Kobato Episode 14

The poison has already gone to his head.....

What the heck was wrong with those sweet potatoes?!?!?!?!

I mean…..welcome to another exciting Kobato episode post. Has it been a week already? Time flies when the post office won’t deliver your package and customers are trying to scam free food out of you. Ah memories.

What was wrong with those sweet potatoes?! X_X

Err….let’s get on with the show. That involves abnormal sweet potatoes and lots of them.





This episode was all anime related. I fear that we are going to have only anime related episodes from now on. Kobato manga chapters come out slower than mud, once a month in most circumstances. So taking into consideration that the artists aren’t drawing the episodes two days before they air….yeah. There isn’t really much left that the anime hasn’t covered yet. I fear there will be more sweet potatoes in our future. And boring little kids.

Hello random farm!

Yomogi Nursery has decided to take a field trip to a potato picking farm. That is located a few blocks away from the nursery. Special. I get that kids go on little trips during school but I have a hard time believing that someone has an entire front yard just growing sweet potatoes in their neighborhood. Because I am cynical. And have no yard in which to grow my own sweet potatoes.

My word is law!

Kobato is exciting about this day, Sayaka is busy being the one paying attention to the kids, and Fujimoto is being the fun police. Random fact: My dad is the President of the Fun Police. Anywhere we go/what we do he manages to be the one to scream the rules at us or remind us that we can’t have any fun. Rules are important but there are nice ways to express them and there is the Fujimoto way. Not that I would carry any of their sweet potatoes anyway. I am a little smarter though and would have limited the potato count to 3/random number. Why am I bagging Fujimoto, I hate kids and have just as much patience as he does. X_X

Putting the health department on speed dial.

Okay. Those potatoes were green. Do you see that picture? Snap those babies in half and they are green. I am not a fan of sweet potatoes but I know they are orange. Not green. I even goggled Japanese sweet potatoes to see if they might be referring to a different kind of vegetable. I found pictures of some that were yellowy and some that were white looking in the middle. NOT GREEN! Run away kids!

NOT YUMMY!

While the kids are picking free green sweet potatoes Fujimoto notices another kid picking off to the side. Because you know how big someone’s front yard is in Japan. It is hard to notice random children stealing green potatoes. And dude it made Fujimoto so mad you would have thought that they were his potatoes. The little hungry kid runs off and everyone looks at Fujimoto like the freak he is.

Get off my lawn!

It really makes no sense on why Fujimoto was making such a huge deal about the few potatoes when Kobato picked 499 of them. X_X I love you Kobato but DUDE. Maybe Kobato thought she was helping by picking that many or she just got carried away. I suppose she didn’t have to take them all like Fujimoto said. The potato farm owner could have said you can keep those and sell the rest herself. But this is a CLAMP universe so that means people really don’t care about money and if they do they are greedy people. How dare you make money off your own stuff you grow in your magical yard. But back to the point not sure why Fujimoto was so UPSET when Kobato picked 15 times as many as random kid did.

Fujimoto is very pleased with this task.

Instead of letting the nice lady who thought she was inviting a few kids to pick potatoes keep her crop Kobato and gang carry them all the way back to the nursery (or maybe the potato lady wanted to unload all her dangerous green potatoes on these kids and helped them cart the poison veggies away). And instead of sending the potatoes home with the mothers of the kids (because it is hard to have a school when all the kids are dead) Sayaka decides that Fujimoto and Kobato will hand out the potatoes! Nothing says like getting to know your neighbors like giving them the runs. Also doesn’t Fujimoto have a job or a test to study for?

Do you really want to get the kid in trouble over poison potatoes?

The purpose of handing out these potatoes is to find that potato stealing kid. Also Kobato has to go with Fujimoto because otherwise people would be too scared of accept food from his happy self. His smiles light up the whole world! But running into the potato stealer was inevitable because he is the friend of the week!

Why aren't you dead?!

For a split second there I thought Keita was going to be interesting. I almost thought he was a ghost. I was like WHOA happy anime is going to show its CLAMPness and give us some actual sadness. Not everything can be as simple as some little kid problems. No this kid wants to go back home and we will find out his mom moved away after he died and that Kobato will help him move on and go to heaven.

Say it ain't so!!!!!!

Then it was all shattered to the ground. Keita has run away from home because his grandfather is mean. He makes him eat his vegetables and go to bed at a decent time. Clearly it is the end of the world.

Yeah I am pretty disappointed in the not so awesome friend of the week. I know this is a feel good, aimed a much younger audience kind of show but lets not go the Shugo Chara route okay? The manga does have some serious moments and topics so lets not water it down into nothing okay?

Clearly this kid suffers....

Putting aside the fact that the friend of the week wasn’t a ghost….BLEH. Running away because your grandfather is strict? And Fujimoto and Kobato….okay Fujimoto didn’t call the parent….okay he did. Well in any event why did they cater to this kid’s stupid wish?! Running away from home should not be encouraged or help. But Fujimoto decided to have a nice moment since he remembers being a little kid away from home and unloved and all that jazz.

The problem was rather simple this week. Not sure how Kobato helped out as the kid figured it out for himself. And Fujimoto was the one who called the grandfather so they could have the emotional reunion. But….Kobato did listen to his problems and that seems to be what she does with most of her candy victims. Keita needed to vent out his problems to hear how stupid this whole thing was.

Way to go grandpa!

And the grandfather did club Keita in the head, like he deserved. So the kid is getting some discipline in his life. All is not lost.

Sorry dude. You never had a chance.

So….this episode had a lot of walking, a side of dumb kid with dumb problem, and cute Kobato being clueless about life. The main purpose of this episode was to show us that Fujimoto isn’t a complete jerk. That way in the next few episodes when Kobato realizes she likes Fujimoto we aren’t all screaming that he is too mean for her and more people support the pairing. The kid and the potatoes were just side dressing.

I think I miss the tree…..