What could this be an unknown to me Hyakko OAD? Why yes yes it is. Bundled with the Fifth Volume of the School Comedy Manga in Japan this single episode of Hyakko is a fun little expansion of the anime series that finds the two least likely characters hanging out together.

Sadly it's only a 10 minute episode but with that 10 minutes we have Torako the spirited blond dragging the book worm Touma to a new Cake Cafe after Touma finds out that her favorite cafe to hang out and read books in peace went bankrupt. While at the Cake Cafe Torako and Touma share some cakes thanks to a gift certificate that Torako "won". The ladies share in a number of very nice slices of cakes even having a good bit of Yuri innuendo. The cake cafe is just what Touma is looking for since it's close to her book store and is ended empty except for the two girls and the young lady server who is more interested in her hand-held gaming device and the old man who only washes a glass in the shadows while the girls are there.

The episode ends after the girls have eaten a slice of every cake available and Torako notices the prime and proper Tatsuki walking by and calls her up so that she could also join the girls for more cake.

If you liked Hyakko like I did you'll definitely want to check out the OAD as well if you haven't checked out Hyakko yet what the heck are you waiting for. It's a fun enjoyable 10 minutes and your left wanting more again. I still want some one to license the first season dang it.

SOOOOO... you can check it out for as long as it lasts the OAD here..

This last season seemed to be chuck full of comedic school life shows and Hyakko is just another one that I've recently finished. It didn't seem to get much fan far even though I thought it would receive a massive amount of fan far considering the voice talents but it seems lately that it's gotten a bit more interest from the fans but almost most of that is coming from the Yuri crowd which considering one of the girls in the show proclaims herself to be bisexual in the second episode isn't entirely unwarranted. Mind you there is zip for fooling around but there is just a bit of fanservice. Most everything though is entirely comedic in nature. However due to a rather lackluster first episode I believe people dismissed this show without giving it a chance.

Hyakko is really a fun and enjoyable show once you get past the first episode and those that didn't give it a chance missed out on one of the funnier shows in my opinion. It's a great non thinker show as you follow a group of high school girls as they become friends and of course cause trouble for others and themselves. While there is a large cast of girls there are four main ones Toraka who is the main lead and all around troublemaker and her right hand girl Suzume who is her BFF and follows her everywhere. After those two you have the shy cute girl Ayumi and the prim and proper Tatsuki all of which have names that correspond to the Chinese constellations which I wasn't aware of until I read the wiki entry on the show. The four main girls often interact with the rest of the girls doing all sorts of interesting things much to the dismay of their teacher.

Like I said I thought this was one of the funnier shows of the season and enjoyed it a lot and hope that it gets licensed so that others can enjoy it as well. Definitely don't get stuck on the first episode and if you have to check out the third episode as it's one of better episodes. One of the interesting things about the ending couple of episodes is that you find out about Torako's troubled home life in one of the only serious episodes of the series that at the ends shows just how close all the girls have become so far and with that you have a good ending with episode 12. But it's not done with episode 12 no there's another episode and it's a bit different in what it does as it comes full circle and goes back to how each girl started high school in what I thought was a good idea because you see how life has changed for all the girls during the series that way.