Chapter Two
Senshi's Moving Castle
A play off of Howl's Moving Castle.
"I bet no other avatars of my overself have problems with self-aware robots."
Sorry, Skuld, you lose that bet the canonical Skuld has even worse problems with Banpei and Sigel, two robots she built herself. They don't appear in the Oh My Brother universe because Paradox and his ... "bookends" ... fill their places in the storyline.
"Oh, my apologies, Ms. Vanette. You and Ms. Skuld sound remarkably alike."
And Kaolla thinks they both sound something like her big sister, Amalla... It's because they share the same voice actress, Aya Hisakawa. (Just be glad Sailor Mercury didn't join the Girls when they passed through the Sailor Moon Step.)
Naoko Sato
A conflation of the names of two people heavily involved in Sailor Moon story creator Naoko Takeuchi and first season director Junichi Sato. Rob thinks it seems like an appropriate name for an important Senshi.
Maico Tange
A homage to Android Announcer Maico 2010 Maico (who has no family name) was played by Sakura Tange (best-known in North America as Sakura in Card Captor Sakura and Kozue in Infinite Ryvius).
Rob recommends this 24-episode series to anyone who enjoys workplace comedy/drama anime, assuming it's ever licenced and professionally translated.
"Allez inventer!"
Rob already knows that that's fractured French, thank you. So is "Allez cuisine!", the line from Iron Chef that this references.
Miyu had jostled Ryoko's arm just as she was serving a special bowl of soup to the Professor, which made her drop the bowl, but that was the only mishap during the meal.
According to their writeups, Miyu and Ryoko both want to see the Professor dead, but always interfere with each other's plans. Anyone care to guess what was in the "special bowl of soup"?
Interlude
"Bloody hell! You're turning me into a Woollie?"
Most Borribles have a distinctly unfriendly relationship with police officers, which is why Chalotte objects to becoming one even temporarily.
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Senshi's Moving Castle
A play off of Howl's Moving Castle.
"I bet no other avatars of my overself have problems with self-aware robots."
Sorry, Skuld, you lose that bet the canonical Skuld has even worse problems with Banpei and Sigel, two robots she built herself. They don't appear in the Oh My Brother universe because Paradox and his ... "bookends" ... fill their places in the storyline.
"Oh, my apologies, Ms. Vanette. You and Ms. Skuld sound remarkably alike."
And Kaolla thinks they both sound something like her big sister, Amalla... It's because they share the same voice actress, Aya Hisakawa. (Just be glad Sailor Mercury didn't join the Girls when they passed through the Sailor Moon Step.)
Naoko Sato
A conflation of the names of two people heavily involved in Sailor Moon story creator Naoko Takeuchi and first season director Junichi Sato. Rob thinks it seems like an appropriate name for an important Senshi.
Maico Tange
A homage to Android Announcer Maico 2010 Maico (who has no family name) was played by Sakura Tange (best-known in North America as Sakura in Card Captor Sakura and Kozue in Infinite Ryvius).
Rob recommends this 24-episode series to anyone who enjoys workplace comedy/drama anime, assuming it's ever licenced and professionally translated.
"Allez inventer!"
Rob already knows that that's fractured French, thank you. So is "Allez cuisine!", the line from Iron Chef that this references.
Miyu had jostled Ryoko's arm just as she was serving a special bowl of soup to the Professor, which made her drop the bowl, but that was the only mishap during the meal.
According to their writeups, Miyu and Ryoko both want to see the Professor dead, but always interfere with each other's plans. Anyone care to guess what was in the "special bowl of soup"?
Interlude
"Bloody hell! You're turning me into a Woollie?"
Most Borribles have a distinctly unfriendly relationship with police officers, which is why Chalotte objects to becoming one even temporarily.
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012