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33 years ago, humanity realized it was not alone in the universe - a opens in the Antarctic, through which a mysterious alien force known as the JAM launch a swift and massive attack. In response, the launched a massive counter-attack and after a series of bloody battles, managed to push the enemy back to the other side of the portal, which led to a planet named 'Faery' by the humans. Earth was saved. However, the battle still rages on.
On Earth, the UN created the Earth Defense Organization to patrol the Antarctic coastline. On Faery, the EDO expeditionary force that pursued the JAM through the portal was designated the Faery Air Force (FAF) and established multiple bases on the alien world, serving as the first line of defense for humanity. 2nd Lieutenant Rei Fukai of the FAF pilots the Super Sylph B-503 fighter, nicknamed 'Yukikaze', an advanced armed tactical reconnaissance plane equipped with a near-sentient AI computer system.
He belongs to the Special Air Force (SAF), the FAF's strategic recon wing. His duty is simple: observe and record data from battles between the FAF and the JAM.
Do not attempt to interfere. Do not attempt to help. Should the JAM ever threaten to destroy him & Yukikaze, there is only one imperative: to abandon his comrades and ensure that the data is passed on. It's a task that only the most hardened of hearts can accomplish. A task that begins to blur the distinction between human and machine. Such is the premise of Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (戦闘妖精・雪風, lit. Battle Fairy Yukikaze), a science fiction novel written by Chōhei Kambayashi & originally published in 1984.
It is actually a collection of short stories that ran in Hayakawa's SF Magazine beginning in 1979. A sequel novel titled Good Luck, Yukikaze was published in 1999 (like its predecessor, this was also a collection of short stories that began in 1992). Kambayashi revised the original novel to make it more consistent with the sequel and this updated version was published in 2002. Also beginning in 2002, the franchise began to expand. A five-episode OVA series loosely based on the two novels was produced by and Bandai Visual.
It was released in Japan from August 28, 2002 to August 25, 2005 and was produced in commemoration of Bandai Visual's 20th anniversary. It was also later aired in Japan on the anime television network Animax, who later aired it in its English language networks across Southeast Asia and other networks worldwide. These OVAs are the version of the story most familiar with non-Japanese audiences.
An English dub was produced by in 2006. A few months before the final episode aired, a spinoff OVA was released called Sentou Yousei Shoujo: Tasukete, Mave-chan! Translation Battle Fairy Girl: Help, Mave-chan! It has nothing to do with the main plot and is about of the aircraft at an anime convention. Around the same time the OVAs were being released, a brief 6-chapter manga written by Yumi Tada was also published.
The manga goes into a little more detail on Rei's backstory, though the canonicity of it may be questionable. There was also an Xbox game created in December 2003 called Sentou Yousei Yukikaze: Yousei no Mau Sora translation: Battle Fairy Yukikaze: The Skies Where Fairies Dance and played as a flight sim in the vein of, but to no one's surprise, it was not successful due to the Xbox's unpopularity in Japan. It received a PC port in 2004. The original novel is considered a groundbreaking work of literature within Japan: some have even compared it to in terms of how it affected the Japanese hard sci-fi genre. Sentou Yousei Yukikaze and Good Luck, Yukikaze both won the prestigious in 1985 & 2000, respectively. Kambayashi himself was ranked #3 of Best Japanese Sci-Fi Writers of All Time conducted by Hayakawa's SF Magazine. For the longest time, the books were out of reach for almost everyone outside of Japan.

It wasn't until 2010 that publishing house released an English translation of the first novel (titled simply Yukikaze). The second novel was translated in 2011. Read the first novel and loved it if his endorsement on the cover is anything to go.
There is a third book called Unbroken Arrow and was published in 2009 in Japan. To date, Haika Soru has that they may commission a translation ◊ A live-action film adaptation of the series is currently and is set to star. In July 2013, Dan Mazeau, the screenwriter for, joined the project.: As expected for a hard sci-fi military series.
Both the DVDs & the first novel contain glossaries to help the audience keep track of what the dozens of acronyms that appear in series mean.: The anime almost entirely excises everything related to the political & military tensions between the FAF & the UN. Except for a brief moment in Operation 04 when Rei doubts they'll be able to land on the Japanese Navy's carrier, this is never brought up in the show.
It is an essential plot point in the novels and devotes no fewer than three chapters to explore the implications of this situation.: Colonel Rombert in the anime. He stages a mutiny to fool the JAM into wasting their time attacking Faery Base and buy time for the FAF fleet to escape. The civilians he slaughter appear to be holographic projections created by Yukikaze. In the end, he shoots himself in the arm and reveals he's a JAM as the orange sludge begins creeping out of his blood, showing that despite this he still remains loyal to humanity. His sacrifice is portrayed as a great and selfless act. In Good Luck, Yukikaze, he is not a JAM, but he stages the coup to destabilize the FAF in order to take control of the JAM with the help of their human clones. He executes several innocent System Corps.
Technicians through use of the BAX-4 while maneuvering his agents into place. It's also questionable whether he actually means to take over the JAM, considering that every other word out of his mouth is a lie. His entire mission was authorized by General Linneberg of Intelligence in order to make contact with the JAM and learn more about them, even if it meant destroying the entire FAF. His status at the end of the novel is unknown; when last we saw him, he was fleeing from the JAM clones after betraying them.: Zigzagged all over the place, and also depending on novel or anime. Played unsettlingly straight in Operation 02, where the baits the JAM to fire missiles at itself, then pulls a by letting those missiles hit another plane, killing 4 pilots. No, it did not go haywire: its orders were to, which was unarmed because of a training exercise, and it was doing exactly what it was programmed to do.
Also played straight in the final operation: the new JAM AWACS-type aircraft in the FAF fleet, which causes their drones to Only the are unaffected because they are directly linked to Yukikaze, who is smart enough to. In the novels, the SAF Tactical Computer (STC) also declares in no uncertain terms to Jack Booker that it considers the JAM to be the enemy. On the other hand, it also killed Lt. Amata to prevent Yukikaze from crashing into his snow grader. Much later, the SAF Strategic Computer (SSC) runs an analysis, and decides that it's ultimate priority is defending itself, and that protecting the personnel and equipment of the SAF and FAF fulfills that role. Earlier, it did not respond to a truce offer from the JAM because it wanted to know why the JAM was making such an offer.
The SSC's hesitance proved fortuitous, as shortly after the JAM decided to declare war on the entire FAF.: The Banshees. Good Luck, Yukikaze tells us there were only ever two of them,. They were built in low-orbit and are unable to land on the ground. Banshee-IV is taken over by the JAM and must be destroyed.
In the anime, the FAF nukes it. In the novel, it crashes thanks to Tom John's sabotage. In the manga, Rei destroys it by launching missiles at it after escaping. Banshee-III leads the evacuation back to Earth in the anime's finale.
In the novels, it suddenly and inexplicably explodes at the end of Good Luck, Yukikaze. The explosion is most likely due to JAM sabotage, and its destruction happens right as the FAF descends into a disastrous.: This one's green and has two suns. The novel also talks about the 'Bloody Road', a trail of red gas that is erupting out of one of the suns that really does look like its namesake and is easily visible in the night sky.: Rei, though instead of being dark and edgy he's just deeply antisocial.: The Faery Air Force makes abundant use of these. One of the themes of the story is whether or not war can be fought entirely with machines and instead of with humans. In the novels, the FAF and Systems Corps are eagerly pushing for massed UCAV deployment, which the SAF resists as it would also entail converting all 13 Super Sylphs into drone planes.
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The JAM be an entire race of these.: The manga's creator, Yumi Tada, was responsible for the character designs in the anime and was also a story consultant for it. It was her input that increased the between Rei & Booker as well as Rei's.: Yukikaze eventually uploads herself out of the Super Sylph and into an FRX-99 frame.: Even partially lampshaded and deconstructed in-universe.: The backstories for the characters that are presented in the manga differ rather significantly from other sources, such as.: Just about every plane in the series, but especially the titular Yukikaze.: The FAF's standard-issue weapons are apparently the Glock 17 pistol and P90 personal defense weapon in the anime. The novels don't mention actual brand names, but Rei has two bullpup SMGs stashed in Yukikaze as survival guns that fire.221 caliber bullets. The only detail the novels reveal about the FAF pistols is that they have a 13-round capacity and use 9mm bullets, which may make them the Browning Hi-Power, or something completely fictional.: Tomahawk John dies in both the book and anime, but for different reasons. In the OVA, he realizes he is a JAM clone and chooses to die on the doomed Banshee-IV airship. In the novel, he also dies on Banshee-IV, but it's because he is ambushed by the JAM and has his mechanical heart torn out of his body.: How Rei, and by extension, all the SAF pilots, are viewed by many FAF pilots. The sentiment is understandable: Super Sylphs are far faster and just as heavily armed as the standard jets the FAF uses and could definitely turn the tide of battle around.
But their rules of engagement require them to do nothing and flee at the first sign of danger. /: The SAF's hangars and facilites qualify, being underground (Operation 01 showcases a bit of what launching a Super Sylph entails, from underground hangar to runway).
Operation 05 reveals there is an entire underground city to provide for the FAF personnel, complete with skyscrapers and a red-light district. The novel even adds there is an artificial sky.: Subverted. Boomerang Squadron of the SAF is comprised of 13 Super Sylphs, which are heavily modified variants of the Sylphid fighter jet designed to have incredible speed and sensor capabilities. In turn, they are manned by some of the best pilots in the entire FAF. But their mission is to never engage the JAM and only to dispassionately record everything they see.: One of the first things Rei does in both the book and anime is to solely based off of Yukikaze's judgment. He's also doing this over the strong protests of the, proving that he puts far more trust in an AI's judgment than another human or even his own eyes.: The Super Sylph's novel and anime designs are evocative of the F-15S/MTD and the Su-27 Flanker family respectively.: The Free Electron Laser Unit attached to the Flip Knights. They see extensive use for the anime's final battle.
The novel doesn't give a formal name to the lasers and averts the trope by detailing that the lasers have a near perfect accuracy rating (unless you can outrun the speed of light), are unaffected by weather conditions, and fire in 0.7 second bursts with the cannon having a 1.95 degree turn radius. The anime shows this to be quite true as the lasers fire a continuous beam in pulses.
Even in-universe, it's speculated that the planet itself could be JAM.: The compromised Banshee-IV is definitely this.: 30+ years after the attempted invasion, most people in the human world treat the JAM as a sort of urban legend/fiction. And as it turns out, the war against the JAM on Faery has basically turned into a human invasion of Faery for military and monetary gains, and is used by Earth nations to further their own individual interests. This is certainly the case in the anime; in the second novel this 'Earth is invading Faery for resources' story is a lie that the JAM clones tell to Gavin Mayle to try to make him do a. He doesn't believe it, so they murder him.: The anime showed the opening shots of the JAM invasion 30 years ago, but other than that, we don't know much about what happened.: Rei has a tendency to lose them.: It has been over 30 years of fighting between the FAF and the JAM, though the war has de-escalated into a medium-intensity conflict that largely consists of patrols shooting at each other day in and day out. Neither side has gained much of anything.: All fighters attempt this, with results varying greatly. Yukikaze, unsurprisingly, has the best success, followed by the Copy Super Sylph and the rest of the JAM.
This presents problems for the protagonists when the planes' onboard computers get really good at predicting just what maneuvers to make at just the right time to successfully evade, but that the sudden g-forces can be potentially lethal to the relatively delicate human pilots.: Jack and Rei.: The soup Rei is served in the second half of the first episode/last chapter of the first book.: An example of which is seen in Operation 01/Chapter VI of the first book, where Yukikaze does a 180 degree flat spin, flying backwards, to shoot down a missile. And in the anime,.: Lt.
Fukai most of the time, 'cept with his one and only friend, Jack, and Tom John. /: The JAM, probably.
This is also probably how the JAM see humans.: Lynn Jackson. Later in the plot, she uses all her connections to get passage on the Japanese aircraft carrier Admiral 56 to meet with Rei & Booker, and witnesses a dogfight between the JAM against Yukikaze and the Japanese Navy that came perilously close to sinking the ship she was on.: The FFR-31MR/D Super Sylph is a plausible design, not so much for some of the designs introduced later in the series. Ironically in the novels, the Super Sylph design is derived from the F-15 STOL/MTD, an actual USAF experimental craft. The creators specifically made Yukikaze as un-aerodynamic as possible to emphasize how advanced its technology was. Partially - modern fighter aircraft are deliberately designed to be as unstable as possible as it enhances their maneuverability. Without the fly-by-wire computers, they would be utterly uncontrollable. On the other hand that doesn't suspend the need for an aerodynamic design, on the contrary to make full use of the enhanced maneuverability made possible by relaxed stability the aircraft has to be even more aerodynamic than traditional designs (compare F-16, Su-27, Rafale, Gripen, F-22 with F-35, F-4, F-105).: Why the Haika Soru translation chooses to spell the.: In the, it's noted that the SAF was not allowed funding for a new recon fighter.
The Super Sylph's funding was secured by claiming that it was a modified variant of the Sylphid, the FAF's frontline fighter. When in fact it was a completely new design.
Note This has real world precedent; the Tu-22M Backfire was sold as a variant of the Tu-22 Blinder; likewise the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is almost an entirely new aircraft, sharing less than 20% commonality with the legacy F/A-18 Hornet. This is less pronounced in the novel, where both the Sylph and Super Sylph designs are derived from the F-15S/MTD experimental aircraft.: Cooley, and she's one of the good guys.: Rei could be seen as this. He'll either rebel against his superiors or angst if you try to keep him from flying and Yukikaze.: The JAM are suspected to be this in-universe. In the novel, the swarm of JAM that attacks Tom on Banshee-IV appears to be a collection of tiny insect-like creatures that feel metallic to the touch, and they can In the anime's final episode, they create some kind of massive white dome around the Passageway that shatters like glass when Rei & the Flip Knights punch through it. They're also suspected to be a sort of.
We never find out.: Rei's first name means 'A drop, a raindrop, a mote. (Yes, all this.) His surname, Fukai is derived from the word 'deep.' In fact, it's written with the same kanji as Whether it's intentional or not. Also,: just their very presence alone can apparently generate enough ECM to render most advanced radar and sensors useless.
As well as Yukikaze's designation as the FFR-41 Mave/Maeve, as in the Irish Queen of legend. The Super Sylph unit Boomerang Squadron is called that because they always return from their missions. Yukikaze herself was named after in.
It was one of only 2 Japanese destroyers (out of a total of 82) to survive the war intact.: Yukikaze transfers its AI from an FFR-31MR/D Super Sylph into the FRX-99 prototype (it was the FRX-00 i.e. The manned variant in the novels). Later, in Operation 04, the FFR-41 Mave receives new engines. This upgrade happened much earlier in the novel when Yukikaze was still a Super Sylph.: SAF seems to be more lax when it comes to uniform codes.
A lot of this has to do with the members of the FAF being drawn from a variety of UN member nation's militaries, with different uniforms, codes of behavior, and traditions, and it all sort of melts together into a relatively informal set of standards. The fact that everyone in the FAF, no matter how menial their role, is technically an officer goes a long way toward flattening the hierarchy typical of a military, and discipline enforcement is loose when not actively on duty.: The FAF is made up of people from many different countries. From the characters we meet, Jack is British, Rei is Japanese, Tom John is a Canadian Native American, and Cooley & Foss are Americans. General Gibril Laitume's ethnicity is not specified, but his first name is the Arabic version of 'Gabriel.'
That, coupled with his in the anime indicates he may be of Middle Eastern descent. Ansel Rombert is probably German, and the novel also has a few other Japanese characters, such as 2nd Lt.
Amata, 2nd Lt. Yagashira, & Akira Katsuragi from the Intelligence Forces.
Finally,.: Humanity's first contact with the JAM occurs when they open their Passageway on the Ross Ice Shelf and the.: Jack and Tom John.: Rei, and by extension all the pilots of Boomerang Squadron. Their job really does demand a strong emotional detachment from the rest of the FAF's people, considering they end up watching fellow pilots die and are required not to react to it.
The result is that even when off-duty, they say very little and emote even less.: Very strongly averted, especially for a Japanese series. Nuclear weapons are shown and explicitly identified as such regularly, and both sides have them.: The JAM-created Passageway that connects Earth and Fairy. For a series that is remarkably, the Passageway is the one sci-fi element that isn't really explained in much detail.: show up in the final episode of the anime as well as the final chapter of Good Luck, Yukikaze.
The novel explains it as part of the Intelligence Forces' attempt to create an army on Faery. The novel also refers to it as the BAX-4 suit, which is inconsistent with the anime.: Rei and Yukikaze seem to share one, somehow. It's never fully explained in the anime. Good Luck, Yukikaze reveals, however, that Rei's vital stats are being monitored by the SAF tactical computer, and it is sharing that information with Yukikaze.: The fighter planes' sounds, the jargon of fighter pilots and other military stuff is (almost) entirely authentic. (The sounds were actually recorded at a JASDF base with real planes flying around.) And while many plane designs are implausible the animators carefully animated all the little movements planes do as they fly.
The unrealistic designs are less of an issue with the novel version of the Sylph and Super Sylph, which is essentially a modified, a USAF/NASA experimental aircraft. The Japanese Navy's F/A-27C backstory is taken almost entirely from that of the F-35, being a joint strike fighter program shared by several services (albeit the F/A-27 program managed to avoid the Development Hell the F-35 went through). Kambayashi also did quite a bit of work to make sure that the aerial combat & flight scenes were depicted accurately in the novel.

Neil Nadelman, the English translator, also worked on the OVA's translation and he even admitted on that he mistranslated Burgadish's title as 'Radar Intercept Officer' in the anime. He corrected it for the novel as 'Electronic Warfare Officer.' .: Related to theme naming below, most official material can't get the reporting name of F/A-1 and F/A-2 correct; it's either 'Fawn' note a baby deer. Think Bambi., 'Faun' note. Also, Mr.Tumnus from The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe or 'Fand' note. Also, Jack's surname is rendered as Bukhar in the anime and Booker in the translated novels. The designation for the new Yukikaze body frame.
The FRX-99 Wraith, and finally FFR-41MR Mave. In the novels one of the FRX-99 units is nicknamed 'Rafe' while Yukikaze is the FFR-41 Maeve. The 'Rafe' nickname is explicitly pointed out by Rei as meaning and that it was Booker who gave it the name.
The English dub goofed on Foss's name in Operation 02, referring to her as 'Forth.' Subsequent episodes corrected this, probably because Foss's name appears on computer screens properly spelled out.
The Japanese logos translate 'Yousei' as 'Fairy.' The Haika Soru translation spells it 'Faery.' Refers to an essay written by ( ) to note that there is a subtle but significant difference in meaning between the two words and praises the translators for picking up on that.
Meanwhile, due to the peculiarities of the Japanese language, the writer's last name can be acceptably Romanized as either 'Kambayashi' or 'Kanbayashi.' .: It's rare to hear Rei speak a sentence longer than ten words in the anime. He's more talkative in the novels, but at the same token the novels also note that the nature of the war on Faery ends up dehumanizing most of the FAF's personnel so they talk like this.: The alien planet is named Faery; the FAF's various units, aircraft, airbases, etc.
Are named after fantastic/mythological creatures (FFR-31 Sylph/Sylphid, Banshee Flying Aircraft Carriers, F/A-2, Kraken Sq., Ghoul Sq., Brownie Airbase, Faery Airbase, plus the Flip Knights).: Obviously averted with Captain Foss. She's also the one that deconstructed the Fukai-Yukikaze in-universe. It becomes practically in the novel.: JAM's tactical antiaircraft missiles carry. Also, how the JAM destroy TAB-14 in the novel: first a massive wave of high-velocity missiles, then JAM bombers.
The explosions that follow are so huge that even the hardened underground bunkers are destroyed.: The novel and the short manga adaptation explains that most of the FAF's personnel are criminals who have been sent to Faery by national governments that don't want to deal with them. In the early stages of the JAM conflict, the ratio of volunteers to non-volunteers was much higher, but by the time the novel takes place, non-volunteers now outnumber the volunteers of the FAF.
Jack is suspected by many of his subordinates to be a criminal thanks to a. The scar came from a mundane accident years ago when a boomerang he made came back and smacked him in the face.: Sort of, between Jack, Rei and Yukikaze.
Much more prominent in the anime; the novel shows Jack is simply concerned for Rei's mental state, as getting attached to a machine is very unhealthy.: It's never stated exactly when the OVA takes place, but given various visual clues (Lyn Jackson's Powerbook G3, a V-22, Atago-class DDGs, Ticonderoga-class CGs), it probably takes place sometime within the first decade or two of the 21st century. The novels are suggested to take place around the mid nineties, given that the FFR-41's Bureau Number begins with 96, for Fiscal Year 1996. After the JAM launched their invasion of Antarctica, a massive coalition of multinational armies counterattacked and drove the invaders back. Up to this day, the UN still oversees patrols over the Antarctic. One side effect of forming the coalition seems to be that Japan revoked Article 9 of their Constitution and now has at least a full-fledged Navy with an aircraft carrier battlegroup. Oh, and nuclear weapons too.: What Yukikaze and the SAF is, basically.
Their job consisted mostly of monitoring the engagements between the actual FAF and JAM — at least it was until they got more directly involved. The SAF ditches this in Operation 05, sending their Super Sylphs into combat with air-to-air loads, and showing them to be quite effective.: Chapter III of the first novel. Yukikaze detects.
Something on her specialized that displays itself as a solid horizontal line despite that there is absolutely nothing the naked eye can see, and it also does not show up on standard radar or other sensors. When Rei takes heed of the warning and tries to fly away, the line starts chasing him and eventually envelops Rei & Yukikaze in a circle. Passing the 'line' on the radar screen feels like slamming into a wall of iron and they end up teleported into an. Justified, as he is constantly working in sub-zero temperatures. It gets him killed when he is too drunk to move his grader off the runway when Yukikaze is coming in for a landing.: Andy Lander loses his left hand when he tries to touch the ocean of orange sludge in the JAM alternate universe. It wasn't the sludge itself that did it; it was the hazy gas emitting from the sludge, which in his words, was vibrating like a buzzsaw.: Rei goes into one at the end of the first novel after Yukikaze forcefully ejects him from her airframe so she can upload herself into the FRX-00 and destroy her old body. The second novel reveals it lasts for 93 days.: Chapter II - Never Question The Value Of A Knight from the first novel builds up to a massive operation called 'FTJ83', which is going to be the largest military operation the FAF has done against the JAM for years and will involve the complete sortie of all available fighters to destroy the JAM's largest forward operating base.

When it's go time, the operation is completely described in a single paragraph. Of course, Rei that the base's destruction isn't going to slow the JAM down much. In fact, on his way back to base while escorting the Flip Knights, the real battle begins when.: Gavin Mayle is transferred to the 'retraining' unit, which the Intelligence Forces have ensured is being populated solely by JAM clones to isolate them.
He slowly starts questioning whether he's a JAM clone because his last memories are of parachuting to the ground and making a hard landing, breaking his beacon and running out of food & water. Turns out to be a, he's not. The real JAM clones were trying to by feeding him a bunch of lies. But when he refuses to play this game anymore and, the clone of Lt.
Lancome shoots him.:, the SAF was able to secure funding for the Super Sylph because it was ostensibly a modified Sylphid. The actual aircraft was an entirely new design. This is actually since a number of real life combat aircraft 'variants' were developed this way.: Good Luck, Yukikaze ends with Ansel Rombert going MIA after starting his mutiny, Banshee-III exploding (heavily implied to be JAM sabotage), and the JAM launching an unbelievably large-scale electronic warfare attack that causes nearly all FAF AIs to as well as start registering hundreds of false positives of JAM fighters which are actually FAF craft.
The result is a that erupts in the FAF as nearly every plane from every FAF forward operating base starts gunning for HQ as well as making all SAF planes targets. Even worse, Booker brings up the possibility that the FAF pilots may be targeting the SAF not because of JAM deception, but because with the they think the SAF are. Rei moves to sortie into this madhouse because he believes the JAM are waiting for him & Yukikaze to show themselves. Meanwhile, the SAF Strategic Computer is strongly predicting that an actual JAM fleet will show up after the carnage is over and wipe out the remaining survivors.
After all, everything is going for them.:. The people of Earth think the war against the JAM is not their issue to deal with. It has been going on for over 30 years in a location that nobody on Earth can even remotely imagine. Add to that that the FAF has almost no oversight at all, and it's no wonder why by this point, abound on Earth that think the JAM don't even exist and that the FAF is planning a rebellion to overthrow the United Nations. Chapter III - Mysterious Battle Zone has Rei playing babysitter to a pundit from Earth who has come to Faery to do a story on the FAF.
He starts off utterly convinced that the JAM war is fake and is a ploy to arm the FAF for their global revolution. He very quickly changes his mind. In the second novel, Rei spends a short furlough on Earth with Lynn Jackson. He decides to try and find some news articles on the JAM or the war, but even an Internet search turns up very few articles.
.: The anime, definitely. It was critically acclaimed in Japan and even won 2 'Best OVA' awards. But viewers everywhere else found it a disjointed mess of a. When the novels were released in English, they received some pretty positive reception, and it's common to find non-Japanese readers saying that the anime made a complete mess of the novels. Japanese fans don't seem to think so; general consensus among them appears to be that the anime is a perfectly acceptable alternate version of the story.
Most clips & AMVs of the show on Youtube are uploaded by Japanese users. Again, this is on Youtube, not Nico Nico Douga.: The opening theme., the last track played in the entire series as Rei makes his to collapse the Passageway. It's quite dark and depressing, but still awesome, and considering the show's limited music, arguably the best track in the entire OST.
RTB, the ending theme, an upbeat yet yearning song sung in Japanese. The song and lyrics definitely cross into territory,.: Probably half the technical terms and acronyms used among the pilots in flight (and even terms that simply appear on computer screens) won't make much sense unless you are a pilot yourself, know someone who is a pilot (preferably a military pilot), or look it up.: There's a reason why the OVA is nicknamed 'Brokeback Air Force.' . In an interview Jack's voice actor even comments on poor Jack ending up with his heart broken. There are a couple of occasions early in the first novel when Jack jokingly tells Rei to 'break up with Yukikaze and come work for me.' The novels, though make it clear he views Rei as a friend and more importantly, he stops telling Rei things like the above once he accepts that Yukikaze is not.: In the second novel, Ansel Rombert calls the JAM human copies 'Jammies.' Say it out loud and try not to think of pajamas.: of JAM human duplicates infiltrating the FAF.
The FAF nearly self-destructs after this becomes known. In the novels, it does. The Intelligence Forces attempt to manipulate the clones and use them as ways to communicate with the JAM and learn more about them, even if it means betraying the rest of the FAF to do so. But they get by the JAM who use this to.: Despite his & tendencies, Andy Lander does bring up some good points regarding the FAF's relations with the UN, such as the UN forbidding the FAF from growing food. This makes them wholly dependent on a UN food exchange program and may well be a means to prevent the FAF from rebelling against Earth. Rei is mildly surprised at this: he knew the FAF imported food but had no idea it wasn't allowed to actually produce its own food.: Rei immediately senses something off about nurse Marnie & Major Yazawa at TAB-14. Yazawa's uniform is the wrong shade of color per FAF regulations, & Marnie's disposition is They are both JAM copies with minor flaws in their assembly.: Jack, oh poor Jack.
And arguably, Copy Tom 'Tomahawk' John.