"Girl Gun Lady" drama: Episode eight of ten recap

 

 Air Dates: April 7th until June 9, 2021 on MBS at 1:00 am, total of ten episodes

Subs are done by Bandai and the shows can be found at their YT channel

Bandai YT channel

 Main Cast: Each team has four members, the bottom character is the leader while the top three are students at the Minamoto high school. As you can see the team names go by the alphabet.... A, B, C, D and there may be more.

Team ALPHA TANGO

Sei Shiraishi as Koharu Tachibana.... Heroine of the show for lack of a better word. Koharu was an avid model builder who got out of the hobby but resumed it in the first episode. She made a figurine called Alice and the next thing Koharu knew she had been whisked away to a parallel world where her classmates were shooting guns at each other!

Momoka Ito as Natsuna Usui and Fuyumi Usui.... The school's track star and will be competing in the 800 meter Japan championship. But will she as Natsuna has only one live left(?). The answer is no as Natsuna was killed at the end of the sixth show. But her replacement on the Alpha team was her younger sister Fuyumi starting in the seventh episode.

Natsuki Deguchi as Akiho Inada.... Good friend of Natsuna's and loves science.

Yuno Ohara as Alice.... Commander of the team who lives in a parallel world as do the other commanders. Koharu first met Alice when she built a model that resembled her and think that's how all of the students became part of their team.

Team BRAVO TANGO

Manami Igashira as Chizuru Mizuno.... Killed for the third time in this episode which means she's been 'erased' in the real world.

Anna Ishii as Matsuko Kadaowaki.... In the third episode she replaced Mizuno as the fourth member of Team Bravo. At one time she was good friends with Koharu but they had a falling out two years ago. Matsuko is by far the toughest of the fighters and also the best at making models which means he guns are the most powerful.

Yuuka Suzuki as Rin Otake....

Yura Someno as Aoi Umebayashi....

Rio Teramoto as Bianca.... Team commander

 Team CHARLIE TANGO

Azusa Ohara as Ichika Ikushima....

Rina Kannami as Futaba Ikushima....

Hina as Mitsue Amemiya....

Momoka Ishida as Charlotte.... Team commander

 Team DELTA TANGO

Ai Mikami as Rei Kitamoto.... Very ruthless killer

Momoko Tanabe as Natsuki Higashino....

Utano Aoi as Kana Minami....

Sakura Ando as Daisy.... Team commander

 Rest of the cast, twenty characters in all though won't be talking about them too often.

Aya Asahina as Mirei Hoshimiya.... Teacher for many of the students.

Masanari Wada as Kaoru Moriyama.... School's physician and is a model freak.

Gaku Hamada as the shop owner.... Owns the FFF shop where the girls purchase their models. He also has some ties to the games which are unknown at this point.

 Links to the previous recaps:

Episode one .... Episode two .... Episode three .... Episode four

Episode five .... Episode six

 

 Would probably help to read those above recaps as I won't be talking too much of what's taken place, like this post they're not too long. Am starting this on the 8th but probably won't finish until tomorrow as though these recaps aren't too long am getting a tad burnt out on writing so many. The final show airs tonight, won't be viewing either of the last two shows until this post is done. This was the best episode to date and so much took place but more importantly the possibilities there are for the finale.

 Above are the standing for the 'Girl Gun League'. There's three weeks/battles to go and before they began the top screenshot above showed the standings. For team Alpha to win the league they would have to win their last three battles, we didn't see the first two but both were victories and as you can also see above they've moved into second. But the only position that matters is first and what will happen with those runner ups? The Alpha girls think they'll be placed in the next league but will that really happen? More on that to end the recap off, this intro was a longish primer for the action. 

 In the last recap the new girl Fuyumi, Natuna's younger sister, joined the Alpha team to replace her as she was killed in the sixth show. Fuyumi's weapon is a Change Girl Gun, the Alpha girls didn't know how it worked until this show. In the top screenshot Akiho was explaining it's three functions with the pineapple looking object being the most powerful, I'm thinking there may be a fourth function which is to shoot regular bullets. As mentioned in that intro it's the final week of the 'Girl Gun League', currently team Bravo is on top and only team Charlie has no chance of winning. All matches until now have lasted thirty minutes but this final match will be an hour and what a brutal affair it will be as the finale will be .... the Last Person Standing!!!!

 But was also wondering what would have happened if there wasn't a clear cut winner after an hour. No need for wondering as the dozen girls in this contest were truly out for blood and the action began about a second into the battle! Rules were simple, whoever was the last team/person standing would be the winner of the league but what would those winners actually win? For the team commanders it's a possibility they could be transformed from a model into a human, that's the ultimate wish of Alice who is the Alpha team commander. For the first six episodes our heroine Koharu only fired her weapon once but she did help her Alpha team win a few matches. But in the seventh episode Koharu said she's 'All In!" and is now the  second best fighter after team Bravo's Matsuko. The pair were once close friends but drifted apart two years ago but are getting along slightly. They even built some new model weapons together for the final battle and Matsuko did ask a probing question to Koharu, if it came down to it could she kill her ex-best friend?

 That's team Charlie in the above top screenshot, they're such a group of goof balls but had surrounded Matsuko early on in the match. But three against one wasn't good enough odds for them(!) as Matsuko was able to blow them away as you can see in the next screenshot with her improved Girl Gun Blaster. Matsuko may be on the first place Bravo team but really doesn't care about her teammates. A member of the Delta team had captured one of her mates and said she'll kill her unless Matsuko throws down her weapon. That was never going to happen as instead Matsuko shot both the Delta girl and her own teammate(!), that's right above too. So while Matsuko is the best fighter and on the first place team I've always though the Delta team was the toughest and most ruthless.

 Especially their best shooter Rei who killed the Alpha girl Natsuna in episode six and that's one reason Koharu is out for revenge.  Rei was in a head to head battle in the Minamoto high school's gym with Akiho from the Alpha team, Rei had already shot Alpha's new member Fuyumi in the leg. Just when it appeared Rei was about to eliminate Akiho her gun jammed, above you can see that Akiho jumped right up to her dreaded enemy and instead eliminated her. So where we stand so far in the battle is that all three members of both the Charlie and Delta team have ben killed. Plus two from Bravo, as mentioned Matsuko killed one of her teammates plus Koharu took care of the other. So now it's down to three gals who are in the gym, team Alpha should have the advantage with two members but squaring off against Matsuko even ten fighters may not be enough.

 That ten to battle her is so true as within a matter of seconds after entering the gym Matsuko has shot Akiho to death, as was to be expected it's a one on one battle against her ex-best friend Koharu. Matsuko looked a bit like Rambo with two powerful guns, there was really no way Koharu could top her unless she had some help. So for the third episode in a row the Alpha commander Alice used the Plastic Mode weapon which is powerful yet it leaves Alice a bit defenseless and she has no spare lives to play with. Alice wasn't killed but the Plastic Mode flying weapon was destroyed easily by Matsuko whose weapons are stronger than ever.

 Seemingly Koharu has only a few seconds to live, will some stroke of luck change that? YES is the answer as there was a third girl still alive in the gym. That was the rookie Fuyumi who had been forgotten about after she had been shot by the Delta girl Rei. She was on the gym's stage and quickly threw her Change Girl Gun to Koharu which did frighten Matsuko who knew it's powers. That weapon has many uses, such as shooting a flare that can blind your opponent. Which is what Koharu did at first, Matsuko couldn't see a thing and began firing wildly which was a huge mistake as she soon ran out of ammo. Koharu then quickly changed the gun's setting to the grenade function, there's no way she could have done it a few episodes ago  but Koharu is a changed girl who has to win the battle. She pointed the gun at her ex friend Matsuko and fired, it was a direct hit which ended Matsuko's life but even in victory Koharu broke down in tears wondering why life had to come down to this?

 Hmmmm, so team Alpha was the winner of the grudge match and also the champion of the league but that gave no satisfaction to Koharu. There was an announcement made by the game's rulers(?) that in the following episode there would be a ceremony held  but will it be what Koharu's expecting? Not according to Matsuko who Koharu saw the following day in school. Matsuko had gone through the game before and came out as the champion. She's told her ex-friend Koharu that all of the contestants will be killed at the ceremony(!) save for her and the show ended on that cliffhanger. That wraps up this recap and what another thrilling show this was, best episode to date. I'm looking forward to these last two shows and the final one airs tonight so will have the last two recaps this weekend.