While Gruier
and Grunhilde have lunch, the former reflects on how much fun she had being a
pirate. The latter tries to remind her that being both princess and pirate
isn’t entirely appropriate but it’s clear she had fun too. Gruier thinks it’s
no coincidence Gonzaemon gave her the Bentenmaru’s ID ring.
The yacht
club goes up to the relay station to clean the Odette II, while Marika
alternates between helping them and cleaning up the Bentenmaru. Between those
and catching up with school she’s become completely exhausted but is unwilling
to ask anyone for help. By the second day of cleaning she’s so worn out she
accidentally drops the ID ring without realizing it. This leads to some trouble
when the bridge crew gets back and she can’t undo the master lock on the ship’s
systems. Fortunately, Grunhilde picked it up after she dropped it, and the club
shows up to help finish things. Gruier reprimands Marika for being careless
with the ring – it’s the sign of the bond between her, the princesses, and her
father. After the club leaves, Gruier expresses hope that she’ll be able to go
pirating with Marika again sometime. Grunhilde says she’d better take her along
as well.
Thoughts
I’m not
really sure what to say about this episode. All it really did was show that
Marika tends to take on responsibilities and try to do things herself to the
point where she takes on too much, which has been shown already. I’m pretty
sure the point of the episode was that she had to learn to start relying on
others more, but did that really need to be the sole focus of an entire
episode?
It didn’t
even really do what I thought it would, which was give the princesses a bit of
character development. Up to now they’ve basically been Marika and Chiaki Lite
– you’ve got the cheerful one, and the uptight one. Almost nothing new happened
here to expand on that. Sure, it had the clearest indication that Grunhilde is
having more fun than she’s previously been willing to admit, but at this point
that’s the same as Chiaki except for Grunhilde actually admitting it out loud.
Still, it now means they aren’t entirely
the same, so I guess that’s something.
Basically,
it’s just an epilogue to this arc like episode 13 was to the Ghost Ship arc,
but at least that one had Gruier giving Marika the ID ring, which’ll probably
end up being more important later, and explained a little more background –
albeit that would’ve been welcome earlier to give a better sense of the stakes.
All this episode seems to have was Grunhilde potentially loosening up a bit and
Marika accidentally stumbling on her family’s secret pot-au-feu recipe (so even
if the ID ring never is important again it at least did something). Eh, it’s
not like it’s a bad episode, it just doesn’t have much going on.
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