Sora Kake Girl Blu-ray #5
Good gravy! It’s a first pressing extra! Could this be the end of days!?
Oh, it’s just another Weis Schwarz card. Crisis averted, I guess.
Yup, it’s another month, and another post where I struggle desperately to find something to say about this months Sora Kake Girl Blu-ray release beyond which character appears in the nude in this volumes omake feature. So I guess I should just stop struggling against fate and say it’s the Queen of Maid Smiting, Wielder of the 10+ Crowbar of Headcaving, Nami – she is the cover girl for the volume, after all.
Actually, speaking of the cover, it’s a pretty clear display of the fact that they really, really don’t expect anyone who doesn’t watch anime at airtime to ever pick up the home release of these shows. The cover drops a pretty big spoiler for, not an episode on this volume, but for what will be the first episode on the volume after this.
Sora Kake Black isn’t supposed to show up until episode 15. Oh well.
Anyway, back to the omake featurette – it’s Nami talking about her time as a model, but hey every, campaign she models in seems to be for product lines produced by the Shishidou group. Except for Vocaloid, obviously.
Hey, hey – it’s random cameo time!
Kind of strange that, isn’t it? You almost think that people would start trolling her blog about it. Oh, wait, they did. Though, really, given that Shishidou seems to make EVERYTHING on Kirkwood, it seems a touch unfair to rag on her about it too much.
Still, unlike the previous volume, they at least get the progression of service the correct way around, as Nami wears progressively fewer clothes as it goes along, before finally appearing in the buff alongside Madoka and those other models who beat on Nami back in episode 11, as opposed to it starting with a gratuitous shot of her tits like the Takane one did.
This month’s advert is for sunblock – the image is from the omake feature rather than from the show itself. The proportions look kind of weird to me, though. This month’s novel appears to be about Nami learning to play QT Golf, not that I can actually read it.
Next months volume has Minato and Bougainvillea on the cover, and given that the omake seems to be called “The Girl’s Who Leapt To Food”, I presume it’s going to be all about the show’s second most popular comic relief characters as well. Honestly, I kind of think they should have used that cover and omake for this volume – cover spoilers aside, this volume has the hilarious self-parody of Sunrise’s Pizza Hut product placement scene, where BouMin sell their souls to Nina in exchange for Pizza so delicious it makes them cry. The almost pornographic level of detail they put into animating the pizza and the consumption of has me in hysterics. It’s not like the reason for them having Nami on this volume is that they are trying to get the covers for the most important characters out of the way first, either – Takane was on the Volume 4 cover, after all.
As for other content on this volume, the spanking the Shishidou family take at the hands of Nerval in episode 12 is still pretty epic for something which happens mid-way through the series. The episodes on this volume are also the ones where Tsutsuji begins her rise to prominence as the shows bestest character, including the first appearance of the Lum cosplay. Tsutsuji better have the cover on one of the remain volumes…
2009-08-31
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Nami. Pfft. Bitch to the core. Takane FTW.
2009-08-31
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Nami may have been a bitch, but she did have tremendous entertainment value to go along with it.
2009-08-31
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I haven’t heard anything about this show. Have I been missing out?
2009-08-31
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Short answer – Yes.
I liked it a lot (the fact that I’m picking up the BRs’ is proof of that), but I’m not really sure how much mileage you’d get out of it.
I mean, it’s an awful lot of fun – it’s a crazy SF adventure show with lots of cute girls and stuff just going on constantly, but part of what makes it particularly delicious is that there’s this whole layer to the show that’s basically just Sunrise mocking themselves. The shows’ full of references and allusions to Gundam and Code Geass and My-HiME. Not that Sunrise knowledge is essential, but being able to equate Leopard to Lelouch, or BouMin to Arkia and Nina from ZHiME does make things more amusing, particularly for someone with a Sunrise-bias like myself.
I’m not entirely sure how you’d take it – it’s mostly HiME staff on the show doing their thing, but it doesn’t have any of the excessive angst or sniping schoolgirl antics that turned you off ZHiME, and none of the Highlander “There can only be one!” stuff from HiME.
I mean, in the first episode of this volume the heroine side gets really, really screwed over – I mean, it’s one of the most resounding defeats I’ve seen in anime. Instead of the next episode being full of angst about the defeat, the girls prance around in skimpy swimsuits (and Tsutsuji turns up dressed as Lum ^^)
It’s probably the kind of show that you’d be able to figure out your opinion of within an episode or two of, though, so it may just be
2009-08-31
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Man I kind of want that Itsuki card. I didn’t even know the characters were in a TCG. I thought if they’d be in anything it would be Sunrise Crusade. Very unexpected.
2009-08-31
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Half the popular anime franchises seem to be making their way into Weis Schwarz these days. As for as Sora Kake characters go, it seems they are only regularly sold in booster packs which mix in characters from HiME/ZHiME, so it looks like there’s only maybe twenty of them, plus five (presumably six as there’s bound to be a Honoka card with a later BR release) LE cards.
Not that I’m particularly into TCGs.