The anime starts out with a brief intro, informing us that the anime takes place Star Century 0354 - about 500 years in the future. We're then shown a rather large space battle over a volcanic-looking world. We see the cast from Kiddy Grade taking part in this space battle, explosions everywhere, and some unknown enemy attacking this volcanic world. Can't imagine why, doubt anything could be alive down there.
Well it turns out the planet is actually about to explode and said explosion could wipe out the entire galaxy. Why is the planet exploding? Who's attacking it? Who knows! We then see Éclair and Lumière just before they sacrifice themselves to stop this planet from exploding. Well, we're certainly off to a good start!
After an intro sequence that seems to serve as a warning sign for what we're about to dive into, we get another intro informing us that this takes place 25 years after that opening scene on the Galactic Trade Organization homeworld of Aineias. We then meet the first of the main characters, Ascoeur, who is working as a waitress at a cafe in the GTO headquarters. I feel the need to note that the woman she works under is rather... manly.
Ascoeur is immediately ordered by her boss to go to the director's office, and we cut to her running through the halls and greeting everyone on the way there. I'd much rather she didn't, though. Her voice is rather grating. Inside the director's office, Tweedledee and Tweedledum are accepting a mission from Director Hiver when Ascoeur bursts in and loudly announces her presence. We then find out she was called there for... a rush coffee delivery, only Ascoeur forgot the coffee. I think the anime wants to show us that she's incompetent, but Ascoeur's boss didn't exactly make any effort to get the point across clearly. She flatout told Ascoeur that she needed to go to the director's office right away, the hell did you expect her to do? Q-Feuille, Ascoeur's more competent counterpart, arrives shortly after with the coffee but is too late anyway as the meeting is over. Ascoeur and Q-Feuille are told they can have the coffee instead and Ascoeur is all too happy to oblige.
Cut back to the cafe and we're introduced to Alisa and Belle, two more girls who happen to be friends of Ascoeur and Q-Feuille. The two girls make an order, one asking for "her usual" which Ascoeur has some difficulty remembering but Q-Feuille remembers perfectly. Ascoeur manages to deliver the order without any issues, but then manages to trip over a potted planet somehow. This leads to a scene where Ascoeur gets to show off her bloomers, which everyone has seen because of Ascoeur's fall. And no one knows what they are. I guess bloomers are a new thing in the Kiddy Girl universe. Odd. Even odder is Ascoeur seems to have been convinced that these bloomers will make her lose weight and become rich, a "lucky item" if you will. Yes, that's where this episode got its name from. And now we can truly see what direction this episode is going in...
Eventually, Mi Nou, the manly lady boss of the cafe, notices Ascoeur flashing her bloomers and proceeds to chastise her. As punishment, Mi Nou decides she needs to take the bloomers off. In the middle of the cafe. Ascoeur almost does it just because Mi Nou asked, but then realizes what she's doing and refuses. The ensuing argument is beyond stupid. Mi Nou wants Ascoeur to take them off because she thinks they're the cause of Ascoeur's lack of shame. Ascoeur refuses, like ANY sensible person would in this situation. This leads to a back and forth "Take them off!" and "I will not!" between the two, ending with Mi Nou suddenly switching and saying "Don't take them off!" Ascoeur then takes them off. In front of the director, who is now in the cafe, I might add. There's stupidity, and then there's Ascoeur. From now on I'm calling her "Pink-Haired Nitwit".
After this scene, Pink-Haired Nitwit is serving tea to the director when Director Hiver mentions that her hair is a bit out of place. Ascoeur reaches in her pocket for her comb, only to finally realize her panties are in her pocket for some reason. In other words, she's not wearing any. Can you say 'hijinks ensue'? After an overly enthusiastic hug from Mi Nou, which almost results in Ascoeur flashing everyone, we get to see a pair of eye catches. They're weird. Let's move on.
Customers arrive, seemingly giving the Pink-Haired Nitwit a break. However, as it soon turns out, they're not customers but rather assassins using holograms to disguise themselves as old men so they can assassinate Director Hiver. We know this because they immediately drop the holograms and start shooting at everything BUT the director and manage to hit NOTHING. Guys, if you're going to assassinate the director, you might want to try ACTUALLY AIMING FOR HER! She's sitting down for crying out loud! You couldn't have a clearer shot! By the time they DO aim for the director her assistant, Sommer, has set up a shield. Neither of them lose their cool for a second throughout all this. It's like they know their enemies are utter idiots. The would-be assassins respond by taking Alisa and Belle hostage and blocking all entrances with... some kind of foam insta-wall?
Naturally, the answer to these idiots is another idiot as Pink-Haired Nitwit springs into action. After announcing her presence, one of the assassins takes aim at her. Ascoeur then reveals her power: teleportation. Using her comb, which is apparently also a laser sword, Ascoeur destroys one of the assassin's guns before showing off her teleportation power some more. Given that she seems to just be teleporting around inside bullet hell you'd think she'd get hit. Q-Feuille then shows off her own power, the ability to... throw smoke bombs. That release 'jamming smoke'. We know its jamming smoke because the assassins say so repeatedly.
In the jamming smoke, the Pink-Haired Nitwit continues the fight and reveals another weapon from her comb: armor-piercing tranquilizer darts. The fight scene then takes an abrupt turn for the silly as Ascoeur suddenly remembers she's still not wearing panties, but is then distracted by more of the assassins. After fighting them off, she decides her best solution... is to fire these needles in all directions. And I'll have to assume these are some kind of laser tranquilizer darts since she never runs out of ammo, not that that even begins to make sense. She gets them, but gets Belle too. Poor Belle.
Backed into a corner, the last assassin - can I even call them that at this point? - uses some device that causes all their armor to merge into a robot dragon. This results in them all in wearing nothing but their boxers for some reason. Equal opportunity fanservice? He then commands it to destroy everything. While its facing him. Ignoring the obvious stupidity, are you guys REALLY assassins or are you just a demolition crew? After launching a laser blast at the assassin-wannabe, the robot dragon immediately searches out the director. It then, for some reason, sprouts laserswords from its arms. Can it only use that laser blast once per day or something because that seems like a perfectly valid tactic AND it would spare us from having to sit through the rest of this series!
Sadly, even with this it seems the assassination attempt is doomed to fail as the Pink-Haired Nitwit jumps down from out of nowhere to stab it in the head. Instead of stopping it, this causes the dragon to fly wildly through the building to try to shake her off, smashing through wall after wall but to no avail. My theory that these guys are really a demolition crew is proving more accurate by the second. And at that job they succeed in spades because this dragon causes absolutely massive damage to the headquarters. Even the armored shutters they lower fail to slow it down! Well, one does, but it just slices through the shutter with its laserswords. Seriously though, this thing is tough! Why didn't they just send a few of these at the GOT headquarters? There'd have been nothing left but rubble!
The dragon finally goes down when Ascoeur reveals that she can extend her comb-lasersword and slices through it. Well THAT would have been helpful BEFORE it started wrecking the place you pink-haired nitwit! Ascoeur then finally gets her panties back and puts them on just in time for a scolding in the director's office. Well, what's left of the director's office. Turns out Ascoeur and Q-Feuille are both ES Cadets. Well, good to know the Pink-Haired Nitwit isn't a full fledged ES Member. They're also told that, at this rate, they won't become ES Members and Ascoeur is forced to apologize for the damage.
As the episode reaches a close, we're finally introduced to two more REAL ES Members, Trixie and Troisenne. These two are new characters to Kiddy Girl. They ask Director Hiver to lay off Ascoeur and give Ascoeur a few words of encouragement. The episode ends with a clean-up operation... and Ascoeur showing off a new pair of red bloomers, which she claims are 3x as effective. Cue ending credits, and I couldn't be happier to see them.
This episode was just stupid. What's clearly meant to be funny just ends up being groan-worthy instead. There's barely a punchline to be had, Ascoeur's annoying even down to that grating voice of her's, and Q-Feuille barely got any focus. Hell, we hardly know a thing about Q-Feuille other than that she's actually competent! Not that it takes much to look competent next to Ascoeur.
But this isn't nearly over yet, oh no! This anime is a full 24 episodes long, afterall!
Next Episode: Sweet, Trap
