1.02 Love Means Never Feeling Regret
| 1.02 Love Means Never Feeling Regret | |
|---|---|
| Love Means Never Feeling Regret | |
| Kana | 愛とはけして後悔しないこと |
| Romaji | Ai towa Keshite Koukaishinai Soto |
| English | Love Means Never Feeling Regret |
| Episode # | LOVE! Season One Episode Two |
| First Aired | January 13, 2015 |
| Screenplay | Michiko Yokote |
| Storyboard | Masao Okubo |
| Director | Masao Okubo |
| Chief Animation Director | Yumiko Hara |
| Animation Director | Nao Kawashima |
| Location(s) | Binan High School Binan High School's Student Council Room The Earth Defense Club's Room |
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The Binan High School student council room is filled with elegant melodies. In order to carry out the "Total Conquest of Earth's Lifeforms Project" to purge the world of stupid people, the student council members Kinshirou Kusatsu, Ibushi Arima, and Akoya Gero meet with Lord Zundar, a mysterious creature that has come to conquer Earth.
Meanwhile, the five members of the Defense Club are implored by the pink creature they named Wombat to continue fighting as the "Battle Lovers."
Synopsis[edit]
Binan High School[edit]
Student Council Room[edit]
Kinshirou, Ibushi, and Akoya are drinking tea and eating cake in the student council room, discussing tea etiquette.
The lights dim and a hologram of the Battle Lovers from the previous episode is projected above the table as Lord Zundar starts the discussion of world conquest.
It is revealed advanced technology obscures the Battle Lovers' identities with pixelated faces and pitch-shifted voices. Lord Zundar explains that if they show up to oppose the next monster, the Conquest Club will need to consider countermeasures.
Kinshirou states while their end goal is world domination, they must first make Binan High School the model society with the Binan High School Conquest Project.
Lord Zundar says the council needs to find someone with strong, negative emotions to transform them into another monster.
Club Room[edit]
En brings up the topic of forests disappearing to make disposable chopsticks. The Defense Club discusses chopsticks, before talking about what it means to be a Battle Lover. Because they don't care enough about being Battle Lovers, none of the club members care to remember the actual terminology.
Ryuu points out that Mr. Tawarayama has been quiet, which shocks Wombat into saying the man will rot and running over to him. When Wombat is within a certain range of Mr. Tawarayama, the teacher will be resurrected. Wombat reveals that the other day when Yumoto was chasing him, the teacher tripped over him and fell down the stairs, leading to his death.
Yumoto says Wombat can cuddle him to make up for causing Mr. Tawarayama's death, but Wombat insists that he wants them all to transform into the Battle Lovers again, until the Earth is filled with love. The club members discuss what love is.
Cafeteria[edit]
Wario Hashida narrates about how he likes an orderly world, and hates things that don't divide evenly, such as Pi and cakes shared by families of seven. The student council transforms into Caerula Adamas and turns Wario into the Chopsticks Monster when he becomes frustrated at breaking his disposable chopsticks on every attempt. The monster sends out a beam of energy that causes the surrounding students to brawl over mismatched chopsticks.
Club Room[edit]
The Lovracelets react to the monster. En says he's going to take the day off, but Wombat insists that there have always been five heirs to the throne of love. Yumoto sides with Wombat, saying he feels all five of them should go as he likes odd numbers better than even ones. En relents, and the five transform.
Cafeteria[edit]
The Battle Lovers enter the scene, not bothering with their introductions as they said them back in the club room.
Some students comment on the intro being embarrassing, and Atsushi wonders if the students recognize them. Wombat says not to worry, and that their visages have been censored to protect their identities. The boys then decide to use their Battle Lover names as to not reveal who they are.
The Chopsticks Monster is angry that there are five Battle Lovers, and attacks Ryuu when he picks up one of the broken chopsticks, sending him flying through the cafeteria wall and leaving a crater in the exterior wall opposite.
School Grounds[edit]
The battle continues outside, with Yumoto fighting the monster one-on-one while the rest of the Battle Lovers watch. Before the Chopsticks Monster can perform his final attack, Yumoto gives a speech and launches a broken chopstick with his Love Stick to pierce the chopsticks armor.
The Battle Lovers then combine their Love Sticks, and Yumoto performs the Love Attack and Love Shower. Wario is left in a daze, sprawled out on a pile of chopsticks.
Caerula Adamas watches this unfold from the school's bell tower.
The Kurotama Bath[edit]
Gora is outside chopping wood, and asks Yumoto how the bath is.
En states that there was no need for all five of them to transform, as Yumoto handled the battle himself. Ryuu complains that he didn't get to show off, and Wombat replies he should try harder next time, leading to them to get into an argument.
Yumoto looks over at the corpse of Mr. Tawarayama, concerned if he should be in the hot bath, leading Wombat to panic.
Characters[edit]
- Kinshirou Kusatsu
- Ibushi Arima
- Akoya Gero
- Zundar
- En Yufuin
- Io Naruko
- Atsushi Kinugawa
- Yumoto Hakone
- Gora Hakone
- Ryuu Zaou
- Wombat
- Mangan Tawarayama
- Wario Hashida
Definitions[edit]
Music[edit]
Quotes[edit]
Ryuu: Oh, he's an idiot.
Wombat: Battle Lovers is a venerable and noble title!
Ryuu: Can't be, it's English.
Io: At least be consistent about whether you're an alien or a foreigner.
Trivia & References[edit]
- ひょんなことから本当に地球を守ることになった地球防衛部
ところで「ひょんな事」ってよく言うけど「ひょん」ていったいなんだろうね？ - By sheer coincidence, the Earth Defense Club really ended up protecting the Earth.
By the way, we often hear the expression "by sheer coincidence," but what exactly does "sheer" mean?
The blue bars at the end of the episode have the text:
- 「カエルラ・アダマス」とはラテン語で「ブルー・ダイヤ」という意味です
ちなみに、ズンダーニードル発射の呪文は金！銀！パール！プレゼント！です - "Caerula Adamas" means "Blue Diamond" in Latin.
Incidentally, the spell to fire the Zundar Needle is "Gold! Silver! Pearl! Present!"
Atsushi: What's with the Schrodinger reference?
- This is a reference to the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment.[2]
Ibushi: Argentum!
Akoya: Perla!
Caerula Adamas: Donum!
- Caerula Adamas is Latin for Blue Diamond, and their chant here is "Gold, silver, pearl, present." There is a Japanese brand of washing soap called Buru Diyaa, and their slogan is "Gold, silver, pearl, present" (kin gin peeru puresento).[3]
Also, while the monster this episode is called the Chopsticks Monster, the chopsticks aren't actually a physical part of the monster and instead are drawn to Wario's body from cups around the cafeteria and the trash.