Once more into the pantsless thing. Having burned ourselves out on episode eight, or something, we seem to have had less to say this time. And not much of that has any intellectual value at all. But, what the hell; this is Strike Witches. You’re not here to watch us position this show in a postmodern, postcolonial context (something the show more or less does to itself anyway). I’m guessing you’re here to watch us react to a fictional global culture whose women don’t wear pants. And react we shall. On with the reacting!

(Pontifus = white; Otouto-kun = blue.)

Episode 9

(1:04) I thought she might shoot the door, just out of anger.

(1:09) “Johnson!”

(1:14) “Hey, we were out here! You think you can do whatever you want just because you wear no pants?”

(1:21) “He had a family!”

(3:47) I’m calling it now: the Neuroi are humans from the future.

(3:59) So this is one of those things where the enemy seems like some unknowable alien race, but it’s actually people? Soylent enemy is people?

(5:11) “Why am I ten now?”

(5:21) Crazyname’s sister looks really good for a burn victim.

(5:47) “Why is nobody wearing pants!?”

(6:37) Someone’s a siscon.

(6:39) Yeah. You.

(6:40) No!

(8:26) I think her laugh is the funniest thing in this show.

(10:05) “Try a somersault!”

(14:03) It seems like those things would be more maneuverable, but they seem to have as hard a time maneuvering as planes.

(14:16) Well, it’s not as if they’re even remotely possible anyway, so it’s not really going to bother me how they maneuver. You have to just take it as it comes.

(15:40) It’s like Diebuster.

(15:41) Oh! Why didn’t they explain the whole age thing earlier? Did they explain it earlier? Did I just miss it?

(16:08) I don’t think so, no.

(16:52) No worries; they’re just trying to form Getter Robo.

(17:03) There’s totally going to be a combination.

(17:06) There’d better be.

(18:17) I love how it even mimicked the no pants thing.

(19:00) “No nudity on the bridge!”

(19:55) Well yeah!

(19:56) Couldn’t it have at least mimicked a face?

(20:03) What, is the whole black mage thing creeping you out?

(21:56) “Don’t catch her or anything. Just pursue.”

(22:29) That’s kind of surprisingly serious there at the end. This is where the real heroic crisis begins, you know? It’s always the death of the mentor.

(22:45) Bright never died.

(22:49) Yeah, but it doesn’t always have to happen.

(22:54) He had to be alive to end the crisis.

(22:58) I don’t think Amuro really went through a “heroic crisis” as such. He was just a whiner.

Episode 10

(1:15) If Samakoto does die, and if there’s a heroic crisis that follows, the interesting thing about all this is that it’s totally Miyafuji’s fault. She has every reason to be all depressed about it because it’s her fucking fault.

(3:48) The weird alien laser ignored her clothes and just pierced her.

(4:19) Well, that’s one love triangle solved.

(4:24) Not cool, man.

(6:05) Death isn’t always a bad omen.

(6:08) It could just mean the end of one thing and the beginning of another.

(7:58) “I just realized…none of us are wearing pants!”

(8:09) She’s not dead? Wait a second, what happened to her eye? It’s regular now.

(8:20) She lost her magic.

(8:22) She class-changed.

(9:14) I’d be pissed if I was shot down because my subordinate fucked up. I’d be a little angrier than this seems to suggest.

(9:36) “You’ll be hung.”

(9:37) Put her in the brig!

(9:40) To the guillotine!

(10:06) Solitary confinement never stopped Kamille Bidan.

(10:19) Or any of the Gundam people, really.

(10:23) Yeah, they generally stay in there for about five minutes. Then there’s an attack, and they’re inevitably the only Gundam pilot available.

(11:18) What ever happened to that Neuroi?

(11:22) Well, it went under the house, and it’s going to continue to spawn human-looking things and accumulate intelligence until Ginko comes along.

(11:36) Great. Thank you for reminding me of that.

(14:02) “Shut up!”

(14:03) “I’m tired of your bitching!”

(14:09) The Bright-pat.

(14:14) I have to agree with Perrine in this case. Sakamoto is too lenient. Just smack someone.

(14:23) Everybody’s too lenient.

(14:55) Confession! Confession!

(15:02) Aww.

(15:07) It’s not too late.

(15:16) This is just like Gundam. The protagonist stays in the room for about four minutes, then grabs the military equipment and flees.

(15:39) “Vader’s Fist.”

(15:41) “This is Vader.” Hey, she said “Your Excellency.”

(16:49) Everybody seems really calm. I mean, do they have a plan, or are they just happy about it? They’re just going to cap her. Shoot her in the fucking head.

(17:03) I’m sure they intend not to shoot her.

(18:24) They take her as their hive queen, and the cloud forms to her shape.

(18:32) I told you it was the Vajra. So is it a hive mind, do you think? There’s really only one consciousness?

(18:44) Maybe.

(19:51) Let me guess: her dad was in charge of a project to infuse part of the Neuroi into a human child.

(19:58) Oh, you think the dad was responsible? The Rozen dad?

(20:52) Buster Beam?

(20:59) If you get one of those, who needs magic?

(21:05) Breast Fire.

(22:07) Why is this Macross all of a sudden?

(22:22) Pedo-smile.

(23:46) Who is that guy!? That guy’s never around. I haven’t even noticed him. Who the fuck is he, telling her what to do?

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