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[shin mazinger] I need to give a shout out to baron ashura for pulling out ALL THE STOPS for this fucking nefarious plan
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levels to the scheme:
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- Send multiple machine beasts to different parts of Japan to divide forces and keep Mazinger Z from fighting all of them
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- Simultaneously, send three androids assassins to kill Kabuto Koji before he can board Mazinger Z in the first place
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- Send a secret fourth assassin in case the first three don't get the job done
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- It's fine if all of that fails, because he has ANOTHER mechanical beast waiting to capture Mazinger Z as soon as it launches, before Koji can dock with it
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- If Mazinger Z manages to get out of all of those traps, send all of the other beasts to fight it simultaneously
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- Save one last even stronger beast after all them, and use one of the pilots of the other robots defeated earlier as a hostage to force him to surrender Mazinger Z without a fight
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baron ashura firing on ALL CYLINDERS
Niamh Vibes
ALL RIDING ON THIS PLAN
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oh right also when capturing Mazinger Z, carry it over the ocean, so that if it breaks free it falls underwater and has to fight outside its element against an aquating machine beast
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and here's the thing
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the real final twist
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it WORKED
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HE CAPTURED KOUJI
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HE HAS MAZINGER Z
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She WON
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in any other Mazinger Z continuity I'd be going "what was your plan, baron ashura" after another beast gets rocket punched
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but Shin!Ashura
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had a PLAN
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- there was a secret fifth robot waiting in case kouji escaped
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it's really a wild arc
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both sides just FULL of contingencies to counter each other
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a game of advance planning played between Baron Ashura and Tsubasa
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tsubasas winning move
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cram a trio of shitty teens into the trunk of her kid's car
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and give one of them a gun
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tsubasa knows how to harness shitty teens who like fighting