Ringo’s come to visit, gullible potty mouth and all.
What They Say:
An unexpected guest shakes the student council down their core leaving them void of their once blissful ignorance.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Sometimes change can be good for a series if it can shift the dynamic around a bit and Student Council’s Discretion – Level 2 is going to try just that. Ken’s brought himself someone new to the council room, a young woman named Ringo who is just very, very hyper aware of things and is a nervous wreck as she’s introduced to the girls. The main reason for this is that the girl is his sister Ringo that we got to see previously, which hinted at some potential for a pretty amusing shift in the character dynamic. With the girls on the council interested in Ken in different ways, they’ll potentially view her as a real threat. But that doesn’t come up right away, thankfully, and they’re more just interested in playing with her in oh so many ways.
With just a short bit of time being spent there with Ken and the girls, there’s plenty of competition that can come up, but it’s how it unfolds that’s the most amusing. With the way that Ringo expresses herself, coming across with gutter talk in order to say something nice, she can basically say a whole lot of mean things but they’re really well intentioned things. She hits hard with some of what she says and it’s difficult for the girls to reconcile that true meaning of what it is she’s saying to what she’s really saying. Ringo’s ultra cute young nature is also something that just lets it go to the next level as well, especially in the face of all these girls in their school uniforms with mostly serious looks as the time spent together goes on.
The show just gets a little sillier as it goes on and the other side to Ringo’s personality comes to light as we learn that she is very, very gullible. So much so that she even believes that the council president is God based on what she says and becomes very attendant to what she says from there on out. It also gets a little awkwardly complicated when part of what she’s encouraged to do is pursue her brother more, but it’s the whole God aspect in general that does elicit a few chuckes as we see how it all unfolds until Ringo makes her desires plainly true for all to hear. There’s some amusing bits to all of it as it progresses and I’ll admit that after her introduction previously, I really like Ringo and she definitely brings something to the show here that shakes things up in a way that it needed. Not necessarily that it needed a bro-complex character, but just someone to change the dynamic.
In Summary:
With the show focusing heavily on Ringo in this episode, it has a good number of gags that work well. I particularly liked the way her speech patterns make for a lot of obvious misinterpretation since she basically gets to be rude and Ken will explain away the truth of her meaning. That leaves some humorous comments to be made along the way at the expense of others. Similarly, I liked her gullible side that’s played up for a few laughs since she really gets taken advantage of and you see how dim she is in a way as well. Combine all that with her intentions to marry her brother becoming common knowledge among those in the council and it’s just a good amount of chaos that worked better than I thought it would.
Grade: C+
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.