Infinite Stratos - General Discussion

[dark998]

Originally Posted by asaqe

And PV 3 is out

http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/is/pv/pv03.html

Looks good enough, with fluid battles and nice sound effects. OP is standard Kuribayashi stuff. Thumbs up

[kuroishinigami]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

When the titles have in original material 5 to 7 volumes, the anime adaptation did in 12-13 episodes. If the original titles have original material for more than 7 volumes, it will be scheduled for 24-26 episodes.

That's not what happened in baka to test to shoukanjuu. That is why I'm kinda wary whether they're going to do the same thing here too or not.

[kaizerknight01]

nice PV one of the anime that i am eagerly waiting but cautiously optimistic hopefully the main protagonist is likable

[MeganeShounen]

After watching that PV...

Spoiler:

They seemed to be fighting a silver IS that has no visible pilot (or possibly a very well armored one).
Would that be Silverior/Silver Gospel?

Does that mean they'll stretch the story up to the Silverior Gospel fight and Byaku Shiki's evolution?
(First half of the PV had Houki using a gray trainer IS, while the latter one had her wearing a red one, possibly Akatsubaki.)

That would set things up nicely for a sequel.... except that there's not enough material afterwards...

[RRW]

that one awesome PV. seem it use similar technique that makoto shinkai used

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

When the titles have in original material 5 to 7 volumes, the anime adaptation did in 12-13 episodes. If the original titles have original material for more than 7 volumes, it will be scheduled for 24-26 episodes.

then why did you predict they will have original EP. they can do 12-13 with original 5 volume

either way, Can anyone have brief summary of each 5 novel volume?

[asaqe]

Originally Posted by MeganeShounen

After watching that PV...

Spoiler:

They seemed to be fighting a silver IS that has no visible pilot (or possibly a very well armored one).
Would that be Silverior/Silver Gospel?

Does that mean they'll stretch the story up to the Silverior Gospel fight and Byaku Shiki's evolution?
(First half of the PV had Houki using a gray trainer IS, while the latter one had her wearing a red one, possibly Akatsubaki.)

That would set things up nicely for a sequel.... except that there's not enough material afterwards...

Spoiler for unknown mech:

That is Silverior Gospel

[zephyr325]

Originally Posted by MeganeShounen

After watching that PV...

Spoiler:

They seemed to be fighting a silver IS that has no visible pilot (or possibly a very well armored one).
Would that be Silverior/Silver Gospel?

Does that mean they'll stretch the story up to the Silverior Gospel fight and Byaku Shiki's evolution?
(First half of the PV had Houki using a gray trainer IS, while the latter one had her wearing a red one, possibly Akatsubaki.)

That would set things up nicely for a sequel.... except that there's not enough material afterwards...

Spoiler for .:

Yes, it is Silverio Gospel.

The design, weapons, and the backgrounds all matches the battle with SG in vol.3
(Houki is wielding AkiTsubaki, and Ichika's new weapon is also visible)

[hayate-sama]

OMG the preview look good but the sound seem a bit off to me may be because of the preview quality.

Spoiler for PV:

OMG The girls in the training IS actually do kendo right, the detail they put in the technique is wonderful. FYI the move the girls practice at the beginning called zenshin kotai shomen uchi an actual kendo move that every kendo participants knew, seeing it here make me getting teary eyes all of the sudden is kendo a requirement subject for IS Close combat training in IS academy ?

I have a question here how can the IS go berserk, the silver gospel need a pilot right ? then that mean the pilot of silver gospel went berserk ? Akatsubaki color seem a bit off compare to the picture on the 3rd volume, more like orange than deep red/crimson. BTW akatsubaki mean red camellia if somebody wonder what it mean

Spoiler for question:

Who is the girl kissing ichika at the end of vol 3, silver gospel pilot ?

OP single will be released on Jan 26th while ED single will be out on Feb 9th according to amazon.co.jp, btw has the cover for volume 6 out yet ?

[SoFarGone]

I prefer the OP music in PV 2 but this one was fine too.

[asaqe]

Originally Posted by zephyr325

Spoiler for .:

Yes, it is Silverio Gospel.

The design, weapons, and the backgrounds all matches the battle with SG in vol.3
(Houki is wielding AkiTsubaki, and Ichika's new weapon is also visible)

I noticed that from the novel I got, some of the artwork isn't there, So which ones were that of Lin Yin fanservice?

[ars89]

that preview was awesome

[applejuice]

TAT PREVIEW

If action scene will continue with this quality (+more fan-service), this will definitely get my points.

[MeganeShounen]

Originally Posted by hayate-sama

Spoiler for PV:

I have a question here how can the IS go berserk, the silver gospel need a pilot right ? then that mean the pilot of silver gospel went berserk ? Akatsubaki color seem a bit off compare to the picture on the 3rd volume, more like orange than deep red/crimson. BTW akatsubaki mean red camellia if somebody wonder what it mean

Spoiler:

If I remember correctly and according to what zephyr325 said, the Silverior Gospel is an experimental unmanned IS whose AI has gone berserk.

Whether super IS genius Shinonono Tabane has a hand in the incident, it's not completely sure. Is it?

[hayate-sama]

Originally Posted by MeganeShounen

Spoiler:

If I remember correctly and according to what zephyr325 said, the Silverior Gospel is an experimental unmanned IS whose AI has gone berserk.

Whether super IS genius Shinonono Tabane has a hand in the incident, it's not completely sure. Is it?

Spoiler for But:

as he said the unmanned IS appear in vol 1 while Silver gospel appear in vol 3, if it have a pilot, how can it go berserk ? Valkyrie trace system ?

hello we need you here Zephyr325

[zephyr325]

Originally Posted by MeganeShounen

Spoiler:

If I remember correctly and according to what zephyr325 said, the Silverior Gospel is an experimental unmanned IS whose AI has gone berserk.

Whether super IS genius Shinonono Tabane has a hand in the incident, it's not completely sure. Is it?

Originally Posted by hayate-sama

Spoiler for But:

as he said the unmanned IS appear in vol 1 while Silver gospel appear in vol 3, if it have a pilot, how can it go berserk ? Valkyrie trace system ?

hello we need you here Zephyr325

Spoiler for The cause of SG accident - and the aftermath:

According to the novel, SG was deprived of decision-making ability, and the connection linking it to every other IS's core was severed.
This caused SG to treat every other IS as hostile, and either escaped from, or fought off the oppossing force in order to protect its pilot.
(The oppossing side - basically the rest of the world - probably did not know about this specifics, and treated SG as a rogue IS)

Every IS's core in the world is linked by a special network. By severing the inter-core linkage, Ichika and others were unable to contact SG directly and find out what's wrong with it (and if possible, settle the matter peacefully.)

After the incident, SG was marked as rogue and was put in cryogenic state.
(The core seems intact, but it is unknown if the core met the same fate as the frame, since it is extremely valuable asset.)


Sinonono Tabane is suspected to be involved in this incident, or worse - that she engineered the whole event - since she is the only one in the world with intimate knowledge of IS core.

She knew about Houki's concern - that she was lagging behind in the rivalry among the 5 heroines - and also knew that the most critical reason was absence of her personal IS. (at this point, every other heroines had personal IS)

When Houki contacted Tabane, she had already finished building Houki's personal IS.
(It seems that although Tabane is known as 'missing,' at least two people - Houki and Chihuyu - have means to contact her at any moment.)

Considering the past that she allegedly caused the launch of more than 2 thousands missiles (and destruction of lots of military hardware - including 5 aircraft carriers) just to prove that IS is as powerful as she said, it is also likely that she engineered the whole SG incident just to help Houki get familiar with her new IS. (and also help Houki score some points on the heroines' race to win Ichika)




P.S.
Natasha Files (Philes...?), the pilot of SG, was angered greatly that someone caused her IS to lose its 'wings' (it would never be able to fly again) saying that she would never forgive the one responsible for it.

Natasha appears to be an acquaintance of Chihuyu (probably from past Mondo Grosso.)
This places Chihuyu in somewhat difficult situation, since she is an acquaintance of Natasha(the victim) and also a close friend of Tabane (the culprit)

[ZODDGUTS]

Originally Posted by kuroishinigami

That's not what happened in baka to test to shoukanjuu. That is why I'm kinda wary whether they're going to do the same thing here too or not.

Don't believe what MisaoFan always says. Some of the "facts" he says really isn't.

[tsunade666]

even if the original material had 7 more volumes it won't warrant a 24-26 episode. It's all up to the production of the material or just the staff and studio.

I think this one can range variously from 12-13 to 24-26. It has enough volumes to do so but we should wait and see.

I just saw the preview and it looks awesome.

Btw what's with the glowing claw of ichika in the preview? looks like a hadron canon which never fired and stay only at the claws. Reminded me of other palm/hand strike moves.

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by tsunade666

Btw what's with the glowing claw of ichika in the preview? looks like a hadron canon which never fired and stay only at the claws. Reminded me of other palm/hand strike moves.

Do you even need to ask? It's HISSATSU SHINING FINGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

*shot*

[MeganeShounen]

Spoiler for Byaku Shiki's arm unit:

According to zephyr325's notes in the past pages, it's the Setsura arm unit, which is also the IS's new namesake.

It does invoke some hot blooded headcrushing, doesn't it?

[zephyr325]

Originally Posted by tsunade666

Btw what's with the glowing claw of ichika in the preview? looks like a hadron canon which never fired and stay only at the claws. Reminded me of other palm/hand strike moves.

Spoiler for answer for tsunade666's question:

It's the new 4th Gen. weapon module for Byakku Shiki, acquired after becoming 2nd Form.
Because the 4th Gen. module can configure itself to various roles, it can shift shape to fit the task.

CQC : Energy claw
Med~Long Range : Large caliber charged particle cannon
Defense : Directional energy shield (With Energy-negating attribute)

Provided that the anime would follow the story from novel, there are at least one scene where Ichika shoots particle cannon. It's just not included in the PV.

Spoiler for A new heroine?:

Here's a shot of new member of Ichika Harem.... just kidding. She is Natasha Files, the pilot of Silverio Gospel.
After the incident, she is rescued by Ichika's party and thanks him by giving a peck on his cheek.
(and endangers Ichika's life in the process by getting the other heroines mad)

It seems that the standard for IS pilot also includes physical attractiveness... not a single ugly pilot so far...

There seems to be a mistake in the picture. Rin should not be there since she is on the other bus (she is in a different classroom)
So Laura should be in Rin's place. (Maybe the illustrator liked Rin better)