontations between the two sides.
Of course, as with all of the other arcs in this show, they threw in a slightly serious twist to this episode. The conflict here was that students were laughing at how others were taking the “joke” costume race seriously.
Of course, Misaki and Usui ended that conflict as usual, but I felt that the original premise was a little weak. Unlike other arcs (like Sakura’s crush two episodes ago), the conflict was a little overblown and harder to believe.
Either ways, in the end, this episode was pretty amusing to watch.
Overall Enjoyment: 3.5/5
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