From: eahu090@orion.oac.uci.edu (Wan Dabada)
Subject: NG Knight Lamune & 40 Episode 1 synopsis (THIS IS IT!)
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Date: 28 Jan 93 21:33:12 GMT

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NG Knight Lamune & 40
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Episode 1:  "Shupahn!  King Sccasher fukkatsu"
            "Shupahn!  King Sccasher's ressurection"
 
OP Theme:  Nekketsu!!  Yuusha Lamunes
ED Theme:  Seichoo - Otoko to Onna wa PaPiPuPePo
Air date:  4/6/90
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   The evil sorceror, Don Harumage, is incanting a spell in his domain,
Hoi Hoi Castle.  He calls for something that will show him when his 
ultimate weapon, Calamity God Gobuhriki, will finally be released from its 
prison.  A giant hourglass materializes before him.  
 
   Lamune Baba, a fourth grade student, is being chased by his teacher,
Monobe-sensei.  She is very angry with his behavior.  She tries to grab 
him, but Lamune slides down the banister of the stairway.  He runs down
the hall, but the principal is there, standing outside of his office.  He
stops Lamune.  Lamune tries to get away with his usual tricks, and shouts,
pointing to the sky.
 
   "Look!  A flying pig!"
   "Today the principal is at his best, so that trick won't work on me."
 
   Lamune points to the ground.
 
   "Look!  A 10000 Yen coin!"
 
    The principal falls for Lamune's trick, and starts looking.  Lamune 
runs off, shouting:
 
    "Today the principal is at his best!"
 
    Monobe-sensei comes by, and asks the principal where Lamune is.  The
principal tries the same trick on Monobe-sensei, but she doesn't think
it's funny.
 
    "There is no such thing as a 10000 yen coin.  Principal, do you want
     to start over from the first grade?"
 
    The principal just stands there, puzzled.
 
    "First grade?  Isn't that too young?"
 
    Lamune is outside, in the rabbit cage.  He is feeding one of the 
rabbits a carrot.  He's bored, and is wishing for something more exciting,
like in an RPG game.  Suddenly, the cage is locked.  Lamune turns around,
and Monobe-sensei is there, smiling dementedly.  She tells Lamune to stay
in the cage until recess, and think over what he had done.  At recess,
all the students laugh at Lamune in the cage.  He is extremely embarrassed.
 
    Walking home from school, he sees what looks like a match-girl, 
peddling something.  She tries to stop a lady, but she says that they don't
use matches at home.  But the girl is not selling matches, she's selling
video games.  She tells them that if she doesn't sell the games, she won't
be able to eat tonight.  Then Lamune comes by to take a look.  She looks
at him, and he sees her face.  
 
     "How cute!"
 
     Lamune picks up a cartridge, and asks how much it is.  She tells him 
that it is 10 yen, no tax (approx.  8 cents).  He buys one, then winds up
gettin everyone else to buy them.  The girl thanks Lamune.  He looks at
the game, called King Sccasher.  Then he looks back at the girl, but she
has disappeared.
 
     At home, Lamune is playing King Sccasher.  His mother calls him for
a bath, but he doesn't want to take one.  He plays late into the evening,
pretending to be asleep when his mother comes by.  At exactly midnight,
he completes the game.  Then, suddenly, the match-girl comes out of the
TV.  She has elf-like ears.  She calls him the "blood relative of the hero 
Lamuness", and asks him to come with her.  Lamune can't believe what's 
happenning, and why she keeps calling him Lamuness.  Then she gets 
forceful, and throws him into the TV screen.
 
     Meanwhile, Don Harumage is aware of Lamuness's presence in Hara-Hara
World, the world where the girl took him.  He calls his two top armada
leaders, Da Cider and Lesuka.  He tells them to join forces, and use 
Monskars (mecha monsters) to destroy the ones who will oppose him.  Da
Cider and Lesuka leave to carry out their orders.
 
     The girl and Lamuness arrive via dimensional travel.  She tells Lamune
that they are in Arara Realm, and specifically, in Arara Castle's Dimensional Portal Room.  Lamune looks at her strangely, and asks "What
the hell are you?"  She smiles.
 
(commercial sign)
 
      She presents Lamune to her father, the ruler of Arara Realm: Ariaria
Coriaria Yokkora the Third.  He thanks "Lamuness" for coming.  Lamune 
still argues that he isn't Lamuness, just Lamune.  Then, a voice calls out:
"Milk.  Welcome home."  It is Princess Milk's sister, Princess Cocoa, who
comes in riding on a dragon.  King Yokkora gets upset, and tells Cocoa to
get off the dragon, for fear of her falling off and getting hurt.  Cocoa
tells her father not to worry, and that "the probability of me falling off
and getting hurt is...(punches a few buttons on her calculator)...1,002,389
to one...".  But King Yokkora says that he won't let her unless it's zero.
Milk yawns, saying that he's always paranoid.  Then she turns to Cocoa, and
tells her that if she fell off of the dragon, and got hurt, that it would
make her look better.  This hurts Cocoa, and she takes off her glasses to
wipe the tears from her eyes.  Lamune falls in love AGAIN.  Just then, a
guard rushes in, and tells the King that a monskar has been sighted outside
the castle walls.  King Yokkora panics.
 
      Da Cider and Lesuka are in their pirrahna-shaped ship, supervising 
the attack.  Da Cider cracks a joke (see Dajare Guide), and asks Lesuka
if she thought it was funny.  She sends the joke back at him.  Da Cider
gets angry, and shoots off his machine gun.  Lesuka continues doing her
make-up, as if nothing happened.  Da Cider orders the monskars to destroy
Arara Castle.
 
      The King is panicking, but Milk tells him not to be such a pessimist,
and that this was the reason she brought Lamuness to Arara Realm.  The King
agrees, but Lamune keeps saying that he isn't Lamuness.  Milk gets angry
and reminds him of what he said in the rabbit cage.  Lamune retracts.
A guard interrupts, and notifies the King that the outer walls have been
breached.
 
      A three-headed Monskar is being shot at by the guards.  Another
flying Monskar blows everyone away with it's powerful wings.  
 
      Cocoa remembers that in the caverns below the castle, there is a
wonderful weapon which only the chosen hero Lamuness can use.  So they
all hurry down to the caverns, with Milk dragging Lamune.  They cross a
thin stone bridge over a bottomless pit, and reach a gate.  Milk, Cocoa and Lamune try to push it, but the King says that the gate needs to be pulled
open.  They all fall over.
 
      When they get inside, Lamune is pushed over the the computer terminal
in front of the shrine, which tells Lamune that if he is the chosen hero,
he should place his left hand on the imprint, and say "The chosen hero Lamuness has come".  He puts his hand on the imprint, and nothing happens.
He fakes tears, but Milk yells at him to use his left hand, not his right 
one.  He uses his left hand, and says the words.  Then the shrine opens up,
and a bright light blinds them.  A small egg-shaped thing jumps out at
Lamuness.  He tells Lamuness that he is the "Advisor Robot Tama-Q", and tells Lamuness to put him on his shoulder.  Lamune does, and a uniform
forms on him, and he becomes Lamuness.  Tama-Q then tells Lamuness to take
a metal coin out of his pocket and put it in the coin slot on his head.
Lamuness does so, and Tama-Q coughs up a capsule with the letter "K" on it.
He tells Lamuness to run outside, call out "KING SCCASHER", and throw the
capsule into the air. 
     
     Da Cider is proud of his work.  Then Lamuness comes out, and throws
the capsule.  King Sccasher appears.  Tama-Q tells Lamuness to get inside
King Sccasher.  Lamuness doesn't know how.  Tama-Q tells him that King
Sccasher will listen to anything Lamuness says.  Lamuness asks King
Sccasher to let him in, and a green bubble takes him inside King Sccasher.
Da Cider orders the monskar to attack King Sccasher.  King Sccasher blocks
the blows.  Tama-Q tells Lamuness to push the yellow button on the right.
Lamuness does, and a sword comes out.  King Sccasher destroys the monskar
with it.
 
     Da Cider is angry, and orders the other two monskars to attack at
the same time.  The flying monskar ejects a drill-stinger, and attacks
King Sccsher with it.  King Sccasher dodges, then cuts it off.  The other
monskar turns into a bull, and rushes King Sccasher.  He blocks, but the
flying monskar hits him from behind, sending King Sccasher flying.  Tama-Q
tell Lamuness to push the blue button on the left.  Lamuness does, and King
Sccasher's shield turns into a boomerang.  King Sccasher throws it, and
kills both monskars with it.  He is fiercely heart-throbbingly excited.
It's the adventure of his dreams.  Up in the tower, Milk and Cocoa are
cheering.  Da Cider flies off, very angry.  King Yokkora is happy that
Lamune is the true hero Lamuness.
 
 
      DAJARE GUIDE(!)
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Episode 1:  Da Cider's first joke...

    Haka made Hakai shiro
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    grave     destroy

Haka and Haka-i almost sound the same when Da Cider says it. 

He asks Lesuka:

   Doo da?  Omoshiree daroo?

How was it?  Funny, huh?

Lesuka replies:

   Haka mitai.

Translation:  Like a grave.

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