Friday, July 16, 2010
K-ON!! 15It is the end of school break and the girls are back to school, to prepare for the finals and the school festival as well. A highly enthusiastic Azusa was totally pumped up due to the school festival but the mood dampens when the school marathon comes first. Everyone wasn't anticipating the marathon at all and even though it was just 4-5km, Yui kept whining about why they have to run. Sawa-chan then told them that things could be more fun if they wore her costumes and run at the same time. This time, Mugi brought a wierd looking black jelly for the rest to try and it did tasted funny in Sawa-chan's mouth and it seems that Mugi had made it herself. Ui and Yui then went shopping after school and after browsing through a shoe shop, they see Sawa-chan and are given a ride home. During the ride, Sawa-chan explains that she was going through the entire marathon route and had bought some ingredients with her such as red beans and rice cakes where the students would be given after they finish their marathon. Passing by the marathon route, Sawa-chan tells them about how tempting the cake shops on either side of the road could "take down" some of the runners and also a uphill slope which would demoralise some of them. After reaching home, Ui is puzzled to see a rice cake but temporarily ignores it. Back in school the next day, Yui hopes that when tomorrow comes, it would rain and so as to cancel the marathon. Things didn't go well as weather report announces that it would be a sunny day tomorrow and in order to try her best, she hangs rain dolls upside down outside the house. It obviously didn't work and the marathon begins. Nodoka quickly leaves the girls behind and after Mio thought about how embarassing it would be if she was the last runner, she decides to pick up her pace and goes on ahead. Jun couldn't hold out running with Ui and Azusa and took a short break where Mio catches up with them. Jun was suddenly filled with energy after seeing Mio and ran together with her. Meanwhile, for almost every few metres, Yui would be distracted about the things around her, by cakes, new vending machine drinks and even dogs and Ritsu is surprised to see her attention span being so short. Mio waits for the others however and the girls continue to run. Reaching the uphill slope, Yui was the first to be "taken out" and Mio suggests that they sing while they run and switched to singing in your own head while you run when it was too exhausting for Yui. It didn't work quite well and it was then converted to think of something happy which Mugi backtracks to suggest that they sing and run again. Meanwhile, Mio suddenly had an inspiration for a sound and quickly registers it in her head as they continue running. Reaching the top of the slope, the girls realise that Yui was missing and Sawa-chan and Ui were notified. They were unable to find Yui at all until Ui thinks of a possible place and finally finds her in a grandma's house after she gave Yui a plaster when she fell. The girls were now last in the marathon and as Yui suddenly remembered the rice cake that Ui had discovered and each student is only given one, she then had a burst of energy to rush to the finishing line to get the rice cake. The others were no exception, just that Mio only wanted to not be the last and sprints forward as well. However, at the finishing line, Mio trips and rolls forward, creating a flashy end to the marathon and was totally embarassed about it. However, Sawa-chan wasn't notified that Yui has already been found and continues searching for her in the nearby forest.
what a marathon... singing while running isn't a really good strategy to keep yourself running at all but keeping the rthym in your own head is actually a good way to do it. and really, Yui's attention span is just too short .__. i really wonder how did she manage to get into high school at all... oh well, Mio's new song could debut in their school festival so i'll be looking forward to that :)