Galilei Donna

... Am I the only one who wants to know what happened to Hozuki's pet goldfish? I mean, did they get it to water, or did it just suffocate offscreen?

Anyways, it looks like Origami Dude is our Big Bad whereas Pirate Izaya is the asshole-but-not-really-terribly-evil*

third-party who may or may not team up with the girls in the third act. Dating Catwoman situation with Hazuki is likely. Who wants to start a betting pool?

I'm wondering how the mom got in the state that they did, actually. It doesn't look like her interrogator killed her (or tried to kill her) himself, what with the reaction at the end - hard to get info out of dead people, after all.

If Slimy and Bambi start to date I'm defnitely following this to the end.

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The art and animation are wonderful, but I can't take the plot at all seriously. It might have done better being more comedic. I can't help but compare it to Xam'd: Lost Memories, which is set in a Dieselpunk Constructed World but gave a feel of history and powerful factions from the first episode. Here I can't see anything beyond the immediate requirements of the plot.

One of the reasons why so many police forces were made for Italy was to prevent any one party (id est, the communists) from carrying out a coup d'état if they controlled any one branch of government. The Carabinieri in particular saw themselves as Italy's guardians and made plans to counter-coup alone against all the others. Nowadays the police are not so corrupt, they are mostly known for being ineffective, at least in the north. And tying in with what I said before, it bothered me that in a world where power armour is a possibility, they have no weapons or protocols against them.

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Hence why they're ineffective.

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Rocket launcher?

May or may not be a good choice of weapon indoors.

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Look on the bright side - you stop being indoors as soon as you fire it.

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It depends on how thick the walls are.

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Revolvers were actually the norm for most of the 20th century, at least for American police forces, and are still widely carried by the Japanese police.

Snub-nosed versions where popular for police detectives and others who weren't expected to use them much, if at all. Light weight matters when it's something that gets carried every day, and any discussions of 'stopping power' were mostly academic in the days before widespread drug and gang crime.

edited 18th Oct '13 4:17:38 PM by HighVelocityPointyThings

Episode 2:

• Where did the goldfish go?
• Anna's pretty cool.
• Yikes, a no-nonsense police officer! A corrupt one.
• Kazuki shows off some of her stuff.
• Um...Sylvia looks like she...but how did that happen!?
• Now, the hunt for Galileo's Tesoro begins.

edited 19th Oct '13 1:13:34 AM by Diamite

Soooo, this show is essentially a more fantastical version of National Treasure.

I wonder what is this Galileo's inheritance everyone's determined to get their hands on? Maybe some sorth of unstopbable mecha, or a time machine? Time will tell.

I just love how this anime show that girls can protect themselves just fine :D

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My guess would be some sort of mechanism (probably either a mecha or a way to combine the ones made with the blueprints) with the pieces that were mentioned being the blueprints for different mecha. One of these is likely to be the black Ganymeede from the first episode with the goldfish being another (red Io?).

What about realy big telescope?

since in this anime Galileo invented relativity theory, perhaps another theory ? Grand Unified Theory, Fusion Power, FTL transport, anti-gravity ?

Obviously Galileo's inheritance is genes. Hurr durr.

I get the impression that power armor isn't a possibility, or is at least restricted to military use. Sort of like cops don't normally have access to antitank weapons now.

I really can't decide if this is supposed to be serious or not.

I'm going with semi-serious. No idea where on that scale, though.

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I'm going with maybe Tiger & Bunny levels of seriousness for my first guess. It could go anywhere from G Gundam to Second Raid, though.

I can't help but throw in Baccano, I think it will be on that level.

Well, Baccano! is a weird sort of beast on the silliness-seriousness scale, what with both of them being tied into the whole existentialism thing (that and Gallows Humor). Galilei Donna's more of a straightforward adventure story with acknowledged serious threats and risks (our Big Bad's made it clear that he'll kill thirteen-year-old girls in cold blood), but softened by the heroes'/villains' eccentricities and a general sense of whimsy.

edited 21st Oct '13 8:52:24 AM by Sparkysharps

How about Fumoffu level of seriousness? huehuehuehue

I'm reading this because it's interesting. I think. Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over.

I dunno, now that we've met some of the real villains (because I sincerely doubt that Cap'n Smugwash is going to be anywhere near theirlevel), I see little reason to assume they'll be providing much comedy. Even Evil Roger Smith's origami habit is pretty sinister.

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Today episode wasn't as strong as the previous on but foucs more about the characters.

Hazuki is The Heart of our girls. She's The Smart guy no doubt and that's why I like her. Hozuki is a Child Prodigy due to her amazing talents at building things. Hack she build an AI all by herself. That's impresive. And last and not my favorite, Kazuki. She dosen't believe she's related to Galileio and just want things to return to normal. Maybe she suffer at school due to proclaimed rumor she's a decesented of Galileio. She didn't wish for any of this situation. She clearly wants to be Normal. Anna is the major Fangirl. Its amazing she's admiring Galilelo so much. Is there anything she dosen't know about Galielio?

It appears our girls are now figitives. Congratlations! I wonder if Bounty Hunters will come after them? Depends if there's an award money. Their mom isn't dead? Really? An amnesia? Gosh I hate when they give characters amnesia televison. Its just stupid. I wonder what the music notes on the Moon Sketch means?

edited 24th Oct '13 11:33:58 PM by Watanuki-Kun