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So, as some of you may know, there are now eight episodes to Stratos 4 Advance. I was quite surprised when I found a torrent for the seventh episode when previously everywhere I checked, it said there were only six episodes. Apparently though, these extra two episodes are actually the mysterious Stratos 4 Advance Kanketsuhen eps I read on ANN. I would still consider them as part of Stratos 4 Advance though, as the same episode codes are used (to make it more fun, they can the episoes ‘code 200′ to ‘208′.) It would probably be easier to just do a single entry on episodes 3 – 7 right now, but I only downloaded seven to see whether it was real or not (and it is!) Anyway, this episode saw some return to the days when Stratos 4 was known for its infamous pantsu shots, though they weren’t as ‘extravagant’ as before. Plot-wise there really isn’t much going on at the moment, as the episodes are more like short stories, but with little bits of extra that will eventually come together in the end. I’m glad this whole other arc is an OAV, as that sort of guarantees to be better than average.

I’m not sure how important she is but Karin seemed pretty freaky this episode. It always happens when she talks because her lines are intentionally made to look like what a human puppet of slave would do with a narrow mind. The darkened face she had when she said everything was alright turned out to be nothing more than a small lie used to cheer the Comet Blaster pilots up. I still wonder whether the original four Meteor Sweeper team will become Comet blasters, but that doesn’t seem to be of any importance to the little plot that is present now. I really don’t think there will be a plot as interesting as the TV series, but just a major event where a huge chunk of space rock is missed by the Comet Blasters or whatever, resulting in Mikaze and co. having to take care of it. It’s also possible for the new trainees to save the day, but since they haven’t got nearly the same amount of attention the original four got in the TV series, I doubt it. In fact, right now it seems like those new girls are there just to make the show seem ‘new’.

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