Thursday, December 17, 2009

NT Warrior: The Great Curry Battle!

Plot Synopsis
For his last stop around the world, Lan heads to Namaste, home of Lan's favorite food in the world, curry! In the Battle Network 4 there is a curry cooking contest where Lan says his favorite food is hamburgers (no idea if it's curry or not in the Japanese version), but why complain about this stupid detail? As part of Lan's tour, he gets to go on the Curry Tour of Terror, where he can sample eighty-eight different curries. Lan is insanely enthusiastic about this and pigs out on all the curries until he's stuffed like a giant pig. Of course, through the magic of cartoons, in the next scene he's lost all of that weight entirely as he heads to the last stop on the curry tour, Yahoot's World Famous Curry.

MegaMan is worried it's a trap by WWW, and Lan agrees, but he falls to the temptation of the curry. Stupid stupid Lan. He gets pulled down a tube, and finds the former members of WWW. Yahoot has built a machine that blends curry recipes based on WWW's performance in teamwork. At first, they argue and fight each other and the curry tastes horrible, and MegaMan doesn't have much trouble fighting them. Finally, they get their act together and start making progress on not only MegaMan, but the curry as well. They trap MegaMan in a cyber-curry-cooker (this episode has gone way too far off the deep end of sanity to even bother questioning this idea). With MegaMan trapped and burning to death, WWW's curry is "the best they've ever tasted!"

Well Mayl, Dex, Tory and Yai decide to visit Lan in Namesty, and after a few "Yai is really really rich" jokes, they locate Lan and show up just in time to help him out. They free MegaMan and their teamwork is far superior to WWW's. Yahoot quickly scans them into his curry machine, and the curry made is so good, upon tasting it, an explosion happens! MegaMan also gets a new style change, Elec Team style, and Lan hooks up Tory's PET to his to combine MegaMan and IceMan's power, similar to Mega Chips in Battle Network. MegaMan unleashes an attack he calls "Electric Blizzard" and it's so powerful it destroys Yahoot's machine, and restaurant.

Yai flies everyone back home, while Yahoot furiously explains his plan to get back at Lan by opening up a chain of curry restaurants in every major city. WWW realizes they've been duped in not actually fighting MegaMan, but helping Yahoot make a curry, and this really pisses them off.

Lan arrives back home, where his mother has made his favorite dish, Curry! Lan is apparently sick of curry now.

Critique
This episode is so stupid. It's stupid the way Ruby-Spear's Mega Man is stupid, but the good kind of stupid. Over the top, purposely insane, nonsense. You'll learn more about curry than you could possibly ever want to, and the whole concept is just completely bonkers. WackoMan shoots a potato at MegaMan, and that's one of the lower points of crazy this episode. I don't know what more you can say to this episode except, "What the Christ?" Oh yeah, it was pretty funny too.

Rating: Thumbs up!

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