Ten becomes a superhero!
Ten helps a superhero he finds dehydrated on the roof of a building. This man is Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28.
Yes, that is his name. Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 gives Ten a superhero outfit, a cape, a mask and power belt so that Ten can be a superhero just like Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28. These items should give Ten protection against attacks, superspeed flight and superstrength. These, Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 explains, will help him fight evil. Evil in Ten’s eyes is, of course, Ataru.
However these items aren’t all that useful and so Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 has to keep giving Ten more and more items with which to assist Ten in using them.
When Lum and Ran hear that Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 is in town they suddenly get mad and try to find Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28. It turns out that Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 isn’t a superhero at all, but is in fact a salesman. Back when Lum and Ran were kids, one of his colleagues (either Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #3 or Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #5) had given them similar superhero equipment and then billed their parents.
Eventually they find Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 and confront him. Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 claims that all the items he’s giving Ten are free. BUT there is a charge for the recharging kit! However he can give a 1% discount!
And so it is that Lum and Ran beat up Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28 and he leaves Earth saddened at his life as a Salesman of Righteousness.
Funny stuff, with a nice line in escalation with Ten’s constantly failing superhero suit. And also the repetition of the name Super Delicious Planet Golden Special Reserve Gorgeous Aftercare Kit #28. The Sake volume of Oishinbo that Viz put out this year clarified the joke that’s being made here, as one of the many rants Shirou Yamaoka makes is about the Japanese consumer’s blind acceptance of superlatives added to product names.
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Screenwriter: Toshiki Inoue
Storyboard: Junji Nishimura
Director: Junji Nishimura
Animation Director: Takafumi Hayashi
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And it’s new OP/ED time!
OP: “Chance on Love” by Cindy
ED: “Open Invitation” by Cindy
I like Open Invitation a lot as pop music can always use more steel drums. Also worth noting that the lyrics to this are credited to Ralph Mccarthy, who I believe is the same person as translator/author Ralph F Mccarthy AND the Ralph Mccarthy who has written for Ace of Base, Celine Dion and Paris Hilton.