Strike Witches - Road to Berlin - Episode 8 - Yoshika Plot Summary

Yoshika breaks down almost every single episode of Strike Witches and Eila doesn't want to hear it.

The first episode had a Neuroi making ice and now we have one making fog, mucking up the military's plans to take back the city of Kiel without destroying its port. It's also Christmas, er Saturnus Festival time, so Strike Witches are already looking ahead to the next year.

Sanya overheard Trude and Minna complaining about how the plans to take back Berlin have been postponed because of the damage to Antwerpen's port and now destroying Kiel's port will postpone those plans again. This matters to Trude and Minna because they'll be turning twenty and losing their magic in a couple of months, so they don't have much time left to make an active contribution to liberating their homeland. Sanya proposed a side mission to take out the fog-making Neuroi with Eila, Shizuka, and Yoshika. After some harsh blindfolded training, they were ready to face the Neuroi in whiteout conditions, but Eila's foresight warned her that Sanya was in danger. This Neuroi was more complicated than it appeared.

The eye catches reflect that the couple of the week is Sanya and Eila who have truly magical powers of detection and clairvoyance.

Sanya scrubbed Eila from the next attempt because she disobeyed orders. Eila took it in stride, after some healing girl-talk in the sauna, but realized something about the Neuroi while assembling Saturnus Festival Tree decorations. Sanya's radar might just pass right through a skeletal framework Neuroi! It explains why Eila felt the Neuroi but Sanya couldn't perceive it. Sanya was flying back into danger.

Strike Witches follows the formula of the hero showing up right on time, and so it was with Eila shielding her comrades from a surprise attack. Combining their foresight and perception magic, Sanya and Eila easily dispatched the Neuroi core, clearing the fog and letting the main bombing unit destroy Neuroi targets in Kiel without saturation bombing techniques. General Patton's campaign was still on schedule.

Eila and Sanya celebrated the fog clearing between them too and had very Merry Christmas, uh, Happy Saturnus Festival.