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I just special-interest ranted at a friend. I decided to share it with you instead.

Isabelle Fall knew exactly what she was writing.

The ability to use fetishistic and role drive and identity driven fixations to motivate

Over shame, and duty and histories To render the external the introspective.

Extrospective, I guess. Its funny too because, Yukikaze is about a very similar idea or at least touches on it. Its VERY #mechposting, and VERY #robofucker in its story and nature.

A pilot who has artificially induced autism and special interest, to make him a superhumanly capable pilot.

And it backfires; making him fall romantically in love with his plane.

Its only five episodes, and its based on one of the most well loved Japanese scifi novels of all time written in the 1980's -- with the anime being made in 2003.

The trick too is, the plane is intelligent. seems to reciprocate.

There's also ... kind of an implication the pilot has to be estrogenized for the conditioning to take, so he has the emotional bandwidth to handle it in the latest book apparently?

So its weirdly trans-adjacent too?

I remember too, lot of people on 2ch believed Rei Fukai is literally the character Anno based Rei Ayanami in Evangelion on???

Weirdly full circle then, that the planes are designed by Ituko Yamashita who designed the Evangelions too.

idk, I feel like Yukikaze either is, or is going to become a significant text to certain parts of Tumblr which haven't discovered it yet.

It talks a lot about how people can't properly conceptualize of a foreign conflict, how disinformation is used and how people are tricked into falling into narritives and mythologies.

Its also a collossal loveletter to Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, AND its some how incredibly queer and has a love-triangle between a man, someone who has discarded gender almost entirely, and an AI drive fighter-plane. The air combat too and planes are rediculously well researched and designed.

idk, give it a go. Or don't. I'm not your mom.

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Postcards included with the Yukikaze game on PC.

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EXCITING NEWS: As of today, all the Yukikaze novels (including Aggressors) have been uploaded and can be downloaded from this site (WARNING: site contains inappropriate advertisements) in Japanese. 

Though this may not serve fans who cannot read the language, it is nonetheless a step forward that these novels can now be easily accessed if you live overseas. 

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Yumi Tada’s artwork for the Yukikaze OVA DVD covers has finally been returned after 20 years. 

Tada has commented: “Thank you very much for your many comments. I'm surprised that so many people remember the work even after 20 years. I'm doing my best thinking about how to give back to the fans of the work called Yukikaze.”

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Some inside pages from an artbook/doujinshi by Ikuto Yamashita, the mechanical designer for the Yukikaze OVA, as well as the character designer for the Tasukete Mave-chan! OAV.  All images courtesy of this Twitter user.

It is currently available for purchase here. 

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Yumi Tada’s preliminary character sketches of Rei Fukai, from her artbook ‘Sittin in the balcony’. All images courtesy of this Twitter user.

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‘sentou yousei yukikaze’ concept art by yumi tada 

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“do you understand what you’re doing?!” “yukikaze says… it’s an enemy.”

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Yumi Tada’s preliminary character sketches of Lynn Jackson, Lydia Cooley, and Edith Foss, from her artbook ‘Sittin in the balcony’. All images courtesy of this Twitter user.

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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Yukikaze OVA, Platz is releasing a 1/144 plastic model of Mave, with special “JAM Sensor” decals. A special fluorescent decal is used to realistically reproduce the unique pattern that emits red light in the play. It glows red when exposed to black light. 

It can be purchased here. 

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New release: Battle Fairy Yukikaze <KAI> (Aizo Version) / 戦闘妖精・雪風〈改〉〔愛蔵版〕

To celebrate and promote Aggressors, Yukikaze <KAI>, the revised version of the first Yukikaze novel, is once again being released - this time, several new features will be added. In addition to the novel itself, this version includes “valuable interviews, commentary, and a newly written short story.” 

It will be released officially on July 20, but it can be pre-ordered here. 

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Today, July 10th, is the birthday of Yukikaze author Chōhei Kambayashi. He is 69 years old today! 🎂 Here’s his Instagram post celebrating his birthday. 

In a 2006 SF Magazine poll he was ranked third best Japanese SF writer of all time, and in 2014 poll, the second. 

May he always stay happy and healthy!

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Yumi Tada’s preliminary character sketches of Rei Fukai, from her artbook ‘Sittin in the balcony’. All images courtesy of this Twitter user. 

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Yumi Tada’s preliminary character sketches of Jack Booker, from her artbook ‘Sittin in the balcony’. All images courtesy of this Twitter user. 

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The AT-X channel will broadcast Tasukete Mave-chan! starting 15:30 on June 19. [source]

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Yukikaze author Chohei Kambayashi and his beloved cat, Vitanya, will appear in the NHK broadcast “Nekomentary” on May 18. It is a short documentary program that depicts the lives of Japanese authors and their cats. [source]

In 2005, Vitanya appeared on his front porch as a stray cat. About 17 years later, she has been living as a member of the family in Nagano prefecture.