Sunshine up your ...
I knew this would come, but I had thought it would happen in some dramatic fashion over some life-and-death moment at some high octane battle instead of this hopping pantsu-thief dance on a breezy summer day. Moreover, I had expected only one to go the way of Britney, Paris, and Lindsay, but to my (pleasant) surprise, we got four:
Can't touch this Erica Hartmann
Slippy soap bar Perrine-H. Clostermann
Fig leaf Yoshika Miyafuji
Sunshine Francesca Lucchini
Of course, there are other eye openers in the episode. Plenty of panties, enough to rival the first episode; and when the girls were keeping their beavers covered, they did so with another girl’s panty. Oh the chase, the switch, and the tug, I feel dirty…
Only with two girls can this scene work.
But, the best moment for me was—like how the best horror shows are those that implies rather than shows—when Minna, realizing Yoshika was not wearing any panty, immediately offered up hers and pulled her panty down in front of everyone in the room. Yoshika’s reaction spoke it all.
Party pooper
As to the big bad Neuroi of the week, there was none. Nevertheless, Strike Witches 7 did not feel much different from the other episodes. This goes to show how superfluous those Neuroi’s are. The fan services are all nice, but do they have to shove aside the plot, which does have potential with its heavy parallelism with WWII events and characters?
Instead of a Neuroi, we got an imp of the week.
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“This goes to show how superfluous those Neuroi’s are.”
Pretty much Strike Witches in a nutshell. The only WWII era re-visioning I know where the Nazis are moe, the pilots are pantless, and the bad guys don’t matter, ever.