Comments on: Rocket Girls: Wandaba Style Reprised

By: Pete Zaitcev

Pete Zaitcev — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:46:45 +0000

Michael, you might want to look up Soyuz TMA, which permits bigger astronauts than Soyuz TM did. It was a not-entirely-trivial redesign. Weight of the crew is not such a big issue for Shuttle, where the cargo payload alone is nearly 25 metric tons to an optimal inclination LEO, but it is an issue elsewhere.

By: omo

omo — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:24:29 +0000

The animation wasn’t horrible; just not exactly “good” I thought.

And yeah, I don’t know where I got 17 from.

Lastly, I don’t buy the smaller astronaut nonsense whatsoever. It just isn’t true.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:47:17 +0000

The picture you have chosen is beautiful, but overall the animation pissies me off to no end, it’s so bad. The art is done with nigh line count across faces and seems like designed for decent animation, but apparently at the final animation stage it became butt-ugly. Improper deformations at turns are the worst.

The 3D scenes in the beginning were horrifying. And, the goddamn inverted helicopter sure was repulsive. It was as if they tested their viewers’ willpower to see through the unbelievably shoddy animation. Fortunately, they eased on that horror a little in ep.4 and 5.

The characters and the story are great and I’m just crying blood in my tears here.

Even the awesome script would not keep me watching after the first episode, but rockets, you know… I have to suck it up.

By: hashihime

hashihime — Tue, 29 May 2007 06:20:53 +0000

Unassuming and excellent, in my opinion. Didn’t try to do too much, but was just funny and, for me, successfully heartful. The story, while not totally believable, was more believable than most anime. And the hard nature of Yukari actually worked for me, by the end.

By: Dave Baranyi

Dave Baranyi — Tue, 29 May 2007 04:49:19 +0000

A small correction – Yukari and Matsuri are both 16 and Akane is 15, according to the official website.

Why teen astronauts? Because all three girls are very, very small and can go into orbit with the smaller boosters. (Which work, whereas the larger booster usually doesn’t.) The three girls weigh between 36 and 38 kilos each.

That is part of the joke right at the beginning when the Project Director tells Yukari that it is a job that a “monkey can do”.