Moe trouble

[lordshipmayhem]

("Moe": pronounced "mow-eh": cute and sweet, but utterly unattainable female.)

I've seen up on 4-Chan lots of pics of these kawaii females who are also weapons, in the OS-tan sort of format (for the unfamiliar: my usual userpic is that of the OS-tan Linux-tan. Her outfit is full of symbols. "Tan" is a childish way of pronouncing "chan", hence hyper-cute.) Examples of weapons included the Sherman tank and the Fock-Wolfe (what a cute little wolf's tail it had, too).

And now Gonzo has put them all into a story, Strike Witches. In what can only be a nod to Chuck Yeager (who flew this bird in World War II), Charlotte E. Yeager is a P51D Mustang.

Godelpus.

Comments

[kojiro-san.livejournal.com]

We are not amused. =.= We can also smell the doujin authors already whipping up (and whipping out) horrible, horrible pornoworks of this. I wouldn't be surprised if they started the minute the site went online.

Eeeeegh.

Plus, it's Gonzo. Those guys ruin everything. I'm still not forgiving them for bastardizing FF:U and Hellsing.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Saikano? I'd give that a try if you're willing to gize Gonzo another shot.

(be warned, it's depressing.)

[kojiro-san.livejournal.com]

They did Saikano? Christ it's been so long since I've seen that one that I forgot who did it...either that or I blocked it from my memory for some reason.

Eh.

Okay, so there's an exception to the rule. There may be others I'm not thinking of but I dunno. I put myself out of the loop for some time now.

[mechaboydos.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I've seen tons of those Weapons Girls on 4chan and elsewhere. There are also Mech Girls that are usually dressed up like Gundams, though there are a few from other giant robot shows as well.

I always thought they were cute. >.>

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

Oh, the one-offs on 4-chan are cute mascots...

...the concept of making them into fully-fledged characters in an anime with (hopefully!!) a plot etc. etc. are kowai as well as kawaii.

Of course you KNOW that I just HAVE to see this.

One of the girls is a 1940 French figher that never actually saw combat!! (The VG39... I really had to search through Google to find details on that one...)

[fpelayo.livejournal.com]

Are you sure they ARE the jets, or just have jet parts on their (cyborg?) bodies? The Engrish description says "They install arms in an own body..."

[lordshipmayhem.livejournal.com]

The aircraft in question aren't jets - they're World War II propeller-driven planes.

Two are Zeros, one is a Mustang, a couple are FW-190's, another pair are BF-109's, one is a Spitfire Mark IX, one is a French Arsenal VG-39, plus there's a Russian MiG-60 and an Italian G-55. They're not all concurrent (the VG-39 was lost with the fall of France in 1940 while the Mustang didn't start coming online until 1943), but they're all from World War II.

I think the girls use magic somehow to become mecha musume.