A gang of four student delinquents have transferred to Umi no Hoshi's class 4-3. Their large and intimidating "Boss" (Banchō), wants to take control of the school by fighting the strongest person there, initially believing it to be Sasami. However, Pixy Misa takes advantage of Boss's dimwittedness and convinces him that the strongest person in the school is actually Pretty Sammy, thus arranging a fight between them on the school's roof.
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Mihoshi introduces four transfer students to class 4-3, Boss and his three followers, Chibiroku, Dosumasa, and Gariko, and the class is immediately scared by the group. Eimi, the class representative, asks for Boss’s actual name, but Boss himself insists that’s his name and he won’t go by any other. Eimi is unconvinced and asks Boss if he’s really an elementary student (he happens to be taller than their teacher, a grown adult), but Gariko tells her that Boss is ten years and six months old, and in “excellent health”.
Boss then announces that he needs to take strict control over the school and asks who currently “guards” the school. The class doesn’t know what Boss is talking about, so he rephrases his question and asks who the strongest person in the school is. He hears a snide comment from Konoha, and walks over to her to ask her personally. Konoha immediately thinks of the athletic Hiroto, but he’s absent today. She points to a random classmate, who points to another classmate, who then points to Sasami, and suddenly, everyone except for Misao is pointing at Sasami. Boss begins approaching her, but she is saved by the bell that signals the end of homeroom and the start of classes. As it turns out, Boss and his gang believe that Sasami is a boy.
In Juraihelm, Tsunami and Ramia are watching the events at Umi no Hoshi unfold while eating crackers. While entrusting the last cracker to Ramia (which she secretly eats), Tsunami finds out more information on “Boss” from a magical dictionary. Ramia suddenly comes up with a plan, but she didn’t count on Tsunami actually asking for her cracker back.
Class 4-3 is now eating lunch. Sasami is worried about Boss staring at her from the back of the classroom, but Misao tells her that he isn’t here at the moment. When Misao opens her lunchbox, however, she is hypnotized upon seeing the word “transform” over her rice, and promptly leaves the classroom. This is, of course, a trick by Rumiya, who is watching from outside in his bird form.
On the school’s roof, Boss and his gang are eating lunch and discussing his challenge to Sasami when Pixy Misa introduces herself as the magical girl of “love and ambition”, along with her pet “Ru”, or Rumiya. Misa informs them that Sasami is not the strongest student at the school, but actually Pretty Sammy. She offers to tell them how to fight Pretty Sammy, and Boss decides to rewrite his challenge. Rumiya asks Misa if she really thinks her plan is going to work, but Misa insists that the best way to defeat the “dimwitted” Sammy is to pit her against “nice and stupid” guys like Boss and his gang.
While wondering where Misao is, Ryo-Ohki surprises Sasami in one of the school’s shoe cupboards and shows her a letter of challenge from Boss. The letter says that they have Misao and that if she wants her back, then she has to tell Pretty Sammy to come to the rooftop. Naturally, Sasami won’t stand for kidnapping and transforms into Pretty Sammy.
Sammy runs up the staircase to the roof but is stopped on one of the landings by Chibiroku. He explains that before she can face Boss, she’ll have to get through him and the others first. Chibiroku proceeds to demonstrate his incredible speed by bouncing off the walls so quickly that Sammy can’t see him. However, after Ryo-Ohki whispers something in her ear, Sammy stands perfectly still and lets Chibiroku tire himself out. Sammy whacks him with her magical baton and continues up the stairs.
Pretty Sammy’s next opponent is Dosumasa, who proceeds to intimidate Sammy by juggling several knives. However, he eventually makes a mistake and cuts his hand with one of the knives (with a PSA telling the audience to never try this at home). Pretty Sammy whacks Dosumasa with her baton and continues.
Gariko blocks Sammy’s path to the roof. However, he takes too long with his monologue about how he’ll defeat Sammy with his intelligence, and Sammy runs up the stairs and whacks him with her baton. On the roof, she confronts Boss and demands he release Misao, but Pixy Misa reveals herself and tells Sammy that this was just a trap to get her to fight Boss. Boss then attacks Sammy with his fists, but as he traps Sammy against the roof’s fence, he misses and bursts through the fence, causing him to fall down.
Thankfully, Pixy Misa is there to save him. She uses her magic to turn Boss into a giant. Boss gets up and grabs Sammy with his hand, squeezing her. However, just as Pixy Misa and Rumiya declare victory, Boss’s gang shows up. Upon seeing him, they start crying and tell him that using magic and becoming a giant isn’t winning like a real man. Boss starts crying, and after Misa and Rumiya run away, Sammy uses Pretty Coquettish Bomber on Boss and reverts him back to his normal size. Boss recovers and calls Sammy a “real man among men”. Before leaving, Sammy tells Boss to say “thank you” to his gang.
The next day, Mihoshi tells her class that Boss and his gang have transferred again, but she relays a message from him, saying that he’s on a journey to train and that he’ll be a real man once he returns. Additionally, he addresses Sammy and says that they’ll fight it out again, as promised. Of course, Sasami tells herself that she never made such a promise!
Boss is traveling in the sunset and notices his gang is still following him. He tells him that he’s a defeated man and they don’t need to tag along anymore, but they tell him that they’re sticking together. Boss thanks them, and they continue on their journey.
Trivia
- Boss’s character design is reminiscent to that of Jotaro Kujo, the main protagonist of Hirohiko Araki's manga Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. Both Boss and Jotaro loosely wear black, Gakuran school uniforms that have a very tall collar in addition to wearing a black cap.
- In Japanese, the word Banchō originally referred to a lower position in the Imperial Guard in Japan's old Ritsuryō system before being applied to leaders of school delinquent gangs.
- Gariko is voiced by Daisuke Ishikawa, who is also the voice of Kenji.
- This episode is the second instance of the balance of Gemini not seen shifting toward good or evil, with the first one being East vs. West. It is possible that there simply wasn't enough remaining runtime in the episode to include it.
- Boss and Gariko make a cameo appearance in the sixth episode of Majokko Tsukune-chan, another parody of magical girl anime.