ケロロ軍曹 Episode 83
Sgt. Frog anime, 83
Keroro Gunsou episode 83

SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:

The platoon, Momoka, Fuyuki, Aki-san, Natsumi, and Koyuki are at an onsen resort that’s been reserved by the Nishizawa Peach Group. Their special servers are Kogoro and Lavie-chan. The feast is presented in a giant serving “platter” (for lack of an appropriate term) shaped like a ship. The main attraction are the giant crabs but when Momoka has trouble with hers, Kogoro comes in and makes a mess of things. Fresh ice cream is served for desert because Kogoro fought a cow, destroying the wall in the onsen dividing the sexes. Momoka is excited by this mixed bathing though Natsumi puts her foot down against it. Before anyone can bathe, Kogoro is found unconscious with Lavie asking Keroro to solve the mystery. After a mystery parody with Keroro not knowing jack, turns out Kogoro just slipped.

Fuyuki and Natsumi are pondering the autumn time of the year when an explosion causes them to race down to the Keron base under their house. Turns out Kururu has had an accident with the gun that makes people younger. As a result, he’s an infant and the gun is broken. Now, everyone has to deal with an evil baby Kururu, who is a huge hand full. Since only Kururu can repair the gun, the platoon looks for the blueprints in Kururu’s massive DVD collection. They find all kinds of mislabeled stuff before Moa-chan arrives. Because of her sweet disposition, the baby Kururu quickly repairs the gun to prevent himself from growing up to be a good person, after which he returns himself to his adult form.

Thoughts/Review:

First, I got to say that the extremely long episode title just cracked me up, not because of what was in it, but because it went on and on, kinda like this sentence is going on and on, only funnier because somehow it is funnier seeing it in the episode than in a blog…de arimasu.

The first story was fun and amusing with the onsen trip, the feast in served in a ship, the crab eating, and Momoka planning a hot time with Fuyuki after Kogoro destroyed the wall separating the male and female sides of the onsen. Then, the writers ran completely out of steam, deciding to turn the episode into some stupid detective parody again with Keroro now a female detective (likely from some dorama) and with the same results as before — Kogoro wasn’t the victim of a criminal act. So a good start ends with crap.

While I’m thinking of it, does anyone know what the name of these onsen seafood feasts served in a boat are called (though clearly the one here is exaggerated)?

For the second story, and evil Kururu baby was pretty amusing, especially when they got him to laugh and his trademark “KU! Ku! Ku! Ku!” came out. That made me laugh as did the end, where to avoid Moa-chan’s sweetness from taking him over, he fixed the gun to make himself his normal age again.

So in the end, this episode was a mixed bag with more good than bad.