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| "I repeat, WHAT have we done wrong???" |
Ah, good ol' cheap shot unsympathetic humor. Gets me every time (probably because I'm easy). Anyway, the plot of this episode, ostensibly, is that the royal knights of Princess Pina Co Lada made a boo-boo by wailing on Itami Souji of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, mainly because they have a treaty and they have to be "humane" and crap. (Three embarrassing things to always remember about Gate: 1) Her name is Princess Pina Co Lada. 2) The loli's name is Rory. 3) The theme song goes "WOAH WOAH WAH WAH WUH WOAH WUHH.")
But really the plot is that Itami meets cat girl!
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| I'd have that face too if I were him. |
To apologize for their sins and try and pretend that nothing happened, Pina's people dunk him in a bed and give him maids. There's the cat person...the "warrior bunny..."
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| Practically prerequisites. |
...the medusa throwaway from Monster Musume...and the black-haired one.
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| Get her out. |
And their leader, Old Woman.
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| You can stay, though. |
It is explained that the reason why so many monster girls work here is because the owner has fetishes.
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| These pictures are worth a 2,000-page essay on how stupid this all makes the SDF look. |
To put the hugely-unnecessary cherry on the don't-tell-anyone-we're-really-scared sundae, Princess Pinkie Pie tells the lady that beat him up to go have sex with him.
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| Yaaaaaay! |
But by the time she goes for it, the whole army is already in that bedroom. She opens the door and...
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| Behold! An anime convention! |
Then she just walks over and wordlessly slaps Itami instead 'caaaause...
You see, the thing about all of this is, Princess Painful Name is trying to be super super careful with the SDF because she doesn't know what they're about, and they have guns that can kill literally everyone in their magical fantasy-world path. It's a comedy episode because the viewers know that nobody but her cares, and because for some reason nobody will tell her this.
She even goes to their big base with the blue-haired translating girl later in the episode, and that little girl either wasn't capable of or couldn't be assed to translate their laughs and the emotions behind their smirks.
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| "He says we'll kill you, is what he says." |
And then that girl has the gall, the freakin' gall force, to just waltz into Itami's office and stand there and spontaneously go to sleep right there standing up so he has to have a Cutey Babey Bonding Moment and tuck her in. Like she did a good job or something.
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| uweh~~~ |
As we cap off the episode, we are reminded that Ayanami Rei has a creepy father. I mean, we didn't not know that; that knowledge is instinctual. But he never appears or does anything, except in this alleyway once.
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| Which, to be fair, is where all the sneakiest perverts live. |
We are also reminded that Princess Getting-Caught-in-the-Rain has no idea what the SDF really intends to do. But the dumb thing is that she hasn't even tried to get surface-level answers about their intentions. She hasn't asked "what are you doing here?" and then analyzed that answer for what hidden intent it could possibly have. And she hasn't asked the complete bozo naive main character, who doesn't seen to have any secrets at all, what he believes about this stuff. It's weird, is what I'm saying.
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| "Good thing I put myself unarmed in the middle of enemy territory." |
Next time: field trip...to Japan! Big Jeeps and flashing city lights! We finally get to the credits!
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| VROOM |
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