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Queen of Vengeance in a tidy 24 minutes.
It’s as normal as it gets at the Morisato temple, and Christmas is just around the corner. Belldandy notices that the weather is starting to get to K1 a bit…
… and she knows just what to do. Fans of the manga should remember the story by now.
Cut to Nekomi Tech’s campus, where Sayoko is still an object of adoration, only she’s not content on being just the ex-campus queen. What’s the cause of the melancholy of Sayoko Mishima?
This dude.
(BTW, Mamiko Noto is in full Enma Ai-mode for this scene. I just keep waiting for her to pull out some red string to get revenge on Bell at this point. I still can’t believe that Noto-san has a non-loli role.)
Since it’s cold out, Belldandy is handcrafting K1 a sweater. Handy gift… lots of love in it… and it’ll always provide him warmth. Gotta love how Bell thinks and acts… just a sweetheart in every sense of the word.
(Would any of the other girls in March Madness have done this? Can you imagine Shana or Suigintou trying to sew for their man?)
Predictably, Urd and Skuld blast Bell for being so old fashioned, so devoted, and so painfully slow. They both suggest ways to speed up the process, only shortcuts never lead to success… they just lead to comedy.
Here’s Urd showing off her newest invention: sweaters for jellyfish.
And Skuld demonstrates the first full human condom.
Meanwhile, without Bell around, Sayoko gets a chance to taunt K1 on campus. “What’s the matta? Bell not here to dress ya?” Well, not exactly like that. Instead, K1 goes off on the greatness of Belldandy as Sayoko stews in her own feelings. Sayoko isn’t frustrated that Bell has become the new queen on campus, instead, Sayoko is more focused on her feelings for the loser because (1) she knows K1 is a loser/doormat and (2) she knows that Bell has her claws in K1, and that drives her even more nuts.
(BTW, Mamiko Noto uses her Hecate voice for her inner voice scenes. Close your eyes and just imagine the power of existance being extracted from K1…)
“Men are potatoes.”
After a 130lb-ish Japanese girl outdrinks guys twice her size, she crawls out of the bar and collapses in the middle of the street somewhere. It’s good to see that she’s not driving, but is it a good idea to send a drunk, hawt ex-campus queen into the night alone? Who finds her first? Fortunately, it’s K1 and not the Nekomi Tech lacrosse team.
She’s just delirious after seeing K1. She doesn’t know if she wants to jump him or use him as a throwing-up bucket. Loved the scene.
(BTW, Mamiko Noto used some Yukinari “Oh noes a girl is touching me” noises here. I’m secretly hoping now tha Sayoko has to take an English class and a Professor Copola is teaching it. Anime moment of the year right there folks.)
K1 takes her back to the temple and treats her like a gentlemen. We all know girls like Bell are pretty imaginary… guys like K1 are pretty imaginary too.
After waking up, Sayoko notices that Belldandy has put a lot of effort into making this sweater…
… a sweater that is destined to become a gift for K1. She steals it, right?
Bell can’t find the sweater, and Sayoko is no longer there. That ojou-sama must have taken it. I haven’t seen Bell that distraught since she found out that Adam Carolla left Loveline.
Bell interrogates the local wildlife to get the real scoop. Seems like Skuld’s wrapping paper previously held some delicious cookies and a dog ran off with it. Sayoko chased after the dog to try to get the sweater back (Bell rubbing off on Sayoko… nah…).
Even though Sayoko got the sweater, she can’t bring herself to return it to Bell just yet. She doesn’t understand the symbolism of the sweater, and she thinks that trying to knit one herself will help her better understand.
(Sayoko, honey, there’s just somethings in life that money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Mastercard.)
She wants answers. She tries to drag K1 on a date, even though he stubbornly refuses… he’s looking forward to Belldandy’s delicious cooking. She settles for just a sunset stroll with him.
At the same time, Belldandy is desperating canvasing the town trying to find the sweater. Gotta love her ability to talk to all animals… if her job with AM PM doesn’t work out, she could always be Ace Ventura’s sidekick.
Sayoko can’t stand K1 going on and on about Bell anymore. I don’t blame her. She’s also confused at her own feelings and is starting to accept the fact that she may truly be in love with K1. She gives him the sweater, tells him to go home, and asks him to wear it.
After K1 leaves, Bell shows up a moment later… Sayoko just can’t catch a break. It’s like being kicked when down, especially when confronted with Bell’s honest nature.
“Belldandy, I’m Nekomi Tech’s queen, Sayoko Mishima.”
“I am the first class goddess, Belldandy.”
“You must hate me.”
“I love Sayoko.”
“Liar. You’re saying you’re a goddess for Morisato’s sake…. just a normal girl.”
K1 makes it home safely having avoided all aliens, espers, giant robots, and otomes, and surprises Bell when she returns by wearing his new sweater. Awwwwww.
Nothing really exciting or memorable about an episode based on a manga chapter that I must have read a dozen times already. A veggie nothingburger. The episode kinda prodded along, and there’s just a lot of filler time that added to the slowness of the episode, and the animation is sparse compared to other shows airing now (I think only Air Gear is worse). Besides Sayoko throwing up, there’s not much comedy, there’s no action, just an episode highlighting the sweetness of Bell and K1’s unique relationship, which may just be too sweet for most people out there.
Queen on Vengeance was always a story in my mind that should be a turning point for Sayoko’s character, but the manga more or less botched this premise as Sayoko’s future appearances became sparse (and eventually her role is usurped by Chihiro), and her last major story was Queen Sayoko arc, only that focused more on Sayoko’s respect and secret admiration of Bell rather than her newborn feelings of love for K1. I hope the anime does more with this angle.
Bell jumps and ravages K1.
Happy end. Like always.
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*Bell jumps and ravages K1.*
We Wish :P
*Fortunately, it’s K1 and not the Nekomi Tech lacrosse team.*
Oooh…stone cold.
*K1 takes her back to the temple and treats her like a gentlemen. We all know girls like Bell are pretty imaginary… guys like K1 are pretty imaginary too.*
Oh c’mon, no real man would take advantage of a drunk girl.
*And Skuld demonstrates the first full human condom.*
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Yeah, Sayoko got short-shrift after that return-of-the-sweater thing. She became, for lack of better word… cliched. Anyone remember her ‘I’ve got a doubt-eating jellyfish demon on my head’ appearance? Chihiro, however, DID at least give Keiichi a female who unsettles his life as much as she helps him… which is useful. Sayoko would probably have been unable to provide the ‘help’ part as much, given her background… although she did a fine job unsettling him.
* Sayoko, honey, there’s just somethings in life that money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Mastercard. *
Reminds me of something I’ve read at http://community.livejournal.c.....06004.html
(For Guy Noir/Prairie Home Companion radio fans :)
“Fortunately, it’s K1 and not the Nekomi Tech lacrosse team.”
Filled with righteous malice this statement is. (Guilty or not no one can contest that these guys were stupid)
Hey, no blue man jokes what gives?
“K1 takes her back to the temple and treats her like a gentlemen. We all know girls like Bell are pretty imaginary… guys like K1 are pretty imaginary too.”
Only scumbags and idiots take advantage of drunk women. It can also be argued in a court of law that being drunk impairs the ability to give consent. So let your crotch do the thinking, and you can land yourself in in a whole world of trouble. Based on tall tales of my prison guard comrades, rapists and pedophiles have it the worst. (US governemt mandated training, your tax dollars at work.)
“Can you imagine Shana or Suigintou trying to sew for their man?”
Hey now I have to do my own sewing, and I am not dumb enough to ask female comrades to sew for me, though anyone else is welcome to try. Who is Suigintou’s man anyway, last I checked Megu was a girl…
Still the bag pipes work just fine.
>> Yeah, Sayoko got short-shrift after that return-of-the-sweater thing. She became, for lack of better word… cliched.
Great point. Fujishima-san more or less cornered Sayoko into this character stereotype, and there wasn’t much room to manuever. They can only rehash the “other woman” bit for so long, and then they had the superior Peorth take over in that department.
Chihiro is a more complex beast. She’s got more depth as a character, but she’s more of an enabler as she gets K1 and Bell into situations rather than be part of the situations, if that makes any sense. (I’m dead tired about now…)
@And Skuld demonstrates the first full human condom.
Fun, but umm no. :) Doubt Naked Gun was first, but it sure had a “full human condom”… :D
I’m very happy they used this chapter in the anime. I liked it very much in the manga and can’t wait to see it in widescreen.
I’m pondering when Peorth drops by… for a finale of the first half (a la Marler in first season)? And speaking of Marler, I hope they don’t forget about her in this season (onsen episode anyone?)…
As for that “(Would any of the other girls in March Madness have done this? Can you imagine Shana or Suigintou trying to sew for their man?)” comment, here are my opinions:
Shana might do something like that, Mai would most probably ravage Tate, Gin-chan would do it for Megu, Nanoha WILL duit for Fate-chan(assuming the latter isn’t ravaging her at this point of time), Chidori MIGHT(but that’s one hell of a small possibility), Lacus would most probably go “What’s a sweater?”, and Saber probably hasn’t heard of knitting(being a warrior and all).
As I said, Jason… Chihiro gets him into as much trouble/ causes excitcment in his life a Amuch as she gets him outof it… which makes her a better character, so far as drama goes, overall.
I totally brainfarted for a second while reading this and was like “Nekomimi Tech? Is this some sort of MoonPhase spinoff or something? Did jason goof around with the blogsuki headlines again like on April Fool’s?”
(yeah, and poor Mamiko Noto. Even when she gets roles like AMG, Yamibou, Otome, Sukuran, FMP, etc. I still can’t picture her as anything but a loli)
Ahh!! Still waiting for the fansubs. >..>
Korean Fansub is already out.
jpmeyer: Is that because of Hecate, Enma Ai, or some other role like the one she’s got in Simuon? :D
I’m hoping that they do use more Sayoko, myself… if only because Shiho Sakibara wasn’t exactly a strong ‘rival’ for K1’s affections, even if the girl DID make Bell jealous enough to break things and summon demons….
Love the episode! so sweet!
Finally got to watch the episode. While I agree that it’s not the most exciting episode, it’s still well made. The adaptation from the manga was very nicely done, and followed the original storyline very well. And Sayoko really did vomit on Keiichi. @_@
Boy, did that smell!!!