Ah! My Goddess Season 2 – 4

After the Christmas present fiasco last week, Sayoko, in a rather odd fit of niceness, invites Keiichi and Belldandy to her gigantinormus house for a Christmas party. Skuld, Urd, and the rest of the auto club tag along. Sayoko conveniently forgets to tell Keiichi and Co. that they were supposed to dress up (the rest of the party goers were in tuxes and gowns), which immediately alerts Keiichi that something's amiss. Skuld and Urd help themselves to massive amounts of ice cream and booze, while Dai-chan and Dan-chan make asses out of themselves, as usual. Sayoko finally arrives on the scene, floating down from the rafters in a fancy basket. After taking credit for the party that her parents set up, Sayoko challenges Belldandy to a series of "side-shows" to "entertain the guests". Keiichi affirms his suspicions, and Belldandy happily hops up on stage. The first "side-show" is a singing contest. Sayoko butchers some song that no one has ever heard of, and gets perfect 10s from the judges, as they are all her relatives. Belldandy does a fantastic rendition of "Open Your Mind", the Season 1 OP, moves everyone at the party to tears, and gets perfect 100s from the judges.

Ah, nostalgia. AonE and AnY even used the old karaoke style.

This, of course, pisses Sayoko off, so she moves to the next round: Magic Tricks! Sayoko, in a bunnygirl suit, taps a top hat and summons a few doves. Belldandy, also bunnyfied, summons a gallant swan, and receives perfect 1000s from the sobbing judges.

I'm sorry, but bunnygirl Bell > bunnygirl Mikuru

Round 3 is taming a lion. Sayoko gets hers to jump through a ring of fire. Belldandy's suddenly gains the disposition of a kitten, which results in the judges giving Bell a plethora of different scores, from 100,000 to 100 billion. Round 4 is a swimsuit competition. The lights stay on Sayoko and her bikini (the same one she wore at the University pageant in Season 1) for about 10 seconds, then move to Bell and her once piece (again, the same one from the pageant). As Bell ignores the crowd and waves at Keiichi, Megumi says that Belldandy is the perfect woman, and that Keiichi is the luckiest guy on the planet (which is true, the bastard). Keiichi ponders on the consequences of keeping a goddess like Bell all to himself, but is interrupted by Sayoko attempting to get Bell drunk, so that she can show her "shameful face" to the world. Keiichi tries to intervene, but is stopped by a very inebriated Megumi, because she thinks it would be wonderful to see Bell drunk. I wholeheartedly agree, as does certain aspects of Keiichi's…brain. Yeah, brain.

It's like a dream come true…

The more rational part of Keiichi's brain kicks in, and he tries to break out of Megumi's grasp, to no avail (note to self: never underestimate a drunk Japanese woman.). Bell begins to chug down what Sayoko gives her, and eventually out drinks the only woman that can out drink a full grown Japanese man. Sayoko is rolled off on a stretcher, and Keiichi runs to Belldandy's side to make sure she's alright. Megumi stops by to check on them, and hands Keiichi a cola so that he can sober up. Keiichi, being abnormally sober, hands the soda to Bell, who is equally as sober, and Bell chugs it, having never had one before.

I think she likes it…a little too much.

A very drunk Hasegawa then begs Keiichi to tell her that she's not a middleschooler anymore, and begins to show him her breasts. Unfortunately, this scene isn't as awesome as it was in the movie, because nothing blew up. Keiichi seems to notice this too, and it turns out that Belldandy is…drunk. Off of cola. That is so Belldandy. Bell overhears Hasegawa's request to be bigger, so she grants it…sort of. Instead of giving her bigger breasts, she makes Hasegawa bigger. A lot bigger. As in, giant size bigger. Keiichi consults Urd on the matter, who laughs hysterically at Bell's drunken-ness, being drunk herself. Skuld is, as usual, useless, so Keiichi turns to grab Bell…and she's gone. We then cut to Bell on the streets, granting random wishes to passers by and messing them up royally. Her first go at it is with a starving kitten. She hugs the poor thing, says her "May happiness be with you!" mantra, and transports the kitten to the party…and Urd's head.

Keiichi, not knowing that Belldandy is drunk, prepares for a very large explosion

I don't know what you're talking about, so here's a drunk goddess with a kitten on her head.

Skuld bursts out laughing, which pisses off drunk Urd (sidenote: what do we have to do to get Skuld drunk? Rootbeer float?), who proceeds to start throwing lightning around. Skuld retaliates with her Skuld Bombers, and the two trash Sayoko's mansion. Keiichi, who seems to be experiencing a large amount of misfortune, searches for Belldandy. Unfortunately for all involved, he isn't the first to find her.

She's baaaaack…

The lightpole that Marller is standing on falls over, and Belldandy is the culprit. Apparently, it was getting tired standing up, so Belldandy let it lie down for a bit. Marller accuses Bell of starting a preemptive attack (which is the opposite of what Bell would really do) and declares that she will defeat Belldandy. Belldandy, still drunk, sympathizes with Marller and asks if that's her wish. Bell recites her "May happiness be with you" spell…and falls over. An understandably confused Marller asks what the hell is going on, and Bell responds that she has granted Marller's wish, and that she hopes her "downfall" will bring Marller happiness. Marller runs off crying, thinking that Bell is making fun of her, and Bell stays on the ground, rather confused and still drunk off her ass.

If Marller were a lesbian, I'm sure she would be shedding tears of joy about now…

Keiichi is still looking for Bell, and his recent misfortune has not slacked off, as he slips on a banana peel, gets hit in the face with a soccer ball, and gets crapped on by a bird, all in a matter of 30 seconds. Poor guy. Keiichi finally manages to find Bell, who happens to be fixing "balloon girl"'s teddy bear. He runs to her, and the little girl suddenly pulls out a cellphone (even she is a bit surprised) and hands it to Keiichi. It's from Urd (who is still fighting with Skuld, goddess style), who explains that Keiichi is having misfortune because Belldandy is using his happiness to give happiness to others. The little girl's bear suddenly bites Keiichi, who is forced to let go of Bell, who promptly disappears. Bell continues to "cure" people's misfortune by giving a lonely girl a flounder steak instead of a perfect boyfriend (Japanese pun), making a sidewalk into an escalator because an old lady was tired of walking uphill, and giving a dog an entire dinosaur skeleton instead of a single bone. All of this results in some bad times for Keiichi. Bell eventually waders into Aoshima, the last person who you would want her to grant a wish for. Aoshima goes on about his "heart being torn to pieces", and drunk Bell says "Kawaii so!" ("poor you!"). Aoshima's reaction to this made my spleen explode. "Hounto desuka?!?" ("Really?!?"). Bell, of course, asks if there's anything she can do.

You lay one fucking finger on her and I'll…get really mad, cuz it's only anime. Damnit.

Keiichi finally shows up, and realizes that this is a very bad situation. Aoshima sees him, and immediately makes his wish: he wants Belldandy. Keiichi OMFGs, and time slows…until Bell reveals that that's the one wish she can't grant, because she has a bigger wish to fulfill.

Awwww

Keiichi counts the wishes that Bell has granted, and the misfortunes that he has encountered, and comes up with one extra wish, which means there's one more misfortune. The fountain behind Aoshima starts gushing out water, and Keiichi grabs Bell and runs off while Aoshima gets soaked. After they stop running, Bell asks Keiichi about his misfortune. Keiichi says that he would like to say that he will never have any, but his one misfortune in life is to have to eventually let go of Belldandy's hand. Bell smiles, says her "May happiness be with you" spell, and falls asleep in Keiichi's arms (note that Keiichi freaks out at first, totally forgetting the 50+ times Bell fell asleep in the same way after using too much power). Keiichi tries to pick Bell up to carry her home, and discovers that Bell had magically glued their hands together. Heh.

It's official: drunk Belldandy is win. We desperately need drunk Skuld, like, now. This episode did affirm that, despite there being a ton of ChidorixSouske fanboys/girls out there, BellxKeiichi is the best anime couple ever. Now all we need is a Bell and Mikuru moè showdown. Bunnysuit contest, moè eyes contest, maid outfit contest…I could go on, but my nose is bleeding. Now I'm off to study for my English final. Hooray for enthusiasm.