STRIKE WITCHES - 07 August 15
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「スースーするの」 (Suusuu Suru no)
“Nice ‘n Breezy”
Episode at a Glance:
With most of the Strike Witches sleeping in due to the lack of Neuroi activity in the area, Sanya returns from her night patrol and collapses in Eila’s room by mistake. Gertrud isn’t too happy about Erica oversleeping as a fellow soldier of Karlsland though, especially when her commemoration ceremony for having shot down 250 Neuroi is scheduled for today. In the morning, Mio trains Yoshika much to envious eyes of Perrine as usual, while Minna goes off to pick up a package with Lynne. Meanwhile, Erica gets dressed, but can’t find her underwear, so she decides to go out without any on. However, she starts feeling a bit too breezy and steals Francesca’s while she’s in the bath. Realizing that hers are gone, Francesca nabs Perrine’s, forcing her to go commando. When Mio and Yoshika stumble upon Perrine looking like an underwear thief, she explains to everyone what happened, so Gertrud decides to start an investigation.
Yoshika’s swimsuit gets confiscated as evidence, leaving her with no pants on, so Gertrud offers to take off hers and give it Yoshika, but she ends up refusing out of embarrassment. With Erica eating happily away like none of this concerns her, Francesca is deemed to be the culprit and takes off running. The others go off in pursuit of her, during which Francesca inadvertently steals Eila’s pants as well. She later sounds the alarm by accident, causing everyone to prepare to scramble, regardless of whether or not they have pants on, as per Mio’s orders. Erica catches Francesca in the act though and turns her in to Minna, who calls off the false alarm. Minna then holds the ceremony for Erica’s achievements, where the others realize that she’s wearing Francesca’s underwear.
Next Episode:
「君を忘れない」 (Kimi wo Wasurenai)
“Forget You Not”
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Impressions:
So out of all the Strike Witches, Gertrud seems to be the only one that sleeps in the nude, which spurs on the ever-so-interesting question as to how many girls actually do so on a regular basis. I can’t imagine it being many, so that’s one brief moment of fan-service there. I found it pretty amusing and ironic for Gertrud to yell at Erica for sleeping without any underwear on though, given the premise of this series. I interpreted this as the show not taking itself too seriously in the pantless theme though, which is a welcome revelation as that’s how I’ve always felt about it too.
However, I have to say that having a complete episode devoted to these kind of antics was pushing the boundaries of “lower half” fan-service, which far exceeded those seen in the beach episode. While I think Erica’s attitude was a bit too relaxed with her frolicking around in public without pants on, Perrine seemed far too uptight about having to go commando when she had pants, regardless of how thin they were. Also, you would think they’d have more than one pair of underwear so that they wouldn’t have to chase after Francesca without anything on, but that conveniently doesn’t seem to be the case. The one who wins out the most in all this is definitely Erica, who started all the ruckus, yet gets praised for stopping it and awarded a medal at the same time.
Full length shots: Shirley, Eila and Sanya
Cast:
- Miyafuji Yoshika (宮藤 芳佳) / Fukuen Misato (福圓 美里)
- Sakamoto Mio (坂本 美緒) / Chiba Saeko (千葉 紗子)
- Minna-Dietlinde Wilke (ミーナ・ディートリンデ・ヴィルケ) / Tanaka Rie (田中 理恵)
- Perrine-H. Clostermann (ぺリーヌ・クロステルマン) / Sawashiro Miyuki (沢城 みゆき)
- Lynette Bishop (リネット・ビショップ) / Nadzuka Kaori (名塚 佳織)
- Erica Hartmann (エーリカ・ハルトマン) / Nogawa Sakura (野川 さくら)
- Gertrud Barkhorn (ゲルトルート・バルクホルン) / Sonozaki Mie (園崎 未恵)
- Francesca Lucchini (フランチェスカ・ルッキーニ) / Saitou Chiwa (斎藤 千和)
- Charlotte E Yeager (シャーロット・E・イェーガー) / Koshimizu Ami (小清水 亜美)
- Sanya V. Litvyak (サーニャ・V・リトヴャク) / Kadowaki Mai (門脇 舞以)
- Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen (エイラ・イルマタル・ユーティライネン) / Nakai Erika (仲井 絵里香)
karloni at 7:26 am on August 15th, 2008
lots of service like usual but looks like a good episode
Rensie 1998 at 7:30 am on August 15th, 2008
Ah ah, funny episode, it seems a filler but is very well done overall. After watch this, Saitou Chiwa is the perfect role for Lucchini.
Jusuchin at 7:49 am on August 15th, 2008
For a filler episode, this was quite funny, was laughing the entire time.
nekotails at 9:09 am on August 15th, 2008
As many as people says it’s filler episode, I think it’s more to show the bond of the girls with each other as a squadron, and give the girls a rest/break from fighting neuroi every episode. Seeing Erica with the Cap/Hat looks awesome. Look forward for the next episode.
-Z- at 10:13 am on August 15th, 2008
this is a take on the realworld incident when erich hartmann, drunk at the time, put on hitler’s hat because he couldn’t find his own. I’m kinda amused they didn’t play anything off the “he’s got a big head. it must come with the job.” remark.
as usual, a very amusing episode.
karry at 11:37 am on August 15th, 2008
Where are the pictures ??
Batu at 12:16 pm on August 15th, 2008
So if they don’t fight another generic enemy then the episode is a filler? I haven’t seen any plot development since the introduction and I like it that way. Since the original manga the focus has been the fanservice and not the war itself, so an episode like this is quite to opposite to a filler actually.
And we learnt a lot about the characters too: now we know how they feel about walking around bottomless and using each other’s used panties, and we can also imagine their sweet scent now that it’s been confirmed that they don’t change them even after a training session. Can you ask for more?
Anonymous at 12:53 pm on August 15th, 2008
About Perrine, her stockings are see-through…so not having the panties is sort of the same thing as having no pants.
Nodoka at 12:56 pm on August 15th, 2008
What a funny episode. xD
It made me laugh in some parts.
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and I do wonder why they only have 1 pair of undies?
unigon at 1:11 pm on August 15th, 2008
Barkhorn: “Ok, don’t panic. Remember what the instructor said.”
Minna: “If you ever get any trouble, all you need to do is…”
Hartmann: “Feels like I’m wearing…nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!”
Barkhorn: “Stupid sexy Hartmann!”
divine at 1:13 pm on August 15th, 2008
unigon:
lol! Simpsons reference?
RiderFan at 4:13 pm on August 15th, 2008
I laughed and this episode. When Perrine was running and her tights were rubbing against her nether regions, it cracked me up!
GuardMonkey10 at 4:27 pm on August 15th, 2008
This was a wonderful ep. I’ve watched it several times, and laughed by butt off each time. Erica is a bad bad girl. Francesca makes the cutest sounds too. Miyafuji continues to grow on me. I’m strangely wishing Perrine luck in romance with the Major. It would be pretty hot to be sure. Eila is rapidly becoming a favorite. I don’t know why… But her voice and attitude is very… Wonderful! Sanya is pretty cool too. I love her night flying and you can almost make out her asshole on her landing approach.
yanipheonu at 7:01 pm on August 15th, 2008
http://randomc.animeblogger.net:8000/image/STRIKE%20WITCHES/STRIKE%20WITCHES%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2013.jpg
Uhhhh… soap rape?
BROOKLYN otaku at 8:30 pm on August 15th, 2008
NO DISRESPECT but what was the name of the dude dat put captions on the pics. NATRONE? or is it DIVINE? pretty sure it was not OMNI. ANYWAY i dont watch the show but i think it’d be great if yall brought that back. these pic’s are priceless
divine at 8:45 pm on August 15th, 2008
BROOKLYN otaku:
It wasn’t me. Perhaps Jaalin? I agree that this episode would’ve been a good one for captions though!
ULTRA MAN at 1:33 am on August 16th, 2008
yer its soap rape
The Sojourner at 4:18 am on August 16th, 2008
I wonder whether the girls are the only people on the island.
anonymous at 4:38 am on August 16th, 2008
The Sojourner: Of course there’s other military staff. I don’t know if you see them too much, but just off the top of my head, there’s the person who held up the sign with enemy coordinates from the tower in episode 4.
MidnightTide at 8:33 pm on August 16th, 2008
so is there going to be an uncensored DVD release?