Update: just noticed that Robo-Ho's last name is "Agatsuma" = 我妻 = "My Wife". Subtle!

Clueless Crafter, episode 5

You know the drill: something amazing happens that turns out to be Our Clueless Hero’s work, and when asked about it, he says, “oh, that used to happen all the time in my home town”. Other than that, there are three things of note about this episode:

First, Our Hot-But-Evil Priestess meets up with Cardinal Goldfinger and gets handed over to a demon to participate in the latest assassination attempt against Princess Goofy Eyeballs. Second, Kurt forges a shortsword for Princess that you just know is going to go off next week and do something ridiculous. Third, there’s no sign of Our Mysterious Bandana And Her Watchful Bandana; guess she really did leave town to go report to his home village at a “what could go wrong” dramatic moment.

Verdict: I’m guessing the skeleton army came out of the Princess-face-drawing budget, because she looked really horrific in the close-ups.

(unrelated princess is unrelated, not deformed)

Robo-Ho, episode 4

“Normally I wear protection. But then I thought, when am I going to make it back to Haiti?” (classical reference)

This week, after Our Observant Hero wakes up with an obvious stiffy, Our Loosely-Coupled Robo Gal asks to take a peek. Rejected, she heads out to pick up a loaner school uniform from a friend, dragging him along. She initially plans to go out in just her “body paint”, until he manages to talk her into actual clothing. His, which inexplicably fit, although they’re much more flattering on her.

Convinced that it would be too suspicious for him to be seen in public with her, he tries to disguise himself and ends up looking and acting like a stalker. Compounding his bad idea, she decides that while waiting for her friend to show up, she’ll test how well her repairs are holding up. They don’t, and just as the friend arrives, he carries her off to the nearest private place to make repairs, which of course results in dialogue written to be misinterpreted as she comes to the rescue. We even get a “wrong hole” joke, despite the clear evidence that there’s only one place to stick the leg joint.

Given the fact that Gal’s Pal is running around with a stun-gun in the credits, this is clearly not the last time there will be such a “misunderstanding”.

Verdict: trash and proud of it.

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