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(Nakama-tachi no Yukue - Kyoch no Hina to Momoiro no Taiketsu)"The Friends' Whereabouts! A Cheeper of Giant Birds and a Pink Showdown!"
This must have been the most cringe worthy episode in the entire 454 episodes of One Piece so far.
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(Kaisan Sengen)
"Declaration of Disbandment"
Okay, I clearly have to take back saying Mikado can't to do much as the figurehead of Dollars, because once he sends out a distress message to all members, everyone in the city is suddenly on the same page in rescuing Anri. Cell phone mass e-mails are frightening!
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(Otasuke ni Mairu)
"I've Come to Rescue You"
After deciding to save Matsu on his own last time and making good on it here, Masa has all of a sudden become a samurai beaming with confidence. However, the one thing that everyone can probably live without is his tendency to say whatever's on his mind, especially now that they've learned Yagi is the chief of the local Kitamachi police.
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(Usui Takumi no Himitsu ni Semaru!)
"Press For Usui Takumi's Secret!"
Given the episode title and preview from last time, I admit I was totally led astray into thinking that Usui Takumi has some big secret lifestyle outside of his time at Seika and Maid Latte.
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2H (2-nen H-gumi no Kurisumasu Ibu. Atashi wo Beddo ni Tsuretette )
"Second Year Class H's Christmas Eve. Take Me to Bed "
At last, the long-awaited consensual groping of a girl's breast in anime! Keyword, consensual. For a second to last episode, Yamada sure got down to business with Kosuda -- in Kanejou's own home of all places too.
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Vengeance
Even after the blackmailing with Hagino's blood-stained will last time, it was fairly obvious that wasn't going to be last we would see of Ishihara and Sasaki. However, I wasn't expecting them to come back in full force the very next episode, with a drugged up Ishihara no less.
If you're unfamiliar with ON/OFF, you might be surprised to learn that it's actually a duo comprised of identical twin brothers, Sakamoto Kazuya and Naoya (left-to-right in the video preview picture). Being identical twins, their voices naturally sound the same, making it somewhat difficult to discern that there are actually two vocalists rather than a backtrack sung by the same person. Admittedly, I was quite oblivious about that fact when I first heard their second single "Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi" as the opening theme of Vampire Knight back in 2008. In any case, their third single "Rinne -Rondo-" was subsequently featured as the opening theme of the Vampire Knight Guilty sequel the same year. I took an almost immediate liking to both songs when I first heard them, which made it pretty easy for me to get into the second Durarara ending sequence we have here.
As for the duo itself, they're still a fairly new group having only debuted back in 2007 with the song "Eien no Setsuna", which became the ending theme of the television drama of Fuuma no Kojirou. What's notable about that though is that they both had recurring roles in the show itself as well. For those wondering, Naoya is the slightly older one of the two and while they don't quite look identical in this PV (Kazuya's eyes look bigger), they do a lot more in the profile shots on their official website. The single for Butterfly was released today (6/9) and featured this PV in the limited edition.
Sakura trees with mountains in the background
