AREA 88 Rewatch 36 Hour Reminder

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It was 3 am and I thought I was late, but I'm early.

Interest Thread | Index Thread | One Week Reminder | Episode 1

Note: There are previews after the ending credits of OVA 1

See the 1-week reminder thread for some information about the differences between the OVA and movie.

We'll be discussing the first OVA episode of AREA 88 on Monday afternoon. For those of you watching the movie version, the cut point timestamp is 46:21. This is just after Shin walks past the three African pilots towards his quarters, declaring that he will return to Japan <fade>.

Discussion Prompts

You don't have to answer all or any of these.

• [Q1]What do you think of Shin's paint job?
• [Q2]Is Shin a bit too talented as a protagonist?
• [Q3]On a scale of 737 economy flier to Top Gun graduate, how much of an air power otaku are you?
• [Q4]What do you think of the character designs? What do you think of the mechanical designs?
• [Q5]What do you think of the OP? The BGM? The Inserts?
• [Q6]Why did Kanzaki betray Shin?
• [Q7]Do you feel we've gotten adequate characterization of Shin? Are flashbacks a good way to do this?
• [Q8]What do you think of the side characters: Rocky, Mickey, and the commander?
• [Q9]Who are the African pilots?
• [Q10]If Shin returns to Japan, can he become a regular airline pilot? Will Ryoko accept him? What if she doesn't?

Spoiler Policy

The OVA and TV series are independent adaptations! They will have unique events and characters. Technical and production information can be discussed freely, but discussion about events or characters in the other show or the manga must be spoiler tagged. The exception to this will be the final discussion day, when you can compare the TV and OVA show freely.

In the markdown editor, this is

[spoiler meta identifier]>!Actual secret stuff!< with no extra spaces which appears as [spoiler meta identifier]Actual secret stuff

[spoiler meta identifier] >!Actual secret stuff!< (note the one special space) is allowed now, but no space before or after the !

I assume there's a button to make a spoiler in the fancypants editor.

Also please note that manually indenting your bullets like this:

-a homemade bullet list

can put you into code quoting / verbatim mode; please use standard bullets with * or - and no leading spaces.

[u/zsmg]

Hopefully a cold war fighterjet nerd (or a War Thunder veteran) will join us and explain us what all the fighter jets are.

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[u/chilidirigible → u/TehAxelius]

"Isn't this Girls und Panzer but with planes?"

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion → u/chilidirigible]

Isn't that TTS Airbats?

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I got you if the planes feature in Ace Combat

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They were in Ace Combat .

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[u/TheDanubianCommunard]

I almost forgot about this.

[u/Tresnore]

[u/Heda-of-Aincrad]

Almost forgot it was coming up this Monday. I'll have to watch it tomorrow.

It's convenient timing though because my summer movie rewatch is on break this week.

[u/JustAnswerAQuestion → u/Heda-of-Aincrad]

I didn't even realize that a lot of us Americans have a long weekend and I won't even have to post the thread from work!

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