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TnN: Step 19 (The Bu Bu Bloomers Episode)
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Ruka, the tomboy inventor of Noelle's family, has invented a flying device that works on internally generated gases. Unfortunately, she learns, to produce an adequate supply of fuel, you have to eat large amounts of yakiimos, or roasted sweet potatoes, which like baked beans are noted for producing flatulence.
In so doing, she comes into conflict with Eros, Silky's infatuated minion, who has gotten the idea that he will win his mistress's heart by getting her the same treat.
From this unlikely premise comes Step 19 (Power of Love), one of the great Tennimon episodes. By chance I've gotten an unusually large number of sketch sets from this plot, which are easier to appreciate when they're put together, alongside the cels I've been able to nab. You can see a lot more of these by going to "Private Area" and typing in "seemorestuff"!
Oddly enough the plot begins to make all kinds of sense about the third time you watch it. Ruka is certainly onto something here: Tsou and Yang, in their definitive ISHS Acta Horticulturae study Flatulence Factors in Sweet Potato, found that feeding sweet potato starch to laboratory rats did indeed lead to significant production of gases.
Moreover, the principal gas produced was not methane, the hydrocarbon byproduct of baked beans that contributes to global warming, but hydrogen, a clean alternative fuel being considered for future modes of transportation. Their study concluded that “sweet potato flatulence is caused by a different group of compounds than flatulence caused by the ingestion of legume crops.”
Given the projected shortage in crude oil later in this century and increasing concern about the greenhouse effect cause by combustion of hydrocarbons, this means that yakiimo horticulture could play a significant role in tomorrow’s fuel-efficient aviation technologies.
And you learned about it first by watching Tenshi ni Narumon!
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