Mitsuki Butterfly is the fourth episode in the second season of Kappa Mikey according to the production order, but premiered on September 6, 2008 as the twenty-fourth episode. It is notable as having a more poignant tone than the show's usual shallow and crude humor. It is also the first episode that features Mikey and Mitsuki's relationship as the focus of the story, and the first episode where Mikey develops serious feelings for her. The title ...
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Mitsuki Butterfly is the fourth episode in the second season of Kappa Mikey according to the production order, but premiered on September 6, 2008 as the twenty-fourth episode. It is notable as having a more poignant tone than the show's usual shallow and crude humor. It is also the first episode that features Mikey and Mitsuki's relationship as the focus of the story, and the first episode where Mikey develops serious feelings for her. The title is a play-on-words on the famous opera Madame Butterfly.
The LilyMu gang expects to see Mitsuki’s dad, Dadsuki, perform as the Empress in a kabuki play. He breaks his leg immediately before it begins, so Mitsuki, who was backstage visiting and had seen the play hundreds of times already, offers to fill in for him. He allows it, but he swears to her never to reveal her identity to the audience, because as Japanese tradition dictates, no woman can ever perform kabuki. Mikey, unaware of this tradition, fawns over Mitsuki in her kabuki role and is...
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