Movie Name : Counter Measures

Actress Name : Lada Boder

Character Name : Nishka

Year : 1998


In 1998 movie Counter Measures. Actress Lada Boder plays as villainess Nishka. One of the iconic villainess from the golden age of movies, the 90s..

I love these kind of movies, unlike modern movies, this movie despite its low budget, but has its own unique character, like I can imagine how things were when this movie was made, like imagine, no internet, no smart phone, the only entertainment you can get is watching a movie late at night on the TV, or rent it to watch it on the VCR, and for that purpose, a movie like that do exactly what it needed to do, at night you watch it, have some fun action, and that's it.

 The movie starts with a gun fight, luckily back then we didn't have a committee hired for the sole purpose to ruin the action scene for you..

 Just after that we are being introduced to the gorgeous Nishka while she was with Commander Gregori in preparation to take over The Odyssa, the elite Russian nuclear submarine he's working on, who then asked her to ask for more money for him.

Nishka then travel to the Russia to attend a meeting, I'm so in love with her accent, like, who can hear a gorgeous villainess like her saying anything with such accent and dare to disagree with her!!

Now the captain with other conspirators manged to take over the Russian submarine and the crew working in the submarine died brutally, the villains want to take over the submarine as a part of their plan to take over the world. 

Just before the villains took over the submarine, one of the crew who survived manged to send distress signal to the US navy, so the US Navy sent Captain Jake Fuller and Lieutenant Swain to see what's going on.

 Watching villains around 24 minutes shows you how different villains were before censorship, it's really awesome to watch this movie today.

We see our stunning villainess around 29 minutes, she found out that the bodies of the 15 sailors their evil organization killed to steal their identities and take over the submarine were found, now her evil plans at risk. 

Knowing that a Russian nuclear submarine may have been taking by a rogue organization, the US ambassador went into a meeting with the Russian, warning them on how dangerous it would be for a nuclear submarine to be hijacked, and how it would risk a global war between the two countries, oblivious to the fact that the gorgeous and dangerous Nishka is attending the meeting, keeping an eye on what both the Russians and the Americans may know and making sure things don't go out of control for their evil operation.

  One of the villains had disagreement with his commander, after his commander was preparing to use the submarine rockets, saying "I joined this mission for money, nothing else" and he's commander slapped him, I mean, he got a point, money is good, I know you won't believe this, but personally, I really love money, not only that, I consider having money is better than not having money.

   For a low budget movie, the set they are filming in looks amazing. And the fight scenes looks stupid and fun, honestly stupid fight scenes are fun too, and the sound effects, like when someone get a slap, it sound "BOO", I love this movie. 

We see the stunning Nishka once more around 48 minutes, she's preparing her silencer while monitoring the US ambassador to make sure he doesn't get too close to the truth and ruin her organization plans.

James Horan is absolutely great playing the main villain in the movie, due to censorship and thought police committees in the west, you would never get a character like that today.

The main villain Petrov capture Lieutenant Swain and started to explain his plans to her, his plan is to rain Russian cities with warheads, for the Russians to blame militants from Kazakhstan to Ukraine, and Russia being forced to take over these countries, by doing so, The relations in the west will deteriorate and A new Soviet Union will rise from the nuclear ash. His face expression when saying "A new Soviet Union will rise from ash" is priceless.

Finished more than 1 hour watching this movie, and I really don't think there are much movies today that I can enjoy watching as much as this low budget movie that was made 27 years ago, modern movies are that bad..

Now with Swain being captive, only Captain Jake Fuller can save the day and stop the evil organization from starting a global war. 

Now with the US ambassador getting closer to discover the organization evil plans, our stunning villainess Nishka have to act fast, so she decide to attack the ambassador herself with her silencer in order to make sure the plan goes as intended, the final confrontation started around 1 hour and 5 minute.

I love the final confrontation, and Nishka accent, I'm so in love with her, I'd die for her, what an amazing villainess.







Lada Boder as evil babe Nishka in Counter Measures

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Actress Name : Sara Wiseman
Character Name : Mab
Year : 1999


In tv show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys season 5 episode titled Once Upon a Future King aired 1999. Actress Sara Wiseman plays as villainess Mab.

Let's re-watch one of my childhood villainesses, let's see if Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as bad as modern western entertainment, better or worst, although, I think making TV show as bad as they are today requires more effort than it's required to make a good TV show LOL.

I'm so excited to watch this episode, yeah, it's my childhood villainess, but I really don't remember anything about the episode, I only recognized her when I watched the clip on Youtube, so, it's so nostalgic to watch the episode once more time.

Oh god, the intro of the episode is so bloody, they used practical effects tho, which I appreciate now.

Just after the battle scene we see our stunningly gorgeous sorceress, not having an HD version of this show is a sin.

The episode basically starts with Merlin sending both King Arthur and our villainess Mab in time to Hercules' era, saying "I can't stop you, so I'm sending you to someone who will".

It didn't take long for our evil sorceress and King Arthur to get their own army despite being in a different time and place, showing that their evil strength comes from within, not because their kingdom, that even being completely alone in the past, they manged to have an army under their command.

  God, the intro, I love this intro, especially with the two-headed monster and the music, like, so nostalgic, I love it so much.

Around 9 minutes our sagacious sorceress gave King Arthur motivational speech on who he's way more than being a king of this small army, and his goal should be bigger than that, and that they have to find a way to go back to their own timeline.

King Arthur is clueless on how he can go back to his timeline, so our villainess had to show him how, now with them back in time, Merlin is also in the same timeline as young, and all they have to do is to go after him.

Our evil queen being well-informed with legends, she knew that the Excalibur isn't in the stone yet, so she then guided King Arthur to get the legendary sword from the guardian of the Excalibur.

Around 15 minutes, our villainess Mab and King Arthur finally manged to find Merlin..

God, I love how Mab uses her magic powers, like the way she act, and how powerful she looks, you would never get that in any modern show, because thought police commission would censor such scene as they consider enjoying watching villains doing evil act is a sin, so, creators can't make such scene, villains like Mab can't act powerful and dangerous, and either they turn them good, make them as bland as possible.

Anyway, the gorgeous evil sorceress finally manged to capture Merlin raising him above her head, with her black painted fingers around his neck 💗💗💗.  

   Yet, capturing Merlin wasn't as promising as our sorceress thought, as he has no idea on how to get them back to the future, as he's still young and had no idea how he sent them back to the past in the first place, so, she decided to use plan B, killing Merlin, and if he's dead in the past, he can't exist in the future, thus, he can't send our sorceress back in time, yet, it seems that there was some kind of protective shield protecting Merlin, that not only surprised our villainess, but Merlin himself was surprised.

Ok, Arthur is probably gonna join the good side and turn into a good king, well, he's not my king anymore, and not worthy of Mab's evil powers.

Around 31 minutes, our evil queen face Hercules while he was freeing Merlin, so, she ended trying to kill Hercules with her powers, for Hercules to block the fireball with the Excalibur back at her, to make her freeze, yet our beloved sorceress isn't done yet, as she still have one last trick in her sleeves, a giant monster who is willing to face the good guys. You can watch the final confrontation here.

I swear, I just finished watching the first season of some Hungarian show, thinking, maybe it's not censored, yet, as expected with all TV shows today, it was made under censorship committee, while this episode is absolutely amazing, I would even say, this single episode is way better than every show made by Hollywood in the last year, every single one, truly awesome.


    Favorite Quotes

"Mab: We are sorcerers, the world belongs to us, or more precisely, to me." 










Sara Wiseman as evil babe Mab in Once Upon a Future King Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

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Movie Name : The Rookie
Actress Name : Sonia Braga
Character Name : Liesl
Year : 1990


In 1990 movie The Rookie. Actress Sonia Braga plays as villainess Liesl. An iconic 90s action movie and iconic villainess played by the amazing Sonia Braga.

I don't get why this movie look and sound so good, like even the fonts used look so cool, this is a movie from the 1990s, how come it looks way better than most movies made today!!

We see the gorgeous Liesl for the first time when she blocked the cop Nick Pulovski while he was following his target..

Nick Pulovski partner was shot dead, and Nick Pulovski went in a car chase after the one who shot him, I know you would never a car chase like that in any modern movie.

 I absolutely can't get it, how such beautiful peace of art, a movie, an actual movie evolve to the trash we see today, like this movie looks incredibly good, the camera movement, the sound, everything. Like even the cigar Nick Pulovski is smoking would have to be censored in a modern western movie, it's insane.

We see our villainess around 20 minutes, god, she's so beautiful, a goddess.

Nick Pulovski a character which is obviously good, if made today Hollywood would probably say he's a villain, they go like "You want a villain? Here's your villain!!" basically a villain for them a hero who is willing to cross the line to achieve his noble goals, so what about actual villains? Well, you can't get that due to censorship.

Sonia Braga is really good playing her role, I love when actors can act with their eyes, it's very rare today, most actors tend to be bland, like giving statement and memorizing lines and just repeating it, in many case, it's hardly acting, not only her to be fair, all actors in the movie are really good, like Raul Julia is also great actor, and he's the main villain of the movie too, RIP 💔💔💔.

I don't know why IMDB says this movie a dark comedy, this movie is Drama, just because Charlie Sheen in it, doesn't mean it's a comedy!!

Around 45 minute, both Liesl and Strom caught the one who was spying on them, he tried to go and she kicked his ass, then shot him..

Anyway, around 50 minutes Liesl and Strom were trying to steal a vault, yet they didn't know that the cops were waiting for them inside, yet Liesl saw David Ackerman AKA the rookie nervous and exploited that, then shot him three times in his back. 

Around one hour and 17 minutes Liesl have fun with Nick Pulovski after they took him as a hostage.

Meanwhile his partner David Ackerman is doing everything he can to find him.

Basically,  Nick Pulovski manged to free himself, David Ackerman manged to find him and help him and around 1 hour 45 minutes, we see our villainous couple trying to escape leading to the final confrontation.










 







Sonia Braga as evil babe Liesl in The Rookie

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Movie Name : Wars In China Town
Actress Name : Xuanru Shi
Character Name : Tian Hai
Year : 2020


In 2020 movie Wars In China Town. Actress Xuanru Shi plays as villainess Tian Hai.

The movie feels as if it started in the middle, like very dramatic scenes just happened in the start of the movie..

The movie events apparently taking place in USA, and it's obvious how the movie is fascinated with USA, I mean, we all been there, right? 

So, basically the hero, Ye Zhuo, in the start of the movie impaled Wu Silong, the leader of the brutal Heilong gang, and then the gang members took him to the Japanese who took him to USA for treatment, makes zero sense but who cares!!

We finally see our evil goddess Tian Hai around 24 minutes, our gorgeous villainess goal is to build a super soldier with the help of the evil doctor Oshima in order to dominate Asia. 

Around 29 minutes Tian Hai then shares a drink with Mr Scott, and they speak about their experiments and how they use Chinese victims for body parts in order to create their super soldier.

Then around 33 minutes we see the first results of their experiment, creating a super soldiers who can easily defeat a group of trained fighters without any trouble. The doctor then explained, in order for the super soldier to have his superpower, they need to extract a substance from the victims, especially strong young men, if the young man is a good fighter, it would be better, I mean, there are no specification on what exactly the substance they extract, like, does it look white and slimy?! I guess we will never know!!

One of the villainess henchmen recommended Fang Liang to be their target, then our villainess order her stunning henchwoman Xun Zi to go after him. 

TBH, I like the idea, it can make a really good plot for a movie, it reminds me of The One, I think Jet Li played similar character, like him being more powerful the more he destroy his doppelgängers from other dimensions, imagine making a movie like that, and mix the two concept, like having evil organizations going after the best fighters in the world, one by one, in order to make a super soldier or for someone to be super powerful, that would be interesting concept, it will mix marital arts and horror and action, and instead of having one vs one, you have entire organization that goes after these fighters with different ways, like having ten goons going after single fighter, or using assassins or any other way, it would be really a fun and interesting movie to watch, if it was done right.

     Around 41 minutes, the gorgeous Xun Zi go after Fang Liang, and she actually manged to capture him, yet, he was saved by Ye Zhuo, the legendary Chinese fighter who manged to defeat Wu Silong before travelling to the USA.

Now the heroes know that Tian Hai and her evil army are behind a series of mysterious murders in China Town, and have been doing it for their secret experiments in order to create their invincible soldier.

Around 50 minute time mark, our gorgeous henchwoman Xun Zi went back to the headquarter to Tian Hai after failing at her mission, telling her boss that Ye Zhuo was there and intervened and saved Fang Liang from them.

Just after that, Tian Hai's base was attacked by the heroes, Tian Hai is amazing villainess that I want to worship her, it's like my heart beat whenever I see her.

After the heroes manged to defeat Tian Hai's thugs, she summoned her secret weapon, Wu Silong, only now he have superpowers, now Ye Zhuo have to face him one more time, yet he's not facing a regular human, but a superhuman with superpower with a motive to destroy Ye Zhuo once and for all.

 I wish Wu Silong had six pack or something, that would really show how powerful he is as an enemy especially that he's shirtless.

The fight ended with Fang Liang being captured by Tian Hai's forces and Huang dying in order to give the other heroes a chance to escape certain death..

After their decisive victory, knowing that the heroes are no match for Tian Hai and her forces, she sends a group of soldiers under the leadership of the stunning Xun Zi to China Town in order to capture more young fighters to feed her killing machine and build her super army.

Xun Zi gives her orders to the soldiers, "Spare whoever can fight, kill everyone else", after the soldiers finished the killing, no more screams, only dead silence. 

The final fight starts around 1 hour 6 minutes..

That was fun, a movie ends and I still want to watch, still want more, which is awesome.







Xuanru Shi as evil babe Tian Hai in Wars In China Town

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Movie Name : Cop And Half
Character Name : Lady T, Busi and Dimamzo
Year : 2025


In 2025 movie Cop And Half. Actresses Nadine TheronNoxolo Dlamini and Nthati Moshesh play as female villains Lady T, Busi and Dimamzo.

From my experience, movies from South Africa are often better than Hollywood movies, movies/shows made in South Africa seems to put entertainment first, even with drama, they seem to put drama first, so I'm hoping to like this movie.

 The movie opens with some guy and his face surrounded by turds, well, that's me watching western movies.

The movie basically starts with a raid going south, it all happened too fast, all we have to know that the hero screw things up, and being scolded by his boss.

Ok, a comedy movie that made me laugh, you can't find that in western comedy movie, the scene around 20 minutes is so funny and bloody at the same time, which is interesting.

Damn, what an intro!! Our villainess appeared around 24 minute, and just shot a poor woman in the bar while they were sniffing around trying to collect information on the criminal organization, and went after the heroes, and both the heroes and the members of the organization had a shootout.

Our stunning villainess then fought Jon over the case, which, I'm so in love with her, I want to worship her 😍😍😍😍.

Ok, Busi's goons are fun to watch, this is a comedy, not all jokes have to land, but you know the movie is actually trying to make you laugh, and there some edgy jokes in it..

The dynamic between Jon and Trev reminds me of Hanafi el-Ubbahah, yet Trev seems like a waterdowned version of Hanafi el-Ubbahah, and apparently Hanafi el-Ubbahah itself is based on a Hollywood movie called 48 Hrs. which I haven't watched.. The good old days, when Hollywood movies were so good that movies from around the world try to make something similar, unlike today, with Hollywood movies lost all relevance and movies around the world try to avoid being associated with the low quality of Hollywood.

We see our gorgeous villainess again around 33 minute,  and her boss called her and scolded her for losing the money.

 Around 37 minutes, some guy stole the case from Jon and Trev, and Jon and Trev ended up being captured by Busi's men LOL.

So, basically Jon and Trev were disguised as Lady T's men, and met with Busi and gave her the case, yet, Busi met Lady T telling her that she met her guys, for Lady T to go after them and expose them as undercover cops. 

Luckily for Jon and Trev, the cops raided the place which gave them a chance to escape..

Apparently we have a third villainess, like the boss of both Lady T and Busi, and she's keeping an eye on Jon and his family.

Ok, I love Dimamzo character, she's so heartless and cold 💗💗💗💗💗. 

Here's why Dimamzo intro is actually amazing, she and her gorgeous villainesses broke into Jon's and she kept you asking, Is she gonna do it? Is she bluffing? And basically you are anticipating what is going to happen till suddenly in a second she gave our gorgeous Lady T the sign and BAM!!

I can't remember when the last time I've seen something like that with anything made in the west both movies and TV shows, like, censorship in the west ruin the tension and the pacing of any movie, like, god, I love this movie, and I love Dimamzo's character so much.

I can't believe we have these three gorgeous villainesses, it's like an overdose of beauty..

So, Dimamzo took Jon's daughter, and told him, made him a deal, his daughter for her money and product, so now Jon have to steal the bags from the evidence room to get his daughter back.. I wish she took me instead 😍😍😍.

So, basically Dimamzo decided to get rid of Jon and Trev, after the deal was done, and we basically get the final confrontation of the movie.

  Nadine Theron is one of the most beautiful women in the world, I'm dying to see her again on screen. I don't have one, but three characters I love to see again, I'm so in love with Dimamzo and Lady T..








Nadine Theron, Noxolo Dlamini and Nthati Moshesh as female villains Lady T, Busi and Dimamzo in Cop And Half

Movie Name : Safe Harbor
Actress Name : Simone Giel
Character Name : Zora
Year : 2025

In tv show Safe Harbor season 1 episode titled Joint Venture aired 2025. Actress Simone Giel plays as villainess Zora.  I finished watching the show, and was thinking of making entire review about it, but I'm not sure if people gonna like the show as a whole, doesn't mean it's bad, it just drags, it's very bloated, it stretch the events too long than it should be, best scenes are Zora and Oncko Jaager scenes.. So, I'm just gonna say which characters I enjoyed the most.. First one Oncko Jaager AKA gen z warrior played by Shahine El-Hamus, he's the character I enjoyed watching the most in the show, and I don't know how the show can fill the void he left in it, I liked his character, very charismatic and smart, always make you want to know more about it, sadly, he didn't get the screentime he deserved, instead we got too much screentime with intolerably boring dialogues with characters that barely needed for the show.

The second character is Farrell Walsh played by Jack Gleeson, honestly I didn't recognize the actor till I checked the show IMDB page, which shows how good actor he is, like you wouldn't even imagine that he's the same actor who played Joffrey Baratheon in GOT.    

Anyway probably gonna watch the second season when released, and if Zora turned good, I would probably delete the post, overall, the show isn't bad, you may enjoy the drama around Tobias Chapman character, definitely watching Zora and Oncko Jaager worth it, and Jack Gleeson performance is also great, very fresh character, and really great actor.  

   

Favorite Quotes

"Tobias Chapman: Rubber ducks. In 1992, there was a cargo ship heading from China to the United States. During a particularly bad storm, a container slipped overboard, and.. most of everything in the container sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, never to be seen again, but not... 28,000 rubber ducks like this one. They floated to the surface, and within weeks started washing up on nearby shores. Over time, the ducks were discovered on beaches from Australia to the east coast of the United States and as far away as England, and because of this phenomenon, they became hugely popular collectables. The manufacturer recognised this opportunity and started churning out a variety of ducks, and those cheap little toys.. became a global multibillion dollar business. Meaning...

Stewart Weeks: opportunities dont always show up on your doorstep in an obvious package."














 

Simone Giel as evil babe Zora in Safe Harbor

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Movie Name : Butterfly Shadow
Actress Name : Yang Xue
Character Name : Koko Fujiwara
Year : 2023

In tv show Butterfly Shadow season 1 aired 2023. Actress Yang Xue plays as villainess Koko Fujiwara. Our friend Thousand orchid recommended me this show, and I was happy to know that the gorgeous Yang Xue is playing a villainess in it, so let's check it out.

Our stunning villainess first appear in episode 33, so let's check it out. 

We see our gorgeous villainess around 4 minute time mark, and she's so stunning, I'm so in love with her 😍😍😍.

Ok, I really like this show, it's not boring or bland, and the music is really cool and fit the pacing.
Nice, also the male villains are cool in this show, this is so fun to watch, this way cooler than typical Chinese shows covering the occupation period, they basically taking freedom to do whatever they want to entertain, like having bullets with slow motion, it's not like some dry historical drama, more like historical fantasy.

The heroine, Lin Qiuyan, in the movie is really cool, she's played by the beautiful Yue Feng, around 20 minute time mark she tries to assassinate the main villain after he met with our gorgeous villainess, yet she failed, and he outsmarted her, and Joo Yeon betrayed her.  

Our villainess seems to have other plans, as she's aiming her sniper on the three of them, waiting for Yamamoto orders!

Damn, they screwed Yamamoto, and Joo Yeon didn't betray the heroine after all, still, it's cool scene, I guess he did all of this because he knew it was a trap and wanted to know the whereabouts of our gorgeous villainess, and waited Yamamoto to reveal her location, then shot him when the time was right, this is actually incredibly cool, on the other hand, I hate that the show keep cutting into flashback to show why the heroine is shooting him, it's cringe.    

Our villainess shot one of the heroes while she was trying to escape, who just crossed her way, the poor girl. This was actually very smart, the show made a contrast of feelings, which made a great drama, like the feeling you get when Yamamoto was shot, is the exact opposite of what you feel when the heroine was shot, if not for the flashbacks, it would be even better.

Now with Yamamoto gone, our villainess became like the main antagonist of the show, this show is incredibly amazing, and again thank you, Thousand orchid, for recommending this show, this was incredible ⚘⚘⚘. 

Let's see what our gorgeous evil goddess gonna do in episode 34, the episode starts with emotional scene of the heroine saying goodbye to her late sister, promising her that our villainess will get punished for what she did.

We see our gorgeous villainess again around 10 minute time mark, it only took like 30 seconds, then we see her again around 16 minute time mark, and she's absolutely stunning, I want to watch her plotting her evil plans all day 😍😍😍.

Watched 20 minutes till now, and they are basically plotting against each others, our villainess is setting a trap for the heroes, and the heroine also plotting against her.

Around 35 minute time mark, the heroine expected that Koko Fujiwara set a trap for her, and she have to come with a plan to avoid it, and outsmart or evil goddess, let's see if she will in the next episode.

Let's watch episode 35Yang Xue is amazing, the way she moves her eyes, her voice tone, that is acting, and she's so gorgeous.

You know, TV shows way more fun to watch when it's periodical, it kind of feel like a hobby, that's how TV shows should be watched, every week you go back watch the show with the characters you care about, it's different from watching all of the movie at the same time.

Around 12 minute mark, the heroine killed one of the guards with silencer, like, he didn't even try to draw his weapon, then went to kill her target and then opened a vault full of money, this show is really good.

Ok, the burned the money, which is really stupid, like by burning it, she absolutely caused zero harm to the Japanese occupation, if she wanted to really harm them, she would take the money and flood the streets with it, or take it to fund the communist resistance, but now she just burned a huge pile of toilet paper!!

 Our villainess appear again around 15 minute time mark, and there's this guy who keeps simping for her, that guy is totally me, she was like "Did I take the wrong choice?" and he was like "Not at all, you are very thoughtful", yeah, that's totally me, I'm the one who go like "You are the fairest of them all, my evil queen" LOL.

There's something I'm missing, they keep talking about how these bills are counterfeit, and I really don't understand, like if it's Japanese bills and our villainess counterfeiting it, then it's good for the Communist resistance, since it only harm the Japanese, or are they like communist bills, I don't understand, probably If I watched the show from the start I would.

Around 25 minute time mark the simp guy who I can't remember if they even mentioned his name was with the villainess and was "I admire you so much", and I'm like "Wait, that dude is me" LOL.

The eposide is about to end, and I'm hooked, I wish our villainess had more action, even like ordering troops or hunting the heroes or something.. 


Been a long time since I watched the show, now would be a good time to finish it, so let's start watching episode 36, Qiu Yan found out that our villainess brought a relic expert to check out the relic she had for authenticity. We only start to see Koko Fujiwara around 22 minutes.. The hair cut Koko Fujiwara's assistant has, is just interesting, I'm sorry, I don't believe people in the 1930s had haircuts like these. And.. he's dead, told you, you can't survive the 30s with such haircut LOL.

Basically our villainess relocated, to live in Japanese mansion, now we see her in a traditional Japanese dress. The show introducing a lot of new characters, that I can't bring myself to care about them, they kind of feel like a filler.

  Basically the heroes went and destroyed the second base of our villainess, defeated their guards, and now the heroine have to fight Koko Fujiwara and avenge her sister, the final fight in the episode 39,  a long sword fight, that it took like 10 minutes, and it looks great and so fun to watch. 








Yang Xue as evil babe Koko Fujiwara in Butterfly Shadow

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