In real life, she would probably get arrested in any other country she steps into (like, Japan) and shipped off to France . But in anime we don't have to take it so seriously I suppose.
Spoiler for Charlotte:
Well she could just marry Ichika and become a Japanese citizen, Japanese government won't have any problem taking her under their protection as she is a talented IS pilot and Wife of the only man whom can pilot IS and she got alot of information on France IS development . OR they could just stay in the Academy and living as an instructors there.
More question:
Spoiler for Question:
How does the The Flexible work ? and who currently sharing a room with Ichika ? and how does Houki react when she find out that Charlotte is a girl
No one is sharing a room with Ichika now(last volume it was Tatenashi), but Tatenashi sometimes sneak into his room before he return(she somehow master the art of unlocking his room's key :P).
When Charlotte confess that she is a girl in front of the class, the other make a little fuss, but it was soon overshadowed by Laura's force kiss to Ichika, which make him almost lose his life(in comedic way of course:P)
No mention about 3rd shift yet.
Now continuing my summary from page 5
Spoiler for vol 6:
Next scene is Houki's self reflection on her feeling for Ichika. I'll skip that part since it's just the usual tsundere-style self denial.
After that, Ichika return to his room after the hellish interrogation, only to find Tatenashi on his bed. She reminds him about Phantom Task while teasing him to be a good enough man she can fall in love into. Ichika doesn't believe that(he can't think what kind of man can match Tatenashi's perfect quality), but Tatenashi said she will give tickling hell until she believe that she can fall in love to a normal man. The scene end when Charlotte interrupt before Tatenashi can tickle Ichika(which Ichika really afraid, not because it make him laugh so hard, but also because when Tatenashi tickle him, he can feel her voluptous breast and thigh XD).
Next, it's Charlotte making a promise with Ichika to shop on the weekend to buy his birthday present. Rin interrupted and ask Ichika to let her to join their date. Ichika densely agree with Rin's idea and say the more the merrier. Charlotte get a little upset since she want it to be a date for just the two of them, but Ichika, being the harem lead that he is, manage to make her run in embarrassment by lightly pinching Charlotte's cheek when she's pouting(which he thing was very cute).
Charlotte run back to her room, only to find Tatenashi already invade her room and tease Laura happily(Laura on the other hand, doesn't like her at all). She leaves after giving a tickling hell to Laura(Laura try to fight back, even using a knife to seriously try to stab Tatenashi, but Tatenashi easily avoid it XD).
That's the end of chapter one. Will continue with chapter two next time. Sorry if the wording is too confusing, I'm not used to writing summary XD
No one is sharing a room with Ichika now(last volume it was Tatenashi), but Tatenashi sometimes sneak into his room before he return(she somehow master the art of unlocking his room's key :P).
When Charlotte confess that she is a girl in front of the class, the other make a little fuss, but it was soon overshadowed by Laura's force kiss to Ichika, which make him almost lose his life(in comedic way of course:P)
No mention about 3rd shift yet.
Now continuing my summary from page 5
Spoiler for vol 6:
Next scene is Houki's self reflection on her feeling for Ichika. I'll skip that part since it's just the usual tsundere-style self denial.
After that, Ichika return to his room after the hellish interrogation, only to find Tatenashi on his bed. She reminds him about Phantom Task while teasing him to be a good enough man she can fall in love into. Ichika doesn't believe that(he can't think what kind of man can match Tatenashi's perfect quality), but Tatenashi said she will give tickling hell until she believe that she can fall in love to a normal man. The scene end when Charlotte interrupt before Tatenashi can tickle Ichika(which Ichika really afraid, not because it make him laugh so hard, but also because when Tatenashi tickle him, he can feel her voluptous breast and thigh XD).
Next, it's Charlotte making a promise with Ichika to shop on the weekend to buy his birthday present. Rin interrupted and ask Ichika to let her to join their date. Ichika densely agree with Rin's idea and say the more the merrier. Charlotte get a little upset since she want it to be a date for just the two of them, but Ichika, being the harem lead that he is, manage to make her run in embarrassment by lightly pinching Charlotte's cheek when she's pouting(which he thing was very cute).
Charlotte run back to her room, only to find Tatenashi already invade her room and tease Laura happily(Laura on the other hand, doesn't like her at all). She leaves after giving a tickling hell to Laura(Laura try to fight back, even using a knife to seriously try to stab Tatenashi, but Tatenashi easily avoid it XD).
That's the end of chapter one. Will continue with chapter two next time. Sorry if the wording is too confusing, I'm not used to writing summary XD
Thanks, now a details summary of the time when ichka and tatenashisharing the room would be perfect.
How does the The Flexible work ? and who currently sharing a room with Ichika ? and how does Houki react when she find out that Charlotte is a girl
Is 3rd Shift Possible
1. The Flexible
Spoiler for Answer:
Simply put, the pilot can bend the beams fired from BT weapons with her will.
Think of it as something like beams bouncing off reflector bits, then think again, this time removing the reflector bits from the equation with the beams still being reflected.
2. Ichika's Roommate
Spoiler for Answer:
After Tatenashi moved out, there is no roommate for Ichika currently.
There has been some kind of competition to become Ichika's roommate, since a number of girls have already been in that position
(Houki, Charlotte, Tatenashi)
But it kind of waned down after a new rule for boarding facility was set up, which was 'no woman is allowed to stay overnight in Ichika's room
3. Houki's reaction
Spoiler for Answer:
Well, Houki was emotionally overwhelmed at that moment to show any significant reaction.
After the tournament was suspended, Ichika told her that he would accept her proposal 'to go out with me,' which was what he agreed to do if Houki won the tournament.
(Houki meant 'go out with her' as relationship, while Ichika understood the term as simply 'going someplace with her.' The original Japanese expression could be misleading depending on how you interpret it.)
Since the tournament was suspended after the incident involving Valkyrie Trace System going berserk, Houki gave up on the proposal since she couldn't win the tournament
(And she was paired with Laura and was defeated by Ichika/Charlotte pair)
When Charlotte announced her true gender in the classroom, Rinn rushed from her classroom and demanded an explanation, all the while trying to kill(?) Ichika. Her blow was blocked by Laura who intervened... And Laura decleared Ichika to be her 'bride' and kissed him.
That in turn infuriated Cecilia who began to snipe him with BT, and Charlotte joins forces to hunt down Ichika....
While all that was happening, there is no mentioning of Houki... she was probably busy inside her head to organize her thought, that Ichika actually asked her out.
4. 3rd Form...?
Spoiler for Answer:
The LN doesn't say it's not possible, but so far there is no mentioning of 3rd Shift and 3rd Form.
I'd say reaching 2nd Form is difficult enough for most pilots and ISs...
Simply put, the pilot can bend the beams fired from BT weapons with her will.
Think of it as something like beams bouncing off reflector bits, then think again, this time removing the reflector bits from the equation with the beams still being reflected.
2. Ichika's Roommate
Spoiler for Answer:
After Tatenashi moved out, there is no roommate for Ichika currently.
There has been some kind of competition to become Ichika's roommate, since a number of girls have already been in that position
(Houki, Charlotte, Tatenashi)
But it kind of waned down after a new rule for boarding facility was set up, which was 'no woman is allowed to stay overnight in Ichika's room
3. Houki's reaction
Spoiler for Answer:
Well, Houki was emotionally overwhelmed at that moment to show any significant reaction.
After the tournament was suspended, Ichika told her that he would accept her proposal 'to go out with me,' which was what he agreed to do if Houki won the tournament.
(Houki meant 'go out with her' as relationship, while Ichika understood the term as simply 'going someplace with her.' The original Japanese expression could be misleading depending on how you interpret it.)
Since the tournament was suspended after the incident involving Valkyrie Trace System going berserk, Houki gave up on the proposal since she couldn't win the tournament
(And she was paired with Laura and was defeated by Ichika/Charlotte pair)
When Charlotte announced her true gender in the classroom, Rinn rushed from her classroom and demanded an explanation, all the while trying to kill(?) Ichika. Her blow was blocked by Laura who intervened... And Laura decleared Ichika to be her 'bride' and kissed him.
That in turn infuriated Cecilia who began to snipe him with BT, and Charlotte joins forces to hunt down Ichika....
While all that was happening, there is no mentioning of Houki... she was probably busy inside her head to organize her thought, that Ichika actually asked her out.
4. 3rd Form...?
Spoiler for Answer:
The LN doesn't say it's not possible, but so far there is no mentioning of 3rd Shift and 3rd Form.
I'd say reaching 2nd Form is difficult enough for most pilots and ISs...
I guess that maybe Rinin will get a focus next volume. Remember that "topless" Rinin moment I posted a while back? It may happen soon enough
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so who are roommates for the girls then? Or does that even matter?
Charlotte and Laura shares a room, Houki's roommate is... forget her name, she's a minor character that sometimes get mentioned once in a while. Rin's roommate is also a minor character. Cecilia, I think doesn't share her room with anyone, since she modify her room to her standard :P
As for when Ichika shares a room with Tatenashi, she always tease him a lot that make him feels really tired every time he open his room door and Tatenashi wait on the doorstep wearing hadaka apron(actually she wears a bikini swimsuit underneath, but it's not visible from the front :P) and ask the question of a housewife(which one do you want first? Dinner, bath, or me? She's just such a tease XD).
People seem to change roommates a lot in this story. Come to think of it, to begin with, having a guy and a girl be roommates is pretty far out there. This happens regularly in college when people rent an apartment together, even if they're not a couple, but in a highschool dorm? I don't think so. Him getting a double room to himself right from the start would be far more plausible (but also boring I suppose).
Charlotte and Laura shares a room, Houki's roommate is... forget her name, she's a minor character that sometimes get mentioned once in a while. Rin's roommate is also a minor character. Cecilia, I think doesn't share her room with anyone, since she modify her room to her standard :P
As for when Ichika shares a room with Tatenashi, she always tease him a lot that make him feels really tired every time he open his room door and Tatenashi wait on the doorstep wearing hadaka apron(actually she wears a bikini swimsuit underneath, but it's not visible from the front :P) and ask the question of a housewife(which one do you want first? Dinner, bath, or me? She's just such a tease XD).
wait... wasnt houki his roommate? and who is tatenashi? SPOILS. PLZ.
wait... wasnt houki his roommate? and who is tatenashi? SPOILS. PLZ.
roommates change due to circumstance. Ichika was with houki until they moved Charles into his room. when it was revealed Charles is actually Charlotte they moved again, and Ichika eventually got tatenashi who is assigned as his "bodyguard " due to ichika being targeted by the bad guys. tatenashi was assigned because she is the student council president and arguably the best student IS pilot, she is so good the Russians made her their representative and give her their new IS.
though as of vol6 ichika is the vice-president of student council and is by himself in a room again.
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1. what are each of the girls personalities like, and how do they change with Ichika?
2.who are you top favorite 3 girls and why?
1
Spoiler for In a general sense:
If you dig into their history, all 5 girls have somewhat gloomy past, some of the more than others.
And All 5 heroines seem to be suffering from some kind of problem when it comes to relation between them and Ichika.
Some of the problems are as follows;
- Lack of social skills toward boys of similar age
- Simple lack of courage
- Excessive Tsundere attribute.
- Other reasons
Houki : Severe Lack of Social skill + Stern personality
Rinn : Excessive Tsundere attribute + Complex toward her physical appearance.
(Mainly her breast size)
Cecilia : Moderate lack of social skill + Pride as a member of noble family
Charlotte : Moderate lack of courage + Occasional interference from author
(The author's interference was meant as a joke)
Laura : Complete lack of social skill※
(In Laura's case, her weakness could be a plus depending on situation, since she is less likely to be embarrassed - she didn't hesitate to kiss Ichika in a classroom full of students)
※Currently in a process of overcoming the problem, with Charlotte's help. But that means as she learn, the plus side would go away first.
I also added somewhat detailed background information (including the contents that are going be covered in Anime soon) trying to explain the reason for each girl's particular personality.
- Houki -
Spoiler for About Houki:
She has external appearance of typical yamato nadesico, being a miko and all...
(Her family used to run Shinonono Shrine, and was also leading a unique swordsmanship technique - which is obviously called Shinonono-style sword technique)
So basically her personality is of discipline and temperateness.
But because of she was raised as such, she had hard time socializing with other kids (other boys made fun of her for being boyish) so she had virtually no friends, except for Ichika who thought of her as cute girl and helped her out by chasing those boys away whenever she was being mocked.
She also has some serious emotional problem, not being able to suppress her temper and often resulting to violence.
She learned Kendo for self control, but it doesn't seem effective so far.
For an example, before IS was introduced (when she and Ichika was learning Kendo together) she proposed that she and Ichika go on a date if she won the national Kendo tournament. But right before the day of finals, the world was shocked by the 'White Knight Incident' and the Japanese government issued a special directive to protect Shinonono Tabane and her family, which included Houki as well.
Unlike 'witness protection program,' Shinonono family retained their identity, and that meant heavier security measures such as moving them around almost constantly and regulating outside contact.
For this reason she couldn’t be at the tournament so it was an automatic forfeit, and that's when she began to hate her sister, Tabane, for causing all this - especially ruining her chance to meet Ichika.
All outgoing and incoming contacts was monitored and regulated, so there was no way Ichika - an ordinary boy that time - could contact Houki, and she was unable to contact Ichika either since the Japanese government couldn't risk a nobody like Ichika to obtain information regarding whereabouts of her.
As a result, she begins to put more time in Kendo, which was the only connection she thought she had left with Ichika. But at the same time, Kendo became an outlet for her to vent her frustration - by bashing opponents - which she realized after winning a national tournament. (This is the event mentioned in Anime - a year before their reunion)
While watching the other girl crying for losing at the tournament, she began to think that she might have crushed her - and many other competitor's - dream just so she could vent her anger. She felt self-hatred. She decided that what she had now was not a true strength, but just violence and remembered that Ichika was strong while being true to his ethical integrity, viewing it as a true strength.
With becoming strong like Ichika as her personal goal, she entered IS Academy. Although she succeeded in reuniting with Ichika, she still has that anger control problem.
(Apparently she has quite low aptitude score for an IS pilot, a 'C.' It's very likely that her status being Tabane's sister played a major role in her getting accepted.)
-Cecilia-
Spoiler for About Cecilia:
Cecilia is from a noble family in Britain, so her basic personality is as stereotypical as it could get - confident and proud.
She also appear as being somewhat charismatic since she managed to maintain her family mostly by herself after losing both parents to an accident at such a young age.
(She was 12~13 years old when the accident occurred)
Her mother was a prominent member of her family, being very active not only inside the house, but among society as well.
Being quite an influential character even before the introduction of IS, she became even more active after the event.
Cecilia's father, on the contrary, was insignificant person and had virtually no active role both inside and outside the house. Became a member of her family following the marriage was one of the main reason.
As such, Cecilia grew up viewing her father as the exact opposite of the role model for a perfect man - a man she should marry. The introduction of IS caused virtually all men around her to become like her father - submissive with diminished will-power.
After confronting Ichika who didn't cower from her challenge, she saw what she was looking for in his eyes - a strong-willed, dependable man.
- Rinn -
Spoiler for About Rinn:
Rinn is also Ichika's childhood buddy, just like Houki, but unlike Houki, Rinn had less problem socializing with others due to her active, mischievous personality.
She was, however, discriminated by others due to her nationality, which led to her frustration. Just like in case of Houki, Ichika often helped her out when she was being mocked.
In fact, she is the first girl to propose to Ichika, and actually keep it. The only problem is that Ichika seriously misinterpreted her propose "When I become good at cooking, I'll cook for you every day." What she actually meant was; "When I become good at cooking, I'll be your girlfriend/wife and cook for you every day."
But Ichika, thinking it as an offer to feed him without charge, did not seriously think about this matter.
Due to her active personality, she seems to get along well with her classmates in IS Academy, since more than half of students are foreigner (from Japanese point of view) and she doesn't have to worry about her nationality.
Her main worry is that she has knowledge of her lack of visual (physical?) attractiveness (mainly the size of her breast) and possesses some complex regarding this matter.
(The word 'flat-chested' is her berserk button)
Also, her parents who seemed to get along quite well in the past (while they were running a Chinese restaurant in Japan) are separated as of now, which cause her to be somewhat gloomy whenever she think about them or her country, where they are located now.
- Charlotte -
Spoiler for About Charlotte:
Charlotte is perhaps the only girl with the least 'Tsundere' attribute, since her basic personality is that of kind, understanding and caring girl.
Ichika views her as the kindest girl among the 5, even going as far as describing her smile as 'The smile of Angel/Goddess'
The only problem is that Charlotte, even when angry, tends to keep this facial expression (with addition of the usual protruding blood vein mark) which he refers to 'The smile of Angel of Death')
She was born as a daughter of mistress to CEO of Dunoa Industry, the largest IS-production and Development Corporation in France.
Here presence wasn't noticed by Dunoa family, even to CEO himself, until Charlotte came to him after her mother died and left a letter explaining her ties to him.
Being an 'unwanted daughter' to Dunoa family, she was constantly mistreated and abused by them.
When she was found out to have a great aptitude for IS piloting, the CEO thought of a plan to keep his company afloat, which was being pressured hard for not showing much progress in development of 3rd Gen. IS.
Unlike other powerful European nations, France did not join EU and was in turn forced to develop a 3rd Gen. IS all by itself, and the burden fell heavily on Dunoa Industry.
When the company continuously failed to show any viable result, the French government considered pulling its privilege - a license to develop and produce IS - which even made CEO more frantic about the matter.
Unable to produce satisfactory result, the CEO decides to obtain the data from elsewhere, and faked Charlotte's gender. Believing Charlotte to be the world's 2nd male IS pilot, the French government chose her as one of representative candidate, and sent her to IS Academy. According to Dunoa's plan, Charlotte was to get close to Ichika (This part was no problem since Charlotte (under the alias of 'Charles') and Ichika were the only 'male' in the Academy and would naturally be assigned same room.) and steal important data from his IS, Byakku Shiki, which was viewed as the newest 3rd Gen. IS at that time.
It didn't take long for Ichika to find out that Charlotte was in fact a girl, but after hearing her story, Ichika became furious of her 'parents' and decided to help her out, planning to think of a solution for her situation in next 3 years.
(Ichika's reaction to her story might be related to his own situation, since he was abandoned by his parents)
- Laura -
Spoiler for About Laura:
Laura possesses the darkest past of all 5 heroines, since she was a test-tube baby originally created to become a weapon.
She was a part of Germany's uber-soldier project, creating a perfect combatant.
As such, she was educated with only what was needed to make her an excellent soldier; all the while being ignorant to stuff she would have learned as a normal child.
She was educated with just enough social skills to be able to function as a soldier, which was clearly nowhere near enough to become a normal girl.
She excelled at all military training she received, and maintained the top rank until the introduction of IS.
With IS thrown into the equation, the project faced a heavy obstacle, since their subject (mainly Laura) was tuned for conventional warfare and the factor of IS was never calculated.
They decide to retune Laura by replacing her left eye with artificial one, a miniature (and heavily down-graded in order to fit into human body) of Hyper-sensor package.
With it, she was supposedly to have boost in her sensory system, even when not enhanced by IS. Coupled with IS, this was to function as an additional conduit to enhance her response is IS piloting, resulting in a huge efficiency boost in IS operation.
The experiment, however, ended in a partial failure as the new eye installed malfunctioned and couldn’t be turned off when needed (she couldn't turn it off even if she wanted to) and as a result, Laura's performance not only as a IS pilot but as a soldier began to deteriorate.
Being raised with the sole purpose of being an excellent soldier, she was devastated when she couldn't keep up with other IS pilots, who began to treat Laura as a defect and not as a comrade.
This is when Laura first met Chihuyu, who agreed to become a temporary IS instructor in German military. To Laura, Chihuyu appeared to be the ultimate goal that she should pursuit, and with Chihuyu's help, Laura was able to recover and retake the top rank in her unit.
From that point on, Laura developed a fanatical admiration toward Chihuyu, to the point of almost being worship.
So when Ichika was kidnapped and Chihuyu lost chance to win a 2nd Mondo Grosso, Laura viewed his existence itself to be a disgrace to Chihuyu's fame, and therefore unacceptable.
When Laura asked Chihuyu about Ichika, Chihuyu told her about what is like having a brother, and warned Laura about the strange influence her brother has toward others, telling Laura that she'd be careful when meeting him; otherwise she might fall in love with him.
She couldn't understand what Chihuyu meant at that time, but...
2.
Spoiler for possible spoiler:
Um, my favorite...? Gee, that's kinda hard to say. Somehow, I like all the heroines appearing in this work, (including Ran and Tatenashi...) although I usually tend to draw line between heroines from other harem genre, (the likeable ones and not so attractive ones)
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Originally Posted by kuroishinigami
Charlotte and Laura shares a room, Houki's roommate is... forget her name, she's a minor character that sometimes get mentioned once in a while. Rin's roommate is also a minor character. Cecilia, I think doesn't share her room with anyone, since she modify her room to her standard :P
As for when Ichika shares a room with Tatenashi, she always tease him a lot that make him feels really tired every time he open his room door and Tatenashi wait on the doorstep wearing hadaka apron(actually she wears a bikini swimsuit underneath, but it's not visible from the front :P) and ask the question of a housewife(which one do you want first? Dinner, bath, or me? She's just such a tease XD).
Spoiler for A thought about roommate...:
In fact, Laura is slowly being educated by Charlotte about 'what normal girls are like' lesson. In that sense, she is very fortunate to have Charlotte as roommate.
If I remember correctly, Houki's roommate is not mentioned in any detail, just enough to explain that she has a roommate.
Rinn's roommate is also treated as minor character, but at least she has a name (First name is Tina) and that she loves snacks.
Oh, and I'm worried the similarity between Tatenashi and Sango. (From Kampfer)
They are both president of student council, and are charismatic, overly capable, cool-headed and love to tease main characters...
In kampfer, that kind of situation result in Seno believing that Sango has no interest in him whatsoever, and just likes to tease him for fun.
And in both works, the main characters don't consider them as possible girlfriend candidate because they are too capable...
Well, I hope Ichika fairs better than Seno... (Fortunately, he has much more backbone than the other guy)
wait... wasnt houki his roommate? and who is tatenashi? SPOILS. PLZ.
Here is the answer for who were Ichika's roommate and how it happened.
Spoiler for The list of Ichika's roommates:
Houki was Ichika's roommate at the beginning, as Japanese government wanted to put him inside IS Academy as soon as possible, for safety reason.
Since the modification in dormitary (to accomodate Ichika) was not complete, Ichika ended up as Houki's roommate
(I believe that it was randomly selected, or Houki was the only one without roommate at that time)
But as the room accomodation problem is solved a little after a month, she is assigned to another room at the end of Vol.1
(That would be either at the end of EP03 or EP04 in anime, depending on story allotment)
Then Charlotte is transferred, and being another 'boy,' she is assigned as Ichika's new roommate.
Following the Grade Tournament, (which was hastely reconfigured as 2 VS 2 format) Charlotte's real gender is known to Academy and she too is relocated to another room.
(She becomes Laura's roommate, and that would be end of Vol.2 which is roughly the end of EP6~EP8 in anime, depending on story allotment)
So Ichika spends some time without a roommate(throughout summer) until Tatenashi appears before him and becomes his new roommate at the beginning of new semester.
(The anime this time would end before the new semester begins)
And here's some info about Tatenashi.
Spoiler for Tatenashi Sarashiki:
The character above is Tatenashi Sarashiki.
Unfortunately, she won't be featured in Anime this time, since she first appears from Vol.5
I'd think that they would put a scene in the epilogue of EP12 briefly hinting her appearance in hopefully upcoming 2nd season.
(Some action by her would be great, but I think a full face shot or even just a silhouette might be possible)
She is a 2nd grade student in IS Academy.
(Since it is treated like high-school, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades in IS Academy is equivalent to 10th, 11th, and 12th grades in highschool - the junior-high school would also have 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades, with 3rd being equivalent to 9th grade of highschool)
Although there are many 3rd grades students, she holds the title of the president of student council in IS Academy. The basic rule in Academy is that the strongest student takes the position, meaning Tatenashi is currently the strongest student.
And she is strong...
Ichika was able to hold about 10 mins against Houki.
Laura, being a combat speciallist with ample live-combat experience, can overpower Houki.
And Laura is no match for Tatenashi...
When Ichika had a match with Tatenashi (martial arts) he got his ass kicked.
(He stopped counting from 16th hit while recieving her combo because he lost consciousness.)
She later turns out to be Russian representative IS pilot.
(Remember that most heroines are representative candidate.)
She is also the 17th generation leader of Sarashiki family, a secret organization fighting the Phantom Task (this is the evil organization) from below the surface.
Using her power of the president of the student council, she assign herself as Ichika's roommate, but with a good reason.
After being notified of imminent threat to Ichika (and his IS), she puts herself in a position to protect him all the time. (hence the roommate setting)
When the threat is gone, (at least temporarily) she returns to her own room again, but occasionally visits Ichika's room unannounced.
(She apparantly mastered the way to pick his room door)
She appear as a care-free and mischievous character, (while being immensly strong) and Ichika views her as just that - mischievous and uncomfortable person who seemingly enjoys teasing him.
(Since Ichika tends to be overly polite to person senior to him - especially toward girl, even if she is just a year older than him - he has hard time coping with her.)
Ichika considers her to be way out of his league, but she appears to have some feeling toward him.
Spoiler for Charlotte from EP01!!:
Oh, and about the anime... I'd say the CG is quite good.
Here is a bonus for Charlotte, the only girl who didn't get a shot for herself in OP.
(Houki, Cecilia, Rinn got their introductory scenes in OP, and even Laura got a brief scene for herself...)
This is an answer for a question from anime thread, as to:
'How does one equip an IS?'
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Depending on the mode IS is configured, there are largely 2 ways to do it.
1. Non-personal IS. (Mainly trainer vehicles)
Spoiler for 1:
Since the IS in this setting is not stored in a data format inside the core while in Closed Form, the method of equipping it is much similar to wearing an armor.
The front armor plates (chest parts) open outward, and the pilot simply walk backward into it.
The only problem is that since IS, while in a standing position, is taller than average human, the cockpit area can't be reached if the IS was deactivated in a standing position.
To prevent this situation, the basic rule for deactivating IS in this setting is crouch first before deactivating it.
There is an episode about this matter, causing Ichika (with his IS) to carry other student in his arms and hover near the cockpit area of a deactivated IS (roughly 1m above ground) so the girl could get into cockpit and activate it.
This is when Ichika does what is called 'The Princess Hug,' something that the girls view as special treatment.
(And the girl, under silent pressure from others, deactivates the IS in standing position - against Ichika's saying - so the special treatment is furthered to others in line)
2. Personal IS for Designated IS Pilot.
Spoiler for 2:
Personal IS, which is configured to be stored as a data format while in Closed Form, is quite different when it comes to euipping(Call-up) it.
Since the data is stored inside core, when the pilot commands a call-up of IS, it is instantly converted into physical structure, meaning as the command is executed, the IS manifests itself, already worn by the pilot.
The Release of it is same as call-up, and the IS is reverted back into data format.
In Personal IS setting, the IS appears in a form of accessory while in Closed Form.
An example of IS Call-up is featured at the end of anime OP, where Ichika jumps off the cliff and calls his IS up.
Since most of the major characters would have their Personal IS, you would mostly be seeing it this way.
In fact, Laura is slowly being educated by Charlotte about 'what normal girls are like' lesson. In that sense, she is very fortunate to have Charlotte as roommate.
If I remember correctly, Houki's roommate is not mentioned in any detail, just enough to explain that she has a roommate.
Rinn's roommate is also treated as minor character, but at least she has a name (First name is Tina) and that she loves snacks.
Oh, and I'm worried the similarity between Tatenashi and Sango. (From Kampfer)
They are both president of student council, and are charismatic, overly capable, cool-headed and love to tease main characters...
In kampfer, that kind of situation result in Seno believing that Sango has no interest in him whatsoever, and just likes to tease him for fun.
And in both works, the main characters don't consider them as possible girlfriend candidate because they are too capable...
Well, I hope Ichika fairs better than Seno... (Fortunately, he has much more backbone than the other guy)
Spoiler for roomate:
Houki's roommate get a name in vol 6. Let me check...Her name is Takazuki Shizune. She's a very serious person, but like to read American comedy book. She also has a little interest in Ichika, like other girls in IS Academy, and seems used to Houki's antic(suddenly screaming because she remember something about Ichika :P)
Spoiler for Tatenashi:
Well, unlike Sango, Tatenashi's feeling on Ichika is not that clear yet(it's close to that of older sister/younger brother, but a little closer) while Sango clearly(to readers at least) attracted to Senou as opposite gender. While Tatenashi seems too perfect right now, latest volume reveal a character that seems to be a level above her, so maybe the time will come where Ichika has to team up or save her next
Spoiler for Rinin:
What Rin said about feeding Ichika is more specific than feeding him. Rin said that when she gets good at cooking, she will cook him Sweet and Sour Pork(which the light novel interpret this as the Chinese way to say "I want to cook miso soup for you", A japanese girl use this to propose to a boy since miso soup is what everyone eat everyday in Japan, and the wife usually cook this for their husband. I''ve never heard that Chinese people eat Sweet and Sour Pork everyday though :P)
Spoiler for Laura:
Again, just to clarify a few other thing, what Chifuyu said to Laura was that Ichika is strong, stronger than even her. Laura didn't understand at that time because she thought that no one could be stronger than Chifuyu, but what Chifuyu meant wasn't Ichika's strength at fighting or IS piloting, but his strength to attract people around him, which Laura experience firsthand after fighting him.
Last edited by kuroishinigami; 2011-01-11 at 09:35.
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Here is the answer for who were Ichika's roommate and how it happened.
Spoiler for The list of Ichika's roommates:
Houki was Ichika's roommate at the beginning, as Japanese government wanted to put him inside IS Academy as soon as possible, for safety reason.
Since the modification in dormitary (to accomodate Ichika) was not complete, Ichika ended up as Houki's roommate
(I believe that it was randomly selected, or Houki was the only one without roommate at that time)
But as the room accomodation problem is solved a little after a month, she is assigned to another room at the end of Vol.1
(That would be either at the end of EP03 or EP04 in anime, depending on story allotment)
Then Charlotte is transferred, and being another 'boy,' she is assigned as Ichika's new roommate.
Following the Grade Tournament, (which was hastely reconfigured as 2 VS 2 format) Charlotte's real gender is known to Academy and she too is relocated to another room.
(She becomes Laura's roommate, and that would be end of Vol.2 which is roughly the end of EP6~EP8 in anime, depending on story allotment)
So Ichika spends some time without a roommate(throughout summer) until Tatenashi appears before him and becomes his new roommate at the beginning of new semester.
(The anime this time would end before the new semester begins)
And here's some info about Tatenashi.
Spoiler for Tatenashi Sarashiki:
The character above is Tatenashi Sarashiki.
Unfortunately, she won't be featured in Anime this time, since she first appears from Vol.5
I'd think that they would put a scene in the epilogue of EP12 briefly hinting her appearance in hopefully upcoming 2nd season.
(Some action by her would be great, but I think a full face shot or even just a silhouette might be possible)
She is a 2nd grade student in IS Academy.
(Since it is treated like high-school, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades in IS Academy is equivalent to 10th, 11th, and 12th grades in highschool - the junior-high school would also have 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades, with 3rd being equivalent to 9th grade of highschool)
Although there are many 3rd grades students, she holds the title of the president of student council in IS Academy. The basic rule in Academy is that the strongest student takes the position, meaning Tatenashi is currently the strongest student.
And she is strong...
Ichika was able to hold about 10 mins against Houki.
Laura, being a combat speciallist with ample live-combat experience, can overpower Houki.
And Laura is no match for Tatenashi...
When Ichika had a match with Tatenashi (martial arts) he got his ass kicked.
(He stopped counting from 16th hit while recieving her combo because he lost consciousness.)
She later turns out to be Russian representative IS pilot.
(Remember that most heroines are representative candidate.)
She is also the 17th generation leader of Sarashiki family, a secret organization fighting the Phantom Task (this is the evil organization) from below the surface.
Using her power of the president of the student council, she assign herself as Ichika's roommate, but with a good reason.
After being notified of imminent threat to Ichika (and his IS), she puts herself in a position to protect him all the time. (hence the roommate setting)
When the threat is gone, (at least temporarily) she returns to her own room again, but occasionally visits Ichika's room unannounced.
(She apparantly mastered the way to pick his room door)
She appear as a care-free and mischievous character, (while being immensly strong) and Ichika views her as just that - mischievous and uncomfortable person who seemingly enjoys teasing him.
(Since Ichika tends to be overly polite to person senior to him - especially toward girl, even if she is just a year older than him - he has hard time coping with her.)
Ichika considers her to be way out of his league, but she appears to have some feeling toward him.
Spoiler for Charlotte from EP01!!:
Oh, and about the anime... I'd say the CG is quite good.
Here is a bonus for Charlotte, the only girl who didn't get a shot for herself in OP.
(Houki, Cecilia, Rinn got their introductory scenes in OP, and even Laura got a brief scene for herself...)
So in other words, Tatenashi is pretty much like Shizuku (from Kampfer)
So in other words, Tatenashi is pretty much like Shizuku (from Kampfer)
Spoiler for Tatenashi and Sango:
There's a few difference between Tatenashi and Shizuku. Unlike Shizuku, Tatenashi is very expressive. She's also very friendly toward other, even go so far to visit Laura's room(Laura hate her because of jealousy :P) only to tease her and give her a tickling hell.
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Originally Posted by kuroishinigami
Spoiler for Tatenashi and Sango:
There's a few difference between Tatenashi and Shizuku. Unlike Shizuku, Tatenashi is very expressive. She's also very friendly toward other, even go so far to visit Laura's room(Laura hate her because of jealousy :P) only to tease her and give her a tickling hell.
THanks for clearing it up.
Since Rinin and Ichika were also Osana Najimi, does that mean that Houki and Rinin know each other or did they become Ichika's friends from different points in time?