This episode was battle centric, but still managed plenty of censorship and even let loose some visible nipples.
First, an opening battle scene featuring Maria and her sexy succubus outfit:
Later, Kurumi battles Basara and is of course defeated.
As she falls in defeat, the clothing over her right breast magically explodes for no reason mid-fall. The only thing maintaining her decency is a piece of clothing that clings to her nipple, but as you can see, it’s super imposed and quite fake looking, obviously meant as a form of TV censorship. That bit of cloth will be gone on BD for sure.
Here’s a GIF version to illustrate how super-imposed it is.
The GIF doesn’t really do it full justice, but when you see it in the episode it’s unmistakably blurry and smudgy and out of place with the rest of the artwork. No doubt made intentionally unconvincing to signal good BD changes to viewers.
And then the two crash land, and the little slip of cloth is gone:
It’s brief, but we get a blank boob a short time later. Not sure if they change this on BD as it happened fast:
Basara is put to sleep in a fairly dumb sequence of events. Kurumi’s boob is barely covered up by his hair.
Mio uses her powers to enter Basara’s dreams and wake him up. Naturally, she goes in butt naked and rubs a youthful Basara’s face into her boobs. This requires heavy censorship (both front and back), and at one point we even get to see her nipples around the outside edges of his head without IMS even bothering to censor it.
It does the trick, Basara wakes up and saves the stupid beotch that put him to sleep in the first place for no reason whatsoever.
A nice group shot:
And then Yuki redeems herself a bit by helping Basari defeat the guardian beast, and giving fanboys some upskirt for good measure.
Overall, this was actually a pretty good episode for action considering the obvious budget constraints. You really shouldn’t try to do action anime without being willing to drop some good money for high end animation but IMS gets solid bang for the buck here considering.
I liked that they managed to sneak in some nudity despite the entire episode being dedicated to action. But unlike other ecchi anime where the entire point of the action is set up more fanservice, the action in this episode felt mostly legitimate. I think this is a good example for other ecchi anime to follow, no matter how ecchi a show gets, never give up on trying to be a legit anime.
It’s a shame we don’t get next episode trailers. The next episode is titled “Erotic Succubus Out of Control.” Can’t wait.
