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Sukeban Deka II - The Iron Mask: Stolen! Does Saki Have a Future
episode 2.36
Japan 1986
produced by Kazuya Maeda, Chiharu Nakasone, Osamu Tezuka for Toei/Fuji Television
directed by Toshio Oi
starring Yoko Minamino, Akie Yoshizawa, Haruko Sagara, Naoto Nagashima, Keizo Kanie, Satoshi Moritsuka, Masatomo Nakabayashi, Tokie Shibata, Yasudo Yoshida, Yaori Yukihiro, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Akiko Suzuki
screenplay by Tokio Tsuchiya, based on the manga by Shinji Wada, music by Ichiro Nitta
TV series Sukeban Deka, Sukeban Deka (Yoko Minamino)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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With Saki (Yoko Minamino) taken out of commission by her own mentor
Nishiwaki (Keizo Kanie) - see last
episode -, the opposition against evil organisation Seiroukai's
plan to take over all high schools of the country quickly crumbles when
Seiroukai employs a trio of especially trained assassins. But Seiroukai
leader Kage no Soto (Naoto Nagashima) has set his designs on something
else already, he wants the iron mask Saki had to wear all through her
childhood, figuring it's the secret to his father's (Satoshi Moritsuka)
strength. And to this end, he has one of Saki's close allies, Miki (Akiko
Suzuki) kidnapped, to exchange her for the mask. Now Nishiwaki has thrown
Saki into a cell so she can re-develop the kind of rage she had
when
they first met for the fight ahead of her. Instead though, Saki
develops her selflessness to a whole new level, and Nishiwaki figures this
will to as well, and thus Saki, accompanied by her sidekicks Okyo
(Haruko Sagara) and Yukino (Akie Yoshizawa), goes to the exchange point,
even wearing her iron mask, and the trio actually succeeds in taking out
Seiroukai's trio of assassins - but still, Kage no Soto's brother Ranmaru
(Masatomo Nakabayashi) gets his hands on Saki's mask ... Now
the plot of this one leans towards the silly side, over-simplifies things
and contains leaps of reason. But that said, there's a trio of fun
assassins in this one, some original weaponry, inventive fights, and the
thing moves along at a brisk pace - in other words there's plenty to like
about this one.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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