Ah Coyote Ragtime show, where would I be without your weekly doses of action and good campy fun? Actually I’d probably being catching up with Higurashi but thats a different story. Anyway on with the review.
We begin directly from ep 02 with our heroes fleeing the city in their ship while being chased by the gothloli sisters and their helicopters. Question: if Mister has a ship that can fly in space, while the gothloli sisters are using helicopters, why doesn’t Mister just fly into space? oh who cares it’s ufotable. So there we have our heroes being chased all around, arguing on what to do. Finally Mister decides to go see his friend/enemy swamp, supposedly to figure out the trick of the pendant. In between we find out the Pirate King’s name was Bruce (Bruce sounds more like a bouncer than a pirate king), and that the gothloli sisters hate getting thier clothes messed up. Maybe assassination shouldn’t be your line of work than hmm?
Bishop doesn’t want to meet Swamp as it seems they had some problems in the past that Bishop lost at. However Mister tells them a story about a village at war with itself and how the children united everyone to fight the common enemy of germs (always the poet that Mister). Of course no one knows what he’s talking about, and he has to tell them that they both have a common enemy in Marciano and that’s good enough to team up. Here we also find out that it was Marciano who shot Bruce the Pirate King with her golden gun. Making a decision, they fly off to meet Swamp.
It is then that we meet Swamp, who is a black soul singing pastor with a huge orange-tinted afro. God I love you ufotable. Turns out Swamp was Bruce the Pirate Kings subordinate and is angry at Mister for being chosen as successor instead of him. Mister leads the guild helicopters into Swamps valley, where Swamp’s men quickly blow them to the ground with rocket launchers.
Here we turn to Angelica in space, still on her way to ku-rong. She yells at the pilots to speed up and takes a birdcage out of the closet that holds May’s head, an android that was blown up in ep 01, and asks her what is going on with Marciano’s takeover of the guild. Back at Swamp’s house, the whole gang is watching on tv how a military man called Malconomoid will be in charge of dropping the bombs on graceland and he’s known for never being late. Swamp tells Mister to just ask him already about the secret of the Pendant. However Mister surprises Swamp by telling him he already knows the secret, that the pendant was Bruce’s false eye that recorded everything, and he just wants Swamp to join him on the mission.
Before Swamp can decide, members of his congregation barge in bringing him food, and Franca decides to make everyone breakfast. While everyone is busy making breakfast, Swamp calls Mister out to the church to decide if Mister is worthy to receive Bruce’s treasure. They both pull guns on each other, only to shoot at guild troops entering the church.
It seems the gothloli sisters have found them, and send their soldiers in. Mister and Swamp fight their way out, killing the ground troops and holding off one of the gothloli sisters with a grenade and some of Swamps old fashion kung fu. Just a side note, the sister their fighting is September, the so-called sniper of the group, who it seems can’t shoot worth a damn. They join the others on their ship and fire missiles at one of the helicopters. Turns out that helicopter holds September, who is blown up pretty damn good. Swamp joins the crew, telling Mister he’s going to judge him to see if he’s worthy to have the treasure. Meanwhile, Marciano decides to head into space…
So this week we see the excellent addition of Swamp, who’s both a good fighter and a good singer. Hope to hear more tunes in the future. Franca was cute the whole episode (as seen above), confused at what everyone was talking about. I’ve found out that Katana, one of Mister’s henchman, is voiced by the same man that voiced Rentarou in Futakoi Alternative. Easy to tell it’s the same guy. Also this same guy was Gilgamesh in Fate/stay night, Andrea in Gankutsuou, and Tate in Mai Hime! I would of never guessed Andea or Gilgamesh. Guess he has a harem lead/ harem destroyer voice difference. Mister meanwhile seems to play in Godmode the whole episode. I mean the man runs through a line of machine guns and doesn’t get hit at all. Bullets must be avoiding him from how awesome he is.
