Episode 02

Defense and Friends is the second episode in the Bofuri anime series.

Summary
Maple decides to take part in a battle royale event, managing to easily defeat everyone who comes to attack her and winning third place. The next day, Risa joins the game as Sally, a swashbuckler specializing in evasion, and the two go to a cave to fish for materials for a new shield. After Sally finds an underwater cave behind a locked door, the two begin visiting the cave each day to allow Sally to explore the cave and improve her underwater skills, allowing her to defeat the boss and earn her own set of equipment.

Characters

 * Maple/Kaede Honjou
 * Sally/Risa Shiramine
 * Drag
 * Frederica
 * Christmas Rose
 * Payne
 * Dread
 * Chrome
 * Kasumi

Bosses

 * Big Fish

Notes & Trivia

 * The Three Red Hot Brothers are based on the Black Tri-Stars (Gaia, Mash and Ortega) from Mobile Suit Gundam, down with the familiar-looking Jet Stream Attack-like formation.
 * Maple only won third place thanks to the sheer stupidity of the other players, who kept attacking her despite seeing others lose to her.
 * In the Dub, Maple's interview is changed to having her get vowels wrong; instead of the original version, where she accidentally says an innuendo.
 * Maple proves that she's lucky when she's not really trying to earn something; her sheer obliviousness gifts her greater benefits than actual intentional effort.
 * Beginner outfits are confirmed to have the same design, but the color is random; Sally wears a blue and white version of Maple's yellow and brown outfit.