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Episode 16 -	The Team, "Lovely Madams"
	senretsu! hitozumatai
	[Vividness! The Married Women Squad]*
First aired -	17th January 1997

After school one day, Sasami goes to Misao's apartment to listen to her practice her piano playing. She plays a piece of music named "Misao", which was composed by her father. However, her father has been working overseas since she was little, and the composition is incomplete. Misao doesn't know when she will see her father again. After Misao finishes practising, her next-door neighbour Miyuki drops by with some of her cooking for them.

Meanwhile, on Juraihelm, Ramia is in a particularly bad mood. She is sick of Pixy Misa's failed attempts to defeat Pretty Sammy, and has decided to cut out the middle-monsters and get Misa to fight Sammy one-on-one. She heads for Earth to organise the showdown, dragging Rumiya with her once again. Once there, she sends Rumiya off to fetch Misa while she organises a backup team in case Misa fails again. Ramia visits several of Umi no Hoshi town's most devoted wives, including Misao's neighbour Miyuki, a married college student named Yumi, a rambunctious cooking enthusiast named Yukie, and a karaoke fanatic named Chihiro. Once she has collected enough candidates, Ramia places a spell on them, a spell designed to channel the energy they usually expend on their husbands and children into fighting for Pixy Misa.

That evening, Ginji collects Sasami from Misao's place. As Misao waves goodbye, Rumiya lands nearby. Misao recognises him as the bird that keeps visiting her, and she talks to him about her day. She tells him that even though her father is overseas and her mother works long hours, she isn't lonely because she has Sasami as a friend. Rumiya, however, can tell that Misao is covering up the feelings of loneliness she so often has, and he feels sorry for her. His sympathy means nothing to Ramia, though, and she orders him to transform Misao into Pixy Misa.

After her dinner, bath and a karaoke session with her parents, Sasami heads for bed, but finds someone waiting under the covers for her — Pixy Misa! She has come not to fight but to deliver a letter of challenge (and an insulting one at that!).

The next morning, Ramia and Pixy Misa drive through the town using loudspeakers to announce the upcoming fight, and inviting the townspeople to attend and witness Pretty Sammy's downfall. By the afternoon, a crowd has gathered outside the elementary school where the battle is to take place. Misa arrives to a chorus of booing, and she calls out Pretty Sammy. Sasami, waiting in the classroom, is anxious to avoid fighting and wants to go and see Misao, who has been absent all day, but Ryo-Ohki convinces her to transform by assuring her that she has the chance to beat Misa once and for all.

Pretty Sammy is carried out to the battleground by her supporters, and the crowd cheers wildly. Before the fight begins, Sammy gets Misa to promise that if she loses she will never bother people again. Misa agrees, and lunges at Sammy with her magical baton. Sammy blocks the attack with her own baton, and the two magical weapons clash in a blaze of light. There is a loud crack as Misa dislocates her wrist, and she leaps about in agony. In desperation, Misa summons two Love-Love Monsters, but they are so tiny that Sammy simply bats them away. Just as Misa seems beaten, her reinforcements arrive - the six members of Ramia's magical married women squad, Team Sexy Mrs!

Team Sexy Mrs attack using their range of special skills, and they soon have the upper hand. Sammy takes advantage of a moment's hiatus in the fighting to open up her magical dimension, Pretty Space. The Sexy Mrs are not fazed, however, and they use their own magic to cancel out Pretty Space and replace it with their own dimension of magic, Sexy Space. Sammy charges at Mrs One, the team leader, but she is sent flying backwards by a magical blast. Weakened by the ferocity of the Team Sexy Mrs assault, Sammy is forced to admit defeat.

Watching from Juraihelm, Tsunami is devastated as the balance of Gemini tips back towards evil. Watching from atop the school building, Ramia is delighted as at last her dream of beating Pretty Sammy has come true!

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* The Japanese episode title contains a play on words. "Senretsu" can mean both "vividness" and "the line of battle" - both words are pronounced the same and written with very similar kanji.

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