Clusters are named appropriately, for example Hartmann and Barkhorn are named “つよい”, or “[the] strong”. I would say that “えらい” above the leaders may be translated as “the greats”. The “snotty French twit” is clustered together with the leadership, but with a footnote “態度だけは” (taido dakeva) meaning “only in bearing” (I think).

Bugfox makes me laugh.

Shinkurou Kurenai is an atypical sixteen-year-old. An orphan (his parents were killed by terrorists) he lives alone in a tiny, unkempt apartment. By day he attends high school. By night he has a part-time job as a “dispute mediator.”

“Dispute mediation” seems to involve using his martial arts skills to beat up people until they are willing to relinquish their claims, so an alternate term might be “hired thug.” However the people he beats up are all nasty characters who thoroughly deserve it, so I guess that’s OK.

I think I detect scepsis.

Just go visit Chizumatic if you care about episodic blogging.

The art and animation made a big impression on me. I did not like all parts, but it sure looked like the future of the anime, with massively computerized drawing of everything. So, like it or not, I better get used to it.

It doesn’t help that the token meganekko is a snotty French twit.

Don cracks me up.

Reasons are several, but the main ones are: Nanaka is crazy and futakon is annoying. The final drop was that the wife did not live up to my expectations.

I think that rather positive evaluation by Astro made me drag myself through 9 episodes of this entirely forgettable series. After reading spoilers at -ga, it looks like his denials about the twincest were rather poorly sourced.

The OP soundtrack is one of my favourites, when divorced from the video.

Looking back at the OVA again after watching the first couple of episodes, I noticed that I was probably looking at that short piece in the wrong way. I don’t know what I was expecting at first, but I didn’t come off impressed the first time around and felt that the premise fell a bit flat on what it was trying to do. This time around, I saw the OVA as a cheesy parody of those patriotic movies you saw back during the periods of the World Wars with a little bit of team-building, sports anime Go-for-it stuff hidden in between there. It was great with how over the top things were with the music, the story with Yoshika’s quick running away and emotional coming back, the treatment of some characters to Yoshika (Perrine and Sakamoto are notable), the fanservice (sexual, mechamusume or other wise), and when you step back how proud those citizens were of these amalgamations of fetishes. Such funny propaganda. :3

The “sports” analogy does not really click for me, but again, we’re talking a rational dissection here, and SDB explained it:

Ignoring all the mecha musume trappings, what you’ve really got here is a girl’s baseball team. And that is the story they’re going to tell. Miyafuji is the newest player to join the team. She’s inexperienced, but it looks like she’s got home-run power if only she can learn to use it. And she will, and that’s the series story-line. Ep 3 was right out of canon: the benchwarmers (Miyafuji and Bishop) got put into the game in a desperate situation and made a game-saving play together. Miyafuji is going to hit her first home run in ep 4, and it will proceed from there.

So, “sports” is a codeword.

Most boring anime ever.

[With apologies to J.P. Meyer.]