Oh My Goddess
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The summer is in full swing, and Keiichi decides to take Belldandy to the ocean in hopes of deepening their relationship, which hasn't progressed even after five months. However, Belldandy's older sister, Urd, introduces herself to Keiichi, and believing he isn't being assertive enough, makes him go along with her plans to "help" him with Belldandy.

Full Recap[]

Five months have passed since Keiichi and Belldandy moved into the temple. One hot day in the summer, Megumi invites herself over to enjoy Belldandy's cooking and gives Keiichi a mysterious mail package with no named sender. Megumi suggests to Keiichi that he take Belldandy to the ocean for summer vacation, only to remember that he can't swim (a fact disputed by Keiichi)! Nonetheless, Keiichi imagines how his relationship with Belldandy might deepen if they went to the ocean, possibly involving a kiss, and decides that he'll take her there.

Megumi leaves, and Belldandy goes out to shop. Alone, Keiichi opens the mysterious package and discovers it's a Betamax tape titled "Goddess Films: Sexy Dynamite!! Part 2". Seeing the risqué title, Keiichi eagerly plays it on his television. The video shows a voluptuous, tan-skinned woman showing herself off, but when she stretches her foot out to the camera, it goes through the television screen and kicks Keiichi in the face! The woman enters Keiichi's room and introduces herself as the cupid of love. She asks how he'll make his move on Belldandy and tries giving him a couple of pointers on physical affection by making him touch her breast and saying he must "go all the way" as she hugs him, but Keiichi panics and breaks free. The woman chastises Keiichi for his behavior and says that's why he's gone nowhere with Belldandy. She claims that Belldandy longs for him with her "entire" body. They then hear Belldandy return from shopping, and the woman tells Keiichi to take his shot and that she'll be backing him up. As she leaves, she reveals her identity as Urd, Belldandy's older sister, but instructs Keiichi not to mention her to Belldandy.

Later, Keiichi and Belldandy purchase a beachside hotel room and go down to the beach itself. While Keiichi sits on the sand and waits for Belldandy to come, he is met by Urd again, who asks him about his plans with Belldandy. Keiichi says he'll first try holding hands with her, but Urd calls Keiichi's plan childish and gives him a bottle of her own sunscreen lotion. She claims that if he spreads it all over Belldandy's body, she'll turn "mellow-mellow" and fall for him. Soon after Urd leaves, Belldandy arrives in a pink swimsuit. Keiichi compliments her and asks if she wants him to put sunscreen oil on her. Belldandy accepts the offer, but just as Keiichi musters the courage to go through with the plan, he's interrupted by an entourage led by Sayoko Mishima, a classmate of his at Nekomi Tech.

Belldandy immediately captures the attention of the men in Sayoko's group, to Sayoko's annoyance. One of them, Toshiyuki, tries grabbing Belldandy's hand to take her along on their boat going to sea. Keiichi panics and thinks the Ultimate Force will intervene, but nothing happens. As Sayoko and the others leave, Keiichi asks why the Ultimate Force didn't activate, and Belldandy speculates it could be due to a system malfunction which she'll check later. Regardless, Keiichi offers to pick up where he left off with the sunscreen oil, only to find it spilled into the sand. Urd witnesses the failure of her plan and realizes she'll need to try again.

Keiichi tries Urd's next plan and takes Belldandy out to sea on a rubber dinghy, though he doesn't really know what he's supposed to do. He asks again about the Ultimate Force, and Belldandy says she tried contacting her sister Urd—whose job is system maintenance— but didn't receive an answer. Unbeknownst to them, Urd creates a sudden wave near the boat that knocks Belldandy into Keiichi's arms. However, before Keiichi can do anything, Sayoko's yacht comes by and accidentally capsizes their dinghy. Sayoko apologizes and asks Belldandy where Keiichi went, and Belldandy realizes that Keiichi is sinking in the water!

Belldandy rescues Keiichi from drowning and brings him back to their hotel room. In a flashback, Sayoko slaps Belldandy on her boat for taking Keiichi out to sea despite not being able to swim. She also says that Keiichi probably sees her as a nuisance, making Belldandy shed tears. Belldandy tells herself that she's no good and wonders what Keiichi thinks of her after what happened. To her relief, Keiichi wakes up, but she's too scared to ask him an important question and excuses herself from the room.

Urd greets Keiichi in the hotel room but is mad that he made her little sister cry and says that it's happening because he doesn't love Belldandy enough. Keiichi insists that he loves Belldandy, but Urd tells him he must say that to her. To that effect, she gives him a love potion that, when drunk, will increase Keiichi's courage a hundredfold and turn him into a warrior of love. Urd leaves, but the moment Keiichi drinks the potion, he collapses on the floor.

As Urd explains from afar, Keiichi will fan in love with the first person he sees. At that moment, Sayoko knocks on Keiichi's door and says she wants to apologize for what happened and that she had some blame for the incident. Keiichi wakes up and opens the door—causing Sayoko to fall as she was leaning on it—and immediately falls in love with Sayoko, and Urd gives up on Keiichi. Keiichi then tells Sayoko that she is the woman he wants, not Belldandy, but Belldandy comes back at that moment and hears him. Belldandy begins crying again, but Keiichi, overcome by his inability to say what he actually wants, cries out and runs away, with Belldandy following.

That evening, Belldandy catches up to Keiichi at a secluded part of the beach and tells him that if he thinks she's a nuisance, she'll return home, but Keiichi remains incoherent and falls unconscious, dropping the bottle of Urd's potion. Belldandy realizes who is behind Keiichi's condition and calls for her sister to reveal herself. When she does, Belldandy demands that she turn Keiichi back to normal, but Urd says she didn't anticipate this happening to Keiichi and can't cure him.

Belldandy turns back to Keiichi and tells him that she'd be willing to exchange her divine powers for turning him back to normal. She then kisses Keiichi on the lips, but that successfully wakes Keiichi back to his ordinary self. Belldandy asks Keiichi if he thinks she's a nuisance, but to her relief, Keiichi answers that a couple of incidents like this are worth the fortune of having met her in the first place, and Belldandy hugs him.

Urd watches with approval from a distance and is about to return home, only to be suddenly struck by lightning. Belldandy and Keiichi investigate and find an inscription from the Lord, which states that because Urd caused the Ultimate Force System to crash through her tampering, she is, for the time being, forbidden to return home. They realize this means that Urd will be staying with them, and when Urd regains consciousness, they all have a laugh about it.

Trivia[]

  • When Urd appears in front of Belldandy at the latter's request, her revealing uses the same sound effect used in Tenchi Muyo! (another anime produced by AIC, the studio behind this OVA adaptation) whenever the character Ryoko teleports between places.
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