You've been slacking off since the beginning! Don't you have any pride as club members?! This is so sad, right when the club just started… and it's the Deer Club. If they find out we're a bunch of slackers… we'll lose resources! And my reputation in the student council will hit rockbottom!
Koshi, about the Deer Club
"Bashame Enrolls" (ばしゃめ入学 Bashame Nyūgaku) is the third episode of the first season of Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan, and is the third episode overall.
Summary[]
The Deer Club members finds a first year student sleeping outside their club room.
Plot[]
Having taken a detour, Torako arrives late at the Deer Club. She is eventually in shock when she encounters a deer in the clubroom eating deer crackers.
At first, she admits that the clubroom is indeed the Deer Club before realizing that many deer have been appearing overtime, but still questions what the deer is doing in said clubroom. She then asks Noko if she brought him into the club, only to find out she is not with him at all. Analyzing the deer, she assumes that he is just Noko in a suit. Torako tries to rip the deer apart, but he aggressively kicks her away in self-defense.
Later, Torako comes back with two cups of sakura mochi tapioca milk tea, which seems to be a popular flavor among students of Hino Minami. She drinks one of the cups and tries to persuade the deer into drinking another one, but he ignores her. The deer then starts eating one of Torako's plants, Manjiro. Shocked and provoked, she tries to pull him away from her plant and demands him to stop eating it. But she accidentally provokes the deer as well, who starts making an intimidating ge-ge-ge sound.
Torako doesn't back down and resorts to violence by surrounding the deer with water bottles, having learned that Noko is afraid of them. But this completely backfires when the deer kicks one of them down. Desperate, Torako tries to find another method lest the deer eat her plants, and eventually pulls out her book of poems from her purse. She then makes a deal with "Noko" that if she turns back to normal Torako will let "her" read a few of her book's pages before burning it away. The deer finally reacts, which encourages Torako to further her method by singing one of her songs she wrote.
After Torako finishes singing the first verse of her song, Noko comments on wanting to hear more of it. Torako replies that she has to turn back to normal before realizing that the real Noko is behind her. It turns out that the deer, named Tsunoda, escaped from Hino Zoo, and that the deer crackers were what lured him into the Deer Club.
Noko notices Torako's book and opens it, later finding the page containing the song the latter just sung. She asks Torako to sing the rest of her song, but this leads to Torako rolling on the floor screaming in embarrassment. At the end of the club session, Noko waves goodbye to Tsunoda as he leaves whilst Torako watches in vexation.
Spring hits, and after a ceremony wherein Torako welcomes new students and congratulates them for joining her school, she and Noko head for the Deer Club and eventually spot a girl sleeping therein by its doors. Torako panics in assuming the girl is sick and must be sent to a hospital, but the girl wakes upon seeing not only Torako, but also Noko, and admits that she got comfortable and fell asleep. With a sigh of relief, Torako asks the girl what she is doing in the school.
The girl introduces herself as Meme Bashame and begins talking about how she looks up to her and wants to see her in person. Torako appreciates the compliments given to her, or at least that's what she thinks before realizing that Bashame has been admiring Noko instead. Torako then asks what is so admirable about Noko, and Bashame answers that, before the entrance ceremony, has collapsed out of hunger and loss of energy. Just before she could admit her sudden death, Noko offers her a deer cracker and she thanks her for it. Since then, Bashame had only been thinking of Noko throughout the entire ceremony and wanted to be a deer like her.
Torako asks Noko what should they do with Meme, and Noko has an idea. She asks Bashame if she has what it takes to become a deer. If she does so, she must join the Deer Club, and to do so she must ask Torako for permission, to which all this just leaves Torako stunned. Meanwhile, Anko heads for the club, excited to see her sister, and wonders what things she will do with her therein. But as she opens its doors to enter, she catches Bashame on top of Torako, which in Anko's perspective the former is happening to seduce the latter into taking care of her. Out of rage and pulling out her kunai, Anko asks Torako what she is doing with another girl, which leads to her sister screaming.
Features[]
Characters[]
- Members of the Deer Club
- Members of the Student Council (debut; cameo)
- Neko Nekoyamada
- Chiharu Tsubameya (non-speaking)
- Kinu Tanukikoji (non-speaking)
- Ms. Ukai (mentioned)
- Tsunoda (debut)
Locations[]
- Hino City, Tokyo
- Hino Minami High School
- Deer Club warehouse
- Hino Zoo (mentioned)
- Hino Minami High School
- Koganeyama Shrine, Mt. Kinka (eyecatch)
- Sanriku Fukkō National Park (eyecatch)
- Mt. Gobancho (eyecatch)
Objects[]
- Deer crackers
- Animal brushes
- Limited-edition cherry blossom mochi bubble tea
- Torako's "secret notebook"
- Anko's kunai
- Anko's mugs
- Bashame's rice cooker
- Neko's stepping stool
- Vol. 1 of the Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan manga
- The Deer Club's houseplants
- Manjiro
- Iruka
- Umako
- Emishi
Music[]
Songs[]
Trivia[]
- The color of the text on the title card represents Bashame.
- It is revealed that Koshi not only takes care and names her stuffed animals, but also does the same for the deer club's potted plants.
- The scene wherein Koshi insists on singing samples of her own original songs to the deer is used as part of the advertising campaign for the anime, wherein the scene is edited to make it look like she is dancing to the chorus of the series' opening song, Shika-iro Days.
- Koshi facing off with a deer is also referenced in the anime's intro.
- As of this episode, Koshi and Noko are now third-year students, while Meme and Anko are first-years.
- The latter two becoming first-years makes them eligible to sign up for their desired clubs.
- The reason Bashame joined the Deer Club was because of her newfound idolization of Noko; she hopes of learning to become a full-fledged deer during her stay in the club.
- Additionally, her goals are to become a deer while also growing a rice field next to the club warehouse as a deer.
- This is the first episode to not follow the naming convention of the previous two episodes' titles.
- This is also the first episode to have the manga chapters it is adapting to have skipped a significantly large gap in-between chapters. As a result, this episode is two stories per half.
- Anko indirectly reveals that she is fifteen years old.
- During the scene where Koshi enters the deer club only to see the other three members slacking off, Noko can be seen reading the first volume of the real-life adaptation of Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan manga.
- It can be inferred from the colors of the students' scarves which school year they belong to.
- As Koshi and Noko just became third-years, their scarves are light blue.
- This can also be said for Nekoyamada, who has the same scarf.
- Since Anko and Meme just transferred to Hino Minami High School from their respective middle schools, this makes the yellow scarves signify the first-years.
- Lastly, Chiharu and Kinu having green scarves would imply that they are second-years.
- As Koshi and Noko just became third-years, their scarves are light blue.
- In the English dub, the exchange between Koshi and Noko after the opening ceremony is changed, from Noko saying she can't believe that Koshi is the student council president (in the original), to Noko wishing she could have heard Koshi's speech.
Manga-Anime Differences[]
- The scenes with Koshi attempting to drag the deer out of the deer club and promptly getting kicked by it hard enough to draw blood from her and Koshi imagining that the hyper-realistic deer is just Noko operating a mecha suit are anime-original.
- In the manga, only the plant the deer starts chewing on (Manjiro) is named, while in the anime, three other potted plants are also named by Koshi.
- In the manga, the deer makes a realistic growling sound when threatened by Koshi's antics. This was changed to a comical "gegegegege" sound in the anime.
- In the manga, Koshi starts singing a sample of her song to the deer before getting interrupted by Noko who just arrived, while in the anime, Noko is first heard offscreen, asking Koshi what she was going to sing, before Koshi half-mindedly agrees to let her listen to a snippet of it.
- Noko explaining how the deer was one of her senpai from the zoo has the dialogue changed in the anime.
- Additionally, it is shown in the author's notes section of the chapter that the deer in question is named Tsunoda-san and had escaped at least seven times prior.
- Bashame sleeping on the Deer Club's doorstep has her sleeping on her left in the manga, while sleeping on the right in the anime.
- The scenes of Koshi shooing away the butterflies harmlessly swarming Noko and Noko reading the first volume of the Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan manga itself are anime-original.
- The brush Noko asks Koshi to use on her and Bashame is a regular hairbrush in the manga, while this is turned to an animal's fur brush in the anime.
- In the manga, the rest of the student council spy on the Deer Club members with a menacing aura indicating that they see them as rivals. In the anime, however, this was changed to the three spying on them with a bored expression, seeing them as pathetic enough to not seem like worthy competition.
Cultural References[]
- Parts of Koshi's dance is a reference to the Bully Maguire dance from the Spider-Man 3 movie.
- During the narration of the enrollment ceremony, the narrator makes a reference to the 1969 animated series, Sazae-san. This was omitted in the dub.
Continuity[]
- Scenes of the hyper-realistic deer from the first and second episodes are shown as flashbacks.
- A brief flashback of the plastic water bottles Anko prepared to deter Noko from the previous episode is shown.
- Koshi wanting to make the Deer Club's warehouse "cuter" is another callback to the previous episode, where she woke up at 3AM just to decorate the warehouse to look more like her "ideal paradise".
- The matching mugs Anko got for herself and Koshi has one of the designs resemble the wriggling black cat stuffed toy that is part of Koshi's collection as shown in the previous episode.
Errors[]
- When Anko was gushing about how she got matching mugs for herself and her sister, the trail of blood coming from her nose passes through her mouth movement.
Transcript[]
View the episode's transcript here.
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