General OOO-pital: Siamese Cat, Stress, Genius Surgeon (KR OOO 13)

OOO is picking up some steam (they even threw in some movie scenes into this week's opening credits), with Eiji now holds the powerful SaGohZo Combo and the entrance of the alternate rider drawing ever closer.

Movie poster, FTW!

This week, the story arc centers around Kazari's newest Yummy, which possess a young surgeon obsessed with being the best so that she can satisfy her patients. The scene opens at the Cous Cousier, which happens to be cowboy themed this week. Ankh feels like he's being mocked by Chiyoko since he never dresses up, and she's totally fallen for Eiji fabricated tale of Ankh's homeland. Seems as if he's a bit testy about not knowing the whereabouts of his other core medals (my money is on the Kougami Foundation, but that's just a hunch), and he feels the need to bitch about that.

On the other side of town, Shintaro is doing some target practice when Satonaka appears, dressed to (casually) impress. She's going on vacation (They get vacation day? I wanna work for the Kougami Foundation now!), so Shintaro has been assigned to bodyguard duty. Shintaro gets pissed, 'cause that's the only emotion he ever feels, and has no choice but to agree.

Meanwhile at a local hospital, the resident surgeon Kei Tamura feels as if she's being sidelined because she's young, even though her patients are flocking to the hospital specifically to be treated by her. Sensing her frustration, Kazari capitalizes on her weakness to create his Yummy. With her new found confidence/arrogance, Tamura begins to perform solo, unsupervised and unauthorized operations. And not the fun kind either.

Ankh sniffs out the Yummy's activities, which lead Eiji and him to the hospital, now packed with potential patients who all want to be healed by this miracle doctor. Officals are only allowing returning patients to enter, however, but doesn't seem to be a big hurdle: Ankh accesses Shingo's memories and realizes that he's been checked into this hospital before. Score! After some costuming, Eiji, Ankh and Hina are able to get inside.

Maki and Kazari, best "friends"

Once again, we get a scene of Kazari and Kiyoto Maki plotting about a Medal vessel. Maki opens a case, and we finally get a glimpse of the new Rider's belt! It looks kinda odd, but so does the new rider . . .

Anyway back at the hospital, Eiji runs off to find the Yummy, when Hina and Ankh run into none other than Shintaro. Seems as if he assigned some nameless subordinate to guard duty, so that he could hunt the Yummy (he's probation period apparently wasn't serious either). A cripple fight ensues.

Cripple Fight
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Hina tries to stop the two, but only manages to separate Ankh form Shingo, allowing Ankh to knock Shintaro out cold and run off. Ankh catches up with Eiji, who's already tangled up with Kazari's matured Yummy, a Siamese cat-like creature. Eiji transforms into OOO and uses the SaGohZo Combi, nearly defeating the Yummy before it refuses with Tamura's body and escapes. Eiji, drained from using the combo, is unable to give chase, which pisses Ankh off even more, and he runs off. But wait, if he's gone, then what will happen to Shingo? Oh, no!



I guess we'll find out in OOO 14, coming out this week. This was a great way to start off this mini-arc, and the action was top-notch. 8.5/10. Not perfect, no, but it was entertaining. I expect the arc itself to be a solid 9 but right now I can't give it that high of a rating.