Next up is the comedic series spinoff Full Metal Panic Fumoffu Episode 7, Warcry of Excessiveness.
The episode opens with a student named Gouda talking to the principal about the state of his club, he talks about all the charity work they do and all the quality of life work they do around the school but the Principal flatout says that they are not a club dedicated to charity, they are supposed to be playing Rugby.
The Student Council gets involved as the President brings in Kaname and Sousuke to sort the issue while he's away at a conference, the goal is to get the Rugby team to defeat their rival side in order to remain a club.
A look at what the club actually do can be considered, how should I put this, soft and a little excessive with the safety and very sissy; Kaname sees them as a lost cause and even joins in making fun of them when the rival team bullies them but when Kaname refuses an advance from the rival team captain and Sousuke's inability to read the situation triggers a mass brawl, Gouda and the team fed up of being humiliated asks Sousuke for help.
The next day, Sousuke trains them army style using some rather colourful language from Sousuke's book written by Melissa Mao how to abuse a training recruit.
The day of the match comes and Sousuke leads his team onto the pitch, the team themselves looking stoic and disciplined are rallied into action.
Once the match starts, Sousuke immediately gets sin binned for kicking out the rival captain, the rest of the team go in and destroy the remains of the rival team.
The episode ends with Kaname smacking Sousuke for trying to end with something meaningful to say.
Three takeaways from this episode.
1. It's pretty terrifying how easy it is to mold the kindest soul into a soldier, a reminder that the battlefield is no place for those not willing to kill.
2. The training montage is a direct reference to Full Metal Jacket.
3. According to Sousuke's dub actor Chris Patton, there is an uncut version of the training montage as the original episode was censored with bleeps and he confirmed in person he really did say all those things.
Next time on Victory Script
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