天下制覇

Rarely do all four coincide.

Impressions:

Ah Fujiko… you silly horny old woman. She does look pretty good for her age, and finally provides a reason as to why Kyosuke doesn’t just level BABEL and do whatever he wants. It does sort of make the chief kind of redundant now, but I wouldn’t really miss him all that much if he were dropped off a high bridge anyway. Who knows with Fujiko anyway, maybe she’ll just go back to sleep for another ten years. Since she’s wearing basically a bathrobe and has a rack you could serve dinner on, she’s definitely the most fanservice friendly character on the show to date. At least… assuming you don’t count Muscle Okama for his delicious disquieting manservice.

Otherwise, not a whole ton else happened this episode. Fujiko pranced around for a long while and egged the girls on to step up their attempts to seduce Minamoto. I’m not sure why exactly, as Minamoto has yet to show the slightest desire for anything over 8 years old. They need to act fast if they want to catch their lolicon, or just pin him down and have their way with him. He certainly looked traumatized by Fujiko frenching him. Shiho had the decency to look like she was thoroughly enjoying it. Kaoru’s bisexualism must be rubbing off on her these days.

I was also extrordinarily happy to see that all the Gonzoisms from the previous episode with its weird animation style and whatnot were totally absent. The normal nice piano BGM was back as well. Not even a single Strike Witch in the background either. Let’s keep it that way, eh?

Briefish Summary:

Naomi whips the Children’s collective butts at a training exercise while Minamoto and the head honchos go to meet a special person that the chief says absolutely needs to be informed about PANDRA et all. She’s in a big sealed room all to herself and is not eager to get up, but after the Children break in and Kaoru throws Minamoto in there for calling them kids, she emerges and uses psychokinesis, psychometry, and teleportation to hunt down and french everybody in sight. Naomi was the dessert.

She’s Fujiko Tsubomi and the overall supervisor of BABEL with powers nearly comparable to Kyosuke and a lifespan to match. After playing makeup with Hotaru and Natsuko, she gets down to checking out recent events. Minamoto meanwhile, is looking her up in the archives and finds out that her powers are actually very similar to the Children’s. She walks in on him and confirms it, then after a little teasing about his resolve, pushes a button which shoots him to the roof of BABEL where soldiers grab him.

A little later, the chief tells the Children that they’re being taken out of Minamoto’s care briefly and assigned to Tanizuki. They’re less than pleased, but ship off for a mission finding a bomb on a tanker. They get there, but there’s just Fujiko waiting for them.Meanwhile, Sakaki finds Minamoto dejected and hanging out in an office at BABEL. He tries to borrow Sakaki’s phone to call out, but it explodes, and a slew of cloaked BABEL forces assure them that they’re not allowed to leave. Minamoto suddenly has a vision of the girls lying defeated and injured and pulls Sakaki in close.

Back on the ship, Fujiko and the girls spar, but she easily handles all of them. Kaoru starts to get pissed that they’re not being taken seriously, but it’s all according to Fujiko’s plan. She leads them into a daydream, where they imagine Minamoto finding them all injured and vowing his love for them over their broken bodies. They all blush and she gives them the thumbs up. Tanizuki runs in to glomp Naomi in the kind of relationship they want from Minamoto. The lolicon, meanwhile, took Sakaki hostage and managed to get past the guards like that. He makes it to the ship and runs into Fujiko in the hallway. He yells at her briefly for screwing around, and then comes upon the girls putting on ketchup and trying to make themselves look injured.

A little later, their checkup is complete and they’re fine and back with Minamoto. He’s still a bit peeved and yelling at anybody and everythig in the area. Outside the room, Fujiko smiles to herself.

Preview:

Fish in Oboro’s bra! Fish in Oboro’s bra!