mai otome zwei 1
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Materialize! Oh here we go again.
Welcome back to the magical world of Gaulderobe and Windbloom, where wars are waged with virgins, where Nagi is considered a genius, and where father-daughter love isn’t questioned. Welcome back Haruka, who hasn’t changed one bit… except for this new Otome METEOR system that really makes them look like X-wing fighters.
(Must… suppress… “lock all s-foils in attack position!” joke…)
Welcome back Rosary, who is looking as hawt as ever. Let’s see… she’s cute, kinda useful, and her outfit doesn’t feature a crotch skull… so, of course, she wasn’t introduced until there were three episodes left. Go figure.
Welcome back Arika, who is now one year older (15) and hopefully one year wiser to not fall for her friend’s dad again. Though I suspect that Mai Otome Zwei won’t come close to topping Mai Otome just because I don’t think Sunrise can top the Anty-Nina-Mr Wong love triangle in just four episodes. My guess is that this OVA will be more like Endless Waltz where just a parade of mecha ownage with the good guys losing until the very end until Heero snapped out of his funk and saved the day with Wing Zero.
Welcome back Natsuki, and, just for the record, when Sunrise ran their contest for “What should the plot of Mai Otome Zwei be?”, I should have voted for “Natsuki’s and Shizuru’s Summer Vacation.” Damn.
The otome to the left of Haruka looks like Nekomimi Akane, which means that poor Kazu has been getting cockblocked for the past year. I still think my old Mai Otome 13 post is still AoMM’s finest hour. Unfortunately, it seems like Sunrise was unable to assemble the previous seiyuu team as Akane doesn’t have any lines, Tomoe isn’t even in this episode, and many major characters having less than three lines.
Welcome back Nao, and she’s still stylin’ in those French mime outfits. Mai Otome sometimes looks like it was designed by the interior decorator for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
Welcome back Mai and Mikoto. Hopefully, Mai will do something other than cook ramen this time around. Mai and Mikoto kinda remind me of Yuuichi and Makoto…
So what brings all of our beloved otome back together? Apparently, a huge asteroid is approaching the planet and is ready to wipe out life as we know it. The otome have been dispatched to try and stop it. Just for reference, currently the earth does not have any protection from asteroids. While launching Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis into space works in the movies, sadly, it won’t work in real life. (I still advocate sending Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis into space though.) The scary part is that mass extinctions have occurred in the past and that they are not infrequent. While NASA does keep track of many near-earth objects, they do not know for certainly that none of them will hit the earth. So what happens if one of them does head for earth? We can’t exactly lob nukes into orbit, because, they can’t intercept the asteroids far away from earth enough to have an impact– if they can damage the asteroid at all, that is. Nukes do have more explosive power than TNT, but they are horrendous on earth because of their radiation as much as their raw power. Asteroids care not about radiation. This is actually an interesting issue that no one in government is seriously looking at. For instance, let’s say that NASA does devise a way to thwart an asteroid from hitting earth– it would literally be the greatest human accomplishment ever– better than antibiotics, fire, the wheel, free internet pr0n, farming, nekomimi meido, and Google put together.
The asteroid moved! It actively tried to dodge the lances that the otome hurled at it! My gosh– it may be alive. I can guess the plot now: the asteroid houses some alien who lands on the planet and start killing everyone. Maybe it’ll even mark everyone with an “x” on their forehead. Anyway, I don’t know why the otome were tossing lances at it since a quick look at F=ma, it’s going to take a lot of acceleration on those tiny lances if there are to make anything more than a tiny crater on that asteroid. Or maybe the lances just weight a billion pounds, and the otome were able to achieve escape velocity holding onto a billion pound lances. Gah. My head hurts.
Of course, they otome fail, and it’s up to Arika to save the day…
… only now does she break out the new, improved Otome Zwei mode. Why didn’t she just go Zwei on the asteroid to begin with?
(Again, F=ma… since the anime depicted Arika making the asteroid stop for a moment, it means that Anty had enough force to counter the asteroid’s… which means that if this were true, she must have gained some weight.)
Welcome back Mashiro… I think. I can’t take her seriously as the leader of a major global power. Then again, I can say the same thing about my governor and my president. I need to move to New Zealand or something.
Lame. I kinda miss the summons back in Mai Hime. But not as lame as the summons in Final Fantasy XII… my gosh, they’re next to useless. And then there’s Cúchulainn, who looks like C.C. after a few thousand stuffed crust pizzas.
Anyone else worried about Arika trying to impale an asteroid? Anyone else worried that we might see a Pizza Hut or Taco Bell logo on the asteroid when the camera zooms in on it? Anyone else notice how much Arika, uh, “grew” in one year? (Ah! So that’s where the extra “m” in F=ma comes from… starting to make sense.)
Welcome back Miyu, who looks very peaceful and cute to boot. Unfortunately she doesn’t get any lines this episode, and I doubt she’ll get any next episode. I did notice that she drops a shell casing, but what I didn’t notice is %#*!@ happened to those monoliths than she fished out of the magma back towards the end of Mai Otome? Did we ever figure this one out?
She grew. By the time Mai Otome Zwei Geass rolls around, she’d be bouncier than Mai.
What a difference a year makes. Anty is now upgraded from the Shana-Louise-Mayumi All-Stars. Though I think for all the delicious flat chest aficionados, Mashiro is still as flat as ever. Still, I don’t like this dream cutaway just because that shadow that ambushed Arika… so… what happened? She escaped? Because we know later on that people don’t just escape from that shadow.
I was disappointed when Arika went “Hun?” in this scene and her hair didn’t make the shape of a question mark. At least we have Negima!?‘s Asuna to carry on the legacy of girls spelling out stuff with their hair.
Welcome back Maria… uh… wait, what did she do again? Was she an instructor? Or the janitor? Or the French music instructor?
I think I was seeing things, but after rewinding a few times, Sunrise tossed in a classic “bounce” for Arika. Previously, the bounces were reserved for Mai… not even Natsuki had bounces. I think Arika is auditioning for a spot in the next Dead or Alive Xtreme videogame. Bounces aside, it’s a fantastic scene just because it leads to…
DO YOUR BEST deshou, k?
She’s writing to Nina, but I doubt we’ll hear from Nina this episode. I just got the feeling that the CEO or whatever of Sunrise finally sat down and watched Otome and went, “WHAT?!? You introduced a father seducing his 14 year old daughter as a major plot point?” and now are trying to distance themselves from the Mr Wong-Nina coupling. (I don’t blame them. I don’t think we’ll ever see Mai Otome on CN.)
I find this scene hilarious for two reasons: first, Mashiro looks like that she’s totally ignoring all of them and is focusing hard on today’s sudoku puzzle. Second, for a country ruled by a female and protected by females, there’s not one female in that mob. It’s a worse sausage fest than a Hooter’s branch.
See, Mashiro is still card-carrying member of the Shana-Louise-Mayumi All-Stars. Oh, welcome back Aoi… the end result of Mai Otome? Only Erstin didn’t return, but I think she’ll come back as a ghost for this OVA a la Obi Wan and guide Arika to victory. Or at least her bra collection can now be used by Arika.
While I am sick of class struggles in my anime, inequality of wealth is still a big problem in the world. Still, I find it interesting to note that in the recent elections, every state that had a ballot option for increasing the minimum wage had it pass by wide margins. Currently, the federal minimum wage is worth less than half of what it was originally when it was introduce owing to inflation and minimal attempts to increase it. Someone making the minimum wage doesn’t even come close to the federal poverty line. But consider that most people who voted for the minimum wage increase probably make more than the minimum wage yet they know by increasing the minimum wage, the basic cost of their goods and services will increase. It means at least that people are aware that cheap goods and services come at a price and have at least begun to vote to rectify it. Still, it is by no means enough– this article mentions how it is paradoxical that because America is a rich country, it’s people are amongst some of the poorest. Okay, enough off-topic rantings– let’s get back to what’s important…
… and what’s important is Natsuki in a two-piece swimsuit with Shizuru lurking as a wild card in the background. I think I’m going to cry that we didn’t get Natsuki’s and Shizuru’s Summer Vacation instead.
Shizuru never fails to please. Welcome back Shizuru, may your sexual escapades continue to entertain us all.
So Natsuki and Shizuru are sent out to investigate this crater, and while they get their minions to do the dirty work, they lounge around in the shade in scandalous swimsuits while enjoying Coronas. Not that I have a problem with this or anything.
Natsuki’s… and… Shizuru’s… Summer… Vacation…
*does the Kyon slamming his head against the wall thing*
Yeah, I skipped over the nakkid Arika scene. Seriously, maybe we should have suggested the Natsuki, Shizuru, Tomoe, and Arika Summer Vacation OVA. Anyway, I liked how Anty was trying to stick up for the poor while enjoying luxurious spas and while stuffing herself with prawns and lobsters.
“BAKA JA NAI NO!?!”
I give this about a 1.7 out of 10, and I give Revy’s during the Greenback Jane arc a solid 5.1 out of 10.
I haven’t seen a good emo facial distortion lately… on a related note, anyone know what is Studio Deen’s next project?
(If you’re an anime fanboy and don’t know what either “baka” or “mamouru” mean, you’re not really an anime fanboy. Faker.)
Miyu doesn’t get pwned easily… OH SHI-
NOOOOOOOOO! No more Shizuru for a while. Only Sunrise would incapacitate a franchise character in the first fifteen minutes. Then again, they did try to kill off both Suzaku and C.C. in the first episode, only to have Suzaku make a major rebound and C.C. getting herself addicted to pizza.
(I’m wondering… does Lulu even ask, “Eh, C.C., aren’t you sick of pizza? Are you sure you don’t want some Chinese [or Area 12 or whatever] or sushi?”)
I can’t take any anime that feature characters who wear toilet seats on their heads seriously.
So the Black Valley has turned into a tourist trap… ? Ugh. Those Arika dolls look really, really spooky.
So this is where Ayu has been hiding out! No wonder we haven’t see hide or hair of her in Kanon lately. Cheap taiyaki at Black Valley Disneyland!
Mai is back and is still making ramen. I think it would be hilarious if Miki opened up a rival ramen shop across from Mai’s…. okay, that’s it. I think this OVA should have been “Natsuki’s, Shizuru’s, Tomoe’s, and Arika’s Summer Vacation at Mai’s and Miki’s Ramen Resort.” So do you guys want an “otome wa boku 7” post or a “mai vs miki, dr jack style” post next?
(Though if Mizuho-oneesama joined Gaulderobe and became an otome, I think that I would just hang up an “i quit– i have nothing left to blog about” post instead.)
The shadow creature sure looks like Arika’s mother, and now it seems to be able to absorb the energy and likeness of the people that it defeats, like Shizuru and Miyu. Reminds me of the Borg… resistance is futile…
(Actually if you think about it, replace the asteroid at the beginning of the episode with the Borg cube circa Star Trek: First Contact and Arika with the Enterprise-E, and it’s an eerily familiar plot, minus the time travel. If this shadow creature can take Arika’s mother’s form and try to lure Arika with it, that’s like the Borg Queen with Data, minus the sex.)
Mai is still very ample. I still can’t believe that Reito passed up a Mai buffet; now it just seems about a hundred times worse than Saito passing up a Louise light snack.
What the heck is that pink thing next to Mai? It looks like a nekomimi jawa. And I gotta love how they were able to talk with the otome in space without any special equipment, yet here Mashiro needs to use a CB radio to phone home.
(Concerning the defense of the Black Valley… uh… what happened to Ms 17, Midori?)
The Mai Bounce!
(Yep… from rants on poverty to bouncing boobs… yet another AoMM post. I think if I tossed up “otome wa boku 7” and spent 500 words writing about how background radiation led to the discovery of the big bang interlaced with comments like “I don’t care anymore. Just shoot me. No way there’s a penis on this. None. I won’t accept it.” no one would bat an eyelash about it.)
(Don’t get me wrong though, I am happy to see Mai do something other than making ramen.)
A lover’s quarrel! Arika and Mashiro are strangely reminding me of Saito and Louise.
Wait, I thought Natsuki needed to be bolted down and grounded to fire that thing… ? At this point, the Natsuki who ran around with tiny guns doesn’t seem to exist for me anymore.
Just Mai and Arika getting pwned by this thing. I don’t think Sunrise knows how to animate a non-blowout fight. I know this is crazy talk, but what if Mai Otome had the same balanced and highly enjoyable battle sequences as Nanoha A‘s? Wouldn’t that propel Otome to be one of the greatest anime series ever? Great battles plus the unintential horror of a father bedding his 14 year old daughter?
Definitely approaching Mai-class. The torch is passing.
This monster isn’t very impressive. It’s just tossing Mai and Arika into rock formations. Still, is it because they are feuding that Arika and Mashiro can’t engage the Azure Sky contract? Looks like those two need to kiss and make up.
Summing up the plot: the otomes have returned. Unfortunately, some new mysteriously evil threat more powerful than the otomes have reached the planet and is taking them out one by one. Promising beginning, but it feels like too much in too short of a time span. Just one hyperactive Sunrise train wreck waiting to happen, and I couldn’t be giddier… except it looks like it’s going to be a fairly straightforward OVA with the otomes getting pwned until Arika and Natsuki launch a counterattack towards the end of episode 3.
And there’s still a great unknown lurking around, though Nina should have lost her otome powers now. And she looks much better than when we last saw her with that hideous short hair. Still, I can’t imagine how Sunrise would incorporate her into the plot again.
(And Mr Wong looks completely enthralled by his sudoku puzzle there.)
(The cast of characters missing is surprising considering how they cramed everyone an then some into the final episode– Midori, Tomoe, Akane, and Shiho are all MIA yet Rosary, Irina, and Sara get lines.)
I enjoyed the next episode preview… “breasts thrusting” is a great way to describe the direction that Sunrise has decided to take with this OVA. It’s more aesthetically pleasing than the Arika-Nina-Mr Wong love triangle, but definitely lacks the same train wreck factor. DO YOUR BEST deshou, k?
(And, yes, I was disappointed that we didn’t get Otome wa DO YOUR BEST deshou as the ED.)
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>>(Though if Mizuho-oneesama joined Gaulderobe and became an otome, I think that I would just hang up an “i quit– i have nothing left to blog about†post instead.)
Read the manga, The trap has already been sprung.
Read AoMM. (I reviewed the manga a year ago.)
Studio Deen is currently doing the Marimite OVAs, aren’t they?
I have long awaited this. And now I get to watch yet another Sunrise trainwreck…with extra bounce to Antsy in this one…but then wouldn’t that classify her as not so antsy anymore?
I would take any post over Otoboku 7. Please please please. I worry about what it might do to your brain cells. I worry about what it did to mine. Not even from a id vs ego sense, but from a “I can’t believe they devoted an entire episode to such a flimsy and atrocious thing” perspective. Ew. Burn it with fire.
I was rather suprised that Anty was still growing, not that this is a bad thing.
I hope your little rally did not destroy all prospects of a vaction involving Natsuki and Shizuru perhaps a few more folks as well. I was hoping for either the vaction, or bearing witness to the Melancholy of Neko-mimi Akane for never getting past Kaolla Su to give Kazu an heir.
As for fleeing this country I must say excellent choice I was planning on Singapore though joining th ANZAC tradition don’t sound too bad.
In regards to quibbling about the next mass extinction perhaps a massive battery of railguns may give you some hope, after all the US military seems to be throwing quite a sum at getting one.
Finally as bad as financial in-equality is I don’t want to see another Great Leap Forward or collectivization. Communism can’t work and democratic socialism is only possible if the majority members of a society voluntarily choose it. Still I think a free market is better than a command economy. I do think though that state initiatives to increase minimum wage is a good thing, though a better solution would be to get more skills to get a better job.
I can’t wait to see the next one, atleast Sunrise has better mastery of crayons than Gainax.
(…that’s like the Borg Queen with Data, minus the sex.)
… wait, you mean they won’t continue the tradition of incestuous trainwrecks?
>>>mai vs miki, dr jack style
Miki wins, hands down……….. Though I do want to see Miki in a Robe…
And Arika with melon pan 4tw
BTW, anyone else caught sight of Maiki Maki sitting in the background with her back turned during one of the opening scenes?
Also, anyone thought of “Phase Shift Armor” when Arika activated her Materialize Zwei?
Holy shit Haruka is the next Kamen Rider!
this would be so much more enjoyable if not for the 3-4month/ep
Natsuki’s guns got bigger…Does this signify another trap since her phallic symbol got bigger?
Oh SHI
hey wait a minute….in mai otome wasnt nina really the queen….so wtf is she doing with wong….OH SHI-
damn ever time i see those damn shadows i keep thinking clow cards…
the neko-jawa is really mai and mikoto’s love child (dont know how the hell that worked out…)and since when has it been legal to have mikoto running around without a leesh
btw anyone notice there are a bunch of cats(or just the one O_O) but there arnt any dogs….wtf!?
Shiho shows up briefly in one scene (and I mean briefly). In the opening scene, there’s one shot where you can see her in NASA command where Chie, Mashiro, and the others are. She’s sitting in the background playing the maki maki game still.
>What a difference a year makes. Anty is now upgraded from the Shana-Louise-Mayumi All-Stars.
She comes complete with DOA breast physics as well! Overall, I enjoyed the first episode except (1) No Shiho Maki maki :(, (2) No Tomoe = No Tanaka Rie, (3) Natsuki is still useless, and (4) by the end, the plotline is ultimately going to be like the Sacramento’s Kings interior defense–full of holes.
Also, it’s like Sunrise decided to focus in on the most boring characters. But I guess because Arinko’s got “bounce” in her step and Mai, Haruka, Rosary, and many others are still untapped potential, there is plenty of potential here.
>I still think my old Mai Otome 13 post is still AoMM’s finest hour.
It’s the pinnacle moment!
>>The shadow creature sure looks like Arika’s mother, and now it seems to be able to absorb the energy and likeness of the people that it defeats, like Shizuru and Miyu. Reminds me of the Borg… resistance is futile…
Does this mean that at the end of this OVA series, we’ll end up with the ah… “most developed” otome ever?
I think it`s about time I stopped reading your nonsense. It`s wasting my time (so far it amounts to almost 16 hours I think), making me lose my focus on other works. If I hadn`t known about this page, maybe I would`ve used the lost time for programming, learning Chinese, etc. I should block your site from appearing on my browser now.
Let`s see, there`s BlockSite add-on for Firefox, and yes it can block sites. There, it`s enabled! Now for the password, maybe I`ll just put in a random password so that I won`t be able to recover it. Eh, what`s this? No password protection? Oh well, all the better that if I ever change my mind, I can go here again right? OH SHI-
“Shizuru never fails to please. Welcome back Shizuru, may your sexual escapades continue to entertain us all.”
But unfortunately, not for long. She’s already been “Sunrise Killed” and probably won’t come back till the end when everyone but Arika (and Mai if we’re lucky) is “dead” and she (they) defeat the Shadow-Borg.
I don’t really see what chance they have though. It defeated Miyu in the blink of an eye and then absorbed her power. Miyu pwned Destroy Nina by herself in ep 22 but in 26 it took all the Otome in the land just to contain her until the the end when Nina told Arika to kill her before she went anymore emo. Realistically (Ha, this is Sunrise) Arika is going to need more powerups than Goku but since she doesn’t have several hundred episodes to work with, I don’t really know how it will turn out.
I just know I’m going to miss Shizuru…
>> on a related note, anyone know what is Studio Deen’s next project?
Maybe, the supposedly and recently rumored 2nd season to Higurashi? Feeling giddier now? lolol
>>>So do you guys want an “otome wa boku 7″ post or a “mai vs miki, dr jack style†post next?
Mai vs Miki, easily. Since you aren’t blogging SuMo^6, you haven’t been reviewing any (intentionally) funny anime except for parts of Kanon, and that hasn’t even been that funny lately (well, and Otome wa Boku, for which, as you hinted at later in this post, your coverage has been pretty one-track). I need my fix…
There is another problem with termonukes in space, shockwave.
One of the most massive damages generated by nukes is thanks to shockwaves, who, of course, travel at the speed of sound (Initial explosion and radiation travel at C). In space you have… nothing. No atmosphere, nothing, just space. So there is no shockwave, thus, less power, useless weapon.
Yet, NASA had a theoric plan to diverge an asteroid using a big ship for over 50 years on asteroid’s orbit so it can change its course.
Nothing romantic and epic, but scientific and real.
PS. I talk spanish, so my english is surely weird
i doubt the torch will pass so easily. mai is still the bounciest and best skilled in my book, even if they stripped her of kagutsuchi.
These girls cam fly, which implies that they have neutrino projectors incorporated into their skeletons, which would allow them to generate or cancel momentum at will.
Nuclear Pulse rockets require fuel, which could be the asteroid itself – bury the nuke, and the detonation will vaporize the surrounding rock, which then becomes your jet exhaust as it blows back through the entry shaft (See “Mighty Space Miners”). The trouble is, Earth-crossing asteroids tend to come in swarms and move at high speeds, since they are usually ex-comets; there isn’t time to intercept them soon enough to change their orbit.
@Freddie
The difference between an atmospheric and exoatmospheric burst isn’t the amount of energy released or that reaches the target, it’s the transmission mode. The blast wave from a nuke is created by the absorption of the primary X-ray release by the atmosphere, and in the absence of an atmosphere those X-rays will just reach the target directly.
The X-rays will vaporize material on the surface of the asteroid, and the material’s ejection will alter the path of the asteroid, so the lack of atmosphere isn’t much of an obstacle to the use of nukes.
…an extraterrestrial object from space is only one means to an mass extinction…common but not the end all be all…before you people worry about how we are going to stop inbound asteroids understand that we are already in the beginnings of a mass extinction event…and there’s nothing we can do about it…
…Galen…not all the nukes in the world can shift the trajectory of a mass extinction sized celestial body once it get within the actual range where we be certain of it’s trajectory…and Crusader…railguns(???)…star wars and star trek are total garbage…where are you going to get the energy…mass convert seawater(???)…
…give it up…if the Earth is going to get nailed it’s going to get nailed…we’re fucked…nothing we can do except cross our fingers and hope that it doesn’t happen at least until we are much older…or if scientist manages to break every physical law in the known universe and in doing so kill every catgirl past, present, and future…
…in the mean time continue to watch the wonderfully delightful (NOT!) Sunrise train wreck that is Zwei…it’ll take you mind of things…and probably leave it a puddle on the floor…
China has their own empire. There’s was this jab at the Chinese at the end of one episode spoken by that emperor dude paraphrased as: “Chinese people are larks, lol”.
>>I would take any post over Otoboku 7. Please please please. I worry about what it might do to your brain cells. I worry about what it did to mine
Are we still sane people? I ask.
>>… wait, you mean they won’t continue the tradition of incestuous trainwrecks?
That kind of question can be found only here
>>And (4) by the end, the plotline is ultimately going to be like the Sacramento’s Kings interior defense–full of holes.
Oh men, what have you done Jason… you have created a bunch of followers here… me included. WTB Syock, welcome to the craziness… but is good to know that I can learn some interesting things instead… like atmospheric and exoatmospheric burst.
Back to business, this first OVA (no Mai Otome until February) was more or less in every category you may want to talk. Is like those damn extra episode only for DVD (Solty Rei, Moon Phase, Kashimashi, REC, Otome wa Boku), damn it.
Well, who said the life was an easy thing…
DO YOUR BEST deshou ~~
“While I am sick of class struggles in my anime, inequality of wealth is still a big problem in the world. Still, I find it interesting to note that in the recent elections, every state that had a ballot option for increasing the minimum wage had it pass by wide margins. Currently, the federal minimum wage is worth less than half of what it was originally when it was introduce owing to inflation and minimal attempts to increase it. Someone making the minimum wage doesn’t even come close to the federal poverty line. But consider that most people who voted for the minimum wage increase probably make more than the minimum wage yet they know by increasing the minimum wage, the basic cost of their goods and services will increase. It means at least that people are aware that cheap goods and services come at a price and have at least begun to vote to rectify it. Still, it is by no means enough– this article mentions how it is paradoxical that because America is a rich country, it’s people are amongst some of the poorest.”
I just had to chuckle at that a moment. Poor country? Dude, this is the only nation where homeless people are OVERWEIGHT. I honestly don’t think we have some of the poorest people in the world. There are some people hard off, but in America, even the poor have it good compared to some in other nations. And that’s another thing — “poor” is deviously subjective, especially among demographic lines. A lot of people I know call themselves “poor” or “poor people” yet they own three cars, a home, and live in relative peace. Huh? People seem to be too quick to toss themselves into a substandard category, regardless of reality. It’s just easier that way.
As as for the divide between rich and poor? Well, it’s here to stay, as long as we have a monetary based system. No government can change that. Until we move to a system based on effort put in instead of simply capital, there will always be a gap in who earns more based on capability, mental status, ambition, luck, prejudice, and any number of reason that propel some forward and keep others back. I know this is probably a little too serious for the lighthearted nature of this web log, but I had to type it.
Gomen.
Oh yeah, I’m sick of class struggles in MY anime too. And also the whole “EARTH IS UNDERWATER” as well. It’s like, I know climate change is a big deal, and it’s quite possible something like that may happen, but let’s be a bit more original, shall we? Maybe that’s just asking too much for anime… *sigh*
@Opticalmaser
Yeah, that wasn’t my point (Damn english lessons)
>> …Galen…not all the nukes in the world can shift the trajectory of a mass extinction sized celestial body once it get within the actual range where we be certain of it’s trajectory…and Crusader…railguns(???)…star wars and star trek are total garbage…where are you going to get the energy…mass convert seawater(???)…
Do remember E=mc^2 is > then F=ma. You were hitting up the right road in that last sentence, but if the amount of matter in one sea where converted to energy, it would annhilate alot more then ‘just’ a asteroid. The earth, moon, and beyond is more likely… That may be hard to wrap your mind around, but heres another example of the power of fusion. Had the Hindenburg exploded in a fusion reaction, it contained enough hydrogen to vaporize the entire northeastern united states. E=mc^2 translated means: Energy equals mass times -the speed of light squared- Just so you know, thats 89875517873681764 m/s ^_^ anything times a number like that is going to be huge.
The main thing that limits our usage of fusion is our lack of skill at it. Right now we have to use Tritium and Deuterium to create fusion reactions. Both are extremely rare and hard to procure. That limits the amount of matter we can throw at Einsteins most famous equation.
The march of technology is never ending, indeed, its ever accelerating. So, to ammend what you said..If we get hit by a asteroid -right now- we’re fucked. A hundred years down the road..maybe not?
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As far as this episode, I was shaking my head at Zwei mode Arika. I was muttering under my breath “Where’s her tail? shes obviously a super saiyajin…Look! Her hair even turned Blond!!” Maybe that was just the reflection from the meteors glow, but whatever. Of course Mai Otome isn’t suppose to be anything close to realistic, but you know somethings wrong when you start thinking in your head as you watch.. “Who would win, Zwei mode Arika or Piccolo..?”
I was hoping for something a little less emo and a little more light hearted, but then I remembered this is Sunrise. And this time they skipped right over the foreplay, and are going straight for the Impalings!
…Blade-mun…the longer you live the more likely you will live longer still…that is only a truism for insurance…nothing more…we are discussing how to protect ourselves with current tech…if an asteroid is incoming in 11.7 years how is what science could do in 100 years going to matter…with current tech and current scientific trend we simply have no way in hell not now not in the forseeable future…we just can’t do it with the form of thinking that we are trapped with right now…that can change…Babbage certainly didn’t anticipate the internet when he built his calculation engine…
…you throw around E =Mc^2 like it’s nothing…no material or force of human or even natural origin can handle and direct that level of energy in a controllable fashion…think of bleed offs and waste energy…laws of thermodynamics…if you keep it on earth the firing will fry the atmosphere…if you put it in space it’ll fuck up the magnetosphere and bake large parts of the surface…not to mention the logistics of refining and moving fuel around…and would we want to…a slow death by biosphere decay might actually be worse than a quick death by celestial cataclysm…there is still a limit to the amount of mass we can toss at Einstein’s reality even if we have deuterium or even elemental hydrogen fusion…
>> Only Erstin didn’t return, but I think she’ll come back as a ghost for this OVA a la Obi Wan and guide Arika to victory.
You forgot about the little orphan girl that Mashiro befriended in the desert. And I wouldn’t be suprised if the Shadow thing *is* Erstin. Why? No logical reason. This is Sunrise and this OVA suggests that they will remain true to recent tradition.
Is it just me; or does Mai-Otome remind you of Power Rangers the more you think about it?
Lovable group of scamps that save the world
Super powered seemingly invincible mecha (unless the plot says they have to pay the ultimate price)
Every fight is a blow-out and when the ultimate weapon doesn’t work, you chain it to another ultimate weapon and it WORKS! But then you don’t see it for infi more episodes.
There’s some useless characters that try to provide comedy, but fail miserably (skull and his buddy = shiho and haruka)
Just a random thought.
Mai Otome with Nanoha battle sequences? Sign me up.
What would be really great is if Allyssa Sears stopped being a bird and started fighting. She would kick ass.
On another note, the surrogate system sounds very interesting. They’ll have to time their battles now that the core’s currupt.
BRING BACK ALLYSSA!!