The way they created the characters by referencing old warplane aces is good, but I can't help but feel this is WAAAY too similar to Sky Girls.

Sky Girls a.k.a. Sky lolies, which also feature 16+ year olds with loli bodies, and NO PANTS/SKIRTS.. (O_o)

Wish they'd make a better storyline. I think Kodomo no Jikan is a good example of a loli show with a good storyline, though maybe for some, they'd think it's too ecchi or something, but I think it gives a good idea of how 'sumbang mahram' can occur, rather than it being a one-party activity haunting a 'victim' of sorts.

Still, can't blame them if anime enthusiasts flock towards titles like this. They'd go where the money's at, no doubt.

This post has been edited by sadako-chan: Mar 6 2009, 01:39 AM

I know that the war aces are real, I think I read it in one of their promo articles or something. But I can't imagine there are ALIENs, so which is the true story part?.

Actually, I wouldn't know, but if it were made by the same person, isn't that even worse? Like recycling old ideas. (>_>)

The only sex in KnJ was between Rin's current guardian and her mother (as far as I've read) and in the manga, that relationship isn't exactly 'approved'. Anyway, it's a story that most people would call dirty because they'd actually have sexual thoughts about their blood relatives. I don't, nor do I think it's proper, but certainly incest has been a topic most manga has shied away with because a certain group of people think that 'it will probably never happen to me or my relatives, so no manga needs to tell the story of incest'. And although unlikely, imagine if you had a blood relative that confesses he wants to have sex with you.. woah, real life drama there... <very unlikely, but a meeeh... example. And in the story so far in KnJ, I can understand why the characters do the way they do, misguided feelings, guilt, etc.

I think it's good that KnJ has a storyline, and for me, at least, the ending is not as predictable as say, strike witches, which can end in either of these ways.


Possible strike witches ending. (Purely baseless and just IMHO, of course)

Strike witches find out Neuroi is absolutely evil, pawns them with superior MAHOU POWAH, the end.

Strike witches find out that Neuroi is a Black Ops experiment went wrong, pawns them with superior MAHOU POWAH, the end.

Strike witches find out that Neuroi is a sentient entity without a TOTAL hive mind, and there are individual Neurois that are good, so they work together and pawns the bad ones with superior MAHOU POWAH, the end.

Strike Witches is actually the evil party out to suffocate the world with their oversized vulvas, and gets annihilated by Neuroi <-- lol, no way this is ever going to be the ending.

Strike Witches find out that Neuroi is controlled a bunch of maniacal lolikon otakus, determined to shoot the clothing off their bodies, and pawns them with superior MAHOU POWAH, the end. < whee super plot twist there.

As far as plot devices go, I find it very difficult to imagine any plot devices that does not involve yuri, esp. when the entire main cast is female.

That said, I'm amazed they managed to stuff a few genres into one anime: neko/inu/mahou/mecha/etc-shoujo.

Now THAT IS A GOOD WAY to make MONEY, isn't it? more viewers from multitudes of genres.

Now, although I say all that about strike witches, I do not hate it, I just find it too predictable for my tastes, but who knows, maybe they'll come up with something, in which case, I'd be hoping someone posts their ideas here, and I'll change my mind about Strike Witches.

The reason I even waste my breath here is because maybe, just maybe, someone that read all this find it amusing and explain why Strike Witches is pure win, and not because it has loli charas that borrow names from old female fighter pilots.

This post has been edited by sadako-chan: Mar 7 2009, 06:08 AM

Whoops!

Sorry, somehow during that time, I only thought of Sanya Litvak, I didn't look up the rest though.. lol.
But seriously, I thought there were more than one female pilot that inspired SW, thanks for noting it though..

Still say it's too predictable/fanservice laden for me though, but to each his own. Gonzo made it for a reason, and that would be that people WANT these kind of anime. Who am I to argue?

That would seriously make strike witches watchable for me, esp. for the LULZ.