Episode 89: The Bride is Anissina?!

Dec 09, 2009 00:33

Episode 89:The Bride is Anissina?!

If you need to watch the epsiode, go here (Community Locked).

Ah, so sorry for the delay. :/

Real Life happenings in my state have made keeping to a schedule a little difficult, and… you know what? It’s a long story, it’s not very funny, and it’s got no KKM in it.

So, onto better things! Here’s the recap!



Episode 89:The Bride is Anissina?!

So, when the episode opens, it’s just another day at Covenant Castle. Anissina’s standing in the middle of the courtyard, looking at…something…that pleases her. Perfect, she says, rubbing her hands in fiendish glee. Now all I need is…

And cut to Gwendal, who is unaware of the fate about to befall him, the poor man.




Okay, maybe he has an inkling.

You’ve arrived at the perfect time, my little labrat, Anissina trills. I need you to test my latest invention!




This is going to end in tears, I just know it.

And it does end, as usual, in an explosion, an injury, and an unconcerned inventor.




After the title screen, we’re in Gwendal’s office, as evidenced by the stuffed animals, where a meeting is going on. Yozak’s just finished telling us that he hasn’t found any leads on the White Ravens. You know, the secret society that actually part of this season’s Plot.

But that’s not as important as this filler episode we have going, so hey, Gwendal, what’s that on your face?




Gwendal does not appear amused, unlike some others. Conrart, you heartless beast. Just because you have no maryokou…

Yuuri suggests that Gwendal takes a few days rest, but he declines, because ‘our country’s king is rather slow at his paperwork’.

Yuuri attempts to defend himself when the door is thrown open, and in walks… Anissina!

She stops right in front of Gwendal’s desk, with a ‘Listen up, Gwendal...’

But before she can whip out the bondage gear, Conrart interrupts with: What’s wrong, Anissina? You look rather indignant.

It’s a conspiracy! They’re all out to get me! Even my own brother! D:

Okay, Anissina, dial down the paranoia. You need to go a little more slowly for Yuu-chan to get it.

Luckily for Yuuri, Gunter is in full-on teacher mode, and he explains to Yuuri that Anissina’s older brother, Lord Densham von Khrennikov, member of the Ten Nobles, has apparently incurred her wrath.

Um, why?

He wants to set up an arranged marriage for me, Anissina wails. Oh the horror.




Von Rochefort? Yuuri interrupts.

They’re also of the Ten Nobles, Teacher!Gunter expounds. They rule over Rochefort, which is rich in mineral resources.

Exactly, Anissina cries. He wants me to get married for the family’s advantage!

For someone like me, devoted to furthering science and the Women’s Movement, this marriage is an iinnnnsulllt!




The meeting with Rochefort is in two days, here in Covenant Castle. On an aside, why does everything happen at Covenant Castle? Doesn’t Anissina have a province of her own?

So why didn’t you just refuse, asks Yuuri.

Because I never do things the easy way my brother must be taught a lesson!

And how will you do that?

With this!




‘Romelo and Argent’, Yuuri painfully reads.

It’s one of Shin Makoku’s greatest tragedies, Conrart helpfully explains. It’s about two lovers forbidden to marry because of their differing social status, who committed a double suicide by drinking poison.

Sounds familiar, huh? :P

Well, every world has similar stories, Murata says.

And then Anissina unveils her plan: I want you to commit suicide with me, Gwendal!



That giant nerve should’ve been her first warning, really. XD

Just when Yuuri is about to go all Maou on them about how suicide is Never an Option, Ever, Anissina explains that it’s a fake suicide, because they’ll be drinking a potion that just puts them out for an hour.

Ah, so then your brother will regret having used you.

Very smart, Murata! As expected of His Eminence.

And Anissina turns to Gwendal with an expectant look, only to be told:




Huh? What, Gwendal?

I’m a busy man, Anissina! Not only do I need to help our clueless Maou with his paperwork, there’s a secret society sneaking around, and Saralegui, too…

And while I’m at it, I quit being your labrat!

Everyone is suitably shocked.

Very well then, Anissina says. I’ll find someone else.

Aw, look at Gwendal. Doesn’t seem very happy to hear that, does he?

Anissina walks out, leaving Gwendal to get back to work.

Meanwhile, Greta, the maids and Anissina are discussing ‘this travesty of a marriage’. They agree that something must be done.

So who’s going to play your lover?

Hmm…

How about Yuuri?




Or Murata?




Wolfram!





EPIC SNEEZE IS EPIC.

Bummer. How about Gunter, then?




Conrart?



I love how his reaction is so different from everyone else’s. XD

Yozak?

He’s done a runner, dammit. On Gwendal’s orders, he says.



Run, Yozak, ruuuuunnn!

Well, how about we re-enact the story of the novel, Anissina suggests. If I remember right, the woman had a large amount of maryokou, but the man had only a little, Doria/Sangria/Lasagna says.

Do we have someone like that around here?

We do!




The maids are not happy. Dammit, that’s our boy-toy! Go find your own, Anissina!

And so the woman posse convinces Dakoskos, who is not very confident, but he gives in, because he’s just a pushover that way.




The peeping toms bemoan the fate of their friend (don’t see them trying to save him, though XD) and promise to get him a decent burial.

It’s later, when the gang is walking down one of Covenant Castle’s looong, looong corridors. Anissina says she’ll need Yuuri’s help on the appointed day. Wolfram grumbles about how they got dragged into this in the end, only to have the conversation interrupted by…

Gwendal!

Who doesn’t look very happy.

Little Greta asks him if it’s true he won’t be helping Anissina. Gwendal has a weakness for cute little things, so he answers: Yes, it is.

But whyyyy, demands Greta. Isn’t Anissina your teacher? She taught you how to knit!

That was a long time ago, kiddo.

But she still treasures the very first thing you knitted!




A silence follows.

Anissina breaks it. I’ll be using the castle’s drawing room to meet with Lord von Rochefort, she says.

And walks off.

Gwendal stares after her for a while, before turning around and stalking off in the opposite direction.




Back from the break, and it’s Lord von Khrennikov, on the way to Covenant Castle.




That is not a good sign.

Dakoskos says goodbye to his beloved, because we all know how Anissina’s inventions tend to work out…




Talking himself into it, Dakaskos gets ready for the big shebang. The blue potion’s the poison, Anissina explains to him. The red’s the antidote.

Effe bursts in to tell them that Densham’s arrived. Wow, she says. You guys clean up nice!




Meanwhile, Densham is beside himself with glee at the prospect of marrying off Anissina, thanking Yuuri for allowing Covenant castle as a meeting place.



Man, that is a scary face, right there.

O-kaay, says Yuuri. We’ll just lead you to Anissina’s room, shall we?

Gwendal, however, is all by his lonesome in his office, trying to get on with the paperwork, but seemingly having no success.

Hmm. Wonder why. :P

The gang are walking Densham down the hall to Anissina’s room, with Yuuri fretting about how he isn’t a good actor. Conrart advises him to remain silent throughout the performance, when they hear a maid calling in the distance.

Something terrible has happened, Your Majesty!

Murata jumps into the fray.




It’s Anissina, they cry. Dakaskos went into her room, and…and…



CONFUUZED DENSHAM IS CONFUUZED. D:

Meanwhile, Gwendal’s trying some knitting therapy, but it’s not really helping, since it makes him have a flashback to when he and Anissina were much younger.

And it was all: invent, test, fail, destroy invention narrowly missing Gwendal. Rinse and repeat.

Hmm. Things do not seem to have changed much over the years.

Back in the present, Anissina tells Dakoskos that His Majesty and the others should be on their way even now.

She seems a little surprised that he’s taking so long to follow her instructions. She’s used to obedient man-slaves, see. :P

But before Dakaskos can unfreeze his body and drink the poison, in walks…Gwendal!

Who calmly goes up to the shocked Anissina and tugs her out of the room by her hand.




The maids are shocked!

Dakaskos is still frozen!

And Greta is very excited by this development.

Of course, just as the pair exit the room, Yuuri and co. run up behind them.

Everyone is confused by this sudden and unforseen development. Way to keep them guessing, Gwendal.




When asked what just happened, the maids do a re-enactment, for the benefit of the late comers.




Conrart and Gunter did not see this coming.

Of course, all this leads them to only one conclusion: surprise elopement!




I can hear Celi squeeing already. :P

Another Densham shot, because doesn’t he just look deranged here?

Back to Gwendal and Anissina, who are still silently making their way through the castle and out of the doors, only to find…Yozak, ready with horse.



Because a good spy is always there whenever he’s needed.

So Gwendal and Anissina rise off into the sunset.

Yuuri and co. arrive too late to stop them, yay. Hey, Yozak, what are you doing here? Well, I had a feeling I’d be needed here, and when I got here…

There’s certainly more to Gwendal than meets the eye, he says.

You can say that again.

This Gunter cannot believe it. And neither can Wolfram.

The maids and Greta are very happy, though.




…Aaand so is Densham.



It amuses me that he has the exact same pose as Effe. XD

She should’ve just told me about her and Gwendal, he says. I wouldn’t have pushed an arranged marriage onto her. Oh well.

Conrart and Murata approve as well. Good going, bro.

As they gallop off from Covenant Castle, Anissina goes off into flashback mode, and recalls the time when Gwendal, back in his rebellious stage, tried to calm his jealousy ‘youthful resentment’ over Dan Hiri by knitting stuffed animals.



This proves it. Gwendal has been whipped for a long, long time.

Back in the present, Gwendal has stopped the horse near a lake.

They stare into each other’s eyes for a long moment, with a ‘You…’-




- and then -




It’s back to the status quo.

In case Dakaskos had failed, Anissina says, I had my machine set up to destroy the castle at a moment’s notice!



I tell you true, Anissina’s mind scares me.

Well, at least I managed to obtain my original objective, she says. Thanks, Gwendal.

Gwendal seems a little surprised by this, but he quickly manages to recover.

And in the end, everything goes back to normal.

Dakaskos runs back to Ao, the cheating little tramp, but Ao is large hearted, and forgives him.

Gwendal is back to doing paperwork in his office again, where the gang awaits an explanation. So you were just checking up on her because you were worried, huh?

I was worried she might do something reckless, he corrects Yuuri.

The episode ends with Gwendal walking down the corridor to…somewhere…when he comes across Anissina teaching the maids how to knit.

Today’s lesson is sandbears!

So we’ll start with Most Important Tip One:




Ewwww, chorus the maids. Who the heck made such a creepy thing?

I did, mutters Gwendal to himself, and closes the door.

Anissina looks at the door, then smiles, and goes back to her lesson.

Finally, the episode really ends with Lord von Rochefort making an appearance, because Yuuri is a doofus and totally forgot to tell him not to come. :P

~



So we finally get a little backstory on Anissina, and some more on Gwendal (namely, he was always a labrat) with even Densham von Khrennikov getting some screen time.

We see where Anissina gets her crazy from, if her older brother is anything to go by. Seriously, I can’t make out if it was the strange animation or what, but Densham looked quite deranged to me at some points. Noticably whenever he was talking about the ‘benefits’ he’d gain from his sister’s marriage.

Surprisingly for someone who was so into the advantages he’d gain, he was quite calm about the idea of Anissina already having something with Gwendal. I can see Densham being the slightly cuckoo, but doting older brother. =)

Coming to the relationship at the focus of this episode, we see just how much Anissina relies on Gwendal. She seems to take it for granted that he’d help her get out of her marriage, the look on her face when he refuses is one of utter shock. She doesn’t storm at him in return, either, just simply leaving, which I think shows how deeply she's affected.

In my opinion, we can see how serious a thing it was, Gwendal declaring he wouldn’t help her, by the fact that when they meet again, they act for all the world like a couple that has just split up. Even when Greta spills the beans about Anissina ‘treasuring’ Gwendal’s first stuffed animal (he turns to look at her, perhaps for confirmation?) she keeps looking away.

Anissina also walks away from the group - even leaving Greta behind - when she has the last word in her conversation with Gwendal.

And of course, we see that Gwendal had been ‘helping’ Anissina test her inventions for quite some time. Going by one of the flashbacks, where he tells her they’d have ‘nothing to do with each other’, I’m assuming the reason why it’s such a big deal now is perhaps because this is the first time Gwendal’s really meant it, and Anissina knows it, too.

Gwendal, of course, has some pangs of guilt over the entire thing, even messing up his paperwork (which I didn’t ever think he’d be capable of :P) when he knows Anissina’s having her ‘date’ in the castle.

So, really, we have two stubborn people who don’t want to admit how important they are to each other. =)

Of course, we also get to know Dakaskos’s full name here (Lillith? Really? o_0) and the fact that he loves Ao the most. XD

And finally, finally, just a little squee over Anissina’s princess dress - never knew pink could look good on a redhead! - and the gorgeous background music all through the ‘elopement’ scene. =)

All in all, filler episode, but very enjoyable filler for a Gwendal/Anissina shipper like me. ♥

And now onto Episode 90, hosted by…teef_chan? :P
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