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Topic ID: 143
Message ID: 36
#36, RE: Gedankenexperiment II: Fly Girls
Posted by Gryphon on Sep-08-14 at 00:06 AM
In response to message #35
>(Though if I'm going to be fair, my absolute favorite bit of
>Fly Girls art isn't official, it's from a doujinshi. The
>Last Blank Spot on the Map
is a prequel doujin about the
>adventures of DC-3 around the world featuring a bunch of interwar
>aircraft and more flying boats than you can shake a stick at. There's
>a double-page spread of DC-3 flying over Macchu Picchu that's just
>downright amazing. Storytelling's not bad either, sort of a pulp
>adventure version of the anime: DC-3's a civvie transport so she has
>to outwit trouble instead of shooting it. Check it out if you haven't
>read it already.)

Oh! I've seen that, but it wasn't translated, so I couldn't make head or tail out of it. I did notice one amusing cameo, though, that makes more sense now that I know the premise - one of those flying boats, who appears briefly in the European part of the story, is Porco's plane from Porco Rosso. (You can tell because her Fly Girl form looks just like Fio.)

I'll have to try and track it down again. I can't remember now if the DC-3 who appears in it is actually supposed to be a younger, not-yet-in-the-army version of P-40's pal C-47 from the CBI parts of Fly Girls proper, or if they're different characters. If the latter, then along with Dakota from the RAF team, that would make a record three different Fly Girls all based on the same aircraft, even if one of them is unofficial.

I kinda hope they're the same character, 'cause C-47's one of the best supporting characters on the show. If not for her, P-40 would've starved in the summer of '42, and 40, unlike some prima donna fighter girls I could name, always had the grace to acknowledge it.

--G.
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