So Ishigami is a total perv with depressive thoughts, Miyuki is no longer the Love Master but almost a victim of sexual harassment, Fujiwara can’t whistle, and Kaguya has the immature humor of a five-year-old. The Student Council is a special place after all!

Japanese Original Episode Title: 白銀御行は働きたい, かぐや様は入れたい,

Plot

Kashiwagi’s boyfriend is back for more love advice from Miyuki and this time he asks him how he will be able to hold hands with his girlfriend. He adds how self-conscious he is about it, because of his sweaty palms. Miyuki gives him a lot of unreasonable arguments and ends up forcing him to work part-time in order to fulfill his desires. Hearing the conversation once more, Chika and Kaguya burst in and tell them that he should just go for it and that the sweaty palms would be considered as part of the moment’s embarrassment. The next topic that the Student Council has to deal with are club activities and their budget: Ishigami want to cut off the sports clubs’ budgets (football, basket, baseball) just because most of them have girlfriends and the other two just try to make Miyuki join their clubs for completely different reasons. Hell breaks loose when Ishigami starts commenting on their boobs, which ends up with him being brutally beaten up by Chika. Chika loves the way Kaguya laughs and it’s her dream to see her ‘roar with laughter’. After a series of ridiculous events, Kaguya ends up laughing like crazy only by the sound of the world ‘wiener’, which makes the male members of the Student Council misunderstand the whole conversation.

Episode Highlights

The Pyramids of the school: So there is the social standing hierarchy and the club caste pyramids that help students increase their popularity at school. Apparently the more important you are, the higher your chances of being popular, plus joining a sports club can double up your chances. People of no importance social status and with an anime interest are borderline worm level like Ishigami. Harsh.

Ishigami had it coming: You could sense that there was a disturbance in the atmosphere ever since he started being all grumpy about the fact that the football club’s members have girlfriends and he does not. He suggested cutting off their budget just because of that, and as much as I adore his character, he should stop being so salty about it and just try to find a girlfriend himself. When he started talking about Kaguya’s boobs and then Chika’s, I saw their creepy stares coming from miles away. Chika sure showed him what it means to discuss this kind of things when they are around. Well done for that newspaper slap machine, I will start using it as well. HIT THE BRAKES ISHIGAMI!

Chika and Kaguya are nymphos: The last scene of this episode had me dying with laughter (kind of ironic if you think about it). Even though the English translation of their conversation couldn’t truly pass on the marvel of their jokes, the whole situation was just gold material. I don’t know which one was better, the bond between Chika and Kaguya, Kaguya’s laughter, Chika’s immaturity or Miyuki’s and Ishigami’s misunderstanding of everything that was going on. Miyuki left the room feeling violated and Ishigami almost nosebleeded to death outside the Student Council door. ‘Do you have one’?

Themes & Trivia

Palmar hyperhidrosis: Excessive, uncontrollable sweating of the hands or palms is called palmar hyperhidrosis. This medical condition is an extremely stressful, embarrassing, and confidence-wrecking problem. One of the ways to treat it is called iontophoresis. It’s a method that uses a medical device to pass a mild electrical current through water (usually using shallow pans for hands or feet or specific pads for other body areas) and through the skin’s surface.

Dachshund: The dachshund (also known as the sausage dog or wiener dog) is a short-legged, long-bodied, hound-type dog breed. The standard size dachshund was developed to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals, while the miniature dachshund was bred to hunt smaller prey such as rabbits.

Comments

So Kaguya’s maid, Hayasaka, who is also her classmate, is apparently the daughter of a Shinomiya Group Director, so why the hell is she staying at her house and works like her ‘maid’ or whatever? Also, Chika is the daughter of a politician and honestly, when I read that, it didn’t even surprise me one bit.

‘Wouldn’t it be more constructive to have a sweaty forehead from work than sweaty hands’?

Rent a boat and go through a surgery just to hold hands with your girlfriend? Miyuki, you sure are a virgin, darling, but still cute.

NEXT TIME: ‘Kaguya-sama wa Yobasetai’, ‘Shirogane Miyuki wa Makerarenai’, ‘Soshite Ishigami Yū wa Me o Tojita’

Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Winter 2019 | Anime Info | Simulcast