From: takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
Subject: 3x3 Eyes OAV #3 synopsis
Originator: takahash@lacerta
Reply-To: takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:22:40 GMT


[People seem to keep asking for something on 3x3 Eyes OAVs.  I know
 that parts 1-2 have been posted.  I did this synopsis for a friend,
 and even left some of my comments in... :-)

 Since parts 1 and 2 have already been done, I won't post those.
 We'll start with part 3.

 Disclaimer: This synopsis was done from memory, and I have little
   real knowledge of Japanese (call me 'Japanese-impaired' :-))
   Corrections and comments are welcome.
]

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At this point, Pai/Sanjiyan's voice might be bothering you, 'cause
it probably sounds familiar.  (I was up to the latter half of part 1
when that happened).  Well, it should.  Listen closely - particularly
to Sanjiyan - and you might hear a little of Ranma-chan in it.  Pai's
voice, of course, comes from when Ranma-chan is trying to act EXTREMELY
feminime...

By the way, have you ever thought that Pai should *really* be the
one to wear the 'Wu' mark.  After all, she is the one who is
empty-headed... :-)

From the Studio Proteus manga:
  Yakumo: ...don't you have a brain in your head?
  Pai   : Brain?  What that?  Pai don't have one of those...

What would Sanjiyan do if she needed glasses?  Would that make
her a 6-eyes?

OK, enough bad jokes...on to OAV #3...

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*** Pai's dachinko ***

  Pai - A cheerful, if naive (apparently young) girl.  After 300 years
      of isolation, she is slowing learning what the human world is
      like.  Certain things don't make sense to her yet, like the human
      trait of self-sacrifice to save another...

  Yakumo - Pai's Wu.  Bound to protect Pai by the fact that their lives
      are intimately connected.  His main goal is to find the Ningen
      statue (Statue of Humanity) to make Pai human.  One senses, though,
      that he would stay with Pai, even without that connection...

  Li Ling-Ling - Assistant Editor working for "Monster Buster, Inc."

  Mrs. Huang - Rich widow of one of Hong Kong's wealthiest businessmen.
      She wants Pai for her own reasons...

  Steve Long - An exorcist by trade, he gets involved with our group
      by acquiring the Ningen statue...

  Mei-Shin Long - Younger sister of Steve Long.

  Takuhi - This giant man-faced bird once killed Yakumo.  Now, they're
      the best of friends.  (Well not really, but it *sounded* good, 
      didn't it? :-))


*** OAV #3 ***

[Prologue #1]

  A dark forbidding figure stands before a massive shrine to a
  Sanjiyan.

[Prologue #2]

  Steve Long finishes an exorcism, and retires to a back room where
  Ling-Ling is waiting for him.  She wants to buy the Ningen statue
  from him.  She knows that Steve has it, 'cause her transmitter says
  so.  Going into a storeroom, they find that someone else wants the
  Ningen statue as well...

  Mei-Shin is startled by an explosion in the next room, and rushes in
  to find everything in ruins, and a massive hole in the wall...

  A giant insect-like figure is flying though the night...

[Title: 3x3 Eyes]

  A cloaked figure moves through the streets of Hong Kong.  At "Monster
  Buster Inc.", Pai and Yakumo are idly wondering where Ling-Ling was.
  The cloaked figure bursts in and demands Ling-Ling.  Yakumo tries to
  protect Pai, and does a miserable job of it.  The cloaked figure 
  reveals herself to be Mei-Shin.  Holding Yakumo hostage, and showing
  a piece of the Ningen statue, Mei-Shin offers a trade -- the piece
  for her brother.

  At this point, lots of masked figures break in and take the Ningen
  statue head, despite valiant efforts from Mei-Shin (Yakumo was, again,
  useless :-)).  They get away, but Pai has Takuhi follow them in his
  small form.  Yakumo complements her on her genius, and the delighted
  Pai asks for him to praise her again.  They then look after the 
  unconscious Mei-Shin.

  Takuhi follows the figures to a hotel, then up to the 32rd floor.  Flying
  around, he spots a bound man who could be Steve Long.  When Pai
  relates this information, Mei-Shin storms off to the hotel and
  (wo)man-handles the hapless clerk, while Pai and Yakumo try to hold
  her back.  The scene is interrupted by a hotel official who ushers
  them into an elevator, and asks them to keep the 32nd floor a secret
  (the hotel is suppose to have only 30 floors).

  After passing the 30th floor, the trio find themselves surrounded by
  the masked figures as the elevator floor bulges up and a large
  insect-like monster appears in front of them.  As the monster is
  getting ready to dispatch the trio, the elevator doors are ripped
  open by Takuhi, and the trio escapes.

  The monster goes after them, and attacks the trailing member of the
  trio...Pai.  Takuhi blocks the monster's approach, and is killed by
  the monster, much to Pai's horror.  The force of the blast throws
  Mei-Shin against a wall, Pai over by the elevator where she's taken
  by some more of the masked figures, and Yakumo out the window.

  Yakumo climbs up the outside wall back to the 32th floor, but finds
  it empty.  [Note: Yakumo is afraid of heights.]  Doing some exploring,
  he finds a shrine which appears to be dedicated to a Sanjiyan.  
  Wondering who this new 3-eyes was, he gets an answer from behind: 
  "It's Kaiyan Wang".  Yakumo has found Steve Long...

  A ceremony begins, and an altar rises in front of the Sanjiyan statue.
  On the altar is the monster, the now-complete Ningen statue, and
  a sacrifice - Mei-Shin.  As the monster terrorizes Mei-Shin, an axe
  appears from nowhere, and slices off the monster's tongue.  Yakumo
  and Steve have appeared to rescue Mei-Shin and stop the ceremony.
  The monster retaliates by knocking both Yakumo and Steve across the
  room.

  From the cloud of dust, Yakumo reveals that he is not out of it yet,
  and worse, he has the Ningen statue.  He bluffs his way out by saying
  that he'll destroy the Ningen statue if the monster doesn't back
  off.  The monster agrees.  While the masked figures are discarding
  their weapons, Yakumo asks for the humanification secret of the
  statue, and the whereabouts of Kaiyan Wang, but the monster doesn't
  know either.

  The monster is called Ryouko, and tells Yakumo that he, and other
  creatures have been ordered to acquire the Ningen statue in order
  to free Kaiyan Wang, a Sanjiyan who was imprisoned 300 years ago.
  Yakumo ponders the fact that Pai is also 300 years old...

  With a sneak attack, Ryouko knocks Yakumo away from the Ningen
  statue and takes over Yakumo's hand which is holding a broad sword.
  In a ironic fashion, it is Yakumo who will sacrifice Mei-Shin to 
  the glories of Kaiyan Wang.  Yakumo stops this by cutting his own 
  hand off.  Still in control of Yakumo's hand, Ryouko prepares
  to deliver the killing blow himself when gunfire erupts from a new
  direction.

  The new monster-attacker turns out to be Rambo -- I mean Pai -- who
  screams "How do you STOP this thing?!".  When she sees Yakumo, Pai
  happily turns and runs toward him.  Unfortunately, she STILL hasn't
  stopped firing, so Yakumo takes a quick dancing lesson.  Behind Pai
  comes 3 more masked figures who DO know how to use their weapons,
  and fire on Ryouko and the other masked figures (besides, it's
  probably safer to be *behind* Pai :-)).

  One of the masked figures reveals herself to be Ling-Ling, and she
  goes absolutely ga-ga when she finds the Ningen statue.  Never once
  losing her idiotic smile, or breaking that silly song that she's
  singing, Ling-Ling beats up everyone who tries to take that statue
  away from her.

  A freed Mei-Shin asks if Yakumo and Pai are a couple.  Pai gleefully
  denies it, and says that Yakumo is her dachinko.  This stuns
  Mei-Shin, and turns Yakumo on his ear.  :-)

  When Yakumo asks Ling-Ling to let up on all the destruction, Ling-Ling
  says that she doesn't care...Huang-san is covering all the expenses.
  She then lobs a couple of grenades in random directions, and tells
  everyone to get out.  As they are leaving, Pai gets her first good
  look at the mini-temple...

  Everyone is crammed into a helicopter, and Ling-Ling is ready to
  leave when Yakumo notices that Pai is missing.  Ling-Ling says that
  she told Pai the way out, but Yakumo doesn't care.  He says that
  there is one person in the world who is more important than he is,
  and that person is PAI!  Whipping off his headband, he shocks 
  everyone with the revelation of what he is.

  Pai is standing in the idol's palm and looking up at it.  As she closes
  her eyes, she remembers events that happened long ago...of a Sanjiyan
  who brutally murdered other Sanjiyan.  The 3rd eye opens as Sanjiyan
  also remembers.

  Yakumo is running back to the altar when he runs into Ryouko
  again.  Ryouko is shocked when he realizes the Yakumo is a Wu,
  and cannot believe that someone else has gotten the prize of
  immortality.  He takes out his disbelief on Yakumo while crying out
  "It can't be!".  He tries to kill Yakumo in order to prove that
  Yakumo really isn't a Wu...

  A dark figure approaches Pai/Sanjiyan on the idol.  Sanjiyan notices
  first, and turns around.  Fear enters her eyes...

  In his first use of the powers of a Wu, Yakumo uses remote control of
  his severed hand, and cuts off the wings of Ryouko.  Ryouko
  goes into spasms of agony, and Yakumo retrieves his hand and the
  sword.

  Sanjiyan sends out a mental message: "Yakumo, help me..."

  Yakumo has reattached his hand, and is running through the ruins
  calling Pai's name...

  The ceiling of the temple is starting to collapse, and Ling-Ling lifts
  off, despite the protests of Mei-Shin...

  The dark figure stops just below Sanjiyan and looks at her.  Sanjiyan
  doesn't move, but only looks back without her customary arrogance, and
  with unaccustomed fear...

[to be continued...]

[Fade into credits]

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