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<\/a>I hardly know where to start with that one. I guess \u201cat least it\u2019s not her brother\u201d is as good a place as any. I mean, I didn\u2019t think<\/em> Ponko would be dating Fuguri but as whack as Apocalypse Hotel<\/em> has gotten lately, a little part of me wasn\u2019t sure. But that bullet was dodged \u2013 turns out it\u2019s another tanuki named Ponstin (played by Hanae Natsuki no less). Ponstin<\/a> is a doctor taking care of Mujina, whose illness got a passing mention last week. So now we know there are other tanuki survivors out there. As for Fuguri he still looks about six<\/a>, which I guess means either Ponko\u2019s age-up was a conscious choice, or Tanukians hit a growth spurt very late.<\/p>\n<\/a>Apart from that, well \u2013 woof. It\u2019s all in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. I can honestly say I\u2019m not sure how I would have felt about this week\u2019s developments if the past two episodes hadn\u2019t happened. But they did, and I\u2019m certainly less favorably disposed towards the show than I was before. Starting with the Yachiyo punching gag<\/a>, which was just unfunny and stupid in a way that built on the disaster of last week. But it was mercifully brief, and then things took a turn for the better. Or so I thought.<\/p>\n<\/a>The stuff with Mujina (alive) was the best part of the episode, certainly. Her talk with Yachiyo has a nice feel to it, especially when she put it in the context of a refugee situation (which almost made me feel as if the series was back in the mindset of the first six episodes). But it was very obvious why she asked Yachiyo to help her record those messages, so her passing was a given at that stage. As for the wedding itself (oh yeah, Ponko and Ponstin are getting married), that does nothing for me at this point. I find this Ponko pretty insufferable and Ponstin is nobody to me at all.<\/p>\n<\/a>But the elephant in the room is the wedding. And the funeral. And I suspect this is just one of those things where it\u2019s either going to work for you or it isn\u2019t. I will say I respect Apocalypse Hotel<\/em> for not pulling punches in the weird department \u2013 this is pretty out there. And I feel like I know what they were going for with all this. But no, that did not<\/em> work for me. I\u2019m almost past the point where anything can offend me in fiction, much less as a function of \u201ctaste\u201d. But the idea of getting married with your grandmother\u2019s body on the dais right behind you? No, I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s just wrong. And it\u2019s not like those are Tanukian customs are anything, as they were just as surprised at Yachiyo\u2019s suggestion as I was.<\/p>\n