On Sat, 1 Jun 1996 deckerd@agcs.com wrote:

> Having now seen Princess Fatora on stage and getting a taste of
> her personality...I'd suggest changing her into a boy and sending
> her to Earth just to learn humility! I certainly wasn't expecting
> her to turn out to be such an unlikable sort.

Maybe that's why she has been absent for most of the series. ^_^
OTOH, having her be likable could actually post a serious problem. It's
kind of weird if Fatora will join the other girls and compete for
Makoto's affection. ^_-

> ....... The way to soften a killer female android/cyborg is
> to give her some experience at a Japanese high school. Share a
> bento box, make a friend!) Still, even though Ifurita was under
> outside control and not responsible for her actions when she
> blew up whole cities and killed thousands of people, I just
> wonder how the good citizens of El-Hazard would react to her
> living in their midst even though supposedly reformed?

Hey, Yoshou has no problem living with Ryouko too. I admit that what
Ryouko did to Jurai was beyond her control. However, one can make a
similar argument for Ifurita, since she was built to be a weapon.
Further more, wasn't Ryouko also a full-time space pirate before she was
under Kagato's control?

> I also wonder how the El-Hazard TV show differs in this regard? I've
> read that Princess Fatora doesn't exist in that continuity (so
> maybe somebody decided the royal impersonation plot was a dead
> end) and Rune Venus is younger (suggesting to me that maybe she
> would be the romantic interest here), but otherwise I don't know
> much about it.

For that, I have to wonder if Pioneer will release El-Hazard TV in the US.
Oh well, they are releasing Tenchi TV, aren't they? Hopefully, they will
do the same with El-Hazard. Nevertheless, I'm a tad uncertain since my
impression tells me that EH isn't as popular as TM in the US.

Later...

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