Wanna be the Strongest in the World

Moe is fucking annoying as hell. This show is awful enough without adding her to the cast of moaning bimbos. We even get to hear plenty of Moe's moaning this episode which made her even more annoying.

Rio is the a shitty pro wrestler. Everyone talks about her like she's the battle hardened veteran, but so far we've seen her beat a spoiled pop diva with a week's worth of training. This episode Rio gets knocked out by a kick from a complete noob and then gets choked out by same match crasher. It pretty much makes her look like all bark and no bite.

And then there's the amazing 1 and 66 Sakura that has somehow become the center of pro wrestling with everyone so eager to wrestle her that they are crashing her matches. I also like that Blue Falcon wants to wrestle Sakura for the exact same reason that Rio did. The anime has already done the "you're not taking wrestling serious enough arc," but apparently it's out of ideas and is just going to do it all over again. Apparently having a massive losing streak makes you a popularity magnet in women's wrestling...

Oh great, new additions to the cast, all very nuanced and with fresh characterisation. This really made the show even better.

Wrestling fans seem really nice and devoted. I mean, as long as they are entertained they will stick with their chosen candidate, no matter what. How incredibly touching. Glad to see that there seems to be no such thing as fair weather fans in Japanese women's pro wrestling.

Other than that, there were some crappy intrigues and Moe coming to the realisation that being thrown 100 times in a row is tougher than karate, like that ever happens in a game. Berserk is quite the cruel place, putting their prospective recruits through such an awful hazing ritual under the pretence that it will help them. They should just make them sit in a Boston Crab for five hours instead since that is much more indicative of what the sport is actually about.

Well, it looks like Moe brought karate to wrestling fight. Those kicks and punches looked like they had no power to them at all when animated that way. However, the worst thing is how much nerve this show has. Apparently Karate is a sport for wussy little girls with no stamina. So we start the episode with an extremely lame match, but that's to be expected form this show.

What I didn't expect is for the writers to be taking lessons from Samurai Flamenco with the stupid fucking plot twist at the end. The Sweet Diva plot has barely been hanging on to any relevance in this show, and now I'm supposed to buy that Blue Falcon is actually Elena the whole time? Or was it the other chick and Elena then switched places for the match? I suppose it has to be the former otherwise the last episode made no sense.

Of course Elena is going to be super strong because she's totally been training day and night on top of all her Diva performances and after all the bullshit about not taking wrestling seriously...bleah.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAno fuck this shite.

Oh god. That twist. So all those super shitty Sweet Diva segments were meant to be build-up for this crap?
Can't handle this.


Favorite line of the entire episode though: "I can't imagine you losing, Sakura".

Sure, girl.


And then there's the fact that we didn't get even a mention of how Kazama felt/what she was thinking after being KO'd off her showdown with Sakura, she's just standing around and going "yep, this is a strong opponent for Sakura". Most laughable character treatment in the entire show, and that's quite the position to be in.

Also find it terribly stupid how they think sparring with her and red-hair specifically will help Sakura at all. Both of them lost pathetically in five seconds, what's there to learn from that? How to fail hard?


Last but not least, Sweet Diva being considered "world class entertainment"... rofl.

ZetsubouKaiji said:

However, the worst thing is how much nerve this show has. Apparently Karate is a sport for wussy little girls with no stamina.

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I know, right? Because karate-kas don't need to train their bodies for shit, all they do is kick and punch randomly and wrestling is the supreme pinnacle of all sports... Just appalling. Not to mention she got tired over virtually nothing.

Well that was predictable… So what now? Sakura will get her ass kicked and then in the end will win, Elena finally acknowledging Sakura is better than her and they live happily ever after?! Will stick it out to the end but still this show is shit!

Kana Asumi moaning for an entire episode, I've certainly heard worse things. Her performance is stupidly good for such a piece of shit anime in terms of writing. Never-the-less I enjoyed watching this cheesy predictable episode full of weird backstory elements.

I can somewhat forgive this anime for existing, simply because it's not so dull as several other anime this season for me.