Yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but no that would be you.
Epi two introduces us to two new nutters as Ric finishes the much anticipated lost-and-found-baseball-and-Amazoness story and, later, meets the significantly more feminine-looking Captain of the something or other who basically doesn’t like aliens. Before Nino decides to greet him. Nino style.
Episode Summary:
Swap ‘walking’ for ‘watching’. Nuff said.
Monologuing Ric is back and, after waxing lyrical about something to do with mazes, the epi proper opens with the promised conclusion to Ric’s encounter with the Amazoness. Who turns out to be a painfully high-pitched schoolgirl disguised as drag queen. Perhaps. Either way, the tranny and her trio of tengu-masked minions, are proudly guarding/ showing off a treasure chest of ice lollies. Until Ric tries to eat one, which is when he is knocked out by a well-aimed giant Watsit. He comes to near where he was playing baseball with the gang, who now disbelievingly fuss over him when he tries to tell them about the encounter, without sounding too ill or crazy while doing so. Meanwhile, the Amazonies are shown eating ice lollies while speedboating off as the tranny reveals that she is pleased to have protected the ‘real’ treasure, and then starts to take a ‘phone call from her ‘boss’…
Later, another prospective village idiot turns up after Ric finds said idiot splayed high up on the bridge and saves him from death by crows. Ric takes the young man back to Sister’s place, where he identifies himself as some kind of Captain who has put himself in charge of defending the Earth against aliens. After the Mayor and Hoshi turn up to inspect the newbie, Ric, jealously sensing that his position as the new kid on the bridge is being threatened, tries to scare off the Captain by claiming that he is a potentially Earth destroying alien himself. Oh, and that Nino, who the Captain has spotted sleepwalking/ wrestling the night before, is their queen. And that she’s an all kinds of awesome badass. Who can easily whoop his ass and destroy the Earth if she wants to do so. Unfortunately for Ric, Nino then turns up to greet the Captain and offers to force feed him various marine life that she pulls out of her bra. Understandably for the Captain, and more fortunately for Ric, the Captain runs away.
Thoughts:
Agreed.
This is what I was waiting three months and one week for? A creepy, unfunny tranny with a fetish for bikini-topped tengu-faced minions, eating ice lollies and pea- Watsit-shooting at innocent young men who dare to call a freaking head case a freaking head case?
Hmm.
Granted, most of the humour in the Saitama Vs. Amazon jokes were no doubt lost in translation, however this (wo)man was just plain creepy (*shudders again while remembering the short skirt joke and the schoolgirl voice*). As was the bit when the tengu minions wanted to see some form of photo ID from Ric. Not so much a parody of inappropriately bureaucratic red tape laying pen pushers, but more a something even less appropriate and less funny, methinks. At least Ric was suitably and indignantly shouty in the face of such bathos.
Moving on.
At least the reaction from the other nutters was worth the previous nonsense. Even Hoshi’s remorseful look at letting Ric search for the ball on his own was a hilarious surprise (though, no, I still don’t like him), and the slo-mo sunset-backdropped running towards Ric with open arms was a treat.
The next part of the epi also fared much better, not so much because of the Captain/ Elvis lookalike, but Ric’s jealous and logically illogical reaction to him, and then the images of Nino in magical fish girl mode, fishzilla mode and, lastly, in Nino mode (i.e.: leme-show-my-warm-welcoming-side-by-force-feeding-people-fishy-things-mode).
A few other random things I enjoyed about the latter half included: the Captain’s rather astute comparison of Hoshi to a flower (of the pansy variety, I assume); the Mayor’s, rather paternal, fond patting of Hoshi’s rounded head; their impromptu a cappella rendition of the leech song; and how memorably scary real life Hoshi looks in the ED (*shudders*).
In short: a bit all over the place this week in terms of tone and humour, but at least two awesomely LOL scenes that made up for the dodgy first half. Let the randomly forceful offers of hugs and fish continue!
More pics:
Firstly, is it just me, or was this intentional?!
At least this guy seemed pretty cool…
[Ooh, leme also insert this pretty pic of Ric for no real reason.]
…guess I spoke too soon.
The Mayor being paternal again. Daww.
*Sings along with them.*
Now THAT’S what I call a magical girl.
Venusian for ‘Welcome!’
GAH!!!
I’m thinking whatever brand of toothpaste that is should, like, SO hire her as their poster girl.
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I was very disappointed with how the first half of the episode turned out too. I thought the Amazoness would do something really crazy that is beyond my expectation. She’s just that kind of character imo, based on how she looks.
But alas, it turned out flat and unfunny. It was like she’s trying too hard. But the tengu-hen was OK though
Indeed, I even found Last Samurai and the bee bimbo more entertaining. Let’s hope she improves.
By ‘tengu-hen’, I assume you mean the one with the particularly and weirdly deep voice; if so, I also found him significantly more wtf, compared to his master/ mistress.
I throughly enjoyed this episode; the amazoness woman not so much, but the rest with the power ranger dude (i mean he thinks like one) was just flat out funny (especially his vision on Nino’s power) Im still hoping they dwell a little bit more into the whole romance between Nino and Ric, but for now I will just enjoy the Lulz
Second half was defo more funnier, though, yesss – we must have more Ric x Nino romance! Moar!!
i liked the whole episode. the amazoness woman thing was a extreme wtf funny for me.
Well, I’m glad someone did. Oh, she was wtf alright… though, I assume, in different ways for the both of us…
I think the thing that bugged me about the Amazoness women most of all was Recruit reverted back to season 1 Recruit with his shouty wtf mode. Way to kill all the development of the first season =|
Good point; even when he met the three (then) new nutters in the final epi of season one, Ric was like, oh, I guess there are some pretty weird people here after all (or something along those lines, when he was spying on Billy and the bimbo). Not quite sure why they had him revert to the shouty straight man again either, but it was defo a bit jarring…
The amazoness wasn’t so bad. The WTF OMG moment for me was when she blow darted him! I yelled “She just blow darted him. Ha Ha!” aloud. It was great for me.
Ok, I’ll admit the random Watsit blow dart was pretty good. Not least of all ‘cos when they did a close-up of the wrapper, I realised it was the same snack I’d tried for the first time at a Jap cultural con the other week, lol.
The Amazoness part went a bit over my head with the jokes. In the end I was just annoyed by her weird voices @_@ Second half was great, those Nino transformations were just PERFECT.
That “No but, yeah but” thing is like some horrifying revelation…
GAH, those weird voices, laaame. Glad you, er, enjoyed the Little Britain ref…LOL.
That was surely my most random WTF ref in the epi. If not in the whole series.
Loved the episode. The second half was freakin insane. I love when shows like this just let the episode go crazy for 15 minutes. The captain is a fine addition to the cast. He’s just as crazy as the other bridge inhabitants lol. The Amazoness and her cronies were funny, too.
Ah, Nino as a random rampaging magical girl and alien and Idk what else… Classic. I also love the layers of crazy this show has.
I just finished s1 and have a real blast. So it’s nice to see s2 come out quickly for me. And it seems like the same fun. Thinking of picking up the manga too.
Question for the manga reader : Is the mayor identity will be revealed ?
Ooh, to have marathoned s1 – lucky you!
Haven’t read the manga, but I hope you (and the rest of us, of course) enjoy the rest of this series.
OMG. A Little Britain shoot out. Didn’t know Studio Shaft was fan of the show.
OMG and who knew indeed?! I must say, I was gobsmacked.
Did you not recognize Pegasus’ cloth from Saint Seiya? That was what Nino changed into!
In short: no, but thanks for the info.!