It's the start of the rainy season, so on a wet and stormy night Jin and Nagi are staying well and truly cooped up indoors. What they weren't expecting however was a visit from Daitetsu, who managed to lock himself out of his own house and, unable to break in due to a visit from the police, decided to see if Jin could put him up for the night.
This all sounds pretty dull, but the thing is Daitetsu's imagination seems to have a nasty habit of running riot... Thus, an argument between Nagi and Jin (who Daitetsu still thinks are brother and sister) somehow turns into an erotic, incestuous love story. Yes, that does mean fan service galore to boot. As Jin and Nagi try to cover up the fact that they aren't related, things only get worse, and once Daitetsu admits to stealing the tree from which Nagi was carved by Jin all Hell breaks loose, while also offering us some points to ponder regarding Nagi and her behaviour at times, where it's fair to say she isn't exactly being herself. It appears that she knows it too, and is clearly hiding something from Jin along these lines...
Even when Kannagi isn't at its best (and I would posit that this episode is an example of a mediocre episode of the series) it still manages to be funny often enough to be enjoyable - Whatever your thoughts on the blatant fan service, there was a certain amount of humour to be derived from Daitetsu's thought processes, and even beyond that there were a fair few moments that made me either laugh out loud, shout out "What the Hell was that?!", or somewhere inbetween. Indeed, Kannagi occasionally seems to delight in little visual gags, such as a rather Konata Izumi-esque looking weather girl on the TV and all sorts of oddities running out of a school bathroom late in the episode. It's these little touches that continue to make Kannagi both watchable and amusing, even when it arguably isn't hitting all the right notes.
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