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#32, Note aggregation: Fly Girls media
Posted by Gryphon on Sep-07-14 at 05:32 PM
In response to message #0
LAST EDITED ON Sep-07-14 AT 09:58 PM (EDT)
 
Pulling this all together for later reference and possible expansion. We only have a handful of episode titles in hand so far, after all. :)

The TV series ran for six full seasons, or 144 episodes, on TV Tomodachi (with simulcasts on Avalon 17), from 2399 to 2404.

Known episodes:

- "Angriffsziel Coventry"
- "Fröhliche Weihnachten" (the Infamous Christmas Truce episode - only aired once, not on the MultiDisc or VDC releases)
- "Mosquito Plays It Straight" (DH.98 vs. Me 109)
- 206 "Honor Doesn't Compromise"
- At least three episodes featuring Typhoon, one of which involved her exploring the ground attack role with P-47
- The "Exchange Students" arc, culminating in
-- "Fight On, Kobrastochka!"
- The Ju 88 spotlight episode
- The episode where P-40 and Zero have a tea ceremony (possibly also in the course of some temporary cease-fire)
- The Ohka/Me 163 episode
- "The Great P-38 Controversy", in which various humorous misunderstandings involve P-38, a Walther P38 pistol, and a P-38 can opener
- "Twins for the Win" (twin-engined Axis episode; features "Fritz X" mission vs. Italian battleship Roma and so was probably sometime late in season 4 or after, since that was in September 1943)
- The Strategic Bombing episodes, which were a series-within-a-series in early season 5, including
-- "Target: Edersee Dam!" (Operation Chastise; almost certainly features the theme from 1955's The Dam Busters)
-- "Target: Ploesti!"
-- "Targets: Schweinfurt-Regensburg!"
-- "Target: Schweinfurt Again"
-- "Target: Dresden!"
-- "Target: Hiroshima!"

There were at least two OVAs:
- The Pacific dive/torpedo bombers special
- The Mosquito/A-1 PSA

As of 2410 there's been a single theatrical film.
- Fly Girls the Movie: The Jet Age! (opened December 15, 2406)

There was one short-lived spin-off, Lift/Mass Ratio, which only ran for 12 episodes in 2405; it was a classic "the network wants Something Else Like That" sort of thing. An official spin-off by the same creative team, Missile Girls, didn't get picked up.

There was also a very-long-running (might still be running) manga series, and presumably the usual plethora of supporting media (audio dramas, "light novels", disappointing video games) as well as toys, wall scrolls, posters, dakimakura (official and, erm, otherwise), and what have you. Fly Girls was not a colossal, runaway success, but it was a solid performer and still has a large and loyal fanbase six years after the end of production. Many people outside the fandom have Heard Of It, even if they've never actually seen it beyond running across the merch in shops.

Corwin has the entire series on VDC and a complete run of the manga, and probably a few of the models and at least one of the wall scrolls. It is not impossible that Kozue bought him a P-40 daki while they were living together. It is not impossible that it isn't one of the official ones. It is not impossible that he has hidden it. :)

--G.
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