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Jul. 30th, 2011 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaBATTLE ATHLETES
Genre: Sports
How much seen: one episode
What it's about: after another world war (which may have caused the poles to shift, or they may have done it spontaneously), humanity got over itself and figured out that maybe they should try some sort of 'we are better than you' thing that doesn't involve killing people. So in 3045 there was this huge competition - and one nameless guy won it all. Cut to: present day, 3996, and everything is focused on the Great Competition. Win it, and you become a Cosmic Beauty. (No, I don't know when it apparently became girls-only. Maybe that's something that's explained in a later episode's info-dump.)
So, yes, as is the custom, we're focused on one particular girl and her friends and teammates. Akari is rather a ditz, but her mom was the Cosmic Beauty in her day, so Great Things are expected of her. Unfortunately, this causes problems even in the first episode, as the upperclasswomen naturally regard her as Potential Rival at best, over-ambitious dirt at worst. I am sadly not exaggerating: there's an entire set-piece in the last third of the episode wherein a bad-tempered upperclasswoman tricks Akari and one of her new room/teammates into an area of the satellite where they all train where there isn't any artificial gravity. Naturally they are rescued by the third room/teammate, backed up by the vaguely Dumbledore-esque headmaster of the satellite, but there are Possibilities looming.
Overall opinion: I spent the first few minutes seriously wondering how this was a sports anime, as we're given a long info-dump explaining how this world got to the point of the satellite and the Great Competition (which is not the Olympics, really it's not, no matter how much it looks like it). Unfortunately, once it got to the point of the actual sports, it settled down into predictability as well. Not going to look for any more of this one.
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Kay is curled up with the latest Harry Dresden to my right, and Stef is reading something long on my right. We had to rescue my subject randomizer (i.e. a D12) from the dog already. Must be more careful.
Genre: Sports
How much seen: one episode
What it's about: after another world war (which may have caused the poles to shift, or they may have done it spontaneously), humanity got over itself and figured out that maybe they should try some sort of 'we are better than you' thing that doesn't involve killing people. So in 3045 there was this huge competition - and one nameless guy won it all. Cut to: present day, 3996, and everything is focused on the Great Competition. Win it, and you become a Cosmic Beauty. (No, I don't know when it apparently became girls-only. Maybe that's something that's explained in a later episode's info-dump.)
So, yes, as is the custom, we're focused on one particular girl and her friends and teammates. Akari is rather a ditz, but her mom was the Cosmic Beauty in her day, so Great Things are expected of her. Unfortunately, this causes problems even in the first episode, as the upperclasswomen naturally regard her as Potential Rival at best, over-ambitious dirt at worst. I am sadly not exaggerating: there's an entire set-piece in the last third of the episode wherein a bad-tempered upperclasswoman tricks Akari and one of her new room/teammates into an area of the satellite where they all train where there isn't any artificial gravity. Naturally they are rescued by the third room/teammate, backed up by the vaguely Dumbledore-esque headmaster of the satellite, but there are Possibilities looming.
Overall opinion: I spent the first few minutes seriously wondering how this was a sports anime, as we're given a long info-dump explaining how this world got to the point of the satellite and the Great Competition (which is not the Olympics, really it's not, no matter how much it looks like it). Unfortunately, once it got to the point of the actual sports, it settled down into predictability as well. Not going to look for any more of this one.
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Kay is curled up with the latest Harry Dresden to my right, and Stef is reading something long on my right. We had to rescue my subject randomizer (i.e. a D12) from the dog already. Must be more careful.