we open "in medi res" with meme telling araragi that Hachikuji is a "lost snail," then a timeleap back to a little while earlier from where ep 3 ended.
I don't even know where to start, i just started laughing around the PTA bit, and didn't stop through him giving her money to tell him what the adress was.
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we hit the mystery here about the lost snail... with Hachikuji complaining she can never get home to her mother, and senjougahara being unable to even use GPS to find it. they split up with Senjougahara taking araragi's bike and heading to talk to oshino (who doesn't have a phone), while araragi stays behind with Hachikuji. Senjougahara makes it clear that she refuses to stay behind with the girl and takes off. I love this whole little chain of events. they fly by quickly, but they're well done.
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araragi really has moments where he's a bit of a creeper... i mean the whole "sit closer and i'll buy you icecream" was just wow... weird.. then he reaches out to pat her head i guess... she bites him (i don't blame her, he's a bit touchy feely with her) and he promptly 2 hit kos her for loli-beatdown no.2! he even almost gloats about it again, only to say no... it feels empty.
"there stood a high school boy, who for selfish reasons had twice beaten an elementary school girl unconscious, and had gotten all nihilistically worked up about it.
Actually, that's still me."
then we have hanekawa show up, who, unlike senjougahara takes right away to Hachikuji, but what kills me, is she just watched Araragi beat this little girl down, with 2 punches and she scolds the girl for biting him, and doesn't scold araragi for beating her down so viciously, no, she scolds him for NOT lecturing her on WHY she was beaten down... i don't know why but i find this train of thought both disturbing and hilarious at the same time. she also quickly hits on the idea senjougahara and araragi are dating, it's a pretty cute and short visit for the "class reps of class reps"
this leads us back to the scene the ep started with, with Araragi consulting Oshino, through Senjougahara's cell phone... that whole conversation cracks me up, and the display on araragi's phone is unique enough.
these are 2 entertaining episodes back to back to say the least.