夜桜さんちの大作戦 第2期

###Stitches! * Rin & Ai * Taiyo, Mutsumi, & Ai I love how fast Ai went from being anxious around the Yozakuras to immediately acting as Taiyo and Mutsumi's daughter. They're so into this that they even started fabricating memories about raising Ai as a baby. 😆 The second half with Kyouichirou regressing was great too! At first, you'd think this was just gonna be a gag to show how he used to be so sweet and lovable, but it turns out they wanted to show us Kyouichirou's vulnerable side. That scene where Kyouichirou was just being honest to Taiyo was great. And that final scene! I always love how they make Momo so fucking creepy whenever he shows up.

The Yozakura Family are back! Complete with the girls getting to watch the boys (or basically Taiyo) battle Dr. Wily in a Mecha suit! Taiyo is flexing (maybe unnecessarily) his Blooming and Mutsumi wants this recorded and put on a DVD so she can watch her man in action whenever she wants! And Kyoichiro is still his old Mutsumi loving/Taiyo hating self! The OP is fun and frenetic, featuring the madcap and fun daily life of the Yozakura Family, new characters, their battles with Momo and the Yozakura Legacy, and also naked Mutsumi. Rin comes to the Yozakura Family not just to glomp on Futaba, but to deliver Ai, who after the dissolution of Tanpopo needs a warm and loving home to get her reoriented around people and society. And who better to handle her than the Yozakura family? And Taiyo and Mutusmi take to Ai so much that they basically adopt her as their child and go hardcore parents-mode. They're even acting like they've been raising her since she was a baby! This is the most married couple they've ever acted, so thank goodness Kyoichiro isn't here. There's something funny to me about Mutsumi watching a TV show with a lead actor that she thinks is hot purely out of resemblance to Taiyo. It sounds like the characters' wife is named Mutsu too. But despite all the love and affection Taiyo and Mutsumi have given Ai, deep down she still doesn't think she has a place with the Yozakura's. Her Tanpopo family left her, any kind of family/kinship she's had has ended badly, and she knows deep down the same thing will happen to the Yozakura's if she stays with them. And yet Taiyo is there to save her and reassure her that she has a home. He too lost everything once, but thanks to the Yozakura's he rediscovered what it means to be a family! And maybe they don't need to be strictly a family, maybe they can just be "friends" for now. Plus we've got all the family listening in and wanting to make sure she's okay, showing they all care (also Shion boobs...just, Shion boobs)! Even Kyoichiro even if nobody cares that he's there. Oh snap, it's Smol Kyoichiro! And Mutsumi with a bat the moment she thinks Taiyo is in danger! Count on Nanao to come up with an energy supplement that de-ages you. We could've gotten baby Taiyo (don't get any ideas, Mutsumi) but instead we get Kyoichiro as a young child. And he's now the kind of big brother who can congratulate Mutsumi on growing up into a young woman with a happy marriage, meaning he's also the kind of big brother Mutsumi can unabashedly love. Heck, he's all complimentary and nice to the rest of the family that they can't help themselves! I see that all the young Yozakura have traumatic memories of Yozakura Red Light/Green Light. Taiyo might have won if not for being distracted by his wife. They tried to avoid him finding out, but Kyoichiro pretty quickly realizes that their mom is dead. All he ever wanted to do was protect his family, knowing troubling times were due to come in their future, and even if that meant he had to lose himself to his obsession with protecting them and cause them to resent him...he would do it for their sake. Though TAIYO of all people is there to reassure Kyoichiro of how much the family really treasures and relies on him. Aaaaaand then Kyoichiro is back to normal, back to bullying Taiyo, and Futaba back to hitting him over the head for his nonsense. Status quo restored. Uh oh. Looks like Momo is ready to make his move.