Hatoful has always played ping-pong with our emotions, and has kept raising the bar on the entire spectrum of lunacy in so many different ways ever since we first saw Okosan's pudding-fuelled psychosis. But even though the standard is already high, once in an eclipsed moon it completely outdoes itself and throws up a gem of a part that makes us scream, laugh, cry, and then do all three things simultaneously. This... is one of them.

The setting for this episode comes from The Restaurant of Many Orders, a Japanese children's tale from the early 20th century by Kenji Miyazawa - though through our upbringing, most of us encountered the story first in Breath of Fire 2. Shuu appears to have decided to try out a diet of idiots.




0:15 Crystal Forest
0:35 Citizen Kazuaki
1:05 Happy New Year!
2:05 ......
2:55 Explaining everything
3:45 Looking for trees
3:55 Hungry
5:05 Chateau Chukar
6:25 Straight in the front door
7:45 Bucket
8:10 Warm and steamy
9:40 Ogre
10:30 Creamirukaku!
11:10 Apologies
11:20 Excitement and dampness
11:50 Another passageway
12:25 Wildcat Cafe
13:10 Salt and cream
13:25 HEARTBREAK
14:50 Have you for dinner
16:00 Level up!
16:40 COOKAKUMIRU
17:45 Chef Chukar
19:25 Massive left/right discussion
20:35 Right Golden Lightning Spiral Kick
21:20 YOUR ADVENTURES HAVE ENDED HERE!
21:40 Process of elimination
22:35 Taking them back
23:05 Harvesting ingredients
24:00 A happy ending for all
24:30 Burn
25:00 The migrant
26:25 Bob Ross
26:45 Delicious things