Episode 8: Mahiro's First Girls Sleepover

Momiji lobs a pillow squarely at Asahi's face, but she ducks, with Miyo-chan taking the full impact of the hit, and is 'down for the count'. What's a sleepover without a pillow fight ?

### Time Line

One day, then that night of a sleepover into the wee hours of the night, and the next morning.

### Location(s)

The Oyama household, the bathroom and bath tub, Mahiro's bedroom.

### Transition Highlights

Mahiro, an "all girl" herself, is recruited to take part in an "all girls" sleepover. She also takes part in a perceived "all girls" Home Economics class at school.

MAHIRO'S FIRST GIRLS SLEEPOVER

ONIMAI: I'M NOW YOUR SISTER

EPISODE 8 OF THE ANIME

(Manga Cross-Reference---Chapters 27 & 28, plus Omake 27.5)

## Previously

So sure that she will ace her upcomeing exams, Mahiro tells herself that she has already been through this part of middle school (two years ago as a "male"), therefore, the exams will be a 'piece of cake'. However, in a real paradox, during the beginning of the test session, Mahiro wakes up the sleepy girl, who seemingly was going to sleep through the tests, yet in a little while, Mahiro herself falls asleep. Oh well, better luck next time !

As Mahiro continues to step away from masculine traits, and move toward feminine attributes, she becomes more socialable with her female friends, doing things that are customary for girls to do. Yet Mahiro ventures into new territory when she begins to have social interaction with the boys in her class, as a girl no less, but with a common interest---video games. Also in school at this time, Mahiro is invited to be a part of a traditionaly girls class, Home Economics. There, she learns how to back cookies, with a little help from her girl friends, plus a pervious demonistration by Kaede. Mihari is so pleased with Mahiro's cookies, that she can't bring herself to eat them ! But what other girl's activities are planned for Mahiro ?

## This Episode's Story

It was supposed to be a quiet evening among the four friends, with interesting 'girl talk' and enjoyment for all. Yet, just about now, Miyo-chan is wacked on the side of her head with a thrown pillow. Seconds later, Mahiro takes a pillow torpedo squarely in the face ! Both girls are 'down for the count' ! Asahi and Momiji cheer the victory with much glee ! Mahiro wails out loud, wondering how could things have turned out this way ?

>>>>>>>ANIME OPENING SEQENCE<<<<<<<

It all started at the beginning of Winter Break. During the morning of the first day of the break, Mahiro declares an upcoming utopia for herself, with plenty of messing around and goofing off planned for herself. This does not sit well with Mihari, who knows that long periods of inactivity are definitely not good for Mahiro. She will invariably revert back to her debased masculine ways. Quietly, Mihari begins to text on her iphone. Quickly, a text message comes back---"O.K."! However, gung ho Mahiro is already lounging on the front room couch, plotting out her battle plans of doing nothing but watching anime, reading manga, and playing video games, as well as getting plenty of sleep time during the day. She plans on beginning with a lengthy video game; the game play should take her from now, to all the way up to dinner time. Mahiro officially proclaims herself, "In Winter Vacation" mode ! However, Mahiro soon becomes bored. Surprisingly, Mahiro has to admit to herself that as far as gaming, she is just 'not into it' now, at least not like she used to be when she was in "male" mode. Mihari, who has come to sit down on the couch near Mahiro, begins reading a scientific journal, and is asked to join in on the game play, but declines.

Eventually, a knock, knock on the front door tells of impending visitors. Mahiro protests to herself; that must mean there's 'funny business' afoot ! And she does not recall inviting anyone over during the winter break. Why, it's Momiji, Asahi, and Miyo-chan ! It's an ambush ! Therefore, the culprit must be Mihari ! Not to mention the 'out of the blue' mention of a sleepover ! Once invited into the front room, the girls see that Mahiro has just started a video game on a Hand-held. They want to join in. But the game that Mahiro has already booted up is only for two players, max ! Surprisingly, Mihari whips out another video game that can be played with multiple players---Kozy Kart (Mario Kart)! All four friends sit down in the front room and begin game play on the wide screen TV.

Time passes by quickly. In the afternoon, Mihari heads for the kitchen. Once there, she prepares for the dinner meal. When done, she calls out to the four gamers that dinner is ready !

>>>>>>>ANIME EYECATCH (Mahiro sitting down, wearing pink romper PJ's with a hoodie.)<<<<<<<

Afterward, thanks is given by all for a wonderful dinner. Asahi then chides Mahiro, telling her to get on with her duties ! Guess who got the kitchen detail for losing at Kozy Kart, that is, washing the dishes after the evening meal ? Only one guess--- "Mahiro !". However, Mihari pitches in to help, too. Mahiro covers her ineptitude by saying that she lost on purpose. Mihari counters with the thought that playing with and doing things with friends is much more fun than winning, anyway.

After Mahiro is done with the dishes, she wants a complete rematch. However, Momiji points out that all the noise and ruckus will disturb the neighbors. Instead, Asahi suggests taking a nice, comforting bath, after getting all hot and sweaty from the game competition. Momiji wants to do so, too. Quickly, the bath order is considered, but will there be enough hot water for all four as singles, five counting Mihari if she wants a bath, too ? Miyo-chan, the Yuri girl, mentions a novel idea---take baths in pairs ! She illustrates the practicality of doing that, while Mahiro voices her opposition to such an idea. Asahi busts out the offer to pair with Mahiro---

"Alright MAA-HIGH-RONN, Asahi's gonna be the one to wash your back !"

But Momiji wants to pair with Mahiro, too ! Miyo-chan, 'dripping with expectation of intimacy' proclaims that the best possible pairing would be Asahi X Momiji, thereby leaving Miyo-chan X Mahiro by default ! Mahiro's mind screams the obvious---being in a locked bathroom with another middle schooler .......naked together in the bath tub ........that's definitely a bad situation all around ! Momiji suggests that the best way to decide is with Janken pon (Rock-Paper-Scissors\*). And the 'Battle of the Century' is off and running, leaving Mahiro as the 'trophy prize'. But Mahiro doesn't wait around at the finish line to see who she is supposedly going to bathe with. She leaves the three still in hot competition, and goes into the bathroom foyer. There, she undresses, and enters the bath tub area naked, except for a washcloth wrapped around her head. But an already naked Mihari is sitting on a low stool, as Mahiro nonchalantly tells Mihari that, "All of this is *your fault"* !

Mahiro checks that the water is already hot, and goes ahead and slips into the bathtub. Both siblings are silent, however, Mihari becomes uncomfortable with Mahiro, in the water, staring at her sitting on the stool. Miahri can not fathom as to why Mahiro is doing this ? Eventually, Mahiro makes an off-hand, candid comment. She remarks that Mihari has 'gotten bigger'. Mihari immediately takes it that the comment is about the size of her bust, and takes offense at Mahiro's perceptive observation. In a flash, Mahiro defensively states that's not what she meant. Mahiro was motivated by nostalgia, not by any lewdness. Mahiro says that she remembers when the both of them (Mahiro was perceived as a "male" back then) would many times take baths together as kids. Why, it was in this very bathroom ! She was only comparing in her mind the two of them in the tub together back then, with the two of them both bigger, as in grown up, but ready to bathe together here and now. Mihari bites back, stating that Mahiro is actually smaller now, sporting a ***girl's*** body ! "And whose fault is that ???", snubs Mahiro !

When Mahiro steps out of the bathroom and into the front room, the three friends are all waiting their turns for taking a bath. Asahi snuggles up to Mahiro, and comments that MAA-HIGH-RON smells so nice. Squeamish, Mahiro quips that it is just the shampoo that she used. As the bathtub is refilled with hot water, Momiji announces to Asahi that now is the time for their turn in the tub. She also tells Miyo-chan to come with them, too! Miyo-chan meekly stammers that maybe it will be too cramped in the tub with three girls inside. Without speaking, Asahi gently pushes Miyo-chan into the bathroom, pointing out that this is what a sleepover is all about ! Plus she is the one who wanted pairs in the tub ! Momiji follows with a huge grin on her face. Inside the bathroom, Momiji and Asahi are already in the tub. But Miyo-chan, holding only a bath towel to cover her plump chest, is reluctant to join the two. Momiji gazes at Asahi, both soaking in the hot water, and recalls back to the time that Asahi and herself became friends.

FLASHBACK---In grade school one day, Asahi comes bursting into the classroom, and makes a bee-line for Momiji, sitting at her desk. Asahi unabashedly introduces herself, as does Momiji in return. Immediately, Asahi gives Momiji the nickname of "Momijiro", due to her masculine style of hairdo. Soon, the two begin walking home together after school. One day while walking home, Asahi wishes that she, too, had something like Momiji's hairstyle. Momiji, right then and there, does something similar with Asahi's hair. She loops Asahi's hair into tiny pigtails, one on each side of her head.

Soon, they are doing everything together---following a frog, playing in the rain, trying to score soccer goals, and so many other interesting things that tomboys do. One afternoon, Momiji invites Asahi to take a bath together with her. After the fact, Momiji wonders if doing so would make Asahi uncomfortable ? Nah, Asahi regularly takes baths with her big brother ! After Momiji has undressed, Asahi has a shocked and surprised look on her face ! But why ? Asahi is silent, until both are in the tub. Then she calmly and nonchalantly wonders out loud as to why a boy doesn't have boy's equipment, like her brother does ? You gonna get it later, asks Asahi ? (All this time Asahi had apparently thought that Momiji was a boy!) (END FLASHBACK)

Momiji relates that past incident to Asahi, while both continue soaking in the tub. Asahi reminises that the two would take turns washing each other, too. This piques Miyo-chan, still sitting on the low stool. She wants to see the two in the tub do just that, wash each other. However, Asahi 'turns the tables', and wants Miyo-chan to get in the tub so that she, Asahi, can wash her instead. "Don't be shy !", reassures Asahi. Miyo-chan is nonplussed. So Asahi gets out of the tub, and begins washing a sitting Miyo-chan with soap and a washcloth. "I used do this all the time to my brother !", remarks Asahi. Yet, when Asahi innocently touches Miyo-chan's big boobs, Miyo-chan gives Asahi the look of a raging, incensed wild beast ready to attack, but says nothing. Asahi silently 'gets the message', and backs off. Momiji looks on from the tub with rapt attention and concern.

>>>>>>>ANIME EYECATCH (Momiji in her PJ's, laying in an awkward position with her legs above her prone body. Miyo-chan in an elegant nightgown, her ample bust outlined by the fabric, laying down in a romantic position, with an inquisitive and somewhat erotic look on her face.)<<<<<<<

Inside Mahiro's bedroom, Mihari holds up an armload of futons. Mahiro wants to know if it is okay to be sleeping in the same room with the other three girls ? Mihari points out the obvious---of how weird it would be for her to sleep elsewhere during a sleepover. Unless Mahiro *just has to sleep with Mihari* ? Mahiro apologizes again for her comments made while both where in the tub. Mihari reassures Mahiro; Mahiro is absolutely harmless. At that moment, the two friends, Momiji and Asahi burst into the bedroom, all sweet and clean, all dressed in their PJ's, with Asahi wearing green dinosaur PJ's with a spiked tail. ! Asahi jumps on the stack of futons, thereby intimidating Mahiro. Mihari asks Momiji if it was cramped in the tub with all three ? Momiji replies that everything went fine, except for a small incident of someone accidently touching Miyo-chan's boobs ! Miyo-chan, for her part, now peeks inside the bedroom. Mahiro tries to help by telling Miyo-chan that she looks so mature and adult-like, a real beauty ! But this actually unnerves Miyo-chan, with her only pleading with frustration the cryptic comment; that she 'only wants to watch, not participate'. Mahiro is bewitched by what may have happened in the bathroom, but says nothing. Mihari now takes her leave, with Asahi shouting, "Bye, bye, Doctor !"

First order of business is who sleeps where ? Mahiro makes the first move by claiming her own futon that she has slept on since she first got it ! Next, in a squeal of delight, Asahi claims the futon that is next to Mahiro's. Immediately, Momiji challenges Asahi for the rights to that particular futon, with JanKen Pon (\*)! But in a few moments, it is all over, with Asahi giving the 'Thrill of Victory' sign for all to see ! Momiji tactfully tells Mahiro, since her futon is next to Asahi's, to beware, as sleeping next to Asahi is a 'real nightmare' ! Overhearing that haughty comment, Asahi lobs a pillow into Momiji's face. Seeking revenge, Momiji fires back a pillow toward Asahi, but she ducks, and the pillow slams into Miyo-chan, and she drops like a sack of potatoes. Mahiro objects, but gets a pillow smack in the face. Mahiro roars back with the cry of an injured beast ready for almighty revenge. A loud, boisterous, rambunctious pillow fight ensues. Miyo-chan is already on the floor, 'down for the count', while the battle rages on with the other three. That is, until Mihari busts into the bedroom, and with an angry proclaimation, orders to 'keep it down, will ya' !!!

>>>>>>>ANIME EYECATCH (Asahi in her dinosaur PJ's, swinging her tail, and looking down and between her legs.)<<<<<<<

For now, at least, things have quieted down rather considerably. Yet, Miyo-chan, in a mysterious and bizarre mood,
announces---

"It's finally time for some **"GIRL TALK"**! This is *the real treat of a sleepover*, the intimate chit-chat!"

Mahiro is not all that interested. Chit-chat with girls is not her strong point. Miyo-chan wants to know what they are going to talk about ? It has to be all about romance, right ? Setting up an unexpected paradox, Asahi jumps right in with a scary story about----"The Youkai Makura Gaeshi" (lit. 'The Spirit of the Pillow Flipper') ! She begins by saying that this is a true story that happens to her at night "IT" appears every night by Asahi's bed. 'IT' gently grabs the pillow out from underneath your head, then tosses it aside. Then IT moves your body into various positions and contortions, to change the way you are sleeping. This is all done while your are sound asleep ! Mahiro asks if this is supposed to be real girl talk ? Miyo-chan comments that this is like 'Ghost Stories 101', and certainly not *real girl talk*. Momiji says nothing, but is visibly shaken and scared. She shouts out, kinda scary herself---

"BAKA (STUPID) ASAHI !!! WHY ARE YOU TELLING A HORROR STORY ???"

Mahiro says that this story isn't that scary after all. Momiji only trembles all the more and pulls the futon covering over her head. Momiji announces, from under the sheets, that she is going to sleep ! Asahi apologizes, but to no avail. Miyo-chan pleads that she wanted to have some **Love Talk** !!! Mahiro thinks to herself that a scared Momiji is 'all too cute'. So the sleepover quiets down all too quickly. Mahiro announces that she is turning off the light, bringing an end the sleepover excitement.

However, In a couple of hours or so, Momiji wakes up. She has to use the toilet, but unforunately, decides that she can 'hold it' until morning. Next to wake up is Mahiro. She is freezing, as she now has no sheets or cover blanket. Asahi, next to her, asleep, has taken them and is hugging them like a bedtime toy ! She really does have a horrible sleeping posture, Mahiro thinks to herself as she tries to extricate the coverings from Asahi's grasp. But, no can do ! Asahi won't wake up, and she won't let go. After a while, a shivering Mahiro thinks to herself that this is an emergency ! She will have to step over Momiji to get to the bedroom door, to go out into the hall, and retrieve more sheets and a blanket. As she begins to move, this awakens Momji. She sees 'someone or something' moving, and holding onto a pillow. Only one thought pops into Momiji's mind---**"MAKURA GAESHI !!!** (The Pillow Flipper !)" This is absolutely too much for an already apprehensive and jittery Momiji, she unfortunately 'lets go' ! Mahiro quietly apologizes, but as Mahiro moves across Momji's futon, she finds it thoroughly wet . . . . . . . .

In a while, Momiji and Mahiro are in the laundry room. Momiji is dressing herself in a clean pair of PJ's. Momiji is silent, but Mahiro tells her to return to the bedroom and sleep in her, Mahiro's, futon. Momiji wants to know where Mahiro will sleep ? Mahiro is noncommittal.

Mihari is sound asleep in her bedroom. This until the bedroom door slams open, awakening her. It's Mahiro. Mahiro only states, " Don't ask any questions ! " Mahiro crawls in bed with her, and in a few moments is sound asleep, leaving an awakened Mihari with only a puzzling look on her face.

Next morning, a wet futon is seen outside, drying in the morning sun. At the breakfast table, Mahiro begins the tale of woe and intrigue by saying that she is so embarrassed. She finishes up with the comment that she drank too much juice last night. Momiji, sitting next to Mahiro, very carefully whispers to her that she should not have to take the blame. Mahiro whispers back that it is fine, just keep it our secret. Miyo-chan was actually awake when the wet futon happened, but she kept very still and only quietly listened intently as to what was going on. Although she doesn't fully know what happened, however, when she sees the two girls sharing some sort of intimate 'girl talk', she tells herself that "Silence is Golden", as far as anything she may know about what happened. Mahiro wants to know where Asahi is ? She is still sleeping; she is horrible at getting up. Asahi is actually right now sleeping on her back, with her pillows thrown off of her futon. She suddenly snaps awake. Seeing her bare futon, she gasps---

" It's the **MAKURA GAESHI** that came to get me last night !!!"

(End Episode 8)

(Click on Episode 9: Mahiro Rings in the New Year to be taken to the next episode)

## Episode Lookback, Commentary, and Opinion

(\*) Janken Pon---

Today, the best-known sansukumi-ken is called jan-ken (じゃんけん), which is a variation of the Chinese games introduced in the 17th century. Jan-ken uses the rock, paper, and scissors signs and is the game that the modern version of "Rock Paper Scissors" directly derives from. Hand-games using gestures to represent the three conflicting elements of rock, paper, and scissors have been most common since the modern version of the game was created in the late 19th century, between the Edo and Meiji periods.

Rock paper scissors (also known by other permutations such as scissors paper rock, scissors paper stone or ro-sham-bo) is a hand game usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These shapes are "rock" (a closed fist), "paper" (a flat hand), and "scissors" (a fist with the index finger and middle finger extended, forming a V). "Scissors" is identical to the two-fingered V sign (also indicating "victory" or "peace") except that it is pointed horizontally instead of being held upright in the air. A simultaneous, zero-sum game, it has only two possible outcomes: a draw, or a win for one player and a loss for the other.
---Taken from Wikipedia