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Sukeban Deka II - Ah! Saki the Great's Beautiful Cheering Squad

episode 2.22

Japan 1986
produced by
Toei/Fuji Television
starring Yoko Minamino, Haruko Sagara, Akie Yoshizawa, Keizo Kanie
based on the manga by Shinji Wada

TV series
Sukeban Deka, Sukeban Deka (Yoko Minamino)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Saki (Yoko Minamino) learns that her high school basketball team plays a game against Hakudo High, and since she still has a score to settle with that school, she takes a personal interest in ... the cheering team of her school, which is literally just a one-man-band. So she offers her help in increasing the team's number and quality - but nobody seems to be intersted, not even her best friend Okyo (Haruko Sagara). Saki soldiers on though, but a two person cheering squad is really not much better than what they've had. But Yukino (Akie Yoshizawa), Saki's out-of-commission sidekick, has a heart to heart with Okyo after which Okyo pretty much forces half her class to join Saki's team, and Saki and Okyo manage to turn them into enthusiastic cheerers - much to the dismay of spies from the Hakudo High cheering team. And at the game, the two cheering teams try to outdo one another so noisily that the focus shifts completely from the team to the cheerers, and eventually even a fight between the two cheering teams breaks out that throws everything into chaos. But ultimately Saki's team shows the stronger performance, and the basketball team of Saki's school wins as well by a hair's breadth ...

 

One of the funnier episodes of the second Sukeban Deka series as it for a change leaves its usual thriller underscorings overboard for some high school/sports comedy - which doesn't sound like a brilliant idea by itself, but what makes this episode work is it's still structured and executed like a thriller, and at the same time doesn't shy away from exaggerations and sometimes just going for violence, this way very much subverting your standard high school/sports comedy - for an actually quite entertaining outcome.

 

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