The photography club training camp is exactly as chaotic as you would expect from a group that includes a perverted third-year president, a monster-level athlete who joined to hang out with “Hiyorin,” a shameless body-writing ally, and a class president hopelessly in love with his teacher. The beach setting just adds sunscreen, locked doors, and a rigged King Game to the usual recipe. If last episode’s club formation felt like the fuse lighting, this one is the fireworks.
The Sunscreen Scene Is Peak Physical Comedy
Things kick off with the club arriving at a gorgeous, nearly empty beach, and Sensei is thrilled. The premise is simple: everyone takes photos matching the theme “The best Summer ever!” Abikura, ever the earnest romantic, decides his best summer will involve giving Sensei a photo that makes her happy. What actually happens is that Kuguri-senpai immediately sets him up to apply sunscreen to Sensei’s back.
The way the scene plays out is classic Yowayowa Sensei physical humor. Abikura’s hands are trembling, Sensei’s back is “all slippery,” and he ends up rubbing the same spot over and over until she squeaks out a correction. Kuguri snaps photos the whole time, entirely pleased with herself. Then the bit escalates when Kuguri suggests Sensei return the favor, but with her feet. Sensei wobbles on one leg, slips, and eventually ends up rubbing sunscreen onto Abikura’s whole back by pressing her body against him while he lies face-down. Mukubayashi and Yukishita immediately demand to join in, and Abikura’s mental state is completely fried by lunchtime.
What makes all this work is that Sensei has zero awareness of the erotic charge. She earnestly apologizes for being bad at balancing, as if the only problem is her physical weakness. The show has always milked this gap between her innocent intentions and the compromising situations she stumbles into, and the beach camp cranks it up several notches. Abikura’s suffering is the audience’s laughing point, but it never feels mean-spirited because he is not actually unwilling. He is just terminally awkward and terrified of being disrespectful, which makes every accidental touch ten times funnier.
The King Game Descends Into Chaos
After a bath that leaves Sensei marveling at the old-fashioned hot spring, everyone gathers in one room (Kuguri “accidentally” booked only one). She immediately suggests the King Game, and Abikura’s internal monologue spells out the threat: Kuguri will use it to force people into weird situations. He resolves to become King and end the game, but naturally the lot-drawing gods are against him.
The early rounds are surprisingly gentle because Sensei becomes King. She orders number 2 to compliment number 4, which leads to Abikura complimenting Mukubayashi for her athleticism, communication skills, and her “big boobs” (the last one gets him a death glare). Then Sensei draws King again and asks someone to describe their ideal type, which lands on herself. Her answer is quietly revealing: someone who never cuts corners, always does their best, someone she can respect and aspire to be like. Abikura slumps because it sounds like the exact opposite of his uncomplicated persona, but the moment is a small, genuine glimpse into Sensei’s loneliness and her admiration for effort. It is a nice reminder that under all the slapstick, the show genuinely cares about her as a person.
Then the vibe shatters. Kuguri and Akemi become Kings in rapid succession, and the orders get increasingly unhinged: press your boobs together, play the chocolate stick game, do a standing split in a cheerleader costume, stroke Abikura’s head while calling him cute. Mukubayashi ends up princess-carrying someone in a maid costume. The chaos is relentless, and Abikura figures out the two of them must be cheating. The camera lingers on their smug faces, and later reveals they had rigged the lots all along with a plan: “Mission: Matchma-King Game.” Akemi openly admits she wants Hiyo-chan as a sister-in-law, and Kuguri thinks it will make a great picture.
The final order from Kuguri is the one she has been building toward: number 1 and number 2 must kiss. Abikura and Sensei freeze. He panics and fakes a cold, fleeing to a side room. The episode then plays its best card: Sensei follows him to nurse him back to health, gets tricked by Akemi and Kuguri into believing she has to sleep next to him and rub his stomach or he will die, and ends up locked in the cold room with him by a giggling Kuguri. The whole sequence is a perfect storm of manipulation, goodwill, and comedic tension.
Locked In: Sensei’s Innocence Is a Weapon
The locked-room scene is the emotional centerpiece of the episode, and it is handled with the same strange tenderness that the series occasionally flashes. Abikura is mortified. Sensei is sneezing because the air conditioning is cranked to freezing, and she immediately asks to share the blanket. They end up huddled together, and Abikura’s internal monologue hurts: “Sensei doesn’t seem bothered with how physical we’re getting. Guess that means she doesn’t really think of me as a man.”
That quiet admission cuts deeper than any of the comedic humiliation before it. The boy is in love, and the woman he loves sees him as a beloved child. He then asks a dangerous question out loud: “I wonder what would have happened if we’d kissed back then.” The silence stretches, and then he kisses her. The show handles it with a soft sound effect and a cut to black, leaving the exact nature of the kiss ambiguous (forehead? cheek? lips?), but the aftermath is pure Sensei. She wakes up momentarily, realizes they kissed, and declares with relief that they have now completed the King’s order and can stop worrying about breaking the rules. Then she falls asleep against him, completely at peace. Abikura is left staring at the ceiling, alone with his thoughts and a sleeping teacher on his shoulder.
It is a perfect encapsulation of their dynamic. He took a risk that would be wildly inappropriate in any other context, and she reframed it as dutiful rule-following. The scene is funny, painful, and sweet all at once, and it leaves Abikura exactly where he started: in love with someone who cannot seem to see him that way.
Mukubayashi’s Disappearance and a Confession That Comes Out of Nowhere
Day two opens with Sensei in a white sundress that Akemi bought for her, looking so angelic that Mukubayashi calls her an angel. The group scatters for free time, and Abikura finally gets a quiet walk with Sensei. They take photos together, she accidentally shows him a perfectly sharp shot of herself in the changing room (her only focused photo, of course), and they talk about Mukubayashi’s childhood kindness. It is a gentle, low-key sequence that feels like the show giving Abikura a genuine date after all the suffering.
Then Mukubayashi goes missing. She was told to return by 5 p.m., but her smartphone is found lying on the street. Abikura and the others worry about kidnapping, until Kuguri and Yukishita calmly suggest she probably went for a run and ended up in the next prefecture. When Abikura finally finds her, she looks like she fought a wild bear, but she just smiles and says, “So I made it back after all!” The absurdity of it is peak Mukubayashi: her physical strength is so beyond human scale that getting lost means an accidental cross-prefecture marathon.
And then, with zero buildup, comes the bombshell. Mukubayashi looks at Abikura and says, “I think I might like you, Abikura-kun.” The episode ends immediately on his stunned face. After a whole episode of Sensei’s obliviousness and Abikura’s pining, the childhood friend who has been teasing him and calling him a perv suddenly drops a confession that recontextualizes a lot of her coldness. Was the “hating” him act actually just awkwardness? The beach camp has apparently been as confusing for her as it was for him.
Kuguri and Akemi Are a Dangerous Duo
A quick note on the two chaotic forces driving the episode. Kuguri and Akemi barely interacted before, but here they form an unholy alliance. Their shared goal of pushing Abikura and Sensei together is motivated by completely different things (photographic gold versus wanting a sister-in-law), but their methods are terrifyingly effective. Kuguri rigging the King Game, locking them in a freezing room, and planning to photograph the aftermath is exactly the kind of calculated perversion she brings to the club. Akemi, meanwhile, brainwashes Sensei with total ease, turning a stomach rub into a medical necessity. Together they turn a training camp into an elaborate matchmaking scheme, and Abikura is helpless against them. The series has always enjoyed tormenting its male lead, but this episode shows just how outgunned he is.
Closing Thoughts
The beach training camp episode of Yowayowa Sensei is exactly the blend of raunchy comedy, genuine sweetness, and romantic frustration that the series does best. It does not advance the photography theme much (the club barely takes any photos), but it deepens everyone’s relationships and drops a love-triangle twist at the very end. Abikura’s hopeless crush remains heartbreaking because Sensei’s innocence is so pure it circles back to being the cruelest thing possible. The locked-room kiss is a moment of quiet desperation that she immediately defuses into a homework assignment, and the show knows exactly how much that stings.
Mukubayashi’s confession is the wild card that changes the board. I have no idea where this goes now, and that is exciting. The training camp is only half over, and already the pervert club’s first outing has given us sunscreen chaos, a rigged King Game, a shared futon, and a love confession. Whatever happens next, Abikura is going to need a vacation from his vacation.
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