The Rakushun connection is terrifying and/or awesome!

Hee, yeah, the oden story they would've done anyway (as far as I know they didn't skip adapting any manga chapters) but it was money-saving as well, since it just had the oden-seller moving around a bit for most of it. Was lots of fun, though, and so ridiculous!

(ahh, and thanks for the Japanese correction! the "hen ni" was in hiragana so didn't offer any hints to its actual meaning, and my dictionary only had the one definition...)