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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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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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