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Micharus:
"Sky Girls"
Take one part 'Evangelion' (plug suits), one part 'Gundam' (mechs) add two parts 'Strike Witches' (young girls, aliens) and stir until mixed.
This will give you 'Sky Girls'.
In all seriousness, the only thing this series doesn't have is girls wearing animal ears, although the matched head pieces could serve and the umbilical cable that attaches to the 'flight suits' could easily be seen as a tail.
Cat girls anyone?
Set in the distant future, a future where mankind has been forced to use weapons of mass destruction in order to beat an alien known as 'WORMS', this the story is about a group of girls, initially 3 of them, who are chosen to become 'test pilots' for a new type of aircraft, the 'Sonic Diver'.
Our heroines have need to wear special 'flight suits', that involve a extra protective layer called 'nano skin', which is sprayed on in a special booth and then 'activated' with a charge of electricity.
This 'nano skin' basically helps the girls 'communicate' with their 'Sonic Diver' and enables them to control it properly, without the nano skin, they can't fly at all.
The 'nano skin' has one problem..... it has a 'life time' of roughly 24 minutes. After that it becomes unstable and dissolves/disappears.
Oddly, this feature is only used ONCE in the whole anime, I was expecting there to be a number of episodes where the time limit was used to increase the 'drama', but it didn't happen.
It also appears that the 'Sonic Diver' craft are more than transforming aircraft, with several episodes showing them 'walking' and responding to voice commands from their pilots.
As the anime progresses, we find that everything is not as it seems.
It appears the WORMS have returned and our heroines are pressed into service to fight them, much to the displeasure of Togo, the girls commander.
The girls (Eika, Otoha and Karen) are also against this turn of events, believing that they are only there to fly the 'Sonic Divers' as part of aerobatic flying team.
However, their outlook changes rapidly on discovering that while the latest combat aircraft, the 'Vic Viper' is quite capable of damaging the WORMS, only the 'Sonic Diver' can actually destroy them by using a technique called 'Delta Lock'.
Our heroines are forced into a training schedule that will allow them to perfect this technique and the anime shows their training and the troubles they have.
Eventually, we meet the next member of the team, Elise, a very young European (German?) girl, who is sent away, just in time to avoid being killed in a WORMS attack, but not fast enough for her to not see everything and everyone she loves die in that attack.
This leads to Elise having a burning desire for revenge against the WORMS, which leads to complications in later episodes.
With Elise finally on the team, the 'Delta Lock' technique becomes the 'Quadra Lock'.
Eventually, by a relatively winding road, with plots, sub-plots and back stories, additional characters being added along the way, we end up at the 'Final Battle'.... and I'll leave it there so you can find out how that goes.
As the anime moves along, there are 'slice of life' things happening, stuff that wouldn't be out of place in a show like K-On! or similar.
A trip to town helps the girls get to know each other a little better and introduces a new character to the mix, as well as providing some background information about one of the girls.
Episode 8 is the seemingly obligatory 'hot springs' trip, which actually fits in rather well after episode 7. There are a few laughs, but little else really happens.
The anime as a whole is rather good to watch, after a few episodes the rather skimpy 'flight suits' seem to become part of the background and the story takes over.
There are one or two places that had me laughing out load, others that had me feeling bad for various characters and still other episodes that had me raging about a characters attitude.
I also watched the 'DVD Specials'..... sort of.
I skipped through them, but they were mostly about our girls and Togo, doing something along the line of fishing while wearing their flight suits.
I guess if I had of been really interested in them, that they may have been funny, but it looks like they may just be a bad attempt at comedy.
I may actually watch them properly one day, but it's not going to be any time soon, I don't think.
Anyways, 'Sky Girls', if you liked 'Strike Witches', you should be able to get into this.
Next up is...... Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt.
Havoc10K:
Heheh, well, I probably should ask if the reason after all this WORMS situation and what happened at the ending episodes actually surprised you, well, did they ? cuz the first time I watched it was quite surprising in a way :)
Also, I wouldn't want to add girls into the stock, but have you seen Rocket Girls ?
*looks at Mic with evil eyes*
Yes, i'm adding to your already damn long list of to watch ahahahahaha XD
Well, Rocket Girls is a bit different, more slice of life and more funny, but it has a few very serious moments :)
Micharus:
--- Quote from: Havoc10K on April 30, 2011, 01:49:56 PM ---Heheh, well, I probably should ask if the reason after all this WORMS situation and what happened at the ending episodes actually surprised you, well, did they ? cuz the first time I watched it was quite surprising in a way :)
Also, I wouldn't want to add girls into the stock, but have you seen Rocket Girls ?
*looks at Mic with evil eyes*
Yes, i'm adding to your already damn long list of to watch ahahahahaha XD
Well, Rocket Girls is a bit different, more slice of life and more funny, but it has a few very serious moments :)
--- End quote ---
Actually, yes, it was reasonably surprising and interesting to find out just how the WORMS came into being.
Also, the look on Otoha's face when Aisha answers her question of how old Aisha is, is priceless.
The other thing is, Nanae looks a lot like the female police officer in Lucky Star, Yui Narumi.
As for my list of 'to watch' anime.... gah, I need to go through my torrent folder and pick out everything I have watched yet.
Seriously, the list I have at the start of this thread isn't even a quarter of what I have downloaded that I haven't actually seen yet.
Yes, I think I will be adding 'Rocket Girls' to that list.
Kyrdua:
*ehem* seikon no qwaser.... watch it after PsG. for a change of pace.
Havoc10K:
Mic, tell me the truth, your list keeps growing instead of shrinking, isn't it ?
*laughs madly*
oh god, I cried tears of laugh :D
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