Back with another zako find, this time from the anime Highschool D x D (Season 3, Episode 8)
The episode begins with the heroes raiding a castle in another dimension to save their friend who had been kidnapped. Upon entering, they are suddenly attacked the castle's guards.
Robed women, mostly "pawns" backed up by a "queen" and her four "bishops". They are what stand between the heroes and the castle's inner sanctum, and with no choice, attack.
Our hero though, having faced plenty of female opponents, uses a move called "dress break" which shreds the pawn's clothes to ribbons. The hero is certain that this will humiliate his foes into submission.
The plan however fails, as our hero ends up taking a kick to the face. While painful, he does relish the "glorious sight" from the pawn.
His joy though doesn't last long, as the nude beauties pummel him mercilessly, attacking one after another.
Suddenly, the girl's master announces that he had already planned for the hero's lewd tactic, and cast a spell on his minions to suppress any and all feelings of shame or embarrassment.
Meanwhile, the rest of the party deals with the more dangerous queen, and her bishop underlings. Befitting of her rank, the queen is proving to be more than a challenge.
The pawns continue their assault on the protagonist, attacking him with both magic and martial arts.
The hero and his friends attempt to blast the nude pawns with their magic, but their speed is too much to match, and they seem to act with complete synergy of one another. The situation looks hopeless for our heroes until...
Our hero manages to tap into the pawns hearts...er boobs, and hero manages to listen in on their thoughts, and figure out where and who they are attacking next.
With the pawn's plans now open for the hero to see, he is able to coordinate his companions to counter their attacks. In a sudden turn of events, the heroes get a leg up on their attackers, and effortlessly take down six of them.
The last pawns realize that their attacks are being read, and our hero explains to them shortly before they are dispatched of his new power gained by tapping into his lust.
With the pawns defeated, the other heroes dealing with the queen and her bishops can now charge up a more powerful attack. One of the heroines, sends forth a blinding, searing light straight at two of the now defenseless bishops. They scream in horror and agony as their bodies are completely annihilated, these poor young women reduced to dust in a mere moment.
All that stands is the queen, and her two remaining bishops. The two heroines currently dealing with them, get into a discussion involving a date with out hero from before. Frustrated, the queen demands that quit squabbling and face her in battle.
The queen's demand is quickly met, as the two heroines put aside their complaints and deal a powerful magical attack at their foe. The blast sends them flying, tearing off their clothes and leaving them sprawled out in a crater, whimpering pathetically before their bodies dissipate into magical essence, signaling their demise. With all of the women either dead or otherwise, our heroes enter further into the castle walls...
We actually do get a little backstory about them later on in the episode from one of the "master's" bodyguards. He tells the heroes that those women they had fought and slain were actually at one point holy women.
He explains that his master's favorite hobby is to find proud young nuns and priestesses, and manipulate them into becoming vulnerable. At which point, he would "ravish their heart and body", turning them into his obedient minions and "drag them to the depth of hell with him" (And given the show revolves around angels and demons, that can be seen as quite literal)
While we can safely assume the queen and her bishops are dead, given the complete annihilation of their bodies, the fate of the nude pawns is left in the open. Given that the heroes leave them behind as they leave the dimension the villains castle is in, and how beaten and battered they were (not to mention now completely exposed and powerless) it can be assumed that all of the pawns perished, suffering a tragic end.
What's worse, is that these once noble had no chance of redeeming themselves, and would therefore be doomed to hell, despite their once pious lives.
I think it's interesting though, that these once highly respected women had became zakos. It's a neat little inverse on the zakos generally being nameless nobodies, with these girls actually at one point being well loved and revered figures, whose names had now been excommunicated for the shame they brought their churches with their betrayal.
Apologies too for how long this post was, there was just a lot I wanted to share of this battle.
EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention too was when the hero group enters the castle, and fight the first boss inside (A demon/human abomination) they discover that two of the bishop girls had been ordered to be support for the demon hybrid. However, the hybrid decides that these two women would be much more of use to him if he "absorbed" their power, via messily eating them. This further shows how expendable these women are to their beloved lord, when he allows them to be killed so horribly. We never see the hybrid kill the bishops, but we are treated to a very lovely shot of the "leftovers".