Armored Troopers J-Phoenix PF Lips Team - EP3

Armored Troopers J-Phoenix PF Lips Team is a 2002 anime mecha themed based on Takara video games called Armored Troopers J-Phoenix (機甲兵団 J-PHOENIX).

The plot consists of 4 pilot women who have mechas and must complete missions.

Sinopsis
The episode begins by showing us a giant robot with feminine human aspect named Kokoro (こころ) chained while voices (from Valim's soldiers) are heard saying that she should obey their orders: To kill Glenn-Leader (the leader of the Alsarea's army).

Meanwhile, the protagonists land forcefully on a remote island apparently deserted due to bad driving of one of them, their mechas are damaged. So they decide to camp (with swimsuits) on the island until their mechas are repaired.

Then, Kokoro "daydreams" (like a human) that Glenn-Leader rescues her, because she's in love with him.

On the other hand, the protagonists, use a laptop to detect Kokoro (which is supposed to rescue in the meantime). Since they have never seen her, they imagine her as the daughter of the inventor of the Panzer Frames (humanoid mechas) and she got captured by the enemy, or that she is a spy who was captured during a mission.

Three of the four protagonists will explore the island in search of Kokoro and at the same time to get provisions to steal, while Izumi (the one with blue hair) that does not go remembers her past when she was saved by Glenn-Leader.

While the 3 infiltrate the enemy base, Purisu (the red-haired loli) also remembers how Glenn-Leader saved her.

Later, the enemy side gives orders to Kokoro, but she ignores them.

Lisa (the one with green hair) manages to successfully steal part of the mecha from the enemy. On the other hand, the other 2 (Purisu and Selena) meet Kokoro.

Then, Lisa and the Izumi manage to repair their mecha, but at that moment they are attacked by the enemy.

At the same time, Kokoro says that she doesn't want to kill Glenn-Leader, because she actually wants to get married with him and she wants to be merged with Glenn-Leader so that her "infantile" body evolves into that of a voluptuous adult and thus increase her power:

As the last scene of this rare anime, the protagonists travel through space with their mechas and leave behind Kokoro (which can speak and breathe in space) because Kokoro is considered as a "rookie".

(End of the episode).

Trivia

 * Kokoro (こころ) means heart. Her name is written on her chest in an emblem with a heart shape too.
 * That it is a giantess robot with human consciousness, that she can fall in love and that she wants her "pilot" (a human male) to enter her is not such an original idea. Whereas episode 3 (this, besides being the last of the series) was aired in 2004 (source), it is possible that they were based on Q·Ko-chan: The Earth Invader Girl (GTS themed manga by Hajime Ueda), which was published in 2003 (a year earlier).
 * The design of Kokoro is very similar to the Nymph of Sora No Otoshimono, since both possess: straight and blue hair, very large eyes, a chain "collar" on the neck, "antennas or ears" robotic in a very similar way, child physical form.
 * But as Nymph was created in 2007, it is possible that her author was based or inspired by the design of Kokoro.
 * Kokoro's voice was played by Ai Tokunaga.
 * Kokoro is an android that has the size of a PF (the standard model of mecha that is in her respective saga of video games) developed by the people of Talcus Three (a fictitious organization belonging to that video game as well).
 * In the Armored Troopers J-Phoenix videogame saga it is possible to have a girl as a mecha (GTS theme). In this video you can see an example.
 * In the Twitter user @nue_dotter, who is an artist who worked on the production of that series, he published 2 images of the conceptual art of that series: