I’m trying to remember if I even talked about Yasuda-sensei (Kenjiro Tsuda), the main characters’ English teacher. If I did, it still says something that I’m asking myself this question. Yasuda-sensei only appeared in the premiere and the finale of the original series and I was okay with this because frankly, I didn’t find his perverted personality all that funny. Like, he hasn’t done any crimes but the dude should shut up when he talks about high school girls. I’ve noticed that Yasuda-sensei is more prominent in Missing Pieces but I didn’t think he’d get his own stinking episode. But this is Hormiya and this series sometimes waste time on characters I don’t care about so here we are.
Actually, this episode does highlight some of the other faculty members. There’s the chemistry teacher Reiko Terajima (Hana Satou) and the physics teacher Kazuya Nakamine (Kazuyuki Okitsu). Terajima-sensei cameoed all the way back in the original series’ third episode and I know her and Nakamine-sensei briefly appeared in the third episode of Missing Pieces during Sports Day. Maybe they cameoed elsewhere, I don’t know. Regardless, this episode is the first time where they are at all prevalent in the plot. For what it’s worth, Terajima-sensei does have the funniest moment in this episode where she finally chews into Yasuda-sensei on his perverted attitude, to the point that the dude acts “squeaky clean” the next day (if it was a permanent change, it’d be even funnier). Nakamine-sensei is also pretty entertaining with how he keeps losing track of his keys.
It really is Yasuda-sensei that’s the weak link here. The part where he assumes Hori and Sengoku had sex and he wants Hori to take her clothes off to find proof is one of the unfunniest bits I’ve seen in this show and it’s really only salvaged by Terajima-sensei’s intervention. How this guy doesn’t get in deep trouble is really baffling to me. There are a couple of entertaining scenes with him in it but I attribute that less to him and more to the characters I’m actually familiar and/or invested in. It really says something about a character if I’d rather see Iura mug at the “camera” instead.
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