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An elite finishing school is auctioning off students to elite
universities for profit rather than academic merits, so undercover crime
fighting student Saki (Yoko Minamino) is sent to investigate, and she
finds the school to be a rather militaristic, cult-like institute using
brainwashing techniques - and she sure doesn't get on well with the
school's educational culture. But climbing through the school's
ventilation shafts provides her with the necessary intel, and what she
can't overhear from there she's filled in by a classmate from her
old school who's presented as a student for sale and so happy about it he
gives away the school's plans. Thus at the auction, Saki and her sidekicks
Okyo (Haruko
Sagara) and Yukino (Akie Yoshizawa) make a dramatic entrance, defeating
all the baddies with Saki's yo-yo, Okyo's marbles, or just their bare
hands ... An episode with a borderline political vibe as it
criticizes the not exactly pressure-free top level Japanese educational
system - but of course, the episode's commentary is rather stuck to the
surface rather than showing depth, and ultimately it's the finale with
Saki and friends fighting the baddies using some inventive and slightly
hilarious means that makes the thing as a whole.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
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love and death and everything in between,
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