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Episode 1 -	Pretty Sammy, The Magical Girl
	Mahō Shōjo Puriti Samī
Release date -	25th August 1995

In the magical kingdom of Juraihelm, a new queen has just been appointed. Out of the two candidates for the crown, the royal council has chosen Tsunami. However, her rival Ramia is not too pleased with the decision. Tsunami is told that before she can be crowned, she must pass a test; choose a representative to do good deeds. Her choice is an ordinary schoolgirl from Earth, Sasami Kawai.

Sasami and her brother Tenchi leave for school one morning. As ever, the walk there is an eventful one. While Sasami meets up with her good friend Misao, Tenchi bumps into fellow student Ryoko. Ryoko is very keen on Tenchi, and she is all too eager to show off her new school uniform — especially the underwear! Student council president Ayeka, who holds Tenchi in much the same esteem as Ryoko, is watching her beloved walk to school through binoculars. When she spots Ryoko hanging onto Tenchi's arm, however, she springs into action to put a stop to her rival's flirtatious behaviour. Naturally, it isn't long before a full-scale argument ensues, with Ryoko and Ayeka battling tooth and nail, and the unfortunate Tenchi gets caught in the crossfire! Sasami is not surprised; this is just another typical day. However, today they are being watched by a visitor; Ryo-Ohki, Tsunami's animal messenger, is keeping a tab on Sasami.

During PE class that day, Sasami's class is playing dodgeball. Sasami's friend Misao is too sick to play, and sits out the game under a nearby tree. Suddenly, a strange purple bird appears in the air and lands at her feet. Misao seems startled, but Sasami scares it away.

On the way home after school, Sasami notices that Misao seems a little out of sorts. Tenchi is once again being chased by Ryoko and Ayeka, and Sasami despairs at her brother's incredible ineptitude!

When Misao arrives home, she finds her house empty. Her mother is working late, and has left a message on the answerphone. As Misao listens to the message, the purple bird appears again. Misao spots it, and as the bird stares into her eyes, she falls into an hypnotic trance.

Meanwhile, Sasami returns to her mother's music shop, CD Vision, where two students, Mihoshi and Kiyone, also work. After dropping off the groceries, Sasami has an errand to run; deliver a CD to a customer who lives in a mansion across town. When she arrives, the mansion appears uninhabited, with dust and cobwebs everywhere. However, there is someone waiting for her; Tsunami. She introduces herself and explains that she wants Sasami to become Magical Girl Pretty Sammy, a guardian of peace and justice on Earth. Sasami is sceptic about the idea of magic, at least until Tsunami gives her a demonstration by making the CD she delivered play in mid-air! With another wave of her hand, Tsunami makes the CD disappear, and in its place Ryo-Ohki appears. Ryo-Ohki is to be Sasami's companion and guide on Earth. Tsunami gives Sasami her magical baton which, with the words "Pretty Mutation Magical Recall", will transform Sasami into Pretty Sammy. Sasami does so, and she reappears in her magical girl outfit (which isn't much of disguise, by all accounts). Satisfied that her job is done, Tsunami bids Sasami farewell and disappears.

In her home in Juraihelm, Ramia is in a foul mood, still peeved at the decision of the holy council to appoint Tsunami as queen. However, she has her own plan in effect; the purple bird that startled Misao earlier arrives and transforms back into Rumiya, Ramia's younger brother. He reports that he has found the person she was looking for, and she sends him out again to put the next stage of her plan into operation...

The next morning, Sasami awakes from a nightmare about how ridiculous she will look in her Pretty Sammy outfit. She is ready to write yesterday's experience off as a dream, until Ryo-Ohki pops up from under the covers too!

Meanwhile, Mihoshi and Kiyone's breakfast is interrupted when a truck pulls up outside their apartment. A new neighbour is moving in, a young girl by the name of Washu. No sooner has she introduced herself than she recounts the tragic story of her life thus far; that she has lost her memory, has no parents and her elder sister is engaged in illegal activities with "a man in glasses". However, it seems that this tale of woe is a cunning fabrication to get Mihoshi and Kiyone to unpack for her. Even when Kiyone has to leave for work, Washu manages to rope Tenchi, who was passing by, into helping lift her furniture!

At CD Vision, Kiyone and Sasami are left in charge of the store. In an effort to attract a wider range of customers, Kiyone puts on some piano music in place of the usual pop fare favoured by Sasami's mother. Misao is passing the shop and, hearing the music, enters. She asks about the music, and Kiyone tells her that it is a performance by Shigeki Amano, an eccentric genius who has since gone missing. Misao tells them, her voice filled with sorrow, that Shigeki Amano is her absent father. Suddenly, Ryoko, who has spent the night in Tenchi's room, stumbles through the door, half-asleep and muttering Tenchi's name. Kiyone wonders just what Ryoko has been doing in Tenchi's room all night!

Before long, Ryoko, still wearing her night-dress, finds Tenchi, still moving Washu's furniture. No sooner has she spotted him than Ayeka arrives on the scene. Having had her flunkies keep an eye on Ryoko's movements, Ayeka knows that Ryoko snuck into Tenchi's house the previous night (although this is news to Tenchi). Determined to teach Ryoko a lesson, Ayeka changes into her martial arts outfit and squares up to fight her. As the brawl escalates, Sasami and Misao arrive. Sasami begs Tenchi to step in and stop the fight, but he is reluctant to place himself between them once again. Misao seems upset; she remembers how her parents used to argue and fight until her father disappeared. As she watches, the purple bird appears once again and transforms into Rumiya. Misao falls into a trance again.

As Sasami tries to break up the fight herself, a strange blonde girl in a bizarre magical girl outfit springs from a nearby fountain. She introduces herself as Pixy Misa, and tells Ryoko and Ayeka that they have every right to fight where love is involved. Casting a magic spell on them, Pixy Misa transforms Ryoko and Ayeka into a pair of huge jelly-like creatures. Ryo-Ohki, having sensed a powerful magical reaction, appears on the scene and is shocked to see a pair of "Love-Love Monsters" and another magical girl! He hands Sasami her baton and tells her to transform into Pretty Sammy.

Meanwhile, Tenchi is being bounced back and forth between Ryoko and Ayeka as they battle over him. With a typical magical girl dramatic flourish, Pretty Sammy appears, and to her disbelief, no-one recognises her. Leaping into action, Sammy announces that she will stop Ryoko and Ayeka's now ludicrous love battle. Unfortunately, fighting is not amongst Pretty Sammy specialities, as Ryo-Ohki points out when her first attempt to land a punch on one of the monsters fails. Suddenly, Sammy finds herself being bounced around by the monsters instead! Ryo-Ohki leaps in to save her, but before Sammy can try anything else on the monsters, Tenchi faces them himself. He apologises to Ryoko and Ayeka for failing to decide which of them he loves. His words reach the two girls' hearts, and they remember why they like Tenchi so much. To her surprise, Sammy finds she can read their minds and understands their conflict. As she holds up her magical baton, Sammy's costume changes, and she casts the Pretty Coquettish Bomber spell. The spell hits the monsters and they transform back into Ryoko and Ayeka. Although they have been returned to normal, they are still at loggerheads over Tenchi, and before long they are fighting once more. Pixy Misa has disappeared, leaving only the message "Remember me — I shall return" carved onto the fountain*.

Across town, Misao awakens outside her house, with no memory of how she got there...

Watching Pretty Sammy's first performance from Juraihelm, Tsunami is pleased with how her kindred spirit is faring up. Ramia points out that she didn't actually achieve anything, but Tsunami disagrees, insisting that it is because Tenchi does not understand true love yet.

The next morning, the walk to school is just as eventful as ever. Ryoko and Ayeka's bickering continues unabated, and they are all running late. In fact, they all miss the morning bell and the gates are closed before them! To their surprise, they find Washu has come to take their names — she has just started as the school's new science teacher. Even for Pretty Sammy, there is no magical solution to being tardy!

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* In the Japanese version, Pixy Misa's speech is liberally sprinkled with English expressions, and her message on the fountain follows suit ("I shall return" is written in English using katakana, a Japanese phonetic writing system). In the English dub, the translators have attempted to capture a similar feel by writing French expressions into Pixy Misa's dialogue. Accordingly, Sasami reads the last part of the message as "au revoir".

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