This episode begins with workers fixing the wreck the dirty pair did at their building complex. Kei is watching wrestling while fixing stuff, a recurring thing in the show, which is funny because the series was inspired by women wrestlers. This scene shows Kei's tomboyish personality and Yuri's feminine side, as Yuri comes in with a girly magazine and groceries while Kei watches her sports while doing hard work. They are then called in to a new mission by their boss, not before Yuri announces that she has a date, nobody is amused.
The mission involves catching a missing cat that was given a muscle fortifier that a company is working on, one that supposedly can make “humans break buildings with their own hands.” The little feline's favorite food is cheesecake, so the girls have to look for her in cake shops. Sounds like every female agent's dream assignment!
An intruder interrupts the briefing, it's the sister of the scientist who is talking to the dirty pair. It turns out his sister is one of the girl wrestlers Kei was watching at the beginning, Lan from the wrestling duo known as The Elegants.
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| Truer words were never spoken. |
The girls then go to some cake shops and begin to eat. There's a nice little moment of Kei eating a lot of cakes only to worry about her curves and deciding to do exercises right there. A good little character moment. The show is defined by these. Then Kei finds the cat and chases after her throughout the city.
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| Gotta keep herself in shape. |
Eventually they arrive at a fancy hotel where the cat hides. Kei interrupts a newly wed couple and everything makes it seem as if Kei is angry at the guy for breaking her heart but she's really just looking for the little animal, which is funny enough, but after that Yuri comes in following the tracks of the cat and exactly the same thing happens. Poor guy, just after being forgiven by his sweetheart as well.
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| A clue of what's to come. |
After chasing the pussycat they arrive at a hair bank. The guys attending don't know what the 3WA is, so the protagonists have to force their way into the storage room where the cat is hiding. However, once they get her they are surprised by a train crashing into the room. It is the work of some mobsters who also want the cat. Needles to say, the girls start shooting up bad guys.
The baddies are under arrest but they manage to escape by playing victims. But it doesn't end there. The girls then have to fight the real villains, Lan herself along with her wrestling partner, Jerry. That's right. The gals Kei was watching and gushing over at the start of the episode.
The agents and the wrestlers have a fight in a hanging section of a bridge that hasn't been connected to the other parts yet, making the environment tilt and the cars slide around the place while the girls have a battle. Kei eventually defeats Lan and goes after the cat, grabbing her, Yuri then joins them. They end up hanging for their lives but alive and relatively safe.
We don't see what happens next, we know the girls are fine and the villains are out of sight. We cut to the scientist that gave the gals their mission, we assume Lan and her wrestling partner were arrested. Turns out the dirty pair screwed up and picked up the wrong cat! Who has the real kitty? Oh no, she's with Mughi. Cute.
An enjoyable episode but one that feels a little too unfocused. I wish Lan and Jerry would get more screen time and perhaps a more prominent role as antagonists because here they just seem like an afterthought, there is also not much in the way of an arc or a lesson for our characters to learn or a thematic idea to fight against, at least not one that's understandable and clear. But overall I think it holds up real well with all the dynamic fights and rapid pace that characterizes the show.
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