「ようこそドリアンショーへ」 (Youkoso Dorian Shou e)
“Welcome to the Durian Show”
A traveler’s worst nightmare made manifest.
I wasn’t sure how a travel episode would play out. “Shouldn’t they get on with the Antarctica part?”, I thought to myself. But as is always the case with Ishizuka-san and her staff, this episode was a thousand times worth it. Not just because they got to sightsee in Singapore, though that was certainly cool. (Here’s your Merlion, Velvet Scarlantina.) It’s because it all centered on character, and one a conflict with a much more uncertain conclusion than last episode’s, even if the stakes were simultaneously much lower and higher.
Before that, let’s talk about travel. I’ve done a fair bit of international travel, and losing one’s passport? That’s near the top of the list of a first-time traveler’s greatest fears. (Fears that are in any way reasonable, at least.) The more you travel, the more you realize that you can work around these issues and usually everything turn out all right, but the girls are on a tight schedule. This is probably the episode that gripped me with the most outright fear, because, to be stopped from going to Antarctica because of a misplaced passport? What a %
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