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Episode 32: That silly squid mecha



This ain't quite what the boys from Galactor expected....


So she has to invoke Katze's authority to make them listen. Check out the close-up and the profile - entirely different from what she looked like in the previous episode.



Strictly speaking, this pic belongs to ep 31; it's in the next ep's preview. Normally these previews show snippets of animation from the next ep, but apparently ep 32 hadn't been produced yet when ep 31 aired, because this scene isn't anywhere in the ep.


Instead, there's this. The castrating bitch who can make a line of thugs jump to attention just by using Katze's name pretends to be a helpless lady with handbag attacked by muggers. Jun and Jinpei jump to the rescue. As one of her henchmen lands on his back in a very undignified way, she muses that these two might... just... be members of the Science Ninja Team.


And to ensure they don't just give her a pat on the back and leave, she pretends her leg is hurt (while her underlings must be suffering broken bones and internal hemorrhage).


She then says "I'm all right (small gasp of pain)" in a way calculated to draw sympathy. It works: Jun tells Jinpei to call a taxi. It's just as well that Jun can't see Katze's face at this point, because Katze doesn't make a very convincing victim, visually speaking.


The taxi stops before the magificent kind of dwelling reserved for Galactor leaders and other Evil People. (Life just isn't fair.)


As regal in appearance as the building before them, the female Galactor captain pauses to gaze comtemplatively at its entrance, then invites her rescuers in. The joke being that they are two paces away from Katze; closer than they ever got while chasing "him" down to find the location of Galactor HQ. If Jinpei had spotted the likeness just a bit sooner, they might have grabbed her and dragged her off to the GP for some third-degree questioning.


Insisting they accept her hospitality, she walks up the steps without difficulty: leg all better now! Quite an oversight for a character so skilled in imitation and deception. And yes, the Gatchabirds noticed.


Inside, she plays the charming hostess at a table laden with goodies.


She excuses herself and leaves - to watch the two on a giant monitor from another room, accompanied by the apparently indestructible Galactors, as the beating they got from Jun didn't so much as leave a scratch on them. They're waiting for the maybe-Gatchas to drink the drugged coffee, slump on the table and be knifed.


Jun was only pretending to be drugged, while Jinpei's stupor was immediately lifted by a Galactor flung across his back. Triumphantly, the Onnataicho sweeps in with a gun (probably to the relief of her thugs, who are getting beaten up for the second time today): "That settles it, you have to be Science Ninjas. Nothing else could cause so much destruction in such a short time! Except maybe my, er, Katze's latest monstermech." (This is not quite what she says, the slip of the tongue will be Jinpei's, next ep.)


Characters in the Gatchaverse are often animated with their mouths hanging open when they're not speaking, or seeming to smile when they have nothing to smile about. "Policewoman, my [insert body part]" is what she may be replying to Jun's excuse (complete with irritating laugh) that she's part of the Lawnpark Police Force ("and so is my little brother here").


Fortunately for them, news of the GP flying over calls her away, and the no-we're-not-Science Ninja's are locked up in the mansion's cellar. That smile of hers as she leaves them to deal with the situation is supposed to be menacing, but mostly looks dippy.






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