DiGi tipped me that ViZ announced a Rocket Girls book (Amazon has no cover yet). The cover Yukari looks very different from either the definitive anime or the original book, but I suppose it’s not the first reimagining: we had the anime pilot and CD covers before. A surprisingly fruitful franchise, as far as diversity is [...]
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Alright, this is the last one I’m putting up for tonight. I honestly planned to call it a night after that last post but then I saw this and knew that there was no way I could walk away. Some of you may remember my very scathing early impressions of the flying pantsu anime Sora [...]
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As I mentioned previously, Rocket Girls was changed for DVD. Most of the changes had to do with the Matsuri’s bust size, and concentrated around ep.10, so I suspected that a specific person or team screwed the pooch. As it turns out, early episodes were touched up too. In broadcast version of ep.05, the LS-5 stack [...]
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The post is mostly a retelling, but here’s the summary: We live in an age when technology is often portrayed as an implacable enemy of nature and humanity, when our young adults are coddled and infantalized as “mere children” into their late 20s and where great deeds, idealism and aspiration are looked upon with a mixture [...]
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On topic of wildly different official art for Rocket Girls, here’s the cover of the CD single: Check out what Satsuki is wearing under her lab coat. Copyright © 2008 Pete Zaitcev ( (72.47.234.97) )
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The 3rd volume of Rocket Girls turned out to contain the extras, including the pilot episode (I think it’s the episode that a studio made when selling the show to sponsors). I thought I’d have an apoplexy from rage. The art is just amazing, especially if we compare it with the definitive TV series. We [...]
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As soon as I received my DVDs, I set out to rewatch Rocket Girls. As always, it’s all about the frame of mind. I remember saying, “writing is excellent, but the animation ticks me off livid. I just can’t stand how computerized it looks.” I still see the art as problematic, but it does not [...]
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My R1 set came in today (all hail Bandai!), so I gave it a first look. I did not see any differences so far, perhaps they start later (every difference that I have saved occurs later). The picture is crisper, and that’s all. Scaling it down for the blog hurt DVD enough to make them [...]
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Good people at #animedvd passed a tip that Bandai “solicited” Rocket Girls: Complete Collection to be sold for $49.98, with the street date of 2008/10/7. The anonymous benefactor bayoab also reminds that the price is ususally quite a bit less than the MSRP. I’m so in.
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I really need to be more careful on choosing which series I want to drop. When Rocket Girls first aired, I lasted four episodes until I gave up. I mean, it was about a space-agency that plucks a random girl off the streets in order to make her an astronaut; I was sceptical from the [...]
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According to a post @AoD forums, Rocket Girls will receive a significant rework for the DVD (unfortunately, I was unable to find a more direct source). The contrast looks pretty drastic. I heard about reworks before, but never saw anything of this magnitude. There is no word on the horrors of the ep.1. I suspect they won’t [...]
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Happinet Robin has updated its Chrono Gate PVC figure line with three new entries today: Morita Yukari from Rocket Girls, Hime with Flandre from Kaibutsu Oujo, and Kamura Reiri with Liza Wildman, also from Kaibutsu Oujo. Morita Yukari clocks in at 1/8 scale (17 cm tall) and is scheduled to go on sale in January '08 at an undisclosed price; Hime with Flandre is non-scale (18 cm tall) and Kamura Reiri with Liza Wildman is non-scale (20 cm tall), both with prices undisclosed and scheduled for a "winter 2008" release. Nothing here that looks very interesting to those not already fans of the respective shows, though Morita Yukari's space suit is favorably reminiscent of Plug-chan... (no more)
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  Here it is, the last episode of Rocket Girls. The episode starts off with the NASA safety committee recommending disapproval, but the overall decision is to go. NASA wants the separation to be handled by the capsule crew putting them in the most danger. Some of the SSA’s staff recommends that Yukari say no, but Yukari says [...]
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  Rocket Girls 11  starts off with Yukari and Miura walking towards the launch platform where they meet the SSA director whom tells them to show NASA how its done. After liftoff Yukari gets the ship into orbit, but she finds Miura passed out and wakes her up. Muira is very excited being in space when [...]
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  Rocket girls 10  starts off with the US space shuttle crew starting to make repairs on a defective space probe. Later on Miura is introduced to the world in a press conference, she is very embarrassed wearing the skin tight spacesuit. The space shuttle crew makes a mistake during the repair of the probe, causing a [...]
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  Rocket Girls 9 starts off with Yukari and Matsuri believing that Muira quit the SSA and returned to Japan, this is really upsetting to Yakari because of her promise. During the next several days of training Yukari’s just not into it after Muira’s departure, they get a day off and Matsuri wants to go to the [...]
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Wandaba Style was like shock therapy: you hurt so bad that you come to like it out of psychological desperation. Admittedly it has some redeeming value but only if you can pierce through the…noise. Wandaba Style is, for the uninitiated, the nightmare that spawned nightmares of Akira Kogami. Rocket Girls, is, in some ways, the same [...]
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This was actually quite a pleasant surprise. It definitely is your sit back and enjoy type of show. Nothing serious but still a lot of fun letting the story unravel itself with its quirky characters and what not. I don’t think this show is being blogged by others and I really do like what I [...]
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This time, three shows I didn’t have much expectations for. A good example of shows that turn out rather good, despite expectations. The strange thing is that while each of these shows was majorly flawed, they still turned out interesting. Especially Rocket Girls surprised me. Juusou Kikou Dancouga Nova Okay, the good news, this isn’t as [...]
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