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Okay, two backlog eps. Hope I can pull this off on the weekends, even though I don’t even know why my schedule’s so cramped on my rest days. WHAT THE HELL?!

Next on the spotlight for this episode is Gertrud Barkhorn, the “hardened” Witch with the rank of Lieutenant. There was already implications about what happened to her during the Neuroi attack on Europe, it was made to see the light that she had a sister, Chris, that she tried to protect while the rest of the people evacuated to Britannia. She failed, and now Chris is into a coma. Now, if only she would stop remembering her when she sees Yoshika…

Bedsex: Not again…

So that’s the reason she primarily avoids Minafuji. The way Trude sees her sister in her distracts her that even if she tries to avoid, she still gets affected. This worsens by the minute, and Yoshika herself was bothered by the ire of the upperclassman. Not like we care, but hey, it’s Yoshika the protagonist we’re talking about. I feel like watching a harem anime that has a female lead instead of the usual male one. But then again, that’s another typical genre overall.

Franchesca tsuntsun is so majestically done by Chiwa Saito, I nearly didn’t care less on Perinne tsundere.

Superiors try to pair Yoshika and Trude up, only to get themselves interrupted by another erratic Neuroi attack. It seems that all that emotion and confusion got into Trude and she went gung-ho on the attack, only to screw up the teamwork with her wingman, after which she gets hit by her own gun (or ammunition, since the ammo feed in her gun got hit by a laser, sending the bullets everywhere, which is one of the likely incidents that happen when an airplane is hit where it fires). Yoshika blasts in some sense back to Barkhorn, and we see her firing again for payback. Good for her.

MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA

Censorship-san at its finest again. That Yoshika-Lynne-Miu bath scene has 3/4 steam and 1/4 body parts. I’m fucking apalled. And then, and then, BARKHORN DOESN’T GET CENSORS?! How fucking biased can you get? I get blatantly showed panties unlike the previous ep, and then I get loads of it here? I SEE THEM EVERYWHERE, IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY GONZO IMPLIES IT TO BE. WHY FUCK IT UP WITH CENSORSHIP?

DO YOU SEE ANYTHING? And Miu looks like Ohno from Genshiken on this pic too.

Still, more Perinne tsundere. More like it’s getting implied bit by bit till Perinne gets her turn on things. The part where Yoshika introduces Natto gets in, too. Hopefully Perinne or Charlotte’s ep will be good too.

BOIN~ BOIN~ BOIN~! Charlotte kind of went conservative on her suit this time around compared from her first ep’s.

Armament info for the gun-junkie! Gertrud uses either MG42, MG131, or MG151 machine guns that she dual-wields. Incidentally, the guns also come in pairs on her commisioned aircraft parody, the Focke-Wulf FW 190. The guns were used by Nazi Germany in their Luftwaffe Battalion Fighters. The most used gun, the MG151, uses explosive 20mm rounds compared to the early versions, whose maximum is at 15mm rounds. Add in the higher ammo capacity and you’ll get longer and more powerful firing rates. Perfect for a trigger-happy person like Trude. However, the modifications on the gun from 15mm to 20mm greatly decreased its muzzle velocity, resulting in the gun having shorter range. Nevertheless, the punch it packs is still greater in a sense that it can also fire Mine Shells or shells that are made similar to incendiary artillery  and cannon shells. Anything hit by such bullets coming from the cannon would be down in an instant if hit critically. This makes the MG151/20 a dangerous gun cannon (pardon the pun) in a sense that it works as a double-edged sword: you have to fire close to be able to deal punishing damage. But still, not a bad gun overall, since I love close-quarters. I’d use it!