A More Terrible War

A More Terrible War is the third episode of the Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka anime. It aired on January 26, 2019.

Summary
In Tijuana, Mexico, as Mia Cyrus aka Just Cause Mia heads up a renegade squad to take down a drug cartel, she comes across a tied up man who mentions "The Babel Brigade" before he is crushed to death by a magical force. Back in Japan, Nozomi's father, who works for the Metropolitan Police's Public Safety Division, gets similar information out of Kanth, who warns the magical girls are prey. Later, Nozomi invites everyone to the pool, where Sayako jumps off the high dive to overcome her trauma. They then buy movie tickets with the promise to meet up the next day to watch the movie together. Later that night, however, Nozomi is kidnapped by the illegal magical girl Abigail.

Trivia

 * According to Makoto Fukami, as there were a lot of movie fans on the production team of the anime, there were many candidates for the title of the cheesy movie Asuka and her friends are supposed to see before they settled on "Cheerleader Samurai vs. Megaton Shark".