SUMOMO MOMOMO a.k.a. The Strongest Bride on Earth
Rating: 6/10
Genre: Fighting/Comedy
Your-mom fansubs just released the final two eps of Sumomo Momomo. Other fansubs are still at episode 16 methinks, but I guess your-mom couldn’t wait for the series to end so they released the last 2 eps ahead of the pack. Hehehe.
BLURB about the series
This erm harem type fighting anime series is a hilarious mix of super-powered martial arts and slapstick comedy peppered with more than occasional gratuitous ecchi and loli (ewww) shots.
Our protagonist, Inuzuka Koushi, is born into a family of renowned martial artists. He dislikes fighting and violence and spends much of his time reading law books, but unfortunately he is constantly being challenged by martial artists from other families who either 1.) want to kill him or 2.) have his baby — LOL!
The female lead in the series is the invincible but diminutive Kuzuryu Momoko. She’s easily the most powerful character in the story but she’s quite content to just follow Koushi around like a love-struck pet dog. The fact that she looks like a child and goes around saying stuff like “I want to have Koushi dono’s babies” just gives me the heeby jeebies though :p I know she’s about Koushi’s age but she’s short, goes around barefoot and with that single ponytail of hers, she truly looks like a kid 
EPISODE 21
In Episode 21, we find Koushi, Momoko, Iroha-chan and Hanzo in an arena of sorts facing a female clan member of the Tiger Clan–Koganei Ten-ten. From what I gathered, they’re dueling so Koushi and Momoko could get the antidotes for the poison. We also find out that Koushi and Momoko are now husband and wife! Woot! When did THAT happen?
It turns out that Iroha chan has some beef to settle with the female leader of the Tiger Clan, so she and Hanzo square it off with 10/10 and her minions. 10/10 plays dirty and in order to unnerve Iroha-chan, she blurts Iroha’s secret attraction to Koushi-dono. Iroha-chan loses her cool, becomes pissed and unleashes her twin attack demonic snake strike at 10/10 but 10/10 successfully counters it with her own modified and more powerful version of the demonic twin snack attack + Tiger strike. Before Iroha-chan becomes spirit Tiger chow, Momoko’s spirit Dragon saves the day. However, even when Iroha-chan lost the fight, 10/10 still gives them antidote #2.
The episode ends with Koushi-dono and Momoko climbing up the steep stairs of the mountain/temple to procure the last and final antidote.
EPISODE 22
Momoko unleashes her ultimate finishing move: dragon breath halitosis! *joke* LOL!
In the last episode Koushi and Momoko face off the final boss and leader of the Tiger Clan — Kogane. Unfortunately, there’s only enough antidote for one. In a surprising show of selflessness, the normally cowardly and self-absorbed Koushi finally acknowledges all that Momoko has done for him and gives the antidote to the dying Momoko instead. Momoko, thinking that Koushi had sacrificed his life for hers, loses it and unleashes her “straight path of a sky bound dragon” which splits the sky in half and finally defeats Kogane. The team huddles for a tearful reunion over Koushi-dono’s supposed corpse but is suprised to discover than Koushi has mysteriously been cured! After all this IS a comedy anime you know!
The end.
Overall, the anime series itself doesn’t have much of a plot and I kinda lost interest after the first handful of episodes, but there are some truly comedic elements in the series that cracks me up. Also the visuals in the fight scenes are really fun to watch O.O Oooh the colors!
Filed under: Finished Animes, Sumomo Momomo
