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SEVEN_SHELLS

                                             May   9, 2007
                                             June 10, 2007

                               SEVEN_NOT_PLUS

When Bassara sings, a
compartment slides
open over the symbolic       It takes some good
mouth of his powered         amplifiers to punch        But actually the
armor.                       through a vacuum, eh?      writers aren't as
                                                        crazy as
When Mylene sings,                                      that... when in
on the front of her                                     vacuum, Bassara
pink powered                                            fires "speaker pods"
armor two round                                         that penetrate
compartments                                            hulls.
open over the         And if you want
symbolic tits.        to end war and                           (Why they aren't
                      stuff, it takes                          blocked/dodged
                      some major                               like regular
                      mammaries.                               missles isn't
                                                               explained.)

                        "Growing emotions are aerodynamic/
                         My charging heart of love..."


             The members of Sound
             Force fly modified                ("Sound Force" is the
             fighters ("Valkyrie"s),           name of the combat
             with flight controls              unit.  The band is
             built-into the necks of           called "Fire Bomber".)
             their guitars

             (Or rather, guitar-like synthesizers).


                 If you watch the opening
                 sequence of the show closely,
                 you can see the way Basarra's     The graphic style
                 body movements translate into     there is very inter-
                 the motion of his Valkyrie:       esting: you see
                                                   Bassara superimposed,
                 He's making the time-honored      floating in front of
                 moves of the rock n' roll         the three storey tall
                 guitar hero -- but instead        armor he's controling.
                 of just dancing for the
                 crowd, he's driving a                I've seen similar
                 spaceship: his guitar neck           approaches taken
                 doubles as a joy-stick.              in manga porn,
                                                      using the tricks
                                                      of blueprint drafting
          (Strange that no                            to get across an
          one ever seems to                           idea -- cut-away
          transduce those                             diagrams of bodies
          moves into sound...                         that show exactly
          why not control                             where those dildos
          your filters with                           are reaching, or
          guitar attitude                             views of a woman
          instead of                                  having sex where the
          foot switches?)                             male body involved
                                                      has become transparent,
                                                      so you can she
                                                      precisely how
                                                      her genitals
                                                      are stretched.


   This is a genre reeking
   of inferority complexes,
   even more so than it's                SUPERHERO
   American counter-parts.

   They think of themselves
   as a "small race", and
   hence fantasize about
   exo-skeletal armor that
   transforms them into
   powerful, dancing giants.

   They hold their own
   "racial background" in
   contempt, and tell            And here we have (yet
   endless tales of big-eyed,    another) giggling,
   blond-haired heroes...        innocent little girl
                                 heroine who seems            (She's supposed
                                 like she's around            to be all of 14.)
                                 eleven years old.

                                                CREEPING_SPEARS

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