It must be a sign of how thoroughly toku-poisoned my brain is that I didn’t even consider the extremely obvious place this week’s episode of Miss Kuroitsu was going with all its talk of aquatic aptitude assessments for monsters. Instead, I could only think of the horror stories about how some of those rubber suits have unfortunately reacted when being dunked in water during certain fight scenes (so many toku fans know about the loss of the original Kamen Rider Gills suit to that kind of damage). But of course, Miss Kuroitsu isn’t reaching for that level of metatextual awareness (yet, wait until the second half of this episode), and this swimming premise is instead, naturally, about getting everybody into swimsuits for a beach episode.
What was surprising to me about this deployment of an obligatory anime fanservice setup is that it actually ended up being the funniest Miss…
