Deep-Red Inconstant Etude

Deep-Red Inconstant Etude is the sixteen episode of the anime Michiko & Hatchin, it features the lead character of the series, Michiko Malandro, getting captured bound and gagged.

Story
Following the story of the anime, the two main characters, Michiko and Hatchin, arrive to a tomato production plant were they hope to find clues that leads them to find Hiroshi, Hatchin's father. The two characters separate and Michiko is searching in the building when she is confronted by security guards, and while she fights several of them, at the end she is defeated when they throw gas bombs at her. Later, while Hatchin is talking to Elis, the leader of the plant, in her office, Michiko is taken there bound and gagged. She has her wrists taped behind her back and her ankles taped together and she has an Over the Nose gag made of white cloth. Michiko is thrown to the floor where she struggles and mmmppphhes angrily, and the surprised Hatchin runs to untie her. First she removes her gag, and we discover she has a huge packing inside her mouth; then she cuts her wrists free; finally, as Hatchin cuts her ankles free, Michiko uses her free hands to remove the packing from her mouth.