This episode is nothing but pure insanity and I kind of love it for that. There are no thematic throughlines, no real character development, and not even any romantic progression. Both of this episode’s two parts are nothing but taking one joke or idea to the farthest possible extreme you can with these characters.
The first half is about teachers catching students who try to leave campus during lunch break to eat at other places. I don’t know if this is an actual issue in Japan, but it doesn’t matter because it’s just a funny excuse to put all of the students and faculty against each other. Before this point, we’ve only really seen Ataru’s homeroom teacher, the principal, and the large cat the principal is seen with, so it’s nice to see a bit more of the faculty alongside more of the student body…
