Getter Robo 22
Wow, this was a pretty intense episode. I mean, I don't really know that for sure because I know like, maybe 5 words in Japanese and I can't find subs for this show anywhere (can barely even find this show), but the episode certainly felt dramatic enough.
What I gleaned was this: Emperor Gore has a daughter, Gora. At some point in her childhood, Gora took on human form and was lost on the surface, only to be raised, by the cruelest of twists, by Professor Saotome by name of Miyuki. Gora, now a grown woman, wants to convince her father, Gore, to cease his war. She tries to steal the Dinosaur Empire developed "Getter Queen" to do it. During one such effort she is reunited with Michiru, Genki, and Prof. Saotome. She has what I assume is a brief romantic inclination toward Ryo as the two swing on the swing set in the sunset.
Ultimately, though, Gore will not be persuaded, and Gora sorties as Gora in the Getter Queen, telling everyone that Miyuki is dead. The Dinosaur Empire employs a mechasaur with some kinda boomerang at the same time, and to save Getter Robo from the blade, she impales herself on it. At the end she apologizes to both of her fathers just before Getter Queen explodes (the blade had gone through the cockpit and through her body). Much crying, on both sides of the wall, ensues.
It's interesting because even though Emperor Gore is an evil, scaly, vicious man, his sorrow for the loss of his only daughter is no less genuine than Professor Saotome's. It's one of those things that humanizes him and his Empire, and serves to make the show more watchable, I think.
