Sky Girls - 02 July 13
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So after being recruited scouted stalked down, our three girls report to the facility in which they’ll be parading around in transparent spandex. In a totally unexpected turn of events, Otoha and Karen bump into each other on the train and become friends immediately.
Well, maybe not as quick as those two scrubs in idolmaster. This time, they had to KO a mugger, who thought it was a good idea to stop running from the middle age lady he stole from and pull a knife on two teenage girls because they were… I don’t know, standing in his way on a huge street? Other retarded things I’ve seen lately:
Moving on, Otoha and Karen are picked up by the kind of scruffy looking commander seen way too often in these shows. You know, he’s that guy that’s so pro that he doesn’t need to wear a uniform and chooses to fish out the back of his battleship. I don’t like him already.
They meet Eika, your classic “if I smile I will lose focus in the fight for earth’s survival” type of chick that’s also a staple of these shows. I’d probably hate her too if she wasn’t so flaming hot. There’s something about that sculpted body and that ridiculously long ponytail that really gets me going.
Time to suit up – and oh man is it time to suit up! Otoha and Karen look great in their suits (my rant on how epic the plug suits are in the summary for the previous episode), but Eika is on an entirely different level. I’ve yet to figure out why – possibly because she’s about two cup sizes larger, or maybe it’s the color bringing out her skin tone better, or maybe it’s that ponytail – but geeeeez I probably haven’t stared so hard since that Nagi ankle pic.
They don their nanoskins for the first time (some silly sparkly contraption that prevents their nipples from busting out of those suits when they’re in the air). The process comes complete with an electric shock near the end which sends Otoha into a wave of euphoria as she thinks of… her little brother (-_-). Well, all in a day’s work.
Thoughts
Ok, I have another complaint. Supposedly the reason the military has to start scouting teen girls (yes, I realize they are loli, but after the debauchery that was Manabi Straight I refuse to recognize them as any younger) to fly their little flying robots because all the men between 20-30 years old got nuked. So I guess they decide to use 16 and 17 year old girls instead of guys because they have to repopulate the male species? You know, it’s not like there’s only 10 guys left on the planet… I saw at least a couple at Karen’s school, another one on the train. Really, they only needed 3 people for this Sonic Diver business.
See, I have a problem with shows that decide to do something for no particular reason except to attract more audiences. No, there’s a 99% chance I wouldn’t watch this show if it were 3 guys in plug suits, but they really need to come up with a better reason than the one they gave. Certain things are within the allowance of general logic – such as the plug suits – they are lightweight, provide plenty of flexibility in movement, and the cable in which they plug into the Sonic Diver with is out of the way.
It’s things like this that make me lose interest in a show. To continue watching (and enjoying) then, I need to suspend a certain degree of rationale and “take it less seriously.” Unfortunately for some shows, I need to suspend so much and so far that it just becomes a total joke. Luckily, Sky Girls isn’t anywhere near that bad, so for now, it’s still quite watchable.
Its current problem is more along the lines of unoriginality, as everything we’ve seen up to episode 2 has pretty much been a rehash of shows like Idolmaster, which was a rehash of shows previous to that. And well, it’s understandable, but it also tells us to not expect too much in later episodes. It’s true that the action sequences are likely to be what make or break this show, but these early introduction episodes do give us a good clue of the level of these writers and producers. I’ll bring up Twin Spica as a counter example – a similar setup, but vastly superior storytelling, deeper characters, and ultimately a much more wholesome experience.
It was my initial hope that Sky Girls would be a pretty good show that just happened to have teens in spandex, but I guess that was a silly expectation given the dearth of quality shows this summer season. Still, it’s nowhere near as bad as some of the other shows, and like the other shows I’m covering so far, I’ll give it another episode to see if things look up.
-jaalin
sushi at 12:08 am on July 13th, 2007
i dont watch this show… plz explain why they all have to have tails?
athos at 12:10 am on July 13th, 2007
Correction: loli in spandex, ftw.
zanarky at 12:31 am on July 13th, 2007
@sushi
The “tails” are probably cables which connect to the mechs.
setsuke at 12:33 am on July 13th, 2007
well if u wathc the OVA or this episode(maybe) u should figure it out, anyways that tail is like … well a wire which connect to the Sky Driver(the flying mobile)
GStrike- at 1:09 am on July 13th, 2007
neko mode ^^
mewmew at 1:12 am on July 13th, 2007
watching this episode, there are so many parallels and character dynamics that reminds me so much of a certain sunrise series…mai hime and mai otome!
otoha = mai
karen = erstin
eika = nina/natsuki
and because of the ova, the love-hate relationship bet. otoha and Show Spoiler ▼
is so physically similar to mai and tate, lol.
and as expected, it appears as though we have yet another ayanami rei/silent girl clone! (girl in blue jumpsuit in the op)
Vexx at 2:09 am on July 13th, 2007
The tails connect to their spinal cord… and are for conjoining with the mecha… somewhat like Neo’s interface in the Matrix.
hmmm, I’m not normally a mecha fan but may give this one a shot…
mewmew at 3:06 am on July 13th, 2007
hmm. watching the ep. a second time, it appears that eika *might* be a “fazacon” (judging from the dialogue between her and tougou…)
AvexMode at 4:16 am on July 13th, 2007
Will they be an Adult-loli love triagle realtionship like Mai-Otome then?
Anonymooo at 4:59 am on July 13th, 2007
SO… FREAKIN’… LOLI. Oh wait, they’re all “of age” (to the rest of the world), so it’s okay. While I don’t think this is a particularly bad show, it’s one that I get distracted while watching it.
Sailor Enlil at 5:09 am on July 13th, 2007
Great they’re copying Evangelion down to the plug suits (albiet skimpier and with the attempt at being moe) and entry plugs.
Loikol at 5:25 am on July 13th, 2007
@Sailor Enlil
sure, every show copies from evangelion, can even see the the parallels in Claymore too.
Algent at 5:55 am on July 13th, 2007
“Great they’re copying Evangelion down to the plug suits (albiet skimpier and with the attempt at being moe) and entry plugs.”
Where do you see an entry plug ?
In the OVA they use a suit covered with a “nanoskin” (here http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/Sky%20Girls/Sky%20Girls%20-%2002%20-%20Large%2024.jpg) who can only work 21min32sec, after that they absolutely need to land if they want to live ^^^.
Sailor Enlil at 8:33 am on July 13th, 2007
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/Sky%20Girls/Sky%20Girls%20-%2002%20-%20Large%2024.jpg
This reminds me of the inside of an EVA entry plug when filled with LCL
xcswmboy at 9:24 am on July 13th, 2007
correction: tails are moe, that is why =P
panda monium at 9:33 am on July 13th, 2007
The OP for this show is really catchy. I like the mecha designs too.
@mewmew: the three of them look like a classic power trio (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerTrio). will Eika be tsundere or just tsun-tsun?
@Algent: “nanoskin” eh? i did wonder about wind-chill
AloneinVoid at 11:21 am on July 13th, 2007
The mecha designs are cool , but i don’t particularly like the character designs(they look um.. Loli? X_x). Lets hope the storyline will be interesting as i was intrigued by opening.
your mom at 12:51 pm on July 13th, 2007
great, another moe x loli x macha crap for retards (a.k.a moe/loli otakuzz) -____-
when is this going to stop?
Tolitz at 2:43 pm on July 13th, 2007
“when is this going to stop?”
when people stop watching and discussing such shows
- T
panda monium at 3:10 pm on July 13th, 2007
it will never stop! it will hunt you down and leave piles of moe in your breakfast cereal