It’s Nijuu Mensou no Musume Episode 5, and in this episode, the group members decide to do their best Kalaido Star impersonation as they pass themselves off as a circus to pull off their next heist. However, Chiko soon becomes friends with the daughter of the head of security of the museum where their targeted item is being kept, and starts having some doubts about the mission.
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- In the town of Toran, the mayor opens the tricentennial celebration of the town by showing off the “Clock of the Three Magi,” which is a valueable treasure the town has. Oh yeah, they’ve also invited a circus troupe which is actually Twenty Faces’ group undercover.
- In the green room (is that what you’d call it for a circus?), Chiko is reading a newspaper article about the circus which was made up, and is peeved that they called her a “child” in it, even though she is now almost 13.
- In the circus, Chiko acts as “Lily” a tightrope walker, while Twenty Faces acts as “Baron Doyle” who has an amazing disappearing act.
- The next day, Chiko is checking out The Clock of the Three Magi when a girl who was at the performance the night before recognizes her and wants to be friends. The girl, Angie, turns out to be the daughter of the head of security of the museum.
- The next day, Angie is waiting at the museum for Chiko and shows her a secret way into the museum, remarking that it’s be easy for a thief to get in that way, but remarks that her father would lose her job if that happened.
- In the town, Ken is being followed by someone, and sneaks into an alley way. The man follows him there and is caught by Ken, who demands who he’s working for. The man barely gets out “Tiger” when Tiger himself shows up and slashes Ken’s face and walks away, saying that it’s a hello to Twenty Faces. Ken then throws his knife and hits Tiger’s henchman in the back of the neck, but Tiger just walks away.
- Meanwhile, Twenty Faces is about to ask Chiko if she wants to sit this one out when they get word of Ken being injured. Ken wants to do the job, but Chiko tells him to rest, and that she’ll do it.
- As the group does their final circus performance, Twenty Faces and Chiko leave to execute the plan. Chiko and the others enter the museum using the secret entrance and then steal the artifact by bringing it through the roof and they all escape on Twenty Faces’ blimp.
- As the airship leave, Angie watches it fly away with a demented look on her face…
This series seems to just have one good episode after another, and this is yet another one. This time, Chiko seems to have some doubts about the job, since it may negatively influence her new friend, but goes through with it anyway. However, clearly things don’t appear to be what they seem given the last scene. Also, Tiger making a cameo in the middle and then not showing up again probably has some meaning. Also, there was a very brief scene were Twenty Faces seemed to discussed having “everything set up as planned” with the mayor, but that’s all we saw of that. I’m wondering if we’ll see that scene come back as being important later.
Also, it looks like Ken has finally killed someone, given that he threw a knife into the back of the one guy’s neck, and Twenty Faces warned him about not doing that in the first episode, so I wonder if we’ll see some results from that. In any case, having half your face slashed with wolverine claws can’t do much for his complexion.
In any case, we once again jump ahead about a year in this episode, so we’re getting close to Chiko being 14, which is how old she’s supposed to be in most of the series, I think.
Not only do we keep getting fed more and more development by Chiko, but we’re now perhaps starting to see a plot line that will start bridging multiple episodes. Man, the more I see of this series, the more I like it.
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is Chiko Gay? :((