Super Gals! eps 6-15
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meganbmooreSUPER JUNIOR DETECTIVES! DEBUTANTE ARCH NEMESIS! FAKE KIDNAPPINGS! KENDO GIRLS! GROUPIES! BOYFRIEND COMPETITIONS! ROMANTIC RIVALS!
*ahem*
I have decided that I truly pity any boy(namely, Yuya) to fall for Ran. In her world, boys exist to look pretty and buy things for her. Let us observe the boyfriend comptetion. Now, to explain: Ran has acquired a boyfriend, Tatsukichi, the male version of a Shibuya gal. He looks good, buys her food and showers her with complements. Therefore, if he wants to call himself her boyfriend, that's just fine. Yuya, of course, utterly freaks out over this(note: male characters named Yuya weird me out, for reasons obvious to people who have been at this LJ long and read my anime and manga posts) and the end result is a boyfriend competition with about a hundred participants. After determining that they will all let her copy their homework(CRUCIAL!) they must:
1) Run a marathon. To weed out the wusses.
2) Pass an intelligence test. To ensure that the homework is worth copying.
3) Score 100 points at a dance competition. To prove they're cool enough.
4) Rock climb. To prove they had endurance.
During the course of this, I came to two conclusions:
1) Any male but Rei to date or fall for Ran would end up little more than a servant.
2) Rei is far too smart to ever fall for Ran.
Seriously, despite what it looked like the first couple eps, I'm glad the show seems to definately NOT be going in a Rei/Ran direction. They're both way, way too alpha to be a couple. Rei usually hangs around because he knows better than to try to escape, and because Yuya is his best friend, and he knows Yuya is a hopeless goner for Ran. And, I think, he also likes Aya, but doesn't realize it. Meanwhile, Aya likes Rei so obviously that Ran has essentially told him that he will keep Aya happy or he will die. And he believes her. And despite what some youtube people seem to think, Ran would die before being jealous of a friend, much less going after the guy a friend likes.
But seriously, they're so alike in their alpha, but so different in other ways-her materialism and insanely proactive attitude, his braininess and sardonic, detached behavior-that they'd kill each other if they ever dated.
Meanwhile, Ran's archnemesis, Mami, head Gal of another district, is a debutante and the princess of her school by day, with her Gal status a secret identity. Her rabid rivalry with Ran, and their constant battles(often with rulership of each other's district on the line) is the second best part of the show.
The best part, though is Ran's younger sister, Sayo, who Ran alternately refers to as an annoying brat and a precious angel, and her boyfriend. THEY ARE DETECTIVES! THEY SNEAK AROUND SHIBUYA INVESTIGATING! AND ALWAYS ACT OUT POLICE DRAMAS! In one episode, an arcade machine transforms Ran into a debutante, and Sayo thinks Ran was abducted by aliens. THE BOWS MUST BE ANTENNAE! THERE MUST BE A CHIP IN RAN'S HEAD! SAYO MUST SAVE THE WORLD FROM AN ALIEN INVASION. I, ah, maybe have watched that twice. Just like the boyfriend competition.
Meanwhile, until now, the only thing I've encountered that featured Gals, and positively at that, was the GalCir live action drama. As a result, I keep looking for a horrendously anachronistic cowboy who looks like Fujiki Naohito to show up.
*ahem*
I have decided that I truly pity any boy(namely, Yuya) to fall for Ran. In her world, boys exist to look pretty and buy things for her. Let us observe the boyfriend comptetion. Now, to explain: Ran has acquired a boyfriend, Tatsukichi, the male version of a Shibuya gal. He looks good, buys her food and showers her with complements. Therefore, if he wants to call himself her boyfriend, that's just fine. Yuya, of course, utterly freaks out over this(note: male characters named Yuya weird me out, for reasons obvious to people who have been at this LJ long and read my anime and manga posts) and the end result is a boyfriend competition with about a hundred participants. After determining that they will all let her copy their homework(CRUCIAL!) they must:
1) Run a marathon. To weed out the wusses.
2) Pass an intelligence test. To ensure that the homework is worth copying.
3) Score 100 points at a dance competition. To prove they're cool enough.
4) Rock climb. To prove they had endurance.
During the course of this, I came to two conclusions:
1) Any male but Rei to date or fall for Ran would end up little more than a servant.
2) Rei is far too smart to ever fall for Ran.
Seriously, despite what it looked like the first couple eps, I'm glad the show seems to definately NOT be going in a Rei/Ran direction. They're both way, way too alpha to be a couple. Rei usually hangs around because he knows better than to try to escape, and because Yuya is his best friend, and he knows Yuya is a hopeless goner for Ran. And, I think, he also likes Aya, but doesn't realize it. Meanwhile, Aya likes Rei so obviously that Ran has essentially told him that he will keep Aya happy or he will die. And he believes her. And despite what some youtube people seem to think, Ran would die before being jealous of a friend, much less going after the guy a friend likes.
But seriously, they're so alike in their alpha, but so different in other ways-her materialism and insanely proactive attitude, his braininess and sardonic, detached behavior-that they'd kill each other if they ever dated.
Meanwhile, Ran's archnemesis, Mami, head Gal of another district, is a debutante and the princess of her school by day, with her Gal status a secret identity. Her rabid rivalry with Ran, and their constant battles(often with rulership of each other's district on the line) is the second best part of the show.
The best part, though is Ran's younger sister, Sayo, who Ran alternately refers to as an annoying brat and a precious angel, and her boyfriend. THEY ARE DETECTIVES! THEY SNEAK AROUND SHIBUYA INVESTIGATING! AND ALWAYS ACT OUT POLICE DRAMAS! In one episode, an arcade machine transforms Ran into a debutante, and Sayo thinks Ran was abducted by aliens. THE BOWS MUST BE ANTENNAE! THERE MUST BE A CHIP IN RAN'S HEAD! SAYO MUST SAVE THE WORLD FROM AN ALIEN INVASION. I, ah, maybe have watched that twice. Just like the boyfriend competition.
Meanwhile, until now, the only thing I've encountered that featured Gals, and positively at that, was the GalCir live action drama. As a result, I keep looking for a horrendously anachronistic cowboy who looks like Fujiki Naohito to show up.
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Date: 2008-01-17 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-17 08:38 am (UTC)I plan to check out the manga(and hope to find season 2 for cheap soon)
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Date: 2008-01-17 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-17 06:26 am (UTC)The manga is basically the same (maybe a bit more didactic in the volumes), but because it didn't advance Ran's story much (though it does advance Yuya and Miya) I stopped collecting after volume 5.
I like the anime better, I have to say (but it doesn't have the cute asides by the mangaka on fashion, etc.)
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Date: 2008-01-17 08:36 am (UTC)