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                                             May   9, 2007
                                             June 10, 2007

                               SEVEN_NOT_PLUS

When Bassara sings, a
compartment slides
open over the symbolic       It takes some good
mouth of his powered         amplifiers to punch        But actually the
armor.                       through a vacuum, eh?      writers aren't as
                                                        crazy as
When Mylene sings, on                                   that... when in
the front of her pink                                   vacuum, Bassara
powered armor two round                                 fires "speaker pods"
compartments open over                                  that penetrate
the symbolic tits.       And if you want to             hulls.
                         end war and stuff,
                         it takes some major                   (Why they aren't
                         mammaries.                            blocked/dodged
                                                               like regular
                                                               missles isn't
                        "Growing emotions are aerodynamic/     explained.)
                         My charging heart of love..."


             The members of Sound
             Force fly modified                ("Sound Force" is the
             fighters ("Valkyrie"s),           name of the combat
             with flight controls              unit.  The band is
             built-into the necks of           called "Fire Bomber".)
             their guitars

             (Or rather, guitar-like synthesizers).


                 If you watch the opening
                 sequence of the show closely,
                 you can see the way Basarra's     The graphic style
                 body movements translate into     there is very inter-
                 the motion of his Valkyrie:       esting: you see
                                                   Bassara superimposed,
                 He's making the time-honored      floating in front of
                 moves of the rock n' roll         the three storey tall
                 guitar hero -- but instead        armor he's controling.
                 of just dancing for the
                 crowd, he's driving a                I've seen similar
                 spaceship: his guitar neck           approaches taken in
                 doubles as a joy-stick.              manga porn.  They use
                                                      the tricks of blueprint
                                                      drafting to get across
          Strange that no                             an idea: cut-away
          one ever seems to                           diagrams of bodies that
          transduce those                             show exactly where those
          moves into sound...                         dildos are reaching, or
          why not control                             views of a woman having
          your filters with                           sex where the male body
          guitar attitude                             involved has become
          instead of                                  transparent, so you can
          foot switches?                              she precisely how her
                                                      genitals are stretched.
          Guitar-therimen    
          hybrids.           
          
          
          
          
   This is a genre reeking
   of inferority complexes,
   even more so than it's                SUPERHERO
   American counter-parts.

   They think of themselves
   as a "small race", and
   hence fantasize about
   exo-skeletal armor that
   transforms them into
   powerful, dancing giants.

   They hold their own
   "racial background" in
   contempt, and tell            And here we have (yet
   endless tales of big-eyed,    another) giggling,
   blond-haired heroes...        innocent little girl
                                 heroine who seems            (She's supposed
                                 like she's around            to be all of 14.)
                                 eleven years old.

                                                CREEPING_SPEARS



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