Magical Pokan 8
Liru sees someone looking very much like Pachira going around town sucking blood.... Liru tries to place blame on Pachira, but she denies she's the one that did it. Pachira herself sees the thing out sucking blood when she's out later and gathers everybody together since she's figured out who the real culprit is (you Haruhi or something? Well, she is, kinda.. same seiyuu). Aiko is sent out as bait -- works well since the robot can't suck metal. Turns out that two alien kids@Tomoko Kaneda were inside, trying to gather blood for thier mother who was injured when their spacecraft crashed. Pachira, Uma, and Liru offer to help out and.... they end up being pretty much sucked dry of blood since the aliens' mother is rather large. Well, at least they did help them out...
Aiko receives a package in the mail, and inside... a piece of chalk, but not just any plain ol' chalk, it's magic chalk. According to the very thick instruction manual anything you write with it will become reality. Pachira, Uma, and Liru fight over who gets to use it even though it's Aiko's. Before using it they each draw a picture of what they want -- of course a cool guy. Aiko's is the best, Uma's the worst, of course. Aiko is given the chalk, but that invisible person stops and mentions that the instructions say that only a magician can use it so Uma's got to do it. Oh well (^^;;) Instead of trying to draw she tries writing out a description first, a tall and cool=-looking guy. Of course only the characters themselves become real... but they oddly have the feel of what she was trying to describe. Cue a kazoo version of Also sprach Zarathustra (aka, "the 2001 music").
If that works that well then even a sucky drawing should work. Uma actually does a pretty good job tracing Aiko's drawing, though it ends up rather small... Aiko wants to use it for something completely different -- a galaxy railcar. She heard a rumor that you can get a real body over in Andromeda so she wants to see if it's true. They agree to give it a try and Uma draws a somewhat crude traincar -- actually turns out pretty well as the Galaxy Express 754. Going to take a while to get there, but no problem... right? The invisible person points out a page in the instructions that says that the effects of the chalk only last for one day. Uma draws up a button labeled "Speed fast enough to return to Earth in one day" and presses it -- they jump to warp speed and quickly arrive at Andromeda, a rather highly advanced city. Aiko goes to ask about getting a body -- the rumors are true -- and gets the paperwork. However, it'll take a whole day to do it... they wouldn't be able to return... with no chioce Aiko decides to give up on it. As everybody else plays on the way back home, Aiko sits by herself... surely, someday...
And no ochi, just a "nice" story, though sad for Aiko since she couldn't get herself a real body. Poor thing... anyways, fun and cute as usual, especially the B part. The 2001 parody had me laughing :) Next time looks like another Liru episode... I do like her, especially in cute puppy form, but still not as much as Pachira and Uma ;)
Too bad about that bureaucracy on Andromeda.
On the other hand, they could have used that magical chalk to make a machine to create a real body for Aiko.
They could have just drawn another train so Aiko could get a real body, unless there was no more chalk.