Sky Girls TV – Episode 2
Short Summary:
Eika returns from a test flight with her airplaine, when she meets her superior – Captain Togo – for the first time. He’s astonished how young she is and Eika obviously dislikes the way he treats her, but he does not seem to take it all too serious. At a meeting some time later Eika gets to know there are two more test pilots to come, who’ve been civillians so far and did not join the military so far. Also she finds out the pilot who beat her last time, was only a helper.
Meanwhile Otoha is on her way to the military base. She’s riding a train for the first time and speaks a lot to herself till she finally falls asleep. She gets joined by Karen, who wakes her up by acident at the right station. Both of them leave the train and start to chat, while they are waiting to get picked up. Suddenly a woman starts to scream she got robbed and Otoha faces the thief with her wooden sword. What she does not know is the fact the thief’s got a knife, but Karen tackles the thief with her bag and in the end Otoha beats him with her sword. Before knowing they are going to work together Karen and Otoha already make a pretty good team.
When Captain Togo turns up both are suprised they are going to be test pilots together, but they are also happy to have found a friend, especially after meeting Eika for the first time, who behaves more than cool. At the base the three girls are going to share one room. As a greeting Eika tells them military is the world of laws and that they never should come in her way.
Afterwards the girls get to see the Sonic Divers for the first time and the captain explains not everybody can fly one, but the DNA of the pilot has to be compatible. Karen, Otoha and Eika try on their pilot suits and the first tests are done. They are showerd with a special kind of protection clothes and Otoha suddenly sees pictures of her little brother. The compability of the two new girls is great with almost 100%, but one of the girls seems to have special results, concerned with a “Final Encounter”, I guess it’s Otoha.
This evening Karen writes to her brother her day was exhausting, but great and that she already made new friends, while Otoha is already sleeping in her bed.
My opinion:
I’m still enjoing Sky Girls very much. In opposite to the impression given by the opening the show does not focus on fan service and mecha action (alone), but on the characters of the three so different girls. So far I like all three of them, even Eika who acts cooly, but that is only a fassade and I’m sure she’s getting closer to the other two girls soon. She’s overambitious and the utterance the pilot that day was only a helper must have hit her hard.
Otoha is very open-minded, perhaps a bit simple structured, but you simply must love her from the first second, not to speak of Karen, who’s so super-cute! But I’m afraid she’s seeing this military job through rose-tinted glasses. Of course she can be doing good things with piloting a Sonic Diver, but what about killing WORMS or even people with it and orders she does not want to execute.
At the moment I feel there’s so much potential in this show. I very much enjoy the introduction of the protagonists and that theer’s so much time for the introduction, still pace could get a little bit faster!
