The terrifying truth behind Sora Kake Girl revealed – it’s all just an elaborate interview process for Pizza Hut to employ a new pizza delivery girl. You may think this is all overly complex, not to mention expensive, but remember this – Space is a large jurisdiction, and in light of the discounts invoked for thousands of late deliveries, it’s essential that they get The Best. Given that Akiha can somehow manage to source Pizza Hut whilst stranded in the orbit of Jupiter, it’s clear that she’s up to it.

Or maybe not.

I got the Blu-Ray version of the first volume of Sora Kake Girl yesterday. I was going to make a separate post about it, but it doesn’t really seem worth it. The first episode of the show is about three minutes longer for the home release, but those three minutes are far from consecutive – there’s a lot of occasions where they’ve just added one or two additional establishing shots into the middle of an existing sequence, or added maybe one or two lines of dialogue into the middle of a discussion (there’s one point where Akiha is talking to Leopard where they’ve literally just added a close-up on her face for long enough to say “Ano…”). There’s maybe three slightly more substantial dialogue sequences added (whereby “substantial”, I mean more than three lines), but it’s nothing especially significant.

There are a couple of things which do, at least, add slightly more coherence to the episode – they at least show Akiha noticing the box that Honoka eventually crawls out of (which just kind of appears out of nowhere on the tram in the broadcast version), as well as having Itsuki actually looking at the things she discusses with Ul in the second episode.

At least they haven’t been cheap about the stuff they’ve added, though – it’s all pretty well animated, regardless of how brief some of it is. A lot of the additional footage is added into the second half – the sequence of Akiha boarding the QT-Arms is extended, and there’s a number of effects and CG shots added to Leopards attempted suicide plummet.

Saying that, I doubt anyone would notice that they’ve added anything without watching both versions side-by-side. The changes are pretty seamlessly integrated, suggesting that they were probably in there in the first place and edited out for running length.

I’m a little surprised Sankaku hasn’t picked up on the Picture Drama feature on the disk, though, given that it features a surprisingly naked Akiha – Sunrise ramping up the fanservice for the omake features isn’t uncommon, but that’s usually as innocuous going from “no panty shots” to “panty shots”, or perhaps a non-explicit bathing scene. I was kind of shocked, to be honest.

What the Picture Drama is actually about the Shishidous adopting Imoko as a baby (Navis start as babies?).