The Cougar Monologues
 The speedy speeches and wise words of s-CRY-ed's Sakura Cyclone, Straight Cougar

s-CRY-ed is a series you either love, hate or laugh yourself dizzy over, but on one point fangirls stand united: Straight Cougar (Sutoreito Cougar in Japlish) rocks. From his questionable entrance to his heroic exit, this irrepressible speedball exudes star quality, and is the only thing that brings me back to watch this dubious epic. And even more memorable than his pink car, pink shades and "you HAVE to be a badass to wear this color" high-energy presence are his high-speed monologues, delivered with manic glee in English by the inimitable Crispin Freeman and equal octane in Japanese by Kyousei Tsukui. We've long thought these crazed raves needed to be collected for posterity, so --here we go.

First some basics on the show:

--Based on the manga by Yousuke Koroda (writer) and Yasunari Toda (artist)
--Directed by Goro Taniguchi from a screenplay by Yousuke Koroda
--Ran from July to December 2001 on Japanese TV's Bandai Channel
--First aired in the USA on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, May to December 2005; several airings on [as] since then
--Opening theme, "Reckless Fire" by Yasuaki Ide; closing theme "Drastic My Soul" by Mikio Sakai
(Episode 26 only: opening theme "Drastic My Soul", closing theme "Tabidachi no Kane ga Naru" by Mikio Sakai)

==The Monologues==

[transcripted with loving care by angelynx-prime and Cille, to whom many thanks =)]

(Episodes highlighted contain Cougar monologues; click to read. Episodes not highlighted have no or little Cougar content and therefore = fail.
Fasten your seatbelts please....)


2001-07-04 --1. Kazuma

2001-07-14 --2. Ryuho

2001-07-18 --3. HOLY

2001-07-25 --4. Big Magnum

2001-08-01 --5. Mimori Kiryu

2001-08-08 --6. Zetsuei

2001-08-15 --7. Asuka Tachibana

2001-08-22 --8. Mad Sprict

2001-08-29 --9. Shell Bullet

2001-09-05 --10. Super Pinch

2001-09-12 --11. Alters

2001-09-19 --12. Kunihiko Kimishima

2001-09-26 --13. Lost Ground

2001-10-03 --14. Kyoji Mujo

2001-10-10 --15. Rogue (Stray Boy )

2001-10-17 --16. Sou Kigetsuki

2001-10-24 --17. Ayase Terada

2001-10-31 --18. Straight Cougar

2001-11-07 --19. The Three Tokonatsu Sisters

2001-11-14 --20. Kanami Yuta

2001-11-21 --21. HOLY Eye

2001-11-28 --22. Martine Zigmarl

2001-12-05 --23. Scheris Adjani

2001-12-12 --24. Fist

2001-12-19 --25. Native

2001-12-26 --26. Dream

( Extra thanks and squee! to the awesome Cille for correcting the episode titles and for the use of her Cougar banner above.) =)

Absolute Anime has a fine, thoughtful character profile of Cougar here.