Beach episode! But it's also a character building ep for Perrine, and makes her very sympathetic.

The core of the story is a dungeon-crawl, and it's a lot of fun. And Sakamoto does something... unexpected.

The first series had two eps which were fan-service trifles (6 and 8) and this one does too (7 and now 9).

Anyway, some borderline NSFW pics below the fold.

UPDATE: Rewatching this episode, it seems to me that the girls are unreasonably good at holding their breaths underwater.

Then it occurred to me that one of the medieval tests for witches was to see if they'd drown. If the suspected witch did drown, well, then you knew she wasn't a witch.

If she didn't drown, then you knew she was a witch, and you'd burn her. (Cue Monty Python sound clip...)

Anyhoo, given that the witches didn't suffocate high in the stratosphere, maybe they don't have the same vulnerability to loss of oxygen that normal folks do. Maybe they can't drown.

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1 To be honest, at first look I didn't thought they were nsfw, let alone borderline. Thinking a second time, I was wondering, am I losing perspective because I've seen anime almost all of my life? Or is it because of their age? (haven't seen Strike Witches so don't know if they resemble their age)

Posted by: Jaked at September 01, 2010 05:25 PM (EjkUJ)

2 I figured "better safe than sorry".

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 01, 2010 05:28 PM (+rSRq)

3 ...fan-service trifles....

I can't understand this.  It's like you're speaking some other language or something.  I know what the words mean; they just don't make sense that way.

Eh?  What's that, Luna?  Um hmm...oh.

My cat has just explained it to me.  Sorry, but I'm going to have to move at the next union meeting that you be stripped of your card, Mr. Den Beste.  Can't have otaku using those two words together that way, I'm afraid.  People might get the wrong idea.

Posted by: atomic_fungus at September 02, 2010 02:43 AM (vKZ0t)

4

Anyhoo, given that the witches didn't suffocate high in the stratosphere, maybe they don't have the same vulnerability to loss of oxygen that normal folks do. Maybe they can't drown.

Maybe Sakamoto was right, "there's nothing a Witch can't do!"

Posted by: Jaked at September 02, 2010 03:57 PM (EjkUJ)

5 Analyzing their ability to breathe underwater and at high altitudes sounds like a literal catgirl-killer.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at September 02, 2010 05:18 PM (fpXGN)

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