From: rksuzuki@hougen.seas.ucla.edu (Richard K. Suzuki)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Iczer-3  SEMI SYNOPSIS
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:40:02 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

In article <michaele.025l@nagisa.nsg.com.au> michaele@nagisa.nsg.com.au (Michael J. Edwards) writes:
>Alan Takahashi (takahash@ntmtv.UUCP) wrote:
>
>>   1) "Iczer-3" ignores most of the events in "Iczer-One"...particularly
>>      anything pertaining to the Iczers themselves...
>
>Having no translation of Iczer-3 I won't and can't comment on that, but I
>would be interested in a few examples. In fact if any one has any scripts
>or synopsi for Iczer-3 please email me.
>
	Okay since there seems to be a little confusion regarding this 
   little OVA (understanably so, it is a trifle weird)  I'll try to help
   clarify what's going on as I understand it....
	Obviously the story takes place in the future.  Iczer-1 is still the
   guardian of the race of women who were taken over by Big Gold in the
   first OVA.  However another big evil has arisen which is something like 
   the equivalent of Big Gold's sister (I always loved how the women
   have all the major roles in this series!)  Iczer-1 is unable to help
   Earth so she sends Iczer-3 to defend the planet until she can arrive.   
	Iczer-3 was not really meant to be a warrior, she was meant to continue 
   after Iczer-1 once the fighting is done (that's not to say she isn't darn 
   tough!) This explains her ridiculously annoying cutsey behavior - in her 
   child-like innocence everything is a big game (including battling Neo-Gold)
   Also you'll note Iczer-3 has a special bond with nature and animals that 
   her elder sister lacked.  Note - Iczer-3's innocent, playfulness doesn't
   stand up well against her older sister Iczer-2.   As you saw Iczer-2
   NEVER plays around :)     
	On Earth it's been many years since the first, now forgotten
   invasion of the Cutowolf.   The Nagisa in this OVA is _not_ the same
   Nagisa from the original Iczer-1.  Yes, she looks the same, acts the same
   and has a friend who looks the same too but this Nagisa has a different
   last name and the original Nagisa wasn't a Starfleet cadet either. :)  
   The idea of cyclic, reincarnation type of stories where the characters
   look the same even though they live years apart should be familiar
   to all anime fans out there, see Gal Force for a series that really
   pummelled the idea to death....

>>   2) Nagisa underwent an inexplicable and sudden personality change
>>      during the course of the OAV series...from a frightened and
>>      confused young girl to the pivotal person who had all the
>>      answers.  Witness her interactions with Atlas...
>
>Actually I've seen that in real life.  [Well maybe not the alien invasion
>bit]  Its an amazing thing see when someone suddenly finds thier backbone.
>Mind you, I think I'm going to have watch this again with that in mind.
>Is Atlas, Atoros?  The dark-Iczer?  If so I'd say that Nagisa always coped
>well with the small and cute...
> 
	The personality change is a familiar formula from the original 
   Iczer-1 OVAs.  In the first part of Iczer-1 Nagisa changes from a 
   whimpering mass of fear who gets pissed off just enough to nuke the bad 
   guys (uh, I mean girls....)  and then reverts back to her normal
   spineless self in the second OVA where she needs to get pissed off again
   to actually be any help to Iczer-1 .  In the final part Nagisa finally 
   finds her backbone in time to sacrifice herself for Iczer-1.   Of course
   she is later restored back to her presumably spineless, happy schoolgirl
   self again in end anyway....    

>>   3) The middle of the series was pretty much complete formula in the
>>      traditions of the worse giant robot shows... :-)
>
	Just the middle of the series?  I thought the whole thing was one 
   big formula that had been established in the first OVA!  (I still had 
   fun watching it though....)

>
>>   [Why did I watch all 6 parts?  I was vainly hoping that things would
>>    get better, since I *did* like "Iczer-One"...]
>
>Out of curiousity was this in one sitting?  I think I first watched this
>one or two episodes a night.  
>
	Ugh, all six parts in one sitting?  Bad idea trying that with this
   series.  Two every couple of months is better to avoid cutesy overdoses.
   
>One thing I can't work out is why Atoros is called Atoros not Iczer-4 
>[although it was an indication of her final fate].
>
	I think they called Atoros something different because she was
   created with part of Nagisa's power unlike all three Iczer sisters.
   I guess using part of some else's power doesn't qualify Atoros as
   an 'official' Iczer.   
  
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