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Princess Principal (Tapatalk thread)
Princess Principal (Tapatalk thread)
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Anyone been watching this one?

The setting is Victorian-era Britain, with a Steampunk desktop theme.

The discovery of Cavorite (gravity-control phlebotinum) lead to the creation of an Aerial Navy, which in turn has somehow lead to a popular uprising against the Crown that managed to fail/succeed in the worst possible way. The country is now divided in half, between Royalists and Populists, complete with a Cold War Berlin style wall splitting London in two.

Into this we place the obligatory team of schoolgirls, which includes the aforementioned Princess, a second girl who is her apparent perfect double, a not-really-school-age Femme Fatale, a steampunk cyborg, and a ninja. (Apparently Japan is taking sides, or at least their Ambassador is...)

And they're spies. Who get up to all sorts of James Bond style caper-adventures of the sort you'd expect in Cold War Berlin, British Style. While maintaining their cover at their base of operations, a Properly Posh Young Ladies' Academy.
And of course each of them has her own secrets and her own agenda, and gets some nice character moments to explore them. And hopefully these will have interesting repercussions down the line.

Normally one would expect a story like this to go one of two ways -- cutesy moe and fanservice, or grimdark and twisted in ways that would make Gendo Ikari proud. Fortunately so far, Princess Principal treads a confident middle path between them, acknowledging the dark side of realistic espionage work while maintaining the cheerful optimism audiences have come to expect of schoolgirl-hijinx series.

Enjoy the opening animation:

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Subbs on Chia-Anime

http://www.chia-anime.tv/episode/princess-principal/
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Gonna have to grab those.  I did some poking around, got some opinions, and it looks like it's worth a watch.-- Bob
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By the way,
Cavorite, was the anti-gravity material from Jules Vern's "Journey to the Moon".
He also wrote "2000 Leagues Under the Sea (not 20,000 that was the TV series).
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itsune9tl Wrote:By the way,
Cavorite, was the anti-gravity material from Jules Vern's "Journey to the Moon".
He also wrote "2000 Leagues Under the Sea (not 20,000 that was the TV series).

Er...

Cavorite is from The First Men in the Moon, by H.G. Wells. Verne's book was De la terre à la lune ("From the Earth to the Moon"), and it used a cannon to send the ship into space.

Also, that undersea book you're thinking of was Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers - "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas". ("2000 Leagues Under the Sea" would be "deux mille lieues sous la mer".)--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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robkelk Wrote:
itsune9tl Wrote:By the way,
Cavorite, was the anti-gravity material from Jules Vern's "Journey to the Moon".
He also wrote "2000 Leagues Under the Sea (not 20,000 that was the TV series).

Er...

Cavorite is from The First Men in the Moon, by H.G. Wells. Verne's book was De la terre à la lune ("From the Earth to the Moon"), and it used a cannon to send the ship into space.

Also, that undersea book you're thinking of was Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers - "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas". ("2000 Leagues Under the Sea" would be "deux mille lieues sous la mer".)
Whup's ...

I can only admit to being a minor abomination. I am not all knowing, nor even all remembering.
I don't speak French or Latin and barely get by in English, according to some people.

Thanks to Anime I seem to be picking up about 1 in 7 words of conversational Japanese... Weird Huh?
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Yes, Cavorite is not an original term, but in use here is somewhat at variance with Wells' concept, so...

*shrug*

It's still a pretty fun series.--
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Yeah...  Verne would go into a multi-page dissertation into the science behind a concept, while Wells would simply handwave it away.

It seem appropriate that whoever's writing this anime is handwaving away any differences between their story and this particular inspirational source.--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Perhaps, if pestered on the subject, they'd just claim the inventor/discoverer had named the breakthrough as a whimsical nod to Wells' creation, as opposed to the writers doing so.-----
Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
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Yiiiiii, evil cliffie on ep 10 followed by SERIOUS twist in ep 11. Yeah, the plot has started to ramp up for certain. Here's hoping that this is a full 24-26 episodes because trying to close this out in just one or two more eps WILL NOT DO.
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