Nishizawa has a friend in France that she's never met. Penpals, perhaps? Not clear. But despite never having met, they're very close.

The friend is another rich girl, but a bit tragic. She's an only child, and a year ago her parents were both killed in a car accident. So she lives alone in a huge palace (the only real way to describe it; "mansion" isn't adequate) -- alone, that is, except for all her butlers. In particular, she has a combat butler named Pierre.

Shortly after the funeral, Pierre gave her the family's most precious heirloom. It's a book full of diagrams and text, all written in an unknown script. And when Shion picked it up, she heard a voice.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, strange huge arches have appeared. No one knows what they are, but since they didn't seem to be causing any harm, and were too damned big to attack or disassemble, people eventually learned to live with them and ignore them.

Of course, they eventually start doing things, and the frogs and their respective humans get involved in it. I don't think this one is as good as the third movie, but it's pretty good and it includes all the things it needs to: each frog teaming up with their respective human, spectacular events, lots of action and combat, and a touching, character-driven story with a happy ending. Plus the added bonus that Aki is in action-mom mode and gets heavily involved in the second half of the story. And we get to see Mois in an airline hostess uniform. Plus Keroro is more heroic than usual.

It's good. And there are some cool surprises along the way. Definitely worth watching.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 07:55 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 How far would I want to be into the series before watching the movies?

Purely hypothetically.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 15, 2011 09:52 PM (PiXy!)

2 Keroro isn't heavily plot-dependent. If you've seen the character intros, you're good to go. (Mind you, they continually throw new folks into the mix, but most of them don't recur too often, or aren't particularly deep and so who cares if Kogoro gets a cameo? Assuming you've met 623, the only one who'd throw anyone for a loop would be... Alisa Southerncross, maybe?)

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at May 15, 2011 10:20 PM (mRjOr)

3

In this movie there are 13 characters you need to know:

Keroro, Giroro, Tamama, Dororo, Kururu (the five frogs), Fuyuki, Natsumi, Nishizawa, Koyuki, Saburo (their respective human kids), Aki (the hot action-mom), Paul (the combat butler), and Mois (the destroyer of worlds).

All thirteen are regulars in the series, and IIRC Koyuki and Dororo were the last to appear, somewhere around ep 10 or so. Once you've met those, you're good to go on the movies.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at May 16, 2011 06:34 AM (+rSRq)

4 I think I can manage that.  If it's got Aki in it, I'm there.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 16, 2011 06:38 AM (PiXy!)

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