So, let’s get this out of the way: there’s a lot of alien catgirl zaniness in this show. There just is.

There, it’s said.

This kind of anime tends to follow a somewhat predictable feel that goes like this:

• Early episodes that are pure wackiness as new characters and concepts are introduced.
• Character centric middle episodes that advance the plot while continuing a lot of the humor and zaniness while adding new twists.
• A sudden turn towards seriousness in a late episode.
• A focus on the “Serious Plot” of the show that involves overcoming a great crisis.
• A resolution that leaves room for a sequel, avoiding the great disaster, but somehow leaving things changed, even if one might say it is for the better.

And so it is here.

There’s not really any need to spoil the plot of the late episodes. The plot is so tight with so much happening on a tight time schedule that in some senses, a person could have skipped the entire series up to that point and just hang on for the ride and still “get it” to a large degree… but it’s better if you have some interest invested in the two minor female leads, Aoi and Manami, and their romantic frustrations and desires, which get a nice resolution made possible by the joys of fiction.

So here’s the thing.

This show has the curvy alien girl shown above, Elis, and her “AssistDroids” (mute, cuddly plushy-like robots that are one of the main reasons to watch this show – they communicate with signs with writing on them like Genma back in the old Ranma 1/2 days), are capable of using “Catian” race weaponry that disintegrates inorganic matter while leaving organic matter, i.e. people, alone. This had been displayed by the use of hammers that worked really well on an offending tank in a previous episode, leaving a quartet of naked men covering their private parts and huddling after the engagement was finished. The hammer part – and the “turning into light” part – well, it’s a GaoGaiGar rip, I think. This show rips stuff. It just does.

So, the two major girl characters that rather want our leading, glasses-wearing semi-geekish male Kio rather badly, Aoi and Manami, are leading very frustrated lives right now, being stuck in “the friend zone” with Kio and being rather annoyed with each other in general. Aoi may be the introvert of the pair, but she’s a weapons girl too and very methodical. Manami’s been moping heavily rather than her usual volcanic self.

So, the episode culminates in a mock battle between the two, the sort of thing that is done with military fatigues and paintball guns, except they’re not paintball guns, they’re real guns firing Catian non-lethal bullets with properties similar to those hammers before.

In other words…

CLOTHING DISINTEGRATION BULLETS.

…Now is that silly, or what?

Actually, the two girls manage to get a lot out of their systems, with luck intervening to give Manami the edge (Aoi tries to bluff out of it but Manami knows she’s out of bullets), but a pair of female assassins (long story, but they’re working for “dog people” who want the “cat people” to get off Earth for good) put a red dot on Manami’s head. Aoi saves her, but the two are pretty stuck with open ground separating them from the sniping position, even as they have some forest to hide in initially (where most of the war game was).

The resolution isn’t quite shooting a bullet with a bullet, but it’s close, using the matter-disintegrating properties of their own bullets as Aoi essentially shoots Manami in the left shoulder blade to wipe out the bullet coming at her while Manami charges the enemy, playing both decoy and the real attacker. This disintegrates the incoming bullet as well as much of the fabric covering Manami’s breasts. It’s that kind of show…

Actually, once Manami gets in the face of the sniper team, pow, pow, and we suddenly have a couple of completely naked, well formed female assassins running for it, covering their breasts as strategically placed foliage prevents the viewers from seeing anything that would get the show banned from television, while Aoi (who is very fast) cuts them off from behind with a couple of AssistDroids.

So yes. Very, very silly stuff.