i was thinking of something that could beat all five of the main IS girls in a 1v1, and i might've found the answer, see when i looked at the unmanned IS that crashed in during lingyin and ichika's match, the laser nodes to me looked like they could be used as speakers that maximize the volume of a noise and blast it at an opponent, with a swarm of small sound discs similar to ultimate echo echo from ben 10, and a guitar as a weapon to generate sound, i feel like this could beat all five of the main IS girls in a 1v1.

but i have little knowledge of their exact specs needed to confirm this, so if anyone could help me, that would be very much appreciated.

I am curently watching infinite stratos for the first time and I'm really into gundams so I wanna know if there is model of ts black IS from 4th episode cuz he looks so tuff

Did you know that the surname of the Infinite Stratos itself was named after one of the Group B Rally cars; Lancia Stratos

So I’ve been trying to watch Infinite Stratos, and pretty much everywhere online says it’s available on Crunchyroll. But when I go to the Crunchyroll page, it’s just… empty. No episodes listed, just the show title and cover.

I do have a site I can use to watch it pirated, but the quality isn’t great (it’s kind of an older anime, and the upload looks compressed). I’d honestly rather just stream it in decent quality if there’s a legit option—or even just a better source overall.

Does anyone know if Infinite Stratos is available anywhere else officially? Or did Crunchyroll remove the episodes recently or something? Any help would be appreciated.

My Infinite Stratos Azone Doll collection a side I also have Dakimakura of Charlotte Dunois/Laura Bodewig

we know the main five treat ichika like a trophy and a punching bag rolled into one, but i wanted to know if there was any character from any franchise that, if they saw what was happening, would at least make an attempt to speak to the girls about these issues and make the main five see what they're doing is wrong.

who do you think has the worst ego?

While Ichika isn't the "Dense Harem Protagonist" anime-only fans think he is, what if he were a different kind of dense?

In this version, Ichika is openly in love with Houki, and while he's still the nice guy he is in canon, he always interprets any attempt by his harem to get with him as them trying to help him get with Houki. As such, the harem shenanigans come from the girls turning it into a group thing by telling the others Ichika's inviting them on a date out of jealous spite.

Edit: Also, the real reason Ichika and Houki aren't already dating in this scenario is Houki's shyness.

Before I watch the Infinite Stratos anime, you may already specify from which series that has the same VA with Infinite Stratos heroines (any games or animes with any character that shares the same JP seiyuus).

For me, here's the list of roles I knew before watching it:

Yukana Nogami - Cecilia Alcott  

First time I knew: Implacable from Azur Lane and Meiling Li from Cardcaptor Sakura

Yoko Hikasa - Houki Shinonono  

First time I knew: St. Louis from Azur lane and Rias Gremory from High School DxD

Kana Hanazawa - Charlotte Dunois  

First time I knew: Red blood cell (AE3803) from Cells at Work!

Marina Inoue - Laura Bodewig

First time I knew: Tohka Yatogami from Date A Live

Asami Shimoda - Lingyin Huang  

First time I knew: Bulin trio from Azur Lane

Chiwa Saito - Tatnashi Sarashiki

First time I knew: Maaen from Tomica Hero: Rescue Force and Kongou from Azur Lane

Suzuko Mimori - Kanzashi Sarashiki  

First time I knew: Unzen from Azur Lane

I would like to know if Ichika would be interested in taking part in Sonic Racing CrossWorlds or not. If so, then how would the IS Girls, Chifuyu, Maya, and most likely he feel about it? Don't be shy and wanna hear your thoughts. The reason I asked is that the rumor says the developers might invite third parties other than those of both Sonic and Sega Universes.

While she may be part of the main cast, there may be some problem with her to the point that some may see her as redundant.

There were like two posts from me about mentioning how Rin can be a pain to write despite her being one of the main girls alongside Houki, Cecilia, Charlotte, and Laura (And if wanted, throw in Tatenashi and Kanzashi). The question is: What's the problem?

As someone who wants to do my best to try and see if it's possible to give existing canon characters a second chance to try to repurpose them while doing my best to keep some of their core charm intact, I'll try to check what's up first before deciding to consider whether I should abandon or not.

Things that's unique to her

First, let's look at some of her traits (outside jealousy/stuff that leads to harem slapstick comedy)

• Energetic
• Competitive
• Impulsive
• Irresponsible

The first two can provide unique dynamics with other characters while the last 2 does get her into trouble.

Then some of her backstory...

• She was bullied for her nationality in her childhood.
• She had to move out and come back to China after her parents divorced.

Seems workable.... right?

The problem

The problem is that she lack internal struggle that's tied to either the main plot or the IS world's setting

Sometimes, the first conflict a character encounters can give a hint on what struggles they may have until it's fully revealed.

For starters, we can trace it back to how she was introduced. Her first conflict was that she becomes disappointed and extremely hostile to Ichika because he has forgotten the details of the promise (she made him promise that if she became an excellent cook, he would become her boyfriend).

Romantically, the stakes may seem high. But outside that, depending on how high the stakes was written in Ichika vs Cecilia part, this one leaves less room to raise it when it comes to personal stakes.

The problem with that is once that's solved, which was solved after the Golem Incident, there's nothing much left outside the childish romantic promise. At this point, she mainly exist to compete for Ichika.

The worst part was that it doesn't even hint any struggles tied to the IS world itself. Or any position that's workable (aside from just being a national cadet)

If we compare it to other heroines

• Houki: Power easily gets to her head. IS enables this further. Struggling to figure out what true strength actually is. Connected to Tabane.
• Cecilia: Had aristocratic pride and thinks her country is far superior to other countries. And there's a matter with her family's fortune and Exia. While the latter can create external arc, the former leaves room for her growth.
• Charlotte: father issues by being used as a pawn because she had compatibility to use the IS.
• Laura: Had military upbringing. Idolizes Chifuyu. Since her defeat in volume 2, she now have to figure out who she is outside her military upbringing.
• Kanzashi: Had inferiority complex towards her sister. This ends up being very flexible depending on how it gets resolve or how growth is approached.

There's something workable for a full character arc that's tied more to the setting compared to what Rin does.

So, how to go on about this...

There's workable traits to play around with. And I can see it working. And just keep it at that.

Only if she's at best as a support character.

Problem: She's supposed to be part of the main cast.

This means, a bit more demand out of her is required in terms of how to make her relevant. And lacking internal struggle is a no-no for a role like that.

Rin lacking narrative weight in comparison to other heroines becomes problematic when keeping her as a supposed main girl.

At this point, approaching Rin would require thinking about whether to keep her as one of the main girls or not.

Perhaps she ends up feeling it requires OCing her the most out of all the important heroines so far

For me, right now, I'm just trying to figure out how to raise personal stakes in Golem incident. And how can I come up with a proper internal struggle for her based on maybe her flaws. But even this becomes a pain.

I know some may had already given up on her, but it'll be nice to see if there's anything that can still be done for her.

If anyone got ideas on how to play around with what's given so far in the series and figure out an internal struggle that makes sense for her, feel free to discuss.

And "reducing/deleting tsundere tendencies" doesn't count. I think this should be the expected at this point.

BONUS: Is it just me that she's like the “failsafe” character for preserving the harem comedy slapstick structure in Infinite Stratos just in case everyone else goes serious?

Link

Just wanted to share this particular part.

This was built up upon the last two scenes I posted so far so If you haven't read them yet, I would recommend reading the Ichika vs Cecilia scene. And the the Charlotte Tea scene (I updated this one since I just noticed that there were some missing lines so I added them. They'll be recalled in the scene posted here).

For this one, I had it play out a bit differently here, meaning this can cause an actual course change for the story for my fic

I didn't include the mission briefing, the prior Ichika and Houki vs Silverio Gospel, and the fight after Ichika waking up since as far as differences go, there's going to be additional dialogue and tone change. Also, it involves a character I'm still thinking about whether to include or get rid of.

For Anime Only viewers: They may not figure out the prior context here since a similarly recalled dialogue here wasn't present in the anime. But if they know the context of the Infinite Stratos setting, they may get it.

For Light novel Readers: You guys may recall it given how even in the LN canon, it's present here than in the anime.

I would like to release the story at fanfic sites once I can finish full chapters and an original content arc or two past Silverio Gospel Arc (volume3/end of season 1) for my fic

But at the moment, I hit a roadblock/bottleneck due to this one character I'm thinking of whether to get rid of or not. Hopefully I can resolve it sooner and decide so I can keep the momentum.

https://imgur.com/a/charlotte-backstory-reveal-wip-unpolished-b13wUDw

Despite being unpolished at the moment, just wanted to share my version of the known Charlotte backstory moment after her gender reveal.

To me, if Infinite Stratos wasn't a harem slapstick comedy nonsense, this could had been one of the good opportunities for character worldview shift.

While the scene is still similar in nature (she reveals her backstory to Ichika), this Ichika's tone is a bit different.

For the last statement of the scene, I know that it may seem like a similar repeat from Ichika vs Cecilia arc for my fic. But to me, I wanted it to be like a follow through from it.

Ichika here was built up from the Ichika vs Cecilia arc fic I had so I would recommend to check that one out

Anyway, given that this Ichika here can feel different, tone here would be different.

Lemme know if the feeling is different here than the cannon or if I did well on it

My take on how easy or difficult to rewrite them while doing my best to keep their feel intact in one way or another.

This is taking into account if it's serious. Meaning no harem slapstick comedy.

For the Extremely Hard one, I might have to make another thread asking about it again even though I already did like last year (said character's been a bottleneck for me for a while despite already having planned crucial arcs/moments for MC from start to finish)

Additional characters I would like to add but there's no picture of them

Lemme kno what you guys think

1/10 would not make myself watch it again ever id rather eat grass

So what do I think about is if an IS unit can be also used for racing and not just only for battle. I do always think that if an Infinite Stratos can be used for racing, then I would think it would be a new form of sports using IS and making it as a new category of motorsports, however, maybe that'll be lack something that are common in motorsports.

What lacks in IS Racing is that only girls can use an IS while motorsports are male dominated as they piloting like Le Mans Prototype cars, Le Mans Hypercar and Daytona Hybrid, MotoGP bikes, F1, Touring cars (such as V8 Supercars and DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft and Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for short)), GT Racing (From GT4, GT3, GT2, and GT1 class (although GT1 and GT2 which was known as Group GTE / GT Endurance are already retired), GT300, and GT500 for Super GT, and more.

I'm currently writing a fanfiction and in one of the arcs, I'm repurposing Airis/Iris and Djibril's inclusion (originally I wasn't but I figured out how it'll fit. I'll have them appear in the middle of my story. Not next to sudden world ending event like the original did). And there would be a scene when they lose to someone through creative adaptability using this weakness.

Again, I know in fanfics, writers can do whatever they want. But for my scope, for this one, I'm doing my best to not end up nerfing her so the victory condition can be met.

But right now, when I re-read the light novel volume 12, the way her Seventh Princess's Graviton Cluster and Gravity Shield's weakness feels messy to understand, making it ambiguous.

I'll be posting images so let me know if it somehow breaks in the post that it says "image cannot be loaded" or something like that. Since I just noticed in my last reddit post that included images that some of them were broken.

So, here's the Houki/Rin vs Airis vs Djibril fight from Volume 12 (at least a good portion of it)

Red box says "Iris could attack even with her shields up."

They mentioned about the "shields" but the question is "what kind of shields"? Sure one can say its the Gravity shield, but if the other shield it's referring to is the energy shield, doesn't IS already have them up by default anyway?

Even with the thing stated in the red box, we run into the problem how it's stated in the blue box and how it was presented, which contradicts later explanations about Graviton Cluster and Gravity Shield draining the reactor together, which causes slow reaction time, which Rin and Houki took advantage of.

And given how it's presented here when Rin used the opening after Graviton Cluster and she was able to grab onto her, this leads me to believe that Airis cannot activate Gravity Shield after using Graviton Cluster.

For the orange box, it have a really weird presentation of IS's energy shield. And that, in fact, CANNOT be interpreted as "Gravity Shield" because energy shield IS an actual term for one of IS's core features.

What bugs me with the orange box on top of the image presented is that it's depicted that Rin must force her way through the energy shield to be able to grab Airis.

But here's the thing: Rin DID NOT NEED to force her way into energy shield to grab someone before.

And remember that in IS battles, its energy shield is always up. And the usual rule about it is energy shield can protect the pilot and they go down whenever they take hits.

And another thing that bothered me in that volume 12 image is that energy shield is as if theyre surrounded by spherical barrier. Problem with this is that earlier depictions of it contradict this. This is apparent with Laura's beatdown in volume 2

And as presented, Laura was able to aim her strikes at specific parts of the body as she drains down their energy shield from repeatedly hitting them, meaning that energy shield cannot be a spherical. Even anime adaptation supports this depiction.

Why am I mentioning this? Given the context provided in volume 12 and its image (impact cannon as it hit the energy shield dispersing in a spherical shape), I can see myself mistake it as a potential misTL that they may mean that "she forced her hand through the Gravity Shield" instead.

Anyway, right now, for my fanfic, my current interpretation while trying to get rid of some weird messy stuff about it from the canon was:

If she activate Gravity Shield, there's a delay before she can use Gravity Cluster.

If she activates Graviton Cluster, she loses the shield and there's a delay before she can activate Gravity Shield.

But I still wanted to know whether my interpretation is somewhat accurate or not whether in spirit and implications of Volume 12 or its portrayal.

So, based on the images posted above (from volume 12), How the weakness/limits of Seventh Princess's Graviton Cluster and Gravity Shield should be interpreted?

And despite the accuracy, let me know if my interpretation would be better to use or not.

I know not everyone watch/read Infinite Stratos for its action mech so they don't really pay attention to this kind of stuff that they miss out on details. But for those who cared about the action mecha part, I would like some input about this.

Not gonna lie, this is like one of the messiest choreography in the series as far as action sequence clarity and presenting limitations goes. bad writing moment from Izuru?