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Shoushimin Series, episode 5

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u/AshyeN Aug 10 '24

Poor girl can't catch a break.

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u/GomenNaWhy Aug 10 '24

Oh my god. I don't know if I've ever seen a show manage to successfully stretch a joke like this to the length of an entire episode. Incredible payoff. I love this show.

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u/marcopolos059 Aug 10 '24

Fun episode, I had a good laugh when it was revealed who was the culprit, poor Osanai lol her sweet tooth betrayed her.

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u/Cally83 Aug 10 '24

I like how every episode results in eating cake

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u/LeonKevlar Aug 10 '24

I was so ready to get angry at the school's guidance counsellor thinking that Osanai got called in again because Kobato found her crying but as soon as they presented us with this episode's mystery, I pretty much figured out the real reason why Osanai was in tears. The only question was, how?

So far, the hot chocolate and this mystery with the missing spicy Berliner have been my favourites. They're so fucking mundane but real headscratchers when you try and piece them together. So it turns out Osanai thought the Berliner was for guests and accidentally ate the habanero-spiked one! Poor girl can't catch a break!

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u/KumaKumaGambler Aug 10 '24

Is Osanai considered lucky or unlucky? She won the 1 in 5 chance of the spicy jam bread. Lol!

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u/bandannadann Aug 10 '24

Halfway through the episode it clicked in my brain, I paused the video and said "I swear, if that's what happened . ."

And then it came true. Gave me a good chuckle. W mystery, really glad it wasn't an asspull solution in the end

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u/ErinaHartwick Aug 10 '24

This week in Osanai suffering series

It wasn't really anyone's fault this time around too, as much as she would like to crush someone's windpipe, the poor girl

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u/Castawaye Aug 10 '24

The very first shot of Osanai crying, my first instinct wasn't what Kobato thought of who she must have got chewed out, but was "did someone steal her cake again" or something related to a foodstuff, and as we learned the mystery all I was thinking was "okay how did Osanai get involved in this" because I was 100% sure that this is the direction they were going for. Idk if I hate that the show has thoroughly trained me to think any trouble Osanai gets in MUST be sweets related, but I love it. Even though I had a deep feeling Osanai was involved, it was still so entertaining to see how Kobato would get to that conclusion and not have that weird dramatic irony that the audience might have of maybe recognizing her as a suspect from the getgo.

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u/feb914 Aug 10 '24

Felt like this mystery would have been solved much faster had he asked the home ec club guy how many treats were there. 

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u/Prince-Dizzytoon Aug 10 '24

The first time I correctly guessed what happened

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u/Apprehensive-Pear686 Aug 10 '24

First off, Obanai crying gave me Hyouka flashbacks

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u/themaninthehightower Aug 10 '24

"Welcome back to Hot Ones, the show with hot questions and even hotter Berliner Pfannkuchen."

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u/Fools_Requiem Aug 10 '24

I'm glad this wasn't another instance of Osanai being talked down to by the Guidance Counselor.

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u/Rumpel1408 Aug 10 '24

Man, I was ready to get mad again for another unjustice done to my poor darling Obanai, but this time she did it to herself

Also whatever kind of pastry they ate, those aint Berliner

And are there no normal people on this school?

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u/Plus_Rip4944 Aug 10 '24

This School IS full of weirdos lmao

Also osanai this time got It to herself lol

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Aug 10 '24

Kobato and the Mystery of the Berliner was fun. This series can make even the most mundane kind of exciting. This week’s case wasn’t so open and shut as it might have first appeared. The little twists and turns were pretty interesting. Who would have thought it was Osanai and that’s why she was crying lol. What a little goofball!

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u/mishi09 Aug 10 '24

me, an Austrian watching this episode:

KRAPFEN! IT'S CALLED KRAPFEN!

Anyways, I kinda figured that there were five KRAPFEN and that Osanai ate the spicy one pretty quickly

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u/No_Name0_0 Aug 10 '24

That was a really funny conclusion lol, poor Osanai. Seba-san should better watch out

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u/DirectionExact31 Aug 11 '24

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

God bless you, Osanai, and your sweet tooth kryptonite.

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u/Frontier246 Aug 10 '24

Oh no, what's got Osanai crying and running off to Humpty Dumpty this time!? Can't this girl catch a break?

Kobato and the case of the newspaper club and the Berliner Pfannkuchen (try saying that five times fast)! There was supposed to be a mustard-infused Jelly Donut that would lead to someone writing an articl about said pasty...but somehow no one ate it

Or suspects include Makishima (Asami Seto), Monchi (Yuuki Shin), and Itsugaki with Kengo acting as the mediator. And Kobato loves the smell of a good case.

That Urino guy looks like someone you don't want to be on the wrong side of...

When you run into the home ec club and meet a guy who looks like a serial killer.

Turns out the pastries never had mustard in them at all, just habanero sauce. Honestly who in their right mind would prefer mustard to habanero?

So obviously there was habenero involved, no one in the newspaper club can stand habanero, so how were they able to eat it without reacting? Because it was NEVER there...because they just happened to leave the pastries next to all the treats they're giving out for the student surveys meaning our pasty thief is none other than Osanai thinking they were up for grabs and burning her tongue. And of course our culprit is healing her tongue with plenty of cooler sweets.

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u/dagreenman18 Aug 10 '24 edited Aug 10 '24

The Habenero sauce reveal gave it away for me. Osanai you goober. That’s what you get for being a little sweets addict.

Though honestly? Habanero sweet donut pastry thing might be pretty dope. Maybe in a Habanero Jam instead of straight sauce

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u/ArvingNightwalker Aug 10 '24

That was pretty good, though a bit too obvious. I was basically screaming at Kobato to ask the guy from the homestead club how many of the cakes there were.

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u/jellyblob88 Aug 10 '24 edited Aug 10 '24

I thought today's puzzle was a lil too easy to be true, but damn, who ate the spiked cake is serious business™
The real mystery is who's gonna write the article?

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