Space Battleship Tiramisu Zwei Episode 4: Velcro Wallets and Cockpit Stickers

Space Battleship Tiramisu Zwei continues the trend of focusing on the minutia for its humour with this week both Isuzu and Subaru getting called on fairly petty things by minor characters.

In Isuzu’s case, one of his compatriots who has clearly been given an artificial universal sense joins him  for a drink which he then makes her pay for. That said, it isn’t that part that tips her over the edge. She’s still a little put out but she’d probably have coped. No, what tips her over the edge is firstly that his wallet is a velcro one and very different from her illusion of what he would carry and then that he asks for her points on his card. In a show that sets brothers against each other in an epic space battle, this is what we spend half an episode on, and yet it is where this anime actually manages to hit its mark because it is all just so overblown it ends up being funny.

Then the robot head decides to leave Subaru and ends up going to the cockpit of the Neo-Durandel where he meets the AI. Now the AI is also incredibly petty having finally found someone to voice complaints to. And of all the things it could complain about, it gets stuck on the fact that Subaru has been sticking stickers to his outside.

However, all this means that once again the overall plot has screeched to an absolute halt and while the episode was amusing enough it all amounts to very little other than six minutes of filled in screen time.

On that note, this is probably my last episode review for this one as it really is just the same thing each week. I will do a full season review once it is done provided I get to the end of the season.

Linked Reviews:

• Space Battleship Tiramisu Series Review: A Glimmer Of Hope Lost In Space
• Season 2 Episode 1: Subaru and Isuzu are Still At It
• Episode 2: A New Durandel
• Episode 3: Yakisoba and Co-op Heroes

Thanks for reading.

Karandi James

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