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- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-1 comment "Yama Juugo is a high school boy who has moved to Nanae Island, also known as the Special Student Zone, after being kicked out of the house by his father. He has chosen to begin his solo life in room 202 of the Happy House, a one-room apartment plus kitchen with separate bath and toilet, including furniture, appliances, and extras for 5,000 yen per month. But when he enters the room, he sees a girl relaxing inside, watching TV...".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-10 comment "Hoping to clear the ruins in Southred Mall before Ikusaba, the Adventure Club follows Nanana's hints to find the entrance to the ruins. But the entrance is too visible to passers-by, so they agree to come back that night to conquer it. Back at the Happy House, Nanana asks Juugo several questions, but Juugo is too anxious about Ikusaba to talk.".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-11 comment "Isshin's plan has rendered Ikusaba's "Shadowfins" useless, and victory is right before the Adventure Club's eyes... but then Ikusaba unleashes the power of his other Nanana's Collection treasure, leaving Juugo in serious trouble. Then Tensai steps in, telling Ikusaba she's figured out his power and offering him a proposal.".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-2 comment "Juugo picks up a jewel that fell from the sky as he was on his way home from the convenience store. It turns out to be one of Nanana's Collection: the The Eye of Yuguthos. Juugo is shocked that Nanana's Collection really exists. Meanwhile, the master detective Ikkyuu Tensai and her assistant, Hoshino Daruku, pay a visit to room 202 of the Happy House in search of the stolen jewel.".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-3 comment "After clearing the ruins in the classroom, Juugo, Tensai, and Daruku become members of the Adventure Club. At club president Yuiga Isshin's request, Juugo undergoes a trial administered by Nanana to get her to share the location of the next treasure. This complete, the Adventure Club sets off to the Rising Building. As they search for the ruins, Tensai quickly finds a certain door...".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-4 comment "After Juugo and Tensai escape from the Rising Building, Juugo receives an email from Tensai saying that Isshin plans to sell the Wizard's Cane to Ikkaku Shunjuu.".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-5 comment "The Adventure Club is back in action. Isshin proposes that they plan an overnight trip to a hot springs town on the west side of the island, where he suspects they'll find the next ruins.".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-6 comment "The Adventure Club has come to a hot springs town. In the hallway of their inn, Juugo sees Yukihime with a friend of hers, but she ignores him. That evening, Isshin shows everyone the layout of the nearby house that he has brought them to explore, and Tensai pinpoints the room that the ruins are in.".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-7 comment "Juugo has been cowering in fear in a corner of his room while Nanana has been on the rampage. Finally the delivery he's been waiting for arrives, and he presents Nanana with its contents, special thick pudding from the hot springs town, along with an apology for selling off her video games to pay his utility bill. But there was something else hidden in the package...".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-8 comment "At the start of class one day, a first year student comes to see Tensai. After speaking with her, Tensai returns in a bad mood and walks out of the class. The same day, one of the people Juugo met in the Tsukuyomi District, Tetsu, transfers into Third High School.".
- ryuugajou-nanana-no-maizoukin-tv-9 comment "Tensai and Daruku have not been seen since meeting with Suruga Aya. Though he's worried about them, Juugo goes out to have fun at Southred Mall with Yumeji, Tetsu, and Yun. Ikusaba Hiiyo has been watching them strengthen their friendships and follows them, while Tsurezure Kagetora follows him.".
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- sabagebu-1 comment "On her way to the first day at her new high school, Momoka Sonokawa encounters a strange woman who brings a pair of guns out at a train molester, only to get arrested herself for possessing firearms. Momoka spots the same woman at her school and follows her to a delapidated building, where she ends up being caught by the school's Survival Game Club. Noticing Momoka appears to have a talent for airsoft, the woman, club president Mio Ootori, attempts to recruit her into joining the club, but Momoka flat out refuses. The next day, Momoka finds herself bullied by her classmates over how close she appeared to be to Mio, but Mio helps sort things out. However, Mio's kindess turns out to be a trick as she drugs Momoka and uses her unconscious body to hand in the recruitment form for joining the club. During the weekend, Mio and fellow club members Maya Kyōdō, Urara Kasugano, and Kaya Gōtokushi take Momoka to an airsoft shop to get her some equipment. After picking out a gun for Momoka, Mio partners up with her for a practise match against the other members, with Momoka's natural talent winning against the opposing team. ".
- sabagebu-10 comment "Momoka takes the club on a treasure hunt in the hopes that she will find money. An idol with an eating problem goes to the Survival Game Club to lose weight. An invisible foe starts picking off the girls when they get lost in a jungle.".
- sabagebu-11 comment "Momoka unwittingly causes a terrible misunderstanding at a cell phone decorations shop. Her greed is boundless when she tries to swindle an old man by becoming a false Cinderella. Platy gets into the fight of his life to save... a crab?!".
- sabagebu-12 comment "Momoka catches a new virus. Now secret government organizations are out to get her! It’s up to the Survival Game Club and friends to protect Momoka. The girls want to throw a special surprise birthday party for Urara. Can they pull it off?".
- sabagebu-2 comment "Urara, who seeks to get rid of anyone standing between her and Mio, attempts to dispose of Momoka, only for her plan to backfire when Momoka's fear of praying mantis' lands her in the group's favor. Momoka gets her revenge, only for Urara to develop a masochistic side and latch onto her. Later, Maya asks the other to help her train how to eat natto for a commercial shoot, receiving harsh training from Momoka, who is jealous of her breasts, resulting in her developing an acute fear of natto. Afterwards, Momoka spends time with the silent Kaya, who seems to change her cosplay whenever she isn't looking. The two soon engage in a survival game, which the other members soon join, after which Kaya reveals she just wanted to have a conversation about cosplay. ".
- sabagebu-3 comment "Momoka meets the Survival Game Club's advisor, Sakura, who often finds herself in a string of unfortunate incidents. Sakura tasks the club with removing a hornet's nest, with proves more dangerous than expected due to Sakura's involvement. Later, Momoka faces up against the Chino Elementary School Survival Game Club after their representative, Roselia Haguro, insults her, finding Roselia to be a tougher opponent than she thought. Miou soon shows up and changes the rules, with the winner decided by whoever can retrieve the club mascot, Platy, from a crow. ".
- sabagebu-4 comment "Momoko competes in a light gun game against one of its top ranked players, a fat otaku named Karaage Lemon, with an embarrassing punishment should she lose. Later, Momoka ends up gaining a large amount of weight and ends up going to extreme lengths in order to lose it. Afterwards, Momoka tries to find out the true nature behind Platy, before winding up in a battle against her mother. ".
- sabagebu-5 comment "Miou dresses up divinely and makes an important announcement to the survival game club. Meanwhile, Urara finds herself in a stinky situation and Momoka finds out that decisions really are hard to make.".
- sabagebu-6 comment "The student body president Yayoi Isurugi grows to despise Miou and vows to get revenge on her. No matter how hard she tries to beat Miyou, some how Miou is there to lend a hand and defy Yayoi's plans.".
- sabagebu-7 comment "The girls find that getting a hunting license is not easy. The club dress as boys to avoid being given a hard time at the survival game and Momoka pays the price. Urara tries to regain face by catching the pervert that is lurking on school grounds.".
- sabagebu-8 comment "Momoka gets a taste of what it’s like to be a model. There is the thrill of the cameras, the high from the attention and the fear of panty shots! Maya learns about rabid fans the hard way in a chilling match with another survival game club.".
- sabagebu-9 comment "Momoka takes Platy to a trendy dog café. Can he pull off the disguise? A relaxing swim turns into a nightmare for Maya, Urara and Kayo. Don’t let their old age fool you! The Senior Survival Game Team is out for blood.".
- saber-marionette-j-1 comment "Three hundred years after six men crash-landed from space on an uninhabited planet named Terra II, six cities have developed (one for each of the original founders). Genetic engineering assured the survival of the race, as every man raises clones instead of children from natural propagation. Unable to genetically engineer women, however, has resulted in a planet of men and their android servants called marionettes, all of which take female form. But suddenly, out of happenstance, a local boy, Otaru, from the city of Japoness awakens a special marionette named Lime from a secret underground capsule. Lime has the ability to laugh and get angry and demonstrates amazing strength - attributes that make her unlike any other marionette. But more importantly Otaru and Lime become friends.".
- saber-marionette-j-10 comment "After Otaru, Lime, Cherry, Bloodberry and Hanagotta successfully repel the Saberdolls, they journey into Gartlant to detonate the central computer. Cherry plans for Lime, Bloodberry and Hanagata to distract the city's guards while she and Otaru hack into the main computer room and place explosives on the central computer. The plan appears to work until, in the midst of their escape, Otaru and company find themselves surrounded by the Saberdolls with deactivated explosives in hand. ".
- saber-marionette-j-11 comment "In the midst of Saberdolls, Otaru and gang look defeated until a young boy named Micky rescues them by blinding the Saberdolls with flash pellets. Resolved to make Gartlant a better place and save Japoness, Otaru and friends trek once again to the main computer room, this time through another series of abandoned tunnels. Before Otaru can enter the computer room and complete his mission, however, he has an urgent need to relieve himself, which similarly spurs the need in Hanagata. But as their golden arches fall into the computer room, the Saberdolls catch up.".
- saber-marionette-j-12 comment "Upset and jealous that Otaru kissed one of the Saberdolls, Luchs (in an attempt to distract her during the effort to destroy Gartlant's central computer), Lime, Cherry, Bloodberry and Hanagata make for poor companions on the trip back to Japoness. When they happen upon an abandoned spa resort, Otaru resolves to take a break and enjoy the facilities to ease the group's tension. When a plasma tornado develops over the resort it suddenly becomes clear why the spa resort had been abandoned, and why Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry abruptly malfunction. Otaru builds an iron "lightning" rod to attract the plasma tornado away from the resort, kisses each of the ill marionettes goodbye, and plans to sacrifice himself to the tornado by making sure the rod stays in place.".
- saber-marionette-j-13 comment "After saving it from Gartlant, Japoness gives Otaru and ganga a hero's welcome. Otaru gets an agent and abandons himself to a lifestyle filled with fame and fortune, ignoring his marionettes, who decide to leave Otaru. But fame has taken its toll on Otaru and he realizes just in time how much he misses his marionettes.".
- saber-marionette-j-14 comment "Constantly fighting over who is the most deserving of Otaru's affections, Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry enter a marionette contest designed to honor the best marionette on Terra II. The Saberdolls, Panther, Tiger and Luchs, are also ordered to enter the contest disguised and seduce Otaru to Gartlant's side. The Saberdolls make a mess, however, and Otaru's marionettes soon discover their true identities.".
- saber-marionette-j-15 comment "The Shogun summons Otaru, Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry to the Pioneer Museum where Lime first awakened. He tells Otaru that the maiden circuits not only make emotion possible, but they allow the marionettes to grow and develop like human beings. The Shogun explains that, in accordance with this extraordinary feature in the maiden circuit, it will soon be necessary for Otaru to revive the human female for humans to continue to survive on Terra II. Otaru questions what the Shogun means, and how he can accomplish such a task just as military agents from Gartlant set the museum on fire. Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry save Otaru and the Shogun from the flames, but they are unable to save what the Shogun most cherishes - the picture of a girl named Lorelei.".
- saber-marionette-j-16 comment "The marionettes learn about life and death when Lime adopts a squirrel for a pet. As Lime nurses the squirrel back to health, and then chooses to set the squirrel free for its own good, the marionettes experience new emotions, proving that their maiden circuits are continually growing, just as the Shogun said they would. When the Shogun hears of the pet project that the marionettes have undertaken he is pleased because the growth signifies one step closer to reviving females on Terra II.".
- saber-marionette-j-17 comment "Lord Faust gives the Saberdolls one last chance to wreak havoc on Japoness before casting them out forever. This time the Saberdolls do not fail. They slip in to kill the Shogun while an unidentifiable huge black machine (also sent by Faust) distracts Otaru, Lime, Cherry, Bloodberry and Hanagata. Suddenly, as the machine is poised over the city, Cherry recognizes that it's a huge bomb. Faust's command holds the key to Japoness' survival.".
- saber-marionette-j-18 comment "As a plasma bomb the size of Marlon Brando hangs over the Japones capital and Geltland Marionettes menace Japones's borders, Otaru springs into action, but Lime, utterly devastated by Emperor Ieyasu's death, refuses to leave his side despite Cherry and Bloodberry's entreaties. The others streak off in the direction of the bomb, but on the way they are stopped by the Geltland Saberdolls, who declare that anyone who defies their lord, Faust, must die. Just as Otaru is about to get severely asswhupped, Lime, who suddenly pulls herself together, saves him, her instinct for protecting Otaru for the moment overwhelming her devotion to her "grandpa", followed by Cherry and Bloodberry. However, even Lime's timely intervention may not be enough to save our heroes - an ominous electrical storm is brewing above their heads, and the Saberdools aren't frightened by total electrocution as long as they take their opponents with them. A bolt leaps out of the clouds - and is mostly absorbed by the bomb. However, Lime and Tiegel are still struck, and the roof of the building that they're on is trashed. When the smoke clears, Tiegel struggles to her feet and moves to finish Lime, but Otaru shields her with his body, despite Lime's entreaties to move so that he won't die. At that moment, Tamasaburo and Baiko appear in the air above them and speak - with the voices of Ieyasu and Hikozaemon, who had their brainwave patterns temporarily transferred into the two guard robots. They tell Otaru and the Marionettes to hasten to the castle - the Saberdolls will be taken care of. As the bomb makes its way to the palace, destroying indiscriminately along the way, Otaru tries to puzzle out Ieyasu's final words to him: that there is something in the courtyard of the palace, and the password for it is "checkmate, fork rook". In the courtyard, Lime recognizes Ieyasu's favorite game: a gigantic shougi (similar to chess) board built vertically into a wall, with long metal tumblers for the pieces that are lifted and slotted into holes in the board. Hanagata appears by Otaru's side and muses that the situation on the shougi board resembles the current state of the city - the king, representing the palace, is under attack by a rook, representing the bomb. The meaning of Ieyasu's words becomes clear: in order to defend the city, its defense must be played out on the shougi board. However, the gigantic metal shafts on which the pieces are mounted each weigh as much as Oprah did in the mid-eighties, and the Marionettes, being injured, are unable to lift them. Just when everything is deemed hopeless, Gen-nai and all Otaru's neighbors, as well as half the town, show up to help. Under Hanagata's direction, the pieces are slotted into the board one by one, as the tumblers enter the board, they turn gears deep in the palace, which cause strange, mind-mangling transformations in the palace's structure. When the last pawn is slotted into the board, the castle's transformation is complete. In a moment that no doubt caused many a viewer to go insane on the spot, we see that the castle has transformed into a big blue-and-black giant robot - JaponesGar! Lime, taking the role of What's-his-face in Giant Robo, orders the robot to shoot its fist at the bomb. It does, and the jetstream sweeps the Saberdolls off the roof where we left them, but it fails to stop the bomb. The bomb fires a bolt at JaponesGar, but does little. JaponesGar fires its other arm, and manages to stop the bomb and stave in its casing. Lime orders JaponesGar to finish the bomb, and it brings out the eyebeams, which cut off the bomb's "ears" and cause the bomb to blow up harmlessly outside Japones - taking out the Geltland Krabbensteif robots which were trying to cross the Japones border to boot. As the denouement of this rather unusual episode unfolds, Lime comments that, surely, Ieyasu was alive again on this day, if only for a moment. Meanwhile, the reconstituted minds of Ieyasu and Hikozaemon note that Cherry and Bloodberry, oddly silent through this whole ordeal, have reached the final stage of their development.".
- saber-marionette-j-19 comment "Now that there is no living ruler of Japones, Bloodberry muses aloud, they'll have to pick a 16th Emperor of Japones, and if they have any sense they'll pick Otaru. This prospect excites Cherry - she'll get to be the first lady! She can see it now - a laughing, leering Otaru, wearing a black robe and scary makeup, forcing Cherry to undress and ravishing her before his court - no! Otaru should definitely NOT be Emperor! At the same time, half a world away, the Saberdolls have been cast out of the court of Faust again, permanently this time - that is, unless they can bring him the otome kairo of Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry. Nobody expects them to return successfully, or even alive. Meanwhile, the minds of the previous Emperor and Chamberlain in the bodies of Tamasaburo and Baiko soothe the Japones parliament, and reconstruction work on the castle continues. Bloodberry is hauling stuff around, Cherry is mixing the concrete (albeit somewhat inattentively) and Lime - well, Lime is trying to help, but she winds up just running around, dragging Hanagata behind her. Suddenly, Lime's knees begin to spark. She stops, sending Hanagata flying into the concrete, and Gen-nai opines that she's probably got frayed knee-cables. In fact, all three Marionettes could use some repair, and Otaru resolves to fix them up at once. Otaru takes the Marionettes back to the charred remains of the Japones History Museum and roots around until he finds the secret door to the room where he found Lime and where Ieyasu showed him the Multicolored Monkey-Meter. Otaru brushes aside the question of whether he's qualified to do Marionette repair - he didn't do all those odd jobs for nothing! After dodging Hanagata's attempt to serve as his nurse and Bloodberry's, Lime's and Hanagata's entreaties to examine their chests, Otaru gets down to business. At last, after much hardship, Tiegel, Luche and Panter reach Japones. They haven't been repaired since the battle with JaponesGar, and are forced to take energy cells from defeated Orange Blossoms to continue. Finally, after narrowly escaping from Baiko, they track down Otaru and his gang at the museum, and decide to wait until sunset to attack. Meanwhile, an embarassed Otaru is trying to shrug off the profuse thanks and affection of the newly-repaired Marionettes. Bloodberry points out that the Marionettes are darn lucky to have the otome kairo - otherwise, they wouldn't be able to appreciate Otaru's affection and give him their own in return. Unfortunately, the moment is broken when Lime, who went back upstairs, emerges from the lab to find the Saberdolls waiting. Though raggedy and sparking like a metal cat in a microwave, the Saberdolls attack. Unfortunately, in their weakened states they're no match for the Marionettes, who haven't the heart to put them out of their miseries. As Lime puts it, the situation makes their hearts hurt. This angers Tiegel, who demands how Lime dares talk about hearts. Lime replies that the Marionettes are happy to have hearts - that way they can know happiness and appreciate Otaru's love and all the fun stuff they do with him. This angers Tiegel even more, and strengthens her resolve - she has her own love, for Faust, and realizes that she can't return to him if she fails here. She attacks Lime, trying to impale her on the jagged end of a metal pipe, but Lime dodges and Tiegel is impaled instead. Tiegel continues to rebuke Lime, saying that kindness is not necessarily the same thing as love. Pulling herself off the pipe, Tiegel is transported back to when Faust was a child, not yet a ruler, and falls. Otaru is shocked at the destructive potential within the otome kairo, but Lime is in no mood to think. In a quiet, tremulous voice, she tells the shocked assemblage that she doesn't understand hearts, then screams and takes off at a blind run. Otaru finally catches up to Lime lying facedown on a hillock, with the local swordmaster watching in the distance. Otaru embraces Lime, but she doesn't respond - her eyes are blank, and the cavity for her otome kairo is empty.".
- saber-marionette-j-2 comment "The Imperial Guards of Japoness fear that evil despot Faust, leader of another city called Gartlant, is up to something dreadful. Three of Faust's special marionettes, termed Saberdolls, suddenly appear in Japoness and destroy a group of secret agents that previously burned down resident fancy boy Hanagata's house. The Saberdolls then disappear just as nimbly as they arrived. Even though Hanagata annoys Otaru, Otaru still fights to save Hanagata's little brother from the flames. But civilians impede Otaru's would-be rescue, claiming the cause hopeless. In an act of valor, Lime saves the boy, leaving the others to question the differences between man and machine.".
- saber-marionette-j-20 comment "When Lime fled in horror at Tiegel's death, she encountered Soemon Obiichi, Otaru's swordmaster. At his query, Lime poured forth her confusion about hearts - they make her and her "sisters" happy, but they also cause so much pain...! What's the point of having a heart at all? Soemon offers to help her out of this misery, and by the time Otaru finds Lime, her heart - her otome kairo - is gone. Lime is stiff and unresponsive and her pupils have closed completely, but she's still alive. Otaru takes her home and puts her to bed. A crowd gathers in Otaru's house that before long is scouring Japones town for Lime's missing "heart", and Otaru joins them despite objections that he should stay with Lime. Soemon tries to console Otaru, saying that Lime is Lime, missing hardware or not. Otaru goes home and finds Lime waiting in the genkan (place to change shoes), up and around but still almost totally unresponsive to any stimulus. She is capable of responding to commands, but her movements are so stiff and uncoordinated as to be without effect. However, the old Lime, though not in evidence at the moment, is not gone completely... Meanwhile, Faust receives a report from a loyal minion in the field, Rubens, that an otome kairo has been captured from one of the Japones Marionettes. Rubens signs off and removes his disguise - it is in fact none other than Soemon himself, who took Lime's otome kairo as a loyal secret agent of Geltland - in his mind, he is Soemon Obiichi of Geltland no longer. His defection was triggered by, of all things, a Marionette. Her name is Koyuki, and though she is no more animated or human than Lime is now, Soemon felt from the moment he first saw her that they were destined to spend their lives together. This intimacy with what remains, sentio-epistemiology aside, a machine earned him nothing but hatred from the Japones citizenry. Ultimately, he was kicked out of the country in disgrace. He wandered through the desert to Geltland, where he was found by Faust and his Saberdolls, at whose seeming humanity he marveled. If only his Koyuki could be likewise... Her otome kairo gone, Lime's soul has retreated to a limbo in the darkest corners of her mind where she hides herself from the terror of the emotions she experienced at Tiegel's death. She is visited by the spirit of Lorelei who asks why Lime has withdrawn in this manner. Lime does not want to experience pain, anguish or sadness any more - yet she is discovering that she cannot stand to be separated from Otaru. Her options are very clear: safety, or love... On the other side of town, Soemon/Rubens has plans for the pilfered otome kairo before he hands it over to Faust. He connects it to a computer and prepares to erase all its data - he intends to install it temporarily in Koyuki so that, just once, he can see her as a human; just once, he wants to see her smile. However, it's not to be - Lime, her desire to be with Otaru at last overwhelming her fear of the dark side of life, has decided to return to her body. Without the otome kairo she cannot return to her former state, but the Marionettes sense her presence - and the location of the kairo. They reach Soemon before he can issue the final command, but Soemon threatens to destroy the unit entirely if they come a step closer. Soemon tells them of his dream for Koyuki, but Otaru and the Marionettes will have none of it. Otaru challenges him to a sword duel, and during it, Soemon drops the kairo. Koyuki picks it up, but in the next moment she is shot by an assassin, sent by Geltland to collect Soemon's prize. It prepares to turn its weapons on Soemon next for his treachery in using the otome kairo for private purposes, but Bloodberry quickly destroys it. Desolate at the death of his only companion, Soemon returns the kairo to Otaru since he no longer has any use for it. Bloodberry reinstalls it, and the real Lime has a tearful reunion with Otaru. As for Soemon/Rubens, the Marionettes reserve judgement: under other circumstances, Soemon, with his open mind and heart, might have served the function that Otaru is now....".
- saber-marionette-j-21 comment "Otaru, his Marionettes and the entire population of Kasahari Apartments are all going to have an outdoor barbecue by the river to celebrate Lime's recovery from last episode - or just because they really wanna have a barbecue. However, even though the weather is nice and everyone gets off to an early start, they are unable to ditch Hanagata successfully - though late and still clad in his official Otaru PJ's, he arrives, loudly bemoaning his mistreatment. After Lime breaks the generator that Gennai brought, Otaru is sent upstream to a potter of Gennai's acquaintance to get some earthenware so that they can barbecue the old-fashioned way. At the mention of Gennai's name, the potter agrees to lend some real nice dishes 'n' stuff to Otaru and shows him the kiln. The potter and his assistants have found an underground plasma reservoir that, though quite temperamental, can cook up pottery 10 times as fast as a normal kiln when it's working properly. This gives Otaru an idea... Meanwhile, Lime is getting very bored without Otaru around to entertain her. Hanagata tries to introduce her to fishing, but an argument over technique leads to the creation of a whirlpool by Lime that opens a chasm in the riverbed that drains all the water into an underground cavern. Meanwhile, Otaru is busily painting pottery and Geltland is testing a device, similar to the Tower of Babel in Nadia, that cuts through the smog above the Geltland capital, giving it the first sunshine some of its inhabitants have seen in generations and sending all the nasty weather elsewhere... Sure enough, all the weather winds up right on top of the barbecue, bemusing Gennai and making Lime worry about Otaru's lateness more than ever. At last Otaru returns, plates in hand, and apologizes to Cherry and Bloodberry for his lateness - walking right past Lime. Though unintentional, this sends Lime into an even deeper funk, and she goes and sulks in the rain. Even when the rain stops and the steaks are being sizzled up in a most appetizing fashion, she continues to sulk. However, the amusing spectacle of a gluttonous Hanagata being fed a rock (Bloodberry: "I just said it was done!") is interrupted by Gennai's discovery, on his portable Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Omni-Magneto-Sens-O-Matic, that there is a massive electromagnetic disturbance in the plasma below the ground below them, further evidenced by massive explosion coming from about where the big plasma kiln is/was. Otaru takes off for the pottery barn at a run, just in time to find the potter in a reflective mood. Perhaps a mountain of plasma is too much for any man... but Otaru should consider himself lucky otherwise! However, what Otaru sees tends to convince him otherwise. The Marionettes meet him on the way back, including Lime who, though still unhappy, realizes how much she's worried everyone and is prepared to apologize unilaterally. She hugs Otaru, causing him to drop something out of the little bag he was carrying. It's a tall Japanese-style teacup, obviously handmade, with a painting of Cherry. At least, it looks like Cherry, in the same way that Crayon Shin-Chan looks like a real four-year-old boy. There's another one in the bag, of Bloodberry. These, Otaru explains, are to mark the solid year that the Marionettes have spent with Otaru. However, Bloodberry and Cherry notice that there's no crappy teacup painting of Lime in evidence, and they close the book and gracefully decline the gifts - the Marionettes are a package deal, man, dis one and you dis them all! Otaru, when he gets a chance to finish, brings out the third piece, the one he was going to try to finesse a bit. It's Lime's teacup - except, thanks to a little plasma-kiln mishap, it's sort of sagged into more like a bowl. Otaru needn't have worried, tho: Lime is simply in hysterics over her picture on the teabowl, and promises to keep it forever and ever. The voice of Lorelei, which Lime continues to hear even after she was repaired, asks Lime if she's happy. Lime replies, out loud, "Yes!"".
- saber-marionette-j-22 comment "Geltland has been busy. Apart from their cloud-clearing device, they have completed another Saberdoll, of sorts: the Saber Beast Leopard. Also, once they have the otome kairo from Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry, they will be able to complete the Sabelberg II, the sequel to the big bunny-eared blitzbomb that was so soundly defeated by JaponesGar a while back. The Marionettes have fun new toys, too: their custom-made limited edition one-firing-day-only Otaru Mamiya teacups. Bloodbery is on her 15th cup of tea of the morning, Lime refuses to eat or drink out of anything but her teabowl, and Cherry has given her teacup a place of honor at the family shrine. However, they don't get to revel for long - their pleasant lunch with Hanagata (who simply will NOT behave himself) is interrupted by the arrival of Hikozaemon in Baiko's body, who summons Otaru and his girls (and, by default, Hanagata) to a conference at the royal palace. Ieyasu in the body of Tamasaburo is presiding, and present are the leaders of the other free countries of the world: President Joy (male) of New Texas, Wong of Xian, Villé of Romana and Alec of Peterubulbu, which is technically no longer a free country, being overrun by Geltland. The leaders of the free world are sick of Geltland's antisocial behavior, and since Otaru has been to Geltland before and even took out a supercomputer there once (by kissing it full on the lips, true...), he is the perfect person to go in and whack Faust once and for all. At this moment, the Marionettes sense something, a disturbance that only their otome kairo can perceive: the approach of the Saber Beast Leopard. Following close behind it is a massive body of Geltland panzers, led personally by Faust. Faust is still haunted by his memories of Lorelei - his ancestor, all of whose memories he has, was in love with her, and resolved that he, or one of his clones, would someday come to save her. Unfortunately, all of Japones' human population has been completely earthbound and unable to reach the Mesopotamia, still in orbit... until now. While Faust is thinking this, Otaru is absolutely refusing to be a murderer, no matter the circumstances, and Hanagata and the girls are backing him up. President Joy points out that there is no true hero who never had blood on his hands, but the prospect of being the outright Savior of Terratoo temps Otaru not. The one thing Otaru has retained from his meager schooling is that, when the six original settlers crashlanded on Terratoo, they all helped each other found their various countries, and Otaru refuses to be any more of a party to their current conflict than he already is. As if to break the tension, the Saber Beast Leopard chooses this moment to crash through the ceiling. As the heads of state make a quick exit, Hikozaemon in the body of Baiko and Ieyasu in the body of Tamasaburo attack the Leopard, but they are no match for it. Otaru and his friends try to sneak off, but the Leopard catches them in the palace courtyard. The voice of Lorelei whispers to Lime that they mustn't fight it, but Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry all attack it, to little effect. Otaru draws his sword and charges, but he is likewise unable to make a dent in the creature. Meanwhile, the inert hulk of the Mesopotamia, in orbit about Terratoo since the founding of the colony, suddenly stirs to life. It fires a landing pod towards the surface, which embeds itself in a hill near Japones town, and fires a beam of light into it. A bright flash of light covers the town, and the three Marionettes and their assailant are suddenly engulfed in arcs of electricity. The Leopard releases the Marionettes, and they fall to the ground. Barely able to move, Lime whispers, "Mesopotamia..."".