Was fiddling around with the music player over at Brickmuppet’s place (yes, realy, his place this time), and ran across the theme to Vandread. Oh yeah, that was a fun show. Put the first DVD in the drive last night for rewatch. Just as good as ever, but that damn letterboxing really puts me off. I might do like Steven and buy a replacment if it’s anamorphic. Course, that will be the third copy of this show I’ve bought, in that case.
Also decided to catch up on Sora wa, um, whatever. The Girl Who Lept Through Space. It’s a zany show, but when the season started, I had a low tolerance for zany, and got fed up with it after two episodes. Going back to it in a better frame of mind, I’m enjoying it a lot more. I thought it involved the middle of three sisters, but in reality, there were five, and a whole lot of backstory. The missing two are a Badass Martial Artist and a Whiz Kid (with a large, prehensile scarf).
I don’t buy part of it though, theres no way the history of the Brain Colonies could have been suppressed that effectively. There would still be too many people who lived through it.
Another thing that annoyed me at first was how quickly the protagonist got herself involved with stealing stuff to rebuild Leopard. They didn’t do a good job of explaining her motivations; she came across as rebellious; truth is, she was just obscenely rich, and bored to death. She’s the middle sister; eldest is running the family business, second oldest is (unknown to her) investigating a secret cult, next youngest (I think, she might be older, since she’s not in school) has a modeling career, and youngest is off at various labs doing research. So she feels rather left out and has self-esteem problems.
Oh, and there’s no fanservice in this show. Nope. None. Not a b– damn, are the fronts of the skintight outfits transparent, or does it just have a hint of color? Hm, that’s a bellybutton, so it’s not opaque… and I’d swear that the artists forgot and started using skin tone on the pants… all the way up, in that one scene. Plus the cop gets a nice dom outfit for one episode. “Yea-ah, baby!” Don’t even get me started on all the jokes about Leopard’s sexuality.
The policewoman is the same age as the high school student, and generally doesn’t run around any more pantsless than anyone else. And I think the police ninja twins are even younger. Oh, and Everybody Has A Secret.
Enough for now. Don’t think I’ll have time to add any not-fanservice pics tonight.
