>Moving this to its own thread. I was considering keeping it under
>wraps like A Project and then unveiling it as a Galactipedia page, but
>it's been such a weirdly fun interactive exercise to this point,

Oh my God, I know, right?

I thought I had fun during the halcyon days of 2013, featuring "Azula Goes to the Movies" and "Sokka's Literary Canon." But man, Fly Girls has just been such good times from the get-go. It's like a role-playing game that is also fanfic writing that is also film criticism!

>Gymnasium Germania
>Germany. The Nazi elements are downplayed, though the insignia on the
>German characters' uniforms and aircraft are correct. An incredibly
>powerful, arrogant school whose administrators (including the elusive
>and dreaded Headmaster, who appears to have no name and is never seen
>in person) believe that they should run all the other schools as well.

Some of the faculty were okay. Wilhelm Messerschmitt ("Willy" to all the girls), the girls physical trainer and patriarch of the large and rambling Me clan, was clearly written in as a mouthpiece in order to convey technical and plot information the viewers, but because of that he had to be avuncular and charming; even Stuka seemed to like him. It also let them create a clear foil for Coach Goering's massive, staggering incompetence.

Doctor Von Braun, part of the medical team, only appeared briefly in the TV series, in episode 606, "Wunderwaffe," and was mostly played for laughs as part of the whole "no, really, V-2 does exist" running gag. (Although he did have a brief cameo in Jet Age.) But he was also pretty okay. He'd have a much larger role in the ill-fated Life/Mass Ratio, and there were major, major plans to use him in the even-more-ill-fated Missile Girls.

>Rodina-Mat Aviation Technical High School of Moscow
>The USSR. Highly specialized school in which only aviation and
>aviation-related subjects (aircraft maintenance and repair, etc.) are
>taught. Somewhat hampered by a low general technology level, but very
>dedicated, though, as at the Gymnasium Germania, the students are
>terrified of the administration (particularly Vice-Principal Beria).

They did a bit too good a job of this, in my opinion. Vice-Principal Khrushchev was very clearly hastily written in so that the girls could salute snappily to someone who you wouldn't rather they were shooting in the face.

...

To step out-of-character for a second, after giving it some thought I feel like "Tora Tora Tora" should clearly be "Tora³", just for the cultural verisimilitude; this thing was produced on New Tomodachi, after all, which means there'd be at least some odd Japanese-specific quirks to it. :)

-Merc
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