Voice 03

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Episode 03
Ohaguro Onna
お歯黒女
Sexy Voice and Robo episode
Writer Kizara Izumi
Original air date April 22, 2007 (2007-04-22)
Viewership 6.9%
Episode chronology
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Plot

Urban legend Ohaguro Onna is kidnapping children and attacking townsfolk (including Niko's mother, but no one believes her). Robo is otherwise occupied with trying to stop a woman from committing suicide.

Guests

Ohaguro Onna

Main Guests

Ohaguro Onna / Yamano Tsukiko - Kashii Yuu お歯黒女 / 山野月子 - 赤星昇一郎

Recurring Characters

Keroyama / Robo's friend #1 - Rokkaku Seiji ケロ山 / ロボの友人 #1 - 六角精児
Muu-chan - Kajiwara Hikari むーちゃん - 梶原ひかり

Minor Guests

Robo's friend #2 - Akaboshi Shouichirou ロボの友人 #2 - 赤星昇一郎
Robo's friend #3 - Mansour Diagne ロボの友人 #3 - マンスール・ジャーニュ
Robo's friend #4 - Nakamura Yasuhi ロボの友人 #4 - 中村靖日
News anchor - Otukai Kazuhiko - 大塚和彦
Little boy - Fukasawa Arashi - 深澤嵐
Ohaguro billboard guy - Shouji Yuusuke - 少路勇介
Ohaguro ad girl #1 - Kasugai Seina - 春日井静奈
Ohaguro ad girl #2 - Teshima Tomoko - 手嶋智子
Businessman - Ishihara Yoshinobu - 石原善暢
Old lady - Mori Kouko - 森康子

Trivia

Kazumi-chan as Ohaguro Onna
  • Robo's meager lifestyle is very apparent in this episode. In the beginning, he eats unidentified leaves off the side of the road, and then meat that Ohaguro Onna has left behind. Robo later reveals his special eating technique - he smells coffee while eating bread scraps. It supposedly helps his concentration.
  • Meat is very expensive in Japan. So when the audience learns later that Tsukiko is very poor and lives a meager lifestyle, that explains why she stops attacking Niko's mom to steal the meat. (It also explains why Niko's mother was so angry when the meat was stolen.) By the way, the price is on the meat. 3980 yen (~39 dollars).
  • When Tsukiko bumps into Kazumi dressed as Ohaguro Onna, you can see Kazumi has blackened teeth.
  • One of Robo's otaku comrades is an African otaku. Rokkaku Seiji, the friend who gave him the stained shirt, returns in this episode.
  • Niko's dad says "Young people sure die easily." which he said back in Voice 1.
  • On a "no trespassing" sign, there's slime on it. A trademark sign of Ohaguro Onna.
  • The boy is played by child actor Fukasawa Arashi. He was young Jan in GekiRanger and Wataru in Decade.
  • Reversal at the end. Tsukiko receives batteries from Kazumi (dressed as Ohaguro Onna), similar to the magic batteries she received from Niko. Kazumi also gives an item to a child. (Ohaguro Onna has a reputation of kidnapping children).
  • Kazumi appears to have finished her job of delivering packages (from Voice 1), hence her taking the Ohaguro Onna job.

Mecha references

  • Robo sings the theme song for 1978 mecha anime, Daitarn 3. The title is in the lyrics "Come Here! Daitarn 3"
  • When Robo realizes that she wants to kill herself, he talks to GaoGaiGar, addressing it as Guy. The human operator for GaoGaiGar.

Niko's powers

  • Asks her dad "Whose voice is that?" when there's nothing to be heard.

DVD footage

  • In one of the new scenes, Robo is geeking out with some cardboard tubes, when Kazumi sees him. He shouts her name, to which she replies "Who are you?!"

Niko practicing history in the sushi shop

Niko is reading mnemonics for memorizing important dates in Japanese history.

  • 894 "Returning the white paper from China." 白紙に戻そう "遣唐使"
  • 1192 "Let's make a good country. Kamakura Bakufu" いい国つくろう「鎌倉幕府」
  • 794 "Crying nightingale. Heian capital." 鳴くようぐいす「平安京」

Quotes

  • Ohaguro Onna "Can't live off just love, courage, and justice, right?"
  • Ohaguro Onna "Because isn't that how the world is? The worthy people laugh as they walk over the worthless."
  • Ohaguro Onna "I don't want to live as a shabby person... But... I'm even more against dying as a shabby person."
  • Ohaguro Onna "What's so good about it? Does it make you that happy that I'm so plain and incapable of anything? All I can do can be done by anyone else. There are plenty of substitutes for me. No one would be bothered if I died."
  • Maki "So you think living your life is doing what you want?"
Niko "Is that wrong?"
Maki "It's wrong. It's completely wrong. Even if your job is unsatisfying... Even if you're forced to do things... If you do things your own way... that is living your life."