Quote:My only problem with it is asymetry of coverage top to bottom - either all battle bikini or all band uniform (like the second) would have been fine with me, but combining the two just feels clashy. I have to admit, she's generally my favorite of the recurring characters too, though the one I kept pausing things for screenshots of was the Acadamy one with bright green hair, blue bodysuit, and metal shoulderbits with brown leather straps making up the rest of the trim. She's not even on camera being eliminated in the last episode, but she can be seen several times after the first round standing around in the crowd. That or the blue haired one from the team of three that are the first Academy kotetsutenshi we meet, before Karinka is activated. The entire premise of that episode, thoguh... I thought the other angels knew about MkII hearts and that Kurumi and Mikhail had them, and that Kirinka had two MkI hearts and still wasn't as tough, so why would they think that a kiss from Nakahito would get their single MkIs to produce that kind of output?
(Karinka's S2 hair) makes her look like Cindy Brady, is what it does. And call me a dirty old man, but I liked the original Karinka's outfit.
For that matter, the angels in general seemed very much like Meltrandi, even Kurumi who had to be restrained from killing whatsisname the punk just for picking on Nakahito, and not espescially physically at that.
As to the dub.. okay, maybe it's not quite as bad as I made out, but it could well have been better. Then again, maybe I've just been spoiled by the excellence of Excel's dub voice, which completely carries that show with how she's just as manic as the original. I agree that it's better not to rehash the purity-of-sub-vs-acessibility-of-dub holy war here, however.
As for the 'pick on a cute thing just because it's cute' I think it was just a continuation of the writer trying to show that she was the agressive, butch side of that particular relationship, as with the immediately preceeding flashback scenes of her acting like a little boy teasing a girl he likes. Of course, that doesn't mean she don't need a whuppin', I strongly doubt anyone has ever told her 'no' and made it stick in her entire life, with the possible exception of her mother if the woman was around long enough.
Grandpa and his relation to Nakahito... I'm more inclined to think Grandpa is from the main branch and Nakahito is from the same side branch as Nako, since at one point there is reference to th emain family having accuired one of the MarkII's. Then again, that may be because of the episode where Gramps and his three henchwenches do the whole ninja-fast-appearance bit, which combined with the way they do spirit jutsu has me seeing them as a Naruto style mystic ninja clan, with the ability for a single person to out do hundreds at firing up angel hearts as a bloodline limit of the branch family that the main family hasn't recognised. Mom looking like Trixie... well, we never do find out anything about Nako's father except that Mom married him at 18, so you never do know. That would have been about right if they were sixteen or so in the early seventies, and monkeys are almost as cute as corgis.
Going toe to toe with Hexe, I get the impression that should impress me, but I don't really have a clear feel for how much of a combat monster she is, thus the comparisons I did make.
I will note that the scene where Mikhail introduces himself had me saying "Hey, it's Tabris!" which turned out to be all too true, both from the 'actually an angel' perspective and that it's fighting with Mikhail that sets off the immenent-apocalypse endgame of the main plot. If that hair was a little more wavy Mikhail could be Ifurita's double, assuming you took the energy globes (one large, one smaller) out of the key staff and implanted them in Ifurita like the Angel Hearts are. There's even the whole 'centuries in stasis' thing, at least potentially for Mikhail since there's no sign of h being awakened in S2.
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