#mimi inuzuka

And her partner, who I assume is named something-maru.

We start where we left off: with Red Hana on the bridge, making a big show of “killing” Kae. Himawari and Kawaki basically go “nooo” and then Red Hana goes “yeeesss” and burns the bridge. 

The rest of the class shows up because they heard a huge explosion. Kawaki explains that Hana is the assassin and she just killed Kae. We spend nearly five minutes listening to sad music while the kids are in denial and despair. Himawari doesn’t think Kae is really dead because she didn’t see any blood, and Osuka points out that Hana could be planning to use Kae as a hostage.

We cut to the caves and see that, indeed, that is exactly the plan. Hana crouches in front of Kae and villain monologues the whole thing: her double personality, her plan to rescue her boss the minister from jail, and the fact that another accomplice from Bamboo is rolling up with a getaway ship in the morning. But the real Hana-sensei is still in there, crying over the pain Red Hana has caused her students.

Kawaki announces he’s going to rescue Kae. The other kids want to help, but Kawaki says it’s too risky for Academy students to go up against a professional assassin. Eho argues that Hana-sensei taught them that even if they are “weak and clumsy,” they can still make an impact. ... These kids really know how to give out backhanded compliments, don’t they?

They work together to throw a rope across the ravine and crawl across. They then search the woods by shouting Kae’s name, like she’s a lost puppy instead of a kidnapping victim. What follows is a long train of convenient reasons to use teamwork:

They need a more efficient way to search the island. Can’t Harika use her bugs? But no, she’s a student and can only control her hive at a short range.

Sosha to the rescue! She wrote an article about a couple who got stranded on this island, and summoned a passing ship for help. Kawaki has a brilliant realization that they are on an island, and Hana will need to cross water to escape. But where on the coastline would she be?

It would be awfully convenient if Mimi’s dog could sniff Kae’s sent. But apparently when Kikuchiyo hurt his paw, his nose broke too or something, I don’t know. But you know who else has a good nose? Konashi!

Yes, sweets boy actually does something useful. He can smell a drop of sugar from a mile away, so he sniffs his way to a piece of sweets Kae dropped. Kae was using the sweets Konashi gave her earlier to leave a bread crumb trail.

Harika says “I can work with this,” and her hive does the rest of the tracking to the cave. Kawaki tells the class to stay back: tracking his one thing, but fighting an assassin is too dangerous for students. The class asks what makes him so special, and he dramatically shows them his ninja headband and says “I’m a shinobi.” 

(Kawaki, you are a genin, and even then it’s only by technicality.)

Meanwhile, Kae decides she’s done relying on everyone else to save her. She uses Hana’s discarded kunai to saw her bindings free, then sprints out of the cave. Hana confronts her, and Kae bravely fights for her freedom, saying this princess will rescue herself from now on. 

So this episode was mostly about Himawari's teacher Hana, although we got to learn some stuff about the students too.

Contrary to her character design, Hana has no relation to Sai, Yakumo Kurama, or any of the other painting-type shinobi. She's a clumsy wind user who perpetually sounds like she's on helium.

Do you think this was intentional? Or just coincidence 🤔

Also I know Yuina and Ehou are already being set up as Himawari's Teammates but MAN, just imagine Himawari, Harika and Mimi recreating an all Female version of Team 8 with Mirai as their Squad Leader...

We can never have nice things 😔

The Aubrame, the Inuzuka and the "Hyuga" in Himawari's class are all the complete opposite of what Naruto's Generation was lol

Kiba Inuzuka was a Wild Man who dressed liked a Punk and was a loud mouth who liked to start fights

Mimi Inuzuka is shy little girl and dresses in formal clothes with a frickin Suit and NECK TIE lol

Shino Aubrame is quiet, serious, doesn't speak much and everyone always ignores him

Harika Aubrame is playful, social, and makes her self pretty well known to Kawaki lol 😆

As for Hinata and Himawari we already know how different they are from each other lol

Arguably the same thing with Kurenai and Mirai as well lol

Been years, but I finally got around to catching up with Boruto. The fact that I started it as a junior in high school and now I’m ending my junior year of college is wild.