:DD Woot! Glad to have sparked some nostalgia. Yeah, that tends to be people's usual reaction to stumbling across Armitage stuff in this day and age: OH MAN I LOVED THAT WHEN I WAS A KID, GOOD TIMES. I'm actually the same: when I put the site together it was after a brief frenzy of rediscovering "oh wow, I used to love this". And it's still good.
Yeah, after reading the interview with Hiroyuki Ochi (also now on the site), I get the feeling you're right. He said he deliberately designed the Seconds to, aesthetically, look like "typical anime women" with their big eyes, and designed the main cast in a more Western style, as a protest against the "anime babe" look: he definitively did not want Armitage herself to be a typical "anime babe". So it's very likely there's some meta-commentary going on there with the way they're treated in the show as well.
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Date: 2013-05-04 08:35 am (UTC)From:Yeah, after reading the interview with Hiroyuki Ochi (also now on the site), I get the feeling you're right. He said he deliberately designed the Seconds to, aesthetically, look like "typical anime women" with their big eyes, and designed the main cast in a more Western style, as a protest against the "anime babe" look: he definitively did not want Armitage herself to be a typical "anime babe". So it's very likely there's some meta-commentary going on there with the way they're treated in the show as well.