In Volume 1, we met Hayate a woman who by day is a costumed stage performer in a hero show and by night is an actual superhero, “Rapid Rabbit” and the former evil Team Leader, Honey Trap, who has defected for love. Hayate and Honey make a good team and, so, evil Antinoid leader “X” steps up the attacks.

But in Volume 2 of Hero-san to Moto Onna Kanbu-san (ヒーローさんと元女幹部さん) Hayate and Honey prevail, and X comes to visit Hayate, to check out the competition, to get her secrets and to throw a few cutting remarks at Honey. X is also, like 12 years old. X mobilizes more of her managers, Melt Down and the Yuri-loving Cool Down.  To defeat the new team, Rapid Rabbit and Honey are joined by a pair of sisters. Hina has an obsession for her older sister, and when Hina joins Honey and Hayate (hark, I heed a habit!) as Orb Owl, the story takes a dark turn.

Attempting to save Hina, her older sister is shot by X and Hina goes ballistic. Before she is defeated, Hina comes back to herself, but they do not have a happy ending, and it really puts a harsh on Hayate’s mood. If Honey weren’t there to keep her grounded, I…just…don’t know what she might do. Joke, they are fine as they walk away and leave two dead kids on the beach. (In the comments CW informs me that they are merely unconscious, which doesn’t change anything. We saw them shot, “killed,” and our heroes walk away … absolutely not at all relevant to heroism. They *walk away* from two wounded children.)

The Yuri in this series is more an abstract concept than an actual relationship, bit I like the battle scenes and the loud screaming of unrealistic tactical evolutions and attacks, and who doesn’t like a sentai series that makes basically no sense? ^_^ Not this kid.

Most importantly, Kyouka ends the series being spanked because there hasn’t been enough violence against children in this happy-go-lucky book of violent nonsense.

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story – 7
Characters – 6 X being a goth-ish 12 year-old annoys me for some reason.
Service – 5 It was doing okay, right up to the gratuitous spanking at the end
Yuri – 3 Cool Down’s a Yurijin and Hina has a crush (gawd) on her sister.

Overall – 7

Good heavens if I never ever read a siscon again for the rest of my years I will be so thankful. It’s such an excruciatingly dull plot device. Hopefully, this will be a little more fun and a little more Yuri next volume…but probably not. ^_^