Yet another of the Zodiac cursed Sohma family shows up. This time it's Ritsu, the monkey, who we heard about back in the Hot Springs episode. Ritsu is the child of the manager of the Hot Springs. And Tohru realizes it almost immediately due to his constant apologies. While I found the manager's apologies pretty funny, Ritsu seems to go quite overboard. I was tired of the joke pretty quickly into the episode. Unfortunately, it went on and on.
Ritsu came to the house in order to meet Tohru, after hearing how special she was from all the other Sohmas. Of course, he makes a complete nuisance of himself to the rest of the men at the house, with the possible exception of Shigure. The funniest part of the episode is how Shigure winds Ritsu up by telling him how much of an annoyance he is. Once Ritsu is in full freak-out apology mode, Shigure says, "Just kidding." This repeats quite often, and while I got tired of Ritsu's apologies, I thought Shigure's blatant enjoyment of torturing Ritsu was quite funny. He even tweaks Hatori and Kyo once.
True to form, Ritsu and Tohru have a heart-to-heart where Ritsu explains how horrible his life has been and Tohru remembers something her mother used to say. Ritsu is of course cheered up by this talk and resolves to become more confident and to stop wearing women's clothes. (I'm being rather snarkish here, but the scene is very well done, as in previous episodes. I actually did feel sorry for Ritsu, and Tohru always comes across as completely sincere. Even after the nth time it still is rather touching.)
Next time it looks like we get another Zodiac member and some serious setup for the showdown with Akito.
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