July 11, 2008
That map seems a bit peculiar.
Meanwhile, a big picture of Sakamoto below the fold.
UPDATE: While I'm posting pictures, here's the magic circle that Sakamoto creates in ep 1 just before she shows off the Striker Unit for Miyafuji:
And this is the one Miyafuji makes in ep 2:
It's hard to be sure, but if anything it looks like Sakamoto's is the larger. Certainly they're nearly the same.
On the other hand, this is Sakamoto's shield:
She's 165 cm, 5'5", so it's probably about 8 feet across. (Which is good enough; it doesn't leave any part of her unprotected.) Based on what we saw at the beginning of the first episode, that's pretty typical for the other members of the 501st. All the shields we saw were in the range of 8-12 feet. Here's Miyafuji's shield:
She's 150 cm, 4'11", and that thing has to be at least six times her height, if not even more. It's no wonder Sakamoto was impressed.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at
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Posted by: BigD at July 11, 2008 10:23 PM (JJ4vV)
Posted by: Will at July 11, 2008 11:45 PM (oj5wx)
Posted by: PatBuckman at July 12, 2008 12:28 PM (JR4YN)
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 12, 2008 04:15 PM (AW3EJ)
As usual, the Japanese gloss over the parts of their history they don't want to think about.
Posted by: ubu at July 12, 2008 04:24 PM (UukMI)
It's clear that the arrival of the Neuroi is not the only difference between this time stream and ours.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 12, 2008 04:41 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: ubu at July 12, 2008 06:32 PM (UukMI)
*shrug* If I was wrong, I'm sorry, but...
Posted by: Wonderduck at July 12, 2008 07:20 PM (AW3EJ)
Japan's centrally controlled curriculum might be pretty lousy in that particular area of history, but at least they don't celebrate Nanking and Bataan. I think people telling the history they want to tell is fairly common.
As an aside, according to Jun Chang's 'Mao: the Unknown Story', the soviets had a sleeper of theirs in the Nationalist Army attack the IJA. This directly lead to Nanking. The Soviets wanted the IJA to get bogged down in China, and thus not be in a position to move against the USSR. Despite orders to the contrary from the USSR, Mao ignored Chiang's United Front proposal, and basically used his communists as rear security for the IJA. This is how Mao got ahold of so much territory. Eitheir the book is a lie (it is disturbingly plausable to me), or years of communist lies have penetrated deeply into the American narrative of the second world war. I just looked it up on wikipedia, and the first part of the article reflects the communist narrative.
Posted by: PatBuckman at July 12, 2008 07:44 PM (JR4YN)
Anyway, I posted it here.
Posted by: ubu at July 12, 2008 07:48 PM (UukMI)
Posted by: PatBuckman at July 12, 2008 08:58 PM (JR4YN)
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