Re: Gall Force

>Hello:
>	 Mark's journey into Anime continues.  I just rented "Gall
Force:	The
>Eternal Struggle"  and watched about 20-40 minutes of it.  Great space
>combat sequences.  However, I have a few questions that a few of you
>Anime fans might be able to answer.
>	 1.  Why are their only women on these ships?  What happened to
the men?

	This is the race of Solnoids.  I'm not sure how they procreate.

>	 2.  What are these Paranoids, and why are they fighting the
"Amazons
>from Outer Space?"

	The war has been going on for hundreds of years.  I think nobody
can recall how it started.  It might just be that being the onbly two
sentiant races around, they felt they had to obliterate each other.

>	 3.  Is it my imagination, or do the beam weapons of these ships
actualy
>bend and seek there targets.  Either that, or I am mistaking them for
>missiles.

	I had liked the idea that they were beam weapons, and that the
ship's shields could work like a gravity lens and distort the beam.  In
"Gall Force 2: Destruction", they are referred to as missiles.

>	 4.  Why are there so many shower scenes?  Not that I mind a
good shower
>scene ;-)  I just think it's getting rather gratitous seeing these
>cartoon women running around with no clothes on.

	Other than the obvious, a reason to have some nudity, it might
just
be a single-gender-culture thing.

Ironically,  I had just started rewatching Gall Force in english.  Last
night, was GF:3.

Gordon