Galilei Donna

So three sisters and crazy antics involving flying Goldfish and scooter transforming into huge taser.

Somehow It reminded me Baccano, it probably will not be that good, but first episode was close enough.

Galilei Donna

Personal favorite of the season. And possibly the year, the way things've been going

edited 11th Oct '13 7:35:56 PM by Hylarn

Oh come on, don't flatten other shows with just this one. But in mecha genre perspective, this can very well be our second Majestic Prince in the works~ Truly groovy OP, like the first one of Majestic Prince. This has promise indeed.

I don't know what I expected from this, but it certainly wasn't mecha. Happy me is happy.

Very good art and animation, and I liked the goldfish plane. But it could have given a little more context, slipped into the conversations. Though my biggest problem is this idea that being Galileo's descendant means something; if his son Vincenzo carried on his lineage, he could very well have descendants in five orders of magnitude. It jars with the otherwise partway serious story.

And I'm always intrigued by how other countries see Italy. I've seen a few other such shows (Arcana Famiglia, Ristorante Paradiso) and they often get the landscapes just right, and the Italian wrong.

Just watched.

So, I see that Izaya quit the information broker business and became an Italian sky-pirate. I like this already.

Certainly not what I was expecting. A series about three sisters and their fish-mecha doesn't sound that bad to me.

This was a pleasant surprise, but I have to say I'm as interested in HOW the setting came to be this way besides the fact that Mr. Skypirate football fan wants to nab the Galilei sisters.

Episode 1:

The family sure isn't...happy. Lots of animosity in the air.

A cool moment: Hazuki pointing the gun at Mr. Bad Guy, only for him to tell her that it wasn't loaded.

Flying. Goldfish. Mecha.

This anime is weird. I couldn't get the feel of it from the first episode. It caught my interest though.

I'm guessing that, in this world, The Spark of Genius exists (through Galileo, of course) and has the same sort of technological impact on the world as the Whispered do in Full Metal Panic

edited 12th Oct '13 6:10:08 PM by Sparkysharps

It doesn't hurt that both parents of the Ferrari sisters seem to be specialists too — the dad mentioned the lab, and Hazuki did say that her mom was in engineering.

Wait, did Kunitomo Ikkansai have any kids? Because, if so, my headcanon is that the dad is one of his descendants.

Nothing I can find about Ikkansai mentions him getting married. Though this doesn't necessarily mean he didn't have kids, I guess

the written Italian was not incredibly bad - though not really entirely correct either. still, they did their homework with that, so kudos.

Episode 2.

My god...it's a Dan Brown novel. WITH MECHA.

This show definitely holds a lot of promise. It's really really really good...and I can totally imagine it being an absolute flop because that's what happens with these kinds of shows T.T

So, odds on whether the parents are actually dead?

5 cents that they will be turned into battle cyborgs, brainwashed and sent after their kids

Mother...probably. Jury is out on the father. Probably captured at least.

This is WAY more action than I expected, although that's not really bad.

Anne has to shoot someone with her hair at some point, right?

Episode 2. In which there are drills.

It's very impressive to fold that crane out of a paper much smaller than the final product.

So, snubnosed revolvers are the in thing here. Though mainly they've got a short barrel for easier concealment, so I'm not sure why the regular policemen would use them.

Apparently it's rather warm in the cell, if she lies down on the floor like that.

First she sprays him in the face, then clubs him down. Practical girl.

Middle sis is also badass.

Well, that wasn't good.

So, snubnosed revolvers are the in thing here. Though mainly they've got a short barrel for easier concealment, so I'm not sure why the regular policemen would use them.

Because the police, by the evidence so far, are corrupt as fuck. Given the quasi-European setting, I'm not sure policemen are supposed to be packing heat by default.

I'd been assuming it was set in Italy?

Right, but it's far-future Italy, so we don't know the game rules. In modern Italy, the military police (the carabinieri) are armed by default, whilst the regular police aren't (and are also notoriously brutal and corrupt - exacttly the sorts who'd smuggle snubnose revolvers in their uniforms).

the setting is supposed to be a version of Italy, and there cops "pack heat" by default: guns and/or sub-machine guns. obviously, the real thing uses 9mm semi-automatics, not revolvers.

the state police is also armed by default; you may be thinking of the local police (municipal and provincial), who's (generally) not armed.

(yeah, there are a lot of police corps in Italy; I guess it can be classified under [[Irony]])

edited 18th Oct '13 2:38:28 AM by CmdrStriker