Before I get to the meat of this episode, I have to say: The pop culture homages in this series are a constant delight. Previous episodes gave us actual Guilty Gear -Strive- footage and a Star Wars x Titanic hybrid. This episode treats us to footage from the iconic 1984 sumo game Shusse Ozumo and an extended Precure parody. It’s not the first time an anime has gone out of its way to animate a fake magical girl show, but it feels extra fitting here, considering the director’s background as an animator on Precure. Not only are the action and transformation sequences well-animated and choreographed in their own right, they even got the acclaimed action animator Yutaka Nakamura to draw the end card illustration with the parody characters! Onimai consistently goes all-out on even the smallest details.
As for the story…
