Quote:There's also OVA 2 -the one with Kalia
The fandom is El-Hazard. The OVA, not the crappy TV series.
and the Alternate World -if you're excluding the TV series with the teenager Rune Venus and bimbo Ifurita.
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idea 1) - Makoto spends a lot of his time researching, trying to find a way to control the Eye of God and the Key Staff and get Ifurita back. What if he didn't limit himself to just going through the Royal Library of Florestica? What if he decided to take a page out of Fujisawa's playbook and, after a few weeks of research, packed up some notes for further perusal and went vamoos, searching for possible solutions in a vaguely Indiana Jones sort of manner? Basically, trying to find some alternative to using the Eye's effect, or more direct information on how to use it better rather than old tales from the Library.
He periodically returns to Florestica to pick up more notes and hints to other possible sites of OldTech.
A week or so before Fujisawa's wedding disaster, he finds something. And, in the usual bumbling manner of the male lead in a harem or semi-harem show, gets some more trouble out of the deal.
Ayup, he wakes up Kalia.
Just ahead of Jinnai? And what about Ifurita's twin? There's possibilities here.
Quote:That is canon.
idea 2) - okay, so he's finally managed to make it. He's back on Earth, Master of the Power Key Staff, and all that jazz, reunited with his Lost Love. Ahem.
Quote:Never under estimate Jinnai..the boy is as hard to squash as a cockroach.
Only things aren't nearly as simple. See, Roshtaria and surrounding countries move forward, and as the Bugrom aren't really much more than an annoyance, and haven't been since The Eye went Berserk at the end of the first OVA series, the inevitable follows. It's merely political unrest, at first, but there is pressure brought on the Royal House to provide stability.
Quote:Lemme guess...
The first step towards that being at least trying to ensure that Roshtaria has some chance at continuing the Royal Line. Unfortunately, with Fatora being how she is, they can't exactly count on her. And Rune is suddenly up to her ears in suitors, while still not wholly recovered from the whole Gallus thing (impressions are misleading).
You see where I'm going with this, no?
Quote:Well, there is the older woman thing after all...
So, in an effort to give her some breathing room, Londs concocts a plan and runs it past her. She hesitantly agrees. They then run it past Makoto. Who is very tempted to run screaming.
Quote:Ping Pong!
After all, who better to ensure prosperity to the country and the Alliance (such as it is nowadays) than the Sage of El-Hazard, whose wisdom and skill prevented the whole world's annihilation and tamed a Demon God? Besides, he's about as apolitical as they come, so he's just about the only candidate the other Alliance nations can agree with, other than the ones they put forward themselves.
Quote:Huh..she's a shotacon eh?
It certainly doesn't help matters for the poor guy that Rune _is_ beautiful, smart, understanding ...
... and she doesn't seem to mind very much either, before 'not minding' turns into genuine, if subtle, enthusiasm.
Oy.
Quote:Then it's a romantic comedy...
Does he manage to recover Ifurita before the wedding? If so, what then?
Or does it happen just after? How would that work out?
then it's a romantic tragedy.
Quote:Easily done....find out if the Islamic law allowing for four legal wives hold true here. If not, discretely apply pressure to the religious authorities that for the sake of stability to allow a dispensation to allow a one time multiple marriage.
And yes, I'm angling for a Ifurita/Makoto/Rune polygon here. Hell, if you find a way to throw Nanami and Shayla in there for good measure, I'll sing you praises.
Of course, you do know that Makato may not survive the honeymoon.
The hard part about number one is that unless Kalia is turned to the Light side of the Force, the events in OVA2 will run its course. If the 2nd Ifurita's master is still alive after that..well and good. If not, what happens then? One of the most-heartbreaking image I remember was the second Ifurita standing guard alone. No one has to spend eternity like that.
Quote:End of OVA1
idea 3) the most open-ended one. The backlash from Ifurita using the Eye of God to skip worlds and even time itself wasn't quite as ... contained ... as it would have been otherwise.
The energies lashed out through the only other outlet, other than the Eye and her, available.
Meaning the Power Key Staff.
Quote:Makoto a Childean mage? It might had been El-Hazard that Fate's mom is trying to get to.
With ends up with Makoto being forced to go on his _own_ Odyssey ... but where'd he get stuck all of a sudden? And ... err ... okay, _why_ are there two preteen girls with staff weapons flying through the sky over there and slinging energy blasts at one-another ...
... more importantly, why the hell is the Staff suddenly speaking to him and calling him the Goshujin-sama in Ifurita's voice?
Makoto being onii-chan to Fate?
Quote:D-hopping trying to get back to the end of OVA1.
Well, on the flip side, once he's settled in and dealt with all the inevitable cases of mistaken identities as well as other fallout, the Time Space Administration Bureau turns out to be just the place to get some headway on dimensional travel.
Two and three sounds good. The problem with 1 is that once Kalia is awakened, the events in OVA2 will run it's course.
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