33 years ago, humanity realized it was not alone in the universe - a opens in the Antarctic, through which a mysterious alien force known as the JAM launch a swift and massive attack. In response, the launched a massive counter-attack and after a series of bloody battles, managed to push the enemy back to the other side of the portal, which led to a planet named 'Faery' by the humans.
Earth was saved. However, the battle still rages on. On Earth, the UN created the Earth Defense Organization to patrol the Antarctic coastline. On Faery, the EDO expeditionary force that pursued the JAM through the portal was designated the Faery Air Force (FAF) and established multiple bases on the alien world, serving as the first line of defense for humanity.2nd Lieutenant Rei Fukai of the FAF pilots the Super Sylph B-503 fighter, nicknamed 'Yukikaze', an advanced armed tactical reconnaissance plane equipped with a near-sentient AI computer system. He belongs to the Special Air Force (SAF), the FAF's strategic recon wing. His duty is simple: observe and record data from battles between the FAF and the JAM.
Do not attempt to interfere. Do not attempt to help. Should the JAM ever threaten to destroy him & Yukikaze, there is only one imperative: to abandon his comrades and ensure that the data is passed on. It's a task that only the most hardened of hearts can accomplish. A task that begins to blur the distinction between human and machine. Such is the premise of Sentou Yousei Yukikaze (戦闘妖精・雪風, lit.
Battle Fairy Yukikaze), a science fiction novel written by Chōhei Kambayashi & originally published in 1984. It is actually a collection of short stories that ran in Hayakawa's SF Magazine beginning in 1979. A sequel novel titled Good Luck, Yukikaze was published in 1999 (like its predecessor, this was also a collection of short stories that began in 1992). Kambayashi revised the original novel to make it more consistent with the sequel and this updated version was published in 2002.Also beginning in 2002, the franchise began to expand.
A five-episode OVA series loosely based on the two novels was produced by and Bandai Visual. It was released in Japan from August 28, 2002 to August 25, 2005 and was produced in commemoration of Bandai Visual's 20th anniversary. It was also later aired in Japan on the anime television network Animax, who later aired it in its English language networks across Southeast Asia and other networks worldwide. These OVAs are the version of the story most familiar with non-Japanese audiences. An English dub was produced by in 2006. A few months before the final episode aired, a spinoff OVA was released called Sentou Yousei Shoujo: Tasukete, Mave-chan! Translation Battle Fairy Girl: Help, Mave-chan!
It has nothing to do with the main plot and is about of the aircraft at an anime convention.Around the same time the OVAs were being released, a brief 6-chapter manga written by Yumi Tada was also published. The manga goes into a little more detail on Rei's backstory, though the canonicity of it may be questionable. There was also an Xbox game created in December 2002 called Sentou Yousei Yukikaze: Yousei no Mau Sora translation: Battle Fairy Yukikaze: The Skies Where Fairies Dance and played as a flight sim in the vein of, but to no one's surprise, it was not successful due to the Xbox's unpopularity in Japan. It received a PC port in 2003. A complete can be found where an English-speaking player with some limited knowledge of Japanese does some on-the-fly translations of the dialogue as he experiences the entire game.The original novel is considered a groundbreaking work of literature within Japan: some have even compared it to in terms of how it affected the Japanese hard sci-fi genre.
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze and Good Luck, Yukikaze both won the prestigious in 1985 & 2000, respectively. Kambayashi himself was ranked #3 of Best Japanese Sci-Fi Writers of All Time conducted by Hayakawa's SF Magazine.For the longest time, the books were out of reach for almost everyone outside of Japan.
It wasn't until 2010 that publishing house released an English translation of the first novel (titled simply Yukikaze). The second novel was translated in 2011.read the first novel and loved it if his endorsement on the cover is anything to go by.There is a third book called Unbroken Arrow and was published in 2009 in Japan. To date, Haika Soru has that they may commission a translation ◊A live-action film adaptation of the series is currently and is set to star. In July 2013, Dan Mazeau, the screenwriter for, joined the project.Tropes found in this series (folders arranged in rough chronological order of release). Fukai.: As expected for a hard sci-fi military series. Both the DVDs & the first novel contain glossaries to help the audience keep track of what the dozens of acronyms that appear in series mean.: The anime almost entirely excises everything related to the political & military tensions between the FAF & the UN.
Except for a brief moment in Operation 04 when Rei doubts they'll be able to land on the Japanese Navy's carrier, this is never brought up in the show. It is an essential plot point in the novels and devotes no fewer than three chapters to explore the implications of this situation.: Colonel Rombert in the anime. He stages a mutiny to fool the JAM into wasting their time attacking Faery Base and buy time for the FAF fleet to escape. The civilians he slaughter appear to be holographic projections created by Yukikaze. In the end, he shoots himself in the arm and reveals he's a JAM as the orange sludge begins creeping out of his blood, showing that despite this he still remains loyal to humanity. His sacrifice is portrayed as a great and selfless act.
In Good Luck, Yukikaze, he is not a JAM, but he stages the coup to destabilize the FAF in order to take control of the JAM with the help of their human clones. He executes several innocent System Corps. Technicians through use of the BAX-4 while maneuvering his agents into place. It's also questionable whether he actually means to take over the JAM, considering that every other word out of his mouth is a lie. His entire mission was authorized by General Linneberg of Intelligence in order to make contact with the JAM and learn more about them, even if it meant destroying the entire FAF. His status at the end of the novel is unknown; when last we saw him, he was fleeing from the JAM clones after betraying them.: Zigzagged all over the place, and also depending on novel or anime.
Played unsettlingly straight in Operation 02, where the baits the JAM to fire missiles at itself, then pulls a by letting those missiles hit another plane, killing 4 pilots. No, it did not go haywire: its orders were to, which was unarmed because of a training exercise, and it was doing exactly what it was programmed to do. Also played straight in the final operation: the new JAM AWACS-type aircraft in the FAF fleet, which causes their drones to Only the are unaffected because they are directly linked to Yukikaze, who is smart enough to. In the novels, the SAF Tactical Computer (STC) also declares in no uncertain terms to Jack Booker that it considers the JAM to be the enemy. On the other hand, it also killed Lt. Amata to prevent Yukikaze from crashing into his snow grader.
Much later, the SAF Strategic Computer (SSC) runs an analysis, and decides that it's ultimate priority is defending itself, and that protecting the personnel and equipment of the SAF and FAF fulfills that role. Earlier, it did not respond to a truce offer from the JAM because it wanted to know why the JAM was making such an offer. The SSC's hesitance proved fortuitous, as shortly after the JAM decided to declare war on the entire FAF.: The Banshees.
Good Luck, Yukikaze tells us there were only ever two of them,. They were built in low-orbit and are unable to land on the ground. Banshee-IV is taken over by the JAM and must be destroyed. In the anime, the FAF nukes it. In the novel, it crashes thanks to Tom John's sabotage. In the manga, Rei destroys it by launching missiles at it after escaping. Banshee-III leads the evacuation back to Earth in the anime's finale.
In the novels, it suddenly and inexplicably explodes at the end of Good Luck, Yukikaze. The explosion is most likely due to JAM sabotage, and its destruction happens right as the FAF descends into a disastrous.: This one's green and has two suns. The novel also talks about the 'Bloody Road', a trail of red gas that is erupting out of one of the suns that really does look like its namesake and is easily visible in the night sky.: Rei, though instead of being dark and edgy he's just deeply antisocial.: The Faery Air Force makes abundant use of these. One of the themes of the story is whether or not war can be fought entirely with machines and instead of with humans. In the novels, the FAF and Systems Corps are eagerly pushing for massed UCAV deployment, which the SAF resists as it would also entail converting all 13 Super Sylphs into drone planes. The JAM be an entire race of these.: The manga's creator, Yumi Tada, was responsible for the character designs in the anime and was also a story consultant for it.
It was her input that increased the between Rei & Booker as well as Rei's.: Yukikaze eventually uploads herself out of the Super Sylph and into an FRX-99 frame.: Even partially lampshaded and deconstructed in-universe.: The backstories for the characters that are presented in the manga differ rather significantly from other sources, such as.: Just about every plane in the series, but especially the titular Yukikaze.: The FAF's standard-issue weapons are apparently the Glock 17 pistol and P90 personal defense weapon in the anime. The novels don't mention actual brand names, but Rei has two bullpup SMGs stashed in Yukikaze as survival guns that fire.221 caliber bullets note This was likely based off of the. An experimental gun developed in 1968/1969 for the U.S.
Air Force, the Individual Multi-Purpose was a small bullpup firearm chambered in meant to give pilots who had crash-landed a weapon to survive with. As for the FAF pistols, the only detail the novels reveal is that they have a 13-round capacity and are chambered in 9mm. As the original novel was written from 1979-1984, process of elimination makes it, the only pistol in existence at the time that had those two characteristics.: Tomahawk John dies in both the book and anime, but for different reasons. In the OVA, he realizes he is a JAM clone and chooses to die on the doomed Banshee-IV airship. In the novel, he also dies on Banshee-IV, but it's because he is ambushed by the JAM and has his mechanical heart torn out of his body.: How Rei, and by extension, all the SAF pilots, are viewed by many FAF pilots. The sentiment is understandable: Super Sylphs are far faster and just as heavily armed as the standard jets the FAF uses and could definitely turn the tide of battle around.
But their rules of engagement require them to do nothing and flee at the first sign of danger. /: The SAF's hangars and facilites qualify, being underground (Operation 01 showcases a bit of what launching a Super Sylph entails, from underground hangar to runway). Operation 05 reveals there is an entire underground city to provide for the FAF personnel, complete with skyscrapers and a red-light district. The novel even adds there is an artificial sky.: Subverted. Boomerang Squadron of the SAF is comprised of 13 Super Sylphs, which are heavily modified variants of the Sylphid fighter jet designed to have incredible speed and sensor capabilities. In turn, they are manned by some of the best pilots in the entire FAF. But their mission is to never engage the JAM and only to dispassionately record everything they see.: One of the first things Rei does in both the book and anime is to solely based off of Yukikaze's judgment.
He's also doing this over the strong protests of the, proving that he puts far more trust in an AI's judgment than another human or even his own eyes.: The Super Sylph's novel and anime designs are evocative of the F-15S/MTD and the Su-27 Flanker family respectively.: The Free Electron Laser Unit attached to the Flip Knights. They see extensive use for the anime's final battle. The novel doesn't give a formal name to the lasers and averts the trope by detailing that the lasers have a near perfect accuracy rating (unless you can outrun the speed of light), are unaffected by weather conditions, and fire in 0.7 second bursts with the cannon having a 1.95 degree turn radius. The anime shows this to be quite true as the lasers fire a continuous beam in pulses.: Faery. Even in-universe, it's speculated that the planet itself could be JAM.: The compromised Banshee-IV is definitely this.: 30+ years after the attempted invasion, most people in the human world treat the JAM as a sort of urban legend/fiction. And as it turns out, the war against the JAM on Faery has basically turned into a human invasion of Faery for military and monetary gains, and is used by Earth nations to further their own individual interests.
This is certainly the case in the anime; in the second novel this 'Earth is invading Faery for resources' story is a lie that the JAM clones tell to Gavin Mayle to try to make him do a. He doesn't believe it, so they murder him.: The anime showed the opening shots of the JAM invasion 30 years ago, but other than that, we don't know much about what happened.: Rei has a tendency to lose them.: It has been over 30 years of fighting between the FAF and the JAM, though the war has de-escalated into a medium-intensity conflict that largely consists of patrols shooting at each other day in and day out. Neither side has gained much of anything.: All fighters attempt this, with results varying greatly. Yukikaze, unsurprisingly, has the best success, followed by the Copy Super Sylph and the rest of the JAM. This presents problems for the protagonists when the planes' onboard computers get really good at predicting just what maneuvers to make at just the right time to successfully evade, but that the sudden g-forces can be potentially lethal to the relatively delicate human pilots.: Jack and Rei.: The soup Rei is served in the second half of the first episode/last chapter of the first book. Eww.: An example of which is seen in Operation 01/Chapter VI of the first book, where Yukikaze does a 180 degree flat spin, flying backwards, to shoot down a missile.
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And in the anime,.: Lt. Fukai most of the time, 'cept with his one and only friend, Jack, and Tom John. Also,.
/: The JAM, probably. This is also probably how the JAM see humans.: Lynn Jackson.: Chapter III of the first novel. Yukikaze detects. Something on her specialized that displays itself as a solid horizontal line despite that there is absolutely nothing the naked eye can see, and it also does not show up on standard radar or other sensors. When Rei takes heed of the warning and tries to fly away, the line starts chasing him and eventually envelops Rei & Yukikaze in a circle. Passing the 'line' on the radar screen feels like slamming into a wall of iron and they end up teleported into an.: Lt. Justified, as he is constantly working in sub-zero temperatures.
It gets him killed when he is too drunk to move his grader off the runway when Yukikaze is coming in for a landing.: Andy Lander loses his left hand when he tries to touch the ocean of orange sludge in the JAM alternate universe. It wasn't the sludge itself that did it; it was the hazy gas emitting from the sludge, which in his words, was vibrating like a buzzsaw.: Rei goes into one at the end of the first novel after Yukikaze forcefully ejects him from her airframe so she can upload herself into the FRX-00 and destroy her old body. The second novel reveals it lasts for 93 days.: Chapter II - Never Question The Value Of A Knight from the first novel builds up to a massive operation called 'FTJ83', which is going to be the largest military operation the FAF has done against the JAM for years and will involve the complete sortie of all available fighters to destroy the JAM's largest forward operating base. When it's go time, the operation is completely described in a single paragraph.
Of course, Rei that the base's destruction isn't going to slow the JAM down much. In fact, on his way back to base while escorting the Flip Knights, the real battle begins when.: Gavin Mayle is transferred to the 'retraining' unit, which the Intelligence Forces have ensured is being populated solely by JAM clones to isolate them. He slowly starts questioning whether he's a JAM clone because his last memories are of parachuting to the ground and making a hard landing, breaking his beacon and running out of food & water. Turns out to be a, he's not. The real JAM clones were trying to by feeding him a bunch of lies.
But when he refuses to play this game anymore and, the clone of Lt. Lancome shoots him.:, the SAF was able to secure funding for the Super Sylph because it was ostensibly a modified Sylphid. The actual aircraft was an entirely new design. This is actually since a number of real life combat aircraft 'variants' were developed this way. See.: Good Luck, Yukikaze ends with Ansel Rombert going MIA after starting his mutiny, Banshee-III exploding (heavily implied to be JAM sabotage), and the JAM launching an unbelievably large-scale electronic warfare attack that causes nearly all FAF AIs to as well as start registering hundreds of false positives of JAM fighters which are actually FAF craft.
The result is a that erupts in the FAF as nearly every plane from every FAF forward operating base starts gunning for HQ as well as making all SAF planes targets. Even worse, Booker brings up the possibility that the FAF pilots may be targeting the SAF not because of JAM deception, but because with the they think the SAF are. Rei moves to sortie into this madhouse because he believes the JAM are waiting for him & Yukikaze to show themselves. Meanwhile, the SAF Strategic Computer is strongly predicting that an actual JAM fleet will show up after the carnage is over and wipe out the remaining survivors. After all, everything is going for them.:.
The people of Earth think the war against the JAM is not their issue to deal with. It has been going on for over 30 years in a location that nobody on Earth can even remotely imagine. Add to that that the FAF has almost no oversight at all, and it's no wonder why by this point, abound on Earth that think the JAM don't even exist and that the FAF is planning a rebellion to overthrow the United Nations. Chapter III - Mysterious Battle Zone has Rei playing babysitter to a pundit from Earth who has come to Faery to do a story on the FAF. He starts off utterly convinced that the JAM war is fake and is a ploy to arm the FAF for their global revolution. He very quickly changes his mind. In the second novel, Rei spends a short furlough on Earth with Lynn Jackson.
He decides to try and find some news articles on the JAM or the war, but even an Internet search turns up very few articles. He suspects it's because the JAM have already infiltrated Earth and are censoring the news media.: There is an extensive red-light district in Faery base's underground city.
Prostitution is legal on Faery and many of the men take advantage of the services on offer.: Rei speculates that the JAM may view Yukikaze as this, wondering why a computerized mechanical life-form is fighting against its own kind.: Are humans necessary for war?.: Jack is really worried about Rei's attachment to Yukikaze. He's tired of seeing so many pilots die in this war, and he fears Rei may do something stupid on the battlefield for Yukikaze's sake that would cost him his life.: Rei undergoes major development after recovering from his. The nature of his entire relationship with Yukikaze is completely changed and he has trouble coping with that, though with some help from Edith Foss, he begins to get better. The result is that Rei gradually and begins to relate to fellow humans on a more personal level. On rare occasions, he will even make sarcastic remarks and find things amusing.: There's a reason they're called the Faery Air Force. The hostile terrain of the planet makes a ground force impractical, and so far as we know, there are no large bodies of water available to justify a naval presence.
The FAF top brass is attempting to put together a ground force as of the second novel by way of, but Booker thinks this is a bad idea: he notes that the majority of the JAM's actions are based on matching the FAF's capabilities and that introducing a ground element to the war will.: Good Luck, Yukikaze explains that the FAF cannot defeat the JAM because they can't figure out exactly how the JAM are able to build their bases and aircraft in over 30 years of conflict. When a JAM base is destroyed, a new one pops up somewhere else practically out of thin air. The FAF has sent countless recon missions out to see how the JAM supply chain works, but in all their sorties, they have never been able to find evidence of even a single JAM transport aircraft or ground vehicle. Satellite surveillance doesn't help either, since spy sats are a priority target for the JAM and they shoot down every single one that is launched into Faery's atmosphere. The best explanation that the FAF analysts can come up with is that the JAM either use a network of underground tunnels or they are teleporting their forces around by using micro-wormholes similar to the Passageway.
It's more than likely the latter.: The bizarre pocket universe Rei and Lander are transported to in 'Mysterious Battle Zone.' There is nothing there apart from a makeshift runway, a forest of strange crystalline trees, and an endless ocean of orange sludge. It is clearly a JAM environment, as a JAM aircraft attempts to interface with Yukikaze in this area. In addition, the trees are some type of antennae that emit a kind of radio interference that disables Lander's camcorder & voice recorder. This same universe also contains a JAM copy of the TAB-14 forward operating base.
This time, Rei escapes when he gets into Yukikaze and launches a missile at a swarm of the JAM insects. To a larger extent, all of Faery. Rei & Jack are very disoriented when they return to Earth briefly because there is so much color & life on Earth. At one point in the first novel, Rei even likens Faery's atmosphere to that of being in a hallucinogenic haze.: In the second novel, Edith Foss goes into the science behind 'profacting' which is a very fancy way of making predictions based off of statistical data & other information such as date/location of birth, profession, etc. There's even a specialized computer program known as TFacPro II to do this. This may have been sounded pretty fantastic for 1999, but fast forward ten years later Even more impressively, TFacPro II can be used by Yukikaze to profact the JAM, who are supposed to be, as well as translate her 'thoughts' into human-readable text so she can communicate with Rei.: Lynn Jackson's novel, The Invader. The prologue is an excerpt from this book, detailing the background of the FAF and the war against the JAM.: The nature of the between the FAF & the JAM suddenly changes dramatically after the JAM begin realizing humans exist and take steps to respond to this new threat to them.: Andy Lander is amazed to see on Faery Americans using Russian military equipment and vice versa.
Granted, this still doesn't happen much even today among the actual American & Russian militaries.: How bad was the JAM invasion of Earth? We don't know the details, but in the chapter 'Indian Summer' Rei casually mentions to Tom John that Japan possesses nukes. Just from that, we know the invasion had to be bad.: Yukikaze's program was always designed to be adaptive as it gather's combat data, but the aging (if still powerful) computer hardware that drives her in the Super Slyph limits the scope of that adaptation.
She really begins to grow after she transfers into the FRX-00 with its newer computational hardware. This is actually a very good thing, as it enables her to oppose the JAM even more effectively.: Played with in an interesting way. When Rei & Booker touch down on the Admiral 56 carrier back on Earth, the crew of the ship think they may as well be spacemen. They also have difficulty communicating with the crew; their mannerisms have been altered so much by the war on Faery that their style of speaking is too and machine-like for the crew to follow. Booker is only able to start regaining some sense of normal diction after talking extensively with Lynn Jackson. Rei doesn't, and on another level, his frustration also comes from the fact that he hasn't spoken Japanese for so long that he can't get people who speak his native tongue to understand him.
When meeting with Lynn Jackson in Good Luck, Yukikaze, she starts pressing him for first-hand objective information on the JAM. Rei angrily tells her he can't give her a fair & balanced view on the JAM and declares that if that means he's not human, then he's fine with that. Jackson then says Rei must be a Faerian, and thus an alien.: In the first novel, Rei is haunted by the idea that humans will eventually have no place in the war as pure A.I. Aircraft reacts quicker and can do maneuvers that would kill a regular human. However it's the human element that keeps thwarting the JAM, Rei and Booker note that the A.I. Lack the intuition that humans have (such as the base A.I.
Not realizing why it was a bad idea to give a snow-plow driver who never saw combat, the highest medal available for valour) and at the very least humans are necessary if only to train an A.I. Plane until they get up to par.: The SAF AI killing Lt. Amata is portrayed as this. If it hadn't done so, Yukikaze would have crashed into him and gotten destroyed as well.
In the bigger picture, a Super Sylph, her pilot, and her EWO are worth far more than a snow grader and its driver. Happens again in the next chapter, when Yukikaze takes remote control of the Fand II fighter when the JAM attack during the test flight. The extreme maneuvers she makes the Fand pull end up killing its pilot Hugh O'Donnell. In this case, Rei is the one defending Yukikaze for doing what she had to do to survive.: Chapter II - A Soldier's Leave of Good Luck, Yukikaze has Rei return to Japan on leave for a week, as his status with the FAF is in limbo between 'retirement' and re-enlisting. While there, agents from the Japanese government come to his hotel room & try to, and when he refuses, they move to subdue & kidnap him. He's saved by the timely intervention of an FAF intelligence agent who throws a flash grenade into the room and spirits him away with Lynn Jackson. He also wonders if the whole thing may have been a setup by the FAF to ensure he comes back to them, but decides it doesn't matter since he was going to anyway.
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Rei ruefully notes to himself he may be safer on Faery fighting the JAM.: 2nd Lt. Yagashira of the SAF. Before he got transferred to the Special Air Force, his FAF squadmates already hated him.
He would interrupt conversations to talk about completely unrelated things that he had an opinion about, he simply cannot understand why everyone wanted nothing to do with him, and most damningly his tendencies in combat tended to fail most of the time. The few times they succeed, he makes his whole squad know it was solely to further his status.
When he gets transferred to SAF, his squadmates celebrate. And this is what he was like before he died for real and got replaced with a JAM copy.: Andy Lander in the chapter 'Mysterious Battle Zone.' He's also a perfect example of Flavor 2.
He wrote an article that criticizes the USA for not using American-built goods, yet he also demands that He, and he believes the FAF will attack the UN using a drone army.: Despite all the above, when he loses his hand in the JAM pocket dimension and is weakened from blood loss, he does not hesitate to tell Rei to when it becomes apparent the JAM are coming. When Rei, he refuses Rei's offer to help him walk and tells him to keep his hands on his machine gun and his eyes open for hostiles.
When he returns to Earth, he writes a pretty even-handed article on the FAF that is largely free of bias.: Lt. Mayle & the rest of his squadron truly despised 2nd. Mayle was actually responsible for Yagashira's death because he did not give him covering fire during a mission against the JAM.
The JAM-created copy of Yagashira then sabotages Mayle's plane as well as the entire 505th squadron, and they take massive casualties against the JAM in the first chapter of Good Luck, Yukikaze.: The FAF & the JAM are constantly coming up with new weapons and technologies to one-up each other. Sometimes the JAM make an advancement and the FAF has to play catch up, and other times it's vice versa. Such as going from high-velocity missiles, to, to, to (a.k.a.; think ). But all these advancements only provide an advantage for at most before the other side develops new tactics/countermeasures &.: Rei's suspicions about Nurse Marnie & Major Yazawa are confirmed when he tears open Marnie's shirt and bites her on the collar. Her blood doesn't taste anything like how human blood should taste.: Amata being awarded the Order of Mars completely changes how his peers treat him and destroys what little peace his terrible life had.: Rei speculates that the JAM human copies may be made of dextro-amino acids after their first attempt to feed him at the fake TAB-14 base tastes horrible, but the next meal made out of Burgadish is digestible. Nurse Marnie's blood also tastes completely different from human blood.: Averted. As discussed below, the FAF treats its manual laborers as less than trash.: Ansel Rombert treats the issue of JAM copy humans in the FAF seriously, but also notes it's a situation they can handle.
He compares it to the fact that human spies from Earth have previously attempted to infiltrate the FAF, so the methods used to detect the Earth spies can also be used to root out the JAM agents.: Katsuragi's cool, professional demeanor breaks once he's trapped with Rei & Yukikaze in the Mysterious Battle Zone.: Averted. While it may have seemed possible during the JAM invasion of Earth, now that they have been beaten back to Faery, the nations of the world have gone right back to fighting their regular wars against each other. Lynn Jackson & Jack Booker are part of the few voices that strongly believe the world must be united or else the JAM will easily conquer humanity.: Andy Lander is definitely full of this. Averted with Rei, who only feels irritation whenever he thinks about Japan.: A literal case of this.
The first novel reveals that the lowest rank in the FAF is Second Lieutenant. Thus you have an air force with absolutely no enlisted men at all and fully half the personnel are Second Lieutenants. Ostensibly this is for propaganda purposes, but all it really does is make the Second Lieutenants do the duties that a normal military would assign to enlisted.: The unfortunate protagonist of Chapter VI - All Systems Normal.: Inverted: the story was first starting to get written in 1979. But over 30 years later, the themes it brings up regarding the use of and the digital battlefield are more relevant than ever. So it's more like. Not to mention a being fought in a land so far away that most of the world doesn't even care anymore about it, against an enemy that we have no clear understanding of and with no overarching strategy in mind. Are we talking about the war on Faery, or, especially the Afghanistan theater?.
Kambayashi may have also been drawing on the., indeed. /: Lieutenant Akira Katsuragi is this to Rei in the second book after Rei undergoes his.
In many respects, Katsuragi is almost a perfect reflection of how Rei was like in the first book, which is actually one major reason why he was assigned to Rei as his EWO. Interacting with Katsuragi tests Rei's patience, as he feels it's like looking into a mirror and seeing himself: Rei can't believe how cold and single-minded he used to be.: 2nd Lt.
Amata's story turns out to be this. He already had a shit deal being a snowplow operator. Then he got the Order of Mars, which ruined his social life and alienated him from the few friends he had, which drove him to drink even harder. He has no home to return to on Earth, as he would either be thrown into prison or sent to a detox facility if he ever went back.
In the end, he ends up operating his grader while drunk, which puts him in the path of Yukikaze while she's landing. The SAF AI then uses a CIWS Phalanx turret to blow him to smithereens so that Yukikaze doesn't crash into him.: For 33 years, the JAM didn't even realize humans existed. They've been fighting against the computers the whole time and humans just happened to be caught in the middle in some kind of grand proxy war.
This changes as of the first novel's final chapter, when the JAM finally notice that there are strange levo-amino acid-based lifeforms on the enemy side.: The reason the war has gone for so long is because of a variety of things: the FAF is stretched thin and can only either defend the Passageway or launch an attack on a JAM base, rarely both at the same time. This is particularly difficult since attacks on JAM bases usually prompt them to launch a at the Passageway from another direction, forcing the FAF to retreat and fight a defensive battle (this is exactly what happened with the FTJ83 operation in the first novel). There is intense political pressure for FAF commanders to 'play it safe' and not do anything audacious, so the war largely consists of minor skirmishes and the occasional bombing raid. As the conflict went on, support from Earth started decreasing as well, further limiting the FAF's ability to project force. On the JAM side, it's because they weren't aware of humans, suggesting they may believe the real battle is to destroy our machines and computers. The status quo starts changing once the JAM move beyond this basic strategy.: Tomahawk John destroys Banshee-IV's coolant system after the JAM fatally wound him, ensuring that the compromised plane will crash and burn.:.
In Chapter VIII - Super Phoenix, Marnie tells Rei the soup he's having is chicken broth. He says it doesn't taste like chicken.: The JAM are capable of this. The JAM consciousness that requests that Rei join them in the Mysterious Battle Zone contacts Rei in his mind and tries to persuade him to evade Yukikaze's suicide missile.
It's also suspected that Rombert's contact with the JAM to organize the clones was through telepathy, as there was absolutely no record of any comm transmissions made by or to him. We also see the JAM clones are capable of at least projecting illusions, which they use to Lt. Mayle in their attempt to turn him to their side.: Andy Lander is confident that the FAF is not needed, and that if the JAM decide to invade again, the Earth's militaries can handle them. Admiral Nagamu shares the same sentiment. Then we see in Chapter VII - Battle Spirit that a single JAM fighter can effortlessly shoot down 8 top-of-the-line Japanese Navy planes, and that only the technologically advanced FAF stands a real chance against them.: Admiral Nagamu of the Japanese Navy in Chapter VII. He blames Yukikaze and her crew for luring the JAM to Earth and is doesn't even want to let them land on his carrier despite the fact they just saved it from being sunk.
He only does so when Lynn Jackson points out assisting the FAF is required by international law.: In the first novel, Yukikaze and the other Super Sylphs are this for the FAF. Besides being the largest fighter the FAF have (even the Japanese navy marveled at how large the Yukikaze is, mentioning its size rivals that of a fighter-bomber), the Super Sylphs pack serious muscle. On paper the Super Slyphs should be obsolete, but in practice they are more than a match for the newer fighters. Because of their great size, the Super Sylphs are the only fighter jets that can house an A.I. And they actually have superior speed over the Fand II as noted during the test.: The meaning of the name JAM.
The name was used to refer to the aliens during the initial invasion of Earth, but Good Luck, Yukikaze reveals that the original meaning of the name, if it ever even had any, is now lost.: The UN seriously distrusts the FAF. Several times Booker & Rei wonder if the more dangerous enemy to the FAF is not the JAM, but Earth. The FAF is not immune to this either, what with the major going on among its divisions.
The SAF, the System Corps, and the Intelligence Forces are constantly trying to keep an eye on each other. Intelligence especially starts monitoring the SAF much more closely after Rei brings news back of JAM-created copy humans.
This trope is many times.: In the first novel, FAF is moving towards this trope. The experimental Flip Knight drones used by Colonel Guneau have laser cannons instead of conventional guns. These prove to be highly effective, in the test run the Flip Knights completely curbstomp Rei and Yukikaze and in an actual combat situation they tear through a Jam escort (but lose almost all of the initial Flip Knights when the Jam unleash their nuclear missiles).: The FAF's treatment of its snowplow operators is absolutely horrific. They stay in subzero temperatures clearing out snow on the runways when aircraft return from a sortie, but they are not allowed to keep the engine running if they're waiting for a plane to come back (which means no heater). It's stated that the FAF could automate the process, but the cost of setting up an automated system was deemed to be too expensive by the higher-ups when you have The operators are paid a pittance, they are regularly sneered at by FAF officers, and they are also not allowed to drink alcohol on duty. The last bit is reasonable, but when they are forbidden from turning on the snowplow engines, that means that alcohol is one of the very few ways to keep warm in those conditions.
The SAF tactical AI tried to defy this trope: it awarding Lt. Amata the Order of Mars was its way of attempting to make the FAF leadership realize how important the snow-clearing operation is to the war against the JAM, and to stop using manual labor or at least treat them better. It would actually prefer to have the snow-clearing process completely automated.: Chapter VIII - Super Phoenix. Rei speaks with the JAM's human copies. An even bigger one in the second book, Chapter VI - Strategic Reconnaisance Phase 2. The JAM finally make contact with Rei and demand he join them.
He refuses.: Nearly everything the SAF tactical computer states to Booker when he interacts with it during the chapter 'Faery - Winter'. But one line in particular.
Rei as well, compared to his novel counterpart. And even Yukikaze!.: The nasty facial scar Jack sports in the novel is completely absent in the OVA.: Rei chases Copy Sylph into a canyon in Operation 01.: Arguably, thanks to the setting.: Played straight in the first episode, where Rei dreams of Yukikaze as a caged fairy, and himself. The really really bad spin-off Tasukete, Mave-chan!
In which the various aircraft are represented. You'll never guess. Cute girls.: The APC which only appeared in the anime. In the novel, BAX-4 referred to the the soldiers wore. In the anime, the suits were unnamed.: Cooley pulls one off in Operation 05. /: For anyone who actually understands air force parlance, the series air combat scenes were developed with the help of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, so a lot of the radio chatter is what you'd actually hear in an air combat situation.: Oh boy.: We never get to see real JAMs other than their ships or their fake humans, some of whom weren't even aware that they were fake for a while.: How the FAF views the conflict.
Every advance they make is copied and countered by the JAM. This is because JAM have infiltrated the FAF.: A small one in Operation 02: engine trouble.
Griffon Leader can't dogfight due to engine trouble with his FA-2; minutes later Yukikaze aborts its strafing run on TAB-15 and RTBs due to engine trouble. Later while dogfighting with JAM during DACT with TS-X1, the same engine trouble rears its head. In Operation 03, Yukikaze activates its JAM sensor jammer, displaying what Jack identifies as a warning pattern.: The manga constantly jumps back and forth between the present day and flashbacks.: Tom John's right leg is metal. This leg and his plutonium-powered heart are the only parts of his body that the JAM attack.: Rei's justification for being a criminal is because he got fired from his other jobs for speaking his mind. At least the jewel thief gang accepts him as one of their own.: A very mild one, but after winning a game of cards, Jack found that one of his prizes was one of the players' wedding ring.
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Even though he says he divorced his wife a long time ago, Jack gave the ring back to the guy and firmly told him never to bet that ring again.: The manga is a very shortened retelling of Chapters I, IV, & VIII of the first novel with some original content thrown in, with many an unless you read the book.: Rei's father before he committed suicide by hanging himself in their house. Rei happened to wake up with an electric cord around his neck and his brother laying dead next to him before finding his father's body. He was only a child when this happened, which drove him to be very cold and unresponsive to people. As an adult, Rei served as a for a gang of jewel thieves until he got apprehended by police and sent to Faery.
Tomahawk John's heart was severely damaged when he was stabbed with a knife. Details are scarce, but it appears he was the instigator of that altercation. In the end, John's family had to sell all their houses to afford his artificial heart.
Except for his mother, they seemed to do so quite reluctantly, with even a male relative referring to John's heart as 'wicked.' On Faery, John refuses to defend himself when a pilot harasses him, saying He also makes a vague comment to Rei that he used to treat everyone as his enemy. Jack Booker's son Jaime died in an unspecified accident while he was deployed as a fighter pilot.
His wife Alicia resented him for putting his career over his family, and it is strongly hinted they got divorced. While Jack is visiting his daughter, an older female relative (probably his mother or his mother-in-law) tells him that Alicia is seeing a doctor now, and begs him to give up piloting. Clearly,.: Major Yazawa holds Rei at gunpoint and holds up a laptop to enter the authorization code to access Yukikaze's systems. In response, Rei and then uses his gun to It helps that it's a rugged military-style laptop made of steel.: The JAM-controlled Banshee-IV kills Tom John by attacking him with some kind of device John eventually gets completely vaporized by them.: Averted, as Rei did get placed with a foster family after his father's suicide.: The only thing Rei kept of his father was his watch. He was very distraught when his adoptive family threw it away to help overcome the past. It wasn't thrown away. Rei found it while rifling for some money in his stepdad's drawer.
He eventually lost it during a heist when his robbery gang had to burn a building down to destroy evidence and he dropped it.: Rei's boss in the jewel thief gang turned out to be an undercover cop who set them all up to get arrested. But he did try to.: The final mission is an adaptation of the ending of the first anime episode, but big chunks of the story are missing and awkwardly shoved in as still images from the OVA. Unless you've seen the episode, you won't understand what the heck just happened.: Inverted, there's a video game adaptation of the anime version of Yukikaze on the original XBOX, but it didn't pick up any sort of popularity.: Despite having more elements from the original novel's story, the game is largely an adaptation of the first OVA episode, including anime-original elements such as the.: In the finale, after Rei escapes TAB-16, but Yukikaze has no ammo. The game forces you to get shot down by a JAM missile to properly end the game and trigger the ending cutscene.: Modders have produced of FFR-41 Mave on.: In contrast to the novels, manga and anime, Rei does not speak a word in this game.
The majority of the dialogue is by Jack, who provides the. This gets a bit silly during Mission 10 when Andy Lander is riding with Rei and asks him a lot of questions about his personal background, but there is no response.: A minor case. In Mission 10, after being transported to the alternate dimension, Fukai & Lander do not get out of Yukikaze but instead fly around and engage with a JAM squadron in a dogfight before being returned to Faery, so Lander never loses his hand exploring the surface.: There is a region of Faery known as 'Suger Desert.' In addition, because this game came out years before the official novel translations, Jack's last name is spelled 'Bukhar,' Andy's last name is spelled 'Rander,' the Fand drone is spelled 'Fern,' and Faery is spelled 'Fairy.' .: Some missions have scenes right from the anime spliced in.
Because the game was released in late 2002, only footage from the first episode is used. Every mission also has a pre-flight cutscene from the anime that plays every time you take off.: The game generally provides a more accurate depiction of how Rei & Yukikaze work in the novel, such as having entire missions where they do not engage in combat but simply fly around and collect reconnaissance data.
Mission 10 also adapts the first novel's Chapter III: Mysterious Battle Zone, where Rei & Andy Lander get inexplicably transported to an alternate dimension, which was not adapted in the anime or manga. The pre-mission maps show the general regions the FAF has divided Faery into, which are A-Zone, B-Zone, and C-Zone, which again was only really elaborated on in the novels. Jack also mentions the FAF's Central Computer many times in the briefings & debriefings, which received some token mentions in the anime.
It should go without saying that this will have spoilers for the entirety of the anime.Yukikaze Ending Analysis'I've got a different take on the end of episode 5 - there are several contextual clues throughout the series which give us some pretty definite facts to lean on.First is that Yukikaze is never deceived by the JAM. Yukikaze is consistently seeing through the JAM's deceptions which seem to fool every other human. But in every scene where the JAM are attempting to deceive the humans, Yukikaze is able to see through it. Because of this, I don't think the exodus was a mirage painted to fool the humans and/or Yukikaze - in such a case, Yukikaze would have seen it.
I also don't think that the JAM are omnipotent or omniscient - they're not all-knowing nor infinite in any regard. Even if they are extraordinarily powerful, they still require time and energy to learn about humans. If, for some reason, the JAM had already known everything about the humans, including Yukikaze, by the end of the movie, then Ansel Rombert's final speech was actually contrary to the plot - that humans can buy time by confusing the equations of the JAM would have simply been a bald-faced lie. I can't imagine why the writers would intentionally mislead the audience that way. Perhaps the JAM knew everything about the humans, except Rei/Yukikaze, perhaps they simply hadn't acquired all the knowledge they wanted. From Rombert's speech, it seems to me that once the JAM learn everything, then the JAM's only intention left for mankind is annihilation. This is pure speculation, but it's possible the JAM have encountered other alien beings before visiting the humans - yet we see no keepsakes or any other remains of prior beings after all their knowledge is acquired.
Additionally, not only are the JAM unable to dupe Yukikaze, but she's able to dupe them. Since Yukikaze sees through the JAM's deceptions, I think it's safe to conclude that if Yukikaze believes she's deceiving the JAM, then they're being deceived. The amount that the JAM 'know' about its subjects also seems to correlate with its ability to deceive them. (The) JAM know/knows a great deal about humans, deceiving just about everyone, but very, very little about Yukikaze, never being able to fool her.So during the episode, the JAM were fooled by Yukikaze's operation.
The humans had a fighting chance only because of that op; as soon as Ansel (and subsequently, the JAM) found out the entire mutiny and massacre were a ruse, they set off in hot pursuit for the escaping air force. When the JAM discover the massacre was just a setup, the mirage of the planet fades. What's key here is that the entire human air force ends up in that dark dimension where the JAM first tried to 'take' Yukikaze. At the beginning of the episode, Yukikaze, Rei and Jack are about to be 'taken' (and presumably, all other humans/machines were abducted and copied in this way) in that same dark dimension (complete with the flying particle clouds of tiny JAM fighters; look closely at the end of ep4/beginning of ep5). When Yukikaze threatens to destroy herself, the JAM give up and let them go.
So it's possible that Fairy exists - and that the JAM merely abduct its victims into some kind of microcosm. Even though the entire air force is about to be taken by the JAM, they've got a fighting chance & Yukikaze knows this, since she's the only one who knows how to fight the JAM. Things are pretty straight-forward from the time Yukikaze takes off from the Banshee to the end of the scene. Like I said, I don't consider that the JAM were anywhere near what could be considered all-powerful and so the humans have a fighting chance in the last battle.Regardless of exactly what happened to Rei and Yukikaze, the humans make it back to Earth. The narration is assumed by Lynn - and unless the JAM had taken over Earth before mankind's counterattack through the portal, they probably could not duplicate her. And I highly, highly doubt that the JAM had already taken over all of Earth and fully learned about humans before the narrative starts - if that were the case, then the JAM would effectively be all-powerful (at least from a human perspective) and would have learned everything and probably destroyed humankind before Yukikaze was ever created. Also, if the JAM had totally taken over the Earth and set up some kind of Matrix-like existence for everyone, that'd be some pretty deceitful storytelling IMO.
The idea that anyone in the story is subjected to a Matrix/Nexus/Solaris existence strikes me as paranoia.While I can't be as certain about Yukikaze and Rei's fates, I think it's pretty simple. The white flash we see at the end of the battle scene was not just a transition to the next scene.
There's an audible boom - this was the detonation of the Flip Knights. So I think that Yukikaze/Rei died.
The debriefing at the end of the film could be nothing more than thoughtful recollections of past happy memories, or there could be some significance to Jack's opinion that Yukikaze and Rei are still alive and happy. If I have to decide, I think it's more likely that Yukikaze and Rei died on Fairy and chalk up Jack's final statement to wishful thinking and the final briefing scene to simple recollection on Jack's part. There are other times in the movie where characters are reminiscing (Lynn reflects on the time she first saw the JAM broadcast on TV during Christmas and that scene doesn't signify anything supernatural/metaphysical/etc). Additionally, because the Flip Knights detonate, I don't see how Yukikaze/Rei could continue living. I think it's more likely that not only did they die, but that the JAM itself was annihilated. I'm definitely curious about the significance of seeing Rei in the rear-view mirror and the debriefing at the end (assuming there is any).
Maybe this carries a more obvious meaning exclusive to Japanese culture.Final note about the JAM. I'm of the opinion that the JAM are not satisfied with its knowledge of mankind. If you look at how the JAM 'learn' - it doesn't seem to really learn so much as it simply acquires data. The JAM are great at copying humans and their creations/inventions - but when you talk about creating and creativity- the JAM are limited.
They/It has formed the mirage of Fairy and it designs aerial fighting machines (or maybe these were just acquired from a previous race), but outside of that, it demonstrates no further creativity. Even the makeup of Fairy could be chalked up to a total duplicate of Earth on a chemical/physical level - with green skies simply because it's illuminated by different stars. And their fighting machines could simply have been acquired from a previously conquered race. Also, the JAM seem to 'think' more like a computer - as characters hint at logic and equations as part of JAM's thinking. But JAM runs into some problems when it witnesses human nature operating illogically; no amount of logic/equations can account for human irrationality.
Ansel mentions this and his speech is pretty key to a lot of the intended conclusions IMO. So the JAM can copy, but not really create and they are severely confused by human illogic. Further evidence of this was heard earlier during a briefing in the series: we hear that whenever the humans invent a new technology, the JAM quickly duplicate it. It seems to me that the JAM are severely limited in certain areas of intellect which we take for granted.
If that's true, this puts the humans on a more equal footing with the JAM.So in the end, the JAM try to stop the humans, but it's not powerful enough and is ultimately defeated by Yukikaze/Rei, who sacrifice themselves to allow the humans to escape. While the heroes may have died, the ending is still a happy one, since the majority of the humans are able to escape safely.'