Lemma Soft Forums

Rocket Girls... probably my favorite series of the new season.

The Solomons Space Agency has a problem. They can't get their new rocket to work. The old one works fine, but it can't lift enough payload to get a grown test-pilot man into space.

Yukari Morita has a problem. Her father disappeared on the first night his honeymoon (with Yukari's mother-to-be-in-9-months) in the Solomon islands. Now, she goes to the Solomon islands to find him.

They agree to help her find him, in exchange for some help... a job so easy even a monkey can do it...


Why is Rocket Girls awesome? Let me count the ways (all from the second episode):

They managed to work a reference to Little Joe 2 Little Joe 2 into the second episode (although, to be fair, the animators managed to screw up and draw a Little Joe II... I'll forgive them.

"There's no equals key!" "Of course not! Don't you know reverse Polish notation?" HP 41 for the win!*

"This will be your lifeline... the Colt Government"... for the win!

Skin-tight female space-suits... for the win! Perverted female meganekko skin-tight space-suit designers... for the win!

The female doctor who can look at a girl and immediately tell you her height, weight, and three-sizes... for the win!

Half Japanese half-native entirely-scantily-clad backup crew girl... for the... win!

Yes, folks, it's like they made a series just for me, and me alone. Bully!


* And yes, space-fans... the HP 41 was the programmable calculator they took up on the space shuttle. Woefully obsolete by today's standards... it shows that whoever is writing this is as big a space-geek as I am.[/list]

_________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

Yeah, this is also my winner this season.
The writers really know their subject matter.

I cracked up during the reverse polish calculator scene... I used to have an HP graphing calculator that did reverse polish, ah, fond memories.
Note: an ENTER key does not necessarily make a calculator reverse polish.

Best of all is the spunky loli...she wasn't annoying like all the Shana incarnations...maybe I just like Eri Sendai.

So episode 3 is out.

It's mostly a character episode, I think. You have two girls who have been mostly roped into this. You don't want reluctant people as astronauts... so how do we move the story past that. I think this episode does a credible job at this, and mixes in some comedy along the way.

Honestly, there's a monologue at 18 minutes or so in that pretty much floored me.

One big technical nit:



You know what the tone of this series reminds me of, more than anything: The Australian movie "The Dish". That's a great movie, set in the small Australian town of Parkes. Home to sheep ranchers... and a radio telescope... that was used to pick up the pictures of the Apollo 11 moon walks, and send them around the world. (The movie is a bit of a comidramatization of the real events, of course.)

_________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

Somehow I thought you were at least as old as I was, or perhaps I just was more glued to the TV, but...

No, I was -9 or so at the time of the moon landing.

_________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

PyTom-Onii-chan!

Life imitates art:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html

_________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

It's terrible, but even knowing the topic you'd posted this in my first thought upon seeing the picture was "is that a Macross flightsuit she's wearing?"...

I think it was the big green visor that did it.

_________________

That is possibly the awesomest thing ever. http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/index.html Even the concept of lines of non-extention is awesome.

Too bad Rocket Girls did not live up to its potential in the long run...

_________________
http://www.adorablerockets.com

haha I was thinking of Rei's plug suit when I saw that pic.

Cool ^_^... Less bulky suits is nice

Now I am wondering when will be time we will be piloting giant robot with blade or a heat hawk.

_________________
「通りすがりのメーカだ。覚えとけ。」

----------
Winter shard

WIP: Hyperion(Trace unknown), ?????(Progressing)

I'm still waiting for hover cars and the other things I've been looking forward to ever since the '80's.

I want my own robot maid. Even if I had to worry about upgrading her and found her abandoned or something. Like something straight out of an Anime.

Well, I liked the series quite a lot (9/10).
It had nice atmosphere and really good character design (tight spacesuits ehm ).
Also I liked training period too. And last two episodes were great.

_________________

http://www.bishojo.tk is technically ONLINE!
Songs of Araiah promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CalchucuoDU