The arrival of a transfer student is such a classic anime setup, and yet Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi immediately flips it by having Jeanne sprint across the classroom, tackle Kyougi, and declare she’ll protect him from a dastardly devil. The physical comedy hits instantly. Kyougi’s deadpan concern about her visible panties met with Jeanne’s genuinely confused “Are panties something that shouldn’t be seen?” tells you everything about what kind of character just walked in.
This episode introduces Jeanne, an apostle of God sent from Heaven with one mission: shield Kyougi’s pure, future-saint soul from the devil trying to corrupt it. What follows is a delightful mess of theological absurdity, accidental perversion, and Kanan reaching new heights of possessive fury.
Jeanne Arrives, and So Does Chaos
Jeanne’s introduction sets her up as Kanan’s perfect foil. Where Kanan is all tsundere bluster and denial, Jeanne operates with complete, guileless sincerity. She genuinely believes everything she says. Kyougi’s soul has the brilliance of a future saint. The archangels personally dispatched her. Splashing bodily fluids on someone constitutes a valid blessing in a pinch.
That last one leads to the episode’s first extended gag, with Jeanne working up a mouthful of spit while Kyougi desperately backpedals and Reizen-sensei calmly closes the curtains, abandoning him entirely. The nurse’s office scene establishes the core comedic triangle: Jeanne’s holy intensity, Kyougi’s bewildered resistance, and Kanan’s arrival as the self-appointed third party who absolutely will not tolerate this.
Kanan bursting in to find Jeanne straddling Kyougi while begging “Let me go to Heaven with you!” and immediately interpreting it as an illicit sexual relationship is pure Kanan-sama. Her instinct is to cut something off before she even processes who the aggressor is. When Kyougi clings to her, terrified, and she realizes she had it backward, the whiplash from righteous fury to protective confusion works beautifully.
The Saint Who Knows Nothing
The episode’s most unexpected choice is making Jeanne completely, almost impressively ignorant about human bodies and relationships. She doesn’t know what a pervert is. She has no concept of why showing underwear might matter. And when Ami casually drops that Kanan wants to have sex with Kyougi, Jeanne’s response is a blank “What is sex?”
This isn’t played as mere naivete. It’s a full-blown educational crisis requiring Ami to deliver what must be the strangest sex-ed lesson in anime history, whispered into Jeanne’s ear in a cardboard house while Kanan watches in mounting horror. The cut to Jeanne’s vacant, processing stare as she wanders through school the next day, muttering “That goes there, then does that, which causes…” is the episode’s funniest visual gag. She’s been broken. Heaven’s mighty apostle, undone by basic biological knowledge.
The revelation that Jeanne thought babies were delivered by storks is the punchline that makes the whole sequence land. She’s not just sheltered. She’s operating on a completely different epistemological framework, one where storks handle logistics and holy water comes in finite supplies and any bodily fluid works as a substitute blessing. The gap between her divine mandate and her practical knowledge is a chasm.
Kanan's Jealousy Hits New Territory
Kanan’s possessiveness has been a running thread since episode one, but Jeanne pushes it into genuinely funny new shapes. The moment Jeanne presses Kyougi’s face into her chest while shielding him from the “devil,” Kanan’s outraged cry of “Get those all-encumbering mammaries away from him, you slut!” is followed immediately by Jeanne’s innocent “What’s a slut?” Kanan cannot win against someone who doesn’t even understand the insults being thrown at her.
The hand-holding competition is where the episode peaks comedically. Jeanne grabs Kyougi and sprints off toward martyrdom, and Kanan’s internal monologue spirals: she hasn’t even held hands with him yet, this slutty saint stole his first hold, she’ll never forgive this. Her declaration that on her pride as a devil she too will hold his hand, followed immediately by panicked musing about pregnancy, is the show’s particular brand of romantic absurdity at its best. Kanan’s sexual knowledge exists in the same warped space as Jeanne’s ignorance. They’re both operating on faulty data, just in opposite directions.
The visual of Jeanne getting tangled in rope while her habit somehow transforms into a leotard, crying out that her “lady parts hurt” but she’ll never surrender to a devil’s power, is the kind of fanservice-as-comedy that the show has always embraced. It’s ridiculous, it’s self-aware, and Kanan’s exhausted “you basically tainted yourself” reaction deflates any attempt at taking it seriously.
A Saint Living in a Cardboard House
The reveal that Jeanne is homeless, living in a cardboard box and surviving on offerings of Umaibo from the local unhoused population she’s been ministering to, adds a strange sweetness to her character. She’s not just an antagonist or a rival. She’s genuinely trying to help people, even if her methods involve lap pillows for repentant criminals and cylindrical snacks as payment.
Kanan’s reaction to learning Jeanne can’t return to Heaven until her mission succeeds shifts the dynamic slightly. When Jeanne describes Heaven, a place with perfect weather, free food, unlimited alcohol, and beautiful angels, there’s actual longing in her voice. She’s stuck on Earth, poorly equipped for human society, doing her best with what little she understands. Kanan telling her to just go back already carries an edge of something that isn’t quite pity and isn’t quite respect, but sits somewhere adjacent to both.
Where This Leaves the Dynamic
Episode five functions as a reset in some ways. The previous episode ended with Kanan discovering Kyougi kissed her shoulder while she slept, and she vowed revenge. That thread doesn’t advance here. Instead, the show introduces a new chaotic element that tests Kanan’s possessiveness from an angle she hasn’t faced before. Jeanne isn’t a romantic rival in the conventional sense. She doesn’t want Kyougi for herself. She wants to protect his soul and guide him to sainthood and possibly convert him along the way. Kanan’s jealousy is directed less at a person and more at the entire concept of Heaven trying to claim what she considers hers.
The closing image of Kanan walking home with Kyougi, Jeanne trailing behind them still processing the mechanics of reproduction, suggests this triangle isn’t resolving anytime soon. And honestly, that’s the right call. Jeanne’s incomprehension of basic human customs paired with Kanan’s easily triggered outrage creates a comedy engine that hasn’t even begun to run out of fuel.
One last thought: the episode’s title card moment, Jeanne dramatically promising to protect Kyougi while Kanan fumes in the background, captures what makes this show work in a single frame. Everyone is taking things extremely seriously for completely different, incompatible reasons. Nobody is on the same page about what’s actually happening. And somewhere in the middle, Kyougi just wants to go home together like normal people. He might be the most delusional one of all.
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