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Sukeban Deka II - Defiant! Saki, Yukino and Okyo's Final Deadly Battle

episode 2.41

Japan 1986
produced by
Kazuya Maeda, Chiharu Nakasone, Osamu Tezuka for Toei/Fuji Television
directed by Hideo Tanaka
starring Yoko Minamino, Akie Yoshizawa, Haruko Sagara, Keizo Kanie, Hiroyuki Nagato, Satoshi Morizuka, Masatomo Nakabayashi, Goro Mutsumi
screenplay by Izo Hashimoto, based on the manga by Shinji Wada, music by Ichiro Nitta

TV series
Sukeban Deka, Sukeban Deka (Yoko Minamino)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Of course, the old man of Kamakura (Satoshi Morizuka), megalomaniac villain of the series, has long found out that Saki (Yoko Minamino) has unearthed the Kidora treasure, which turns out to be a grail that grants immortality if one drinks from it during a lunar eclipse, so the first thing he does is have Saki fired from the Sukeban Deka program - not a big deal as he has the program's director Kurayami (Hiroyuki Nagato) in his pocket, then has the grail stolen from Saki's sidekicks Okyo (Haruko Sagara) and Yukino (Akie Yoshizawa). Knowing what immortality would mean for a villain like the old man of Kamakura, Saki, Okyo and Yukino decide to go and retrieve the grail anyhow, but heading to the old man's place, they walk into an ambush and both Okyo and Yukino are killed. Saki manages to defeat all the attackers who have come by foot, by car and by motorbike, but then director Kurayami and his men show up to arrest her because she didn't follow orders and leave things be. They almost succeed, too, when Saki's mentor Nishiwaki (Keizo Kanie) stops by in his car to pick her up and drive her to safety, directly disobeying the orders of director Kurayami doing so ...

 

As I said in my review on last episode, towards the end of its run this series is going into overdrive to tie up its narrative threads - but while Kage no Soto's death was pretty much hinted at for quite some time now, the deaths (?) of Okyo and Yukino came completely unannounced (other than in the preview stuck to the ending of last episode), and while they're certainly emotional moments, they're somewhat downplayed by both set in the middle of a rather exciting fight setpiece which Saki's ultimately whisked away from before she can do much griefing - which really works for the episode, as it prevents things from becoming too sentimental when the bigger picture is about something else. In all, this might not be the narratively most refined story as it's too straightforward, but is rich on action and surprises, and serves as a pretty great set-up for the finale.

 

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