Oh yeah, Peg and I are big Gasaraki fans; we were following it avidly (until the series ended, at least). The other thing that makes it interesting is that all the mecha is handled as close to "real world" as possible. For those who haven't seen it, well, in one of their first deployments, they're sent to a generic Middle Eastern country, and they immediately have sand problems with the machinery.
The dub cast is very good for those who care about such things; my only problem with them is that the actress who did Yurika in Nadesico has a small part as a member of the mecha support team. She basically does the same voice as Yurika, which was distracting for me even though she wasn't squealing "Akito!" half a dozen times a minute in this show.
Anyway, you're right, it would be an interesting place to set a Step, except that so much of the action is global in scale, or running in places that he wouldn't be likely to get into except as a corpse or experimental subject... I don't see an immediate obvious hook to tie him in with. Does he help the pilots on the run or the little sister? Or does he somehow get wind of the economic/right-wing conspiracy and try to foul that up, unaware of how it will come out? Or does he somehow get enough fake bona fides to work on the mecha team in the JSDF? Too much of the action takes place in too many places with too many people to slip him in at a point where his presence makes everything more ... interesting.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
The dub cast is very good for those who care about such things; my only problem with them is that the actress who did Yurika in Nadesico has a small part as a member of the mecha support team. She basically does the same voice as Yurika, which was distracting for me even though she wasn't squealing "Akito!" half a dozen times a minute in this show.
Anyway, you're right, it would be an interesting place to set a Step, except that so much of the action is global in scale, or running in places that he wouldn't be likely to get into except as a corpse or experimental subject... I don't see an immediate obvious hook to tie him in with. Does he help the pilots on the run or the little sister? Or does he somehow get wind of the economic/right-wing conspiracy and try to foul that up, unaware of how it will come out? Or does he somehow get enough fake bona fides to work on the mecha team in the JSDF? Too much of the action takes place in too many places with too many people to slip him in at a point where his presence makes everything more ... interesting.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.