Kokoro Connect Episode 2

Recap: Our slackers find the body swapping events happening with greater frequency. While VP Himeko tries to lay down the ground rules, an unexpected visitor comes to the club.

Our episode starts out with another body swap, this time between the stoic VP and our not-couple. Another switch and Taichi accidentally finds himself going into the wrong bathroom as Yui. After what happened between Taichi during his first switch, Himeko decides to lay down the law. This is where the episode gets weird. An explanation is finally made for the body swapping, but not much. I suppose this kind of phenomenon needed an origin, but being caused by weird space aliens was not the angle I thought this show was going to go for.

After a lot of infodumping and sweet martial arts moves by the alien, Himeko goes back to establishing some rules. What’s next is both hilarious and understandable, no one listens. It’s too natural for them to behave like themselves that to modify their behavior to the situation is difficult.

I like how the body swapping has been handled so far primarily because of things like this. These kids really are acting quite realistically to the situation of being in another body. They don’t take advantage of it. They also don’t remember to maintain the social norms of the body they occupy. With Himeko’s daring play in Taichi’s body at the end, it looks like we’re in store for a real hilarious showdown going into next episode.

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