Introduction
When aviation mechanic (and anime fanboy) Takuya Isurugi is transferred to the 801st Tactical Training Squadron, he gets more than he bargained for. Moderated by hard-headed veteran ace Mitsuru Konishi, the "Airbats" are an all-female aerial acrobatic team consisting of loose cannons Miyuki Haneda and Arisa Mitaka, karaoke freak and gambling genius Sakura Saginomiya, and junk food lover Yoko Shimorenjaku. Both Haneda and Mitaka do not get along with each other, and their rivalry worsens when they both fall for Isurugi. But with the entire JASDF having doubts about the team, the Airbats must work as a team or face total disbandment.
Audience reviews
7 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
GRozek
Visually very nice. Characters are great. Storytelling is very well done and got me hooked.. for the first 3 episodes, which are awesome. The rest... is a filler without an ending. The main theme of rivalry and the love triangle just suddenly got sent to the back seat. None of the characters dare to make any move romantically, almost as if they decided off screen to behave "professionally" when the cameras roll. This really feels weird, a sudden change to clearly filler episodes, which might be understandable for a long-running TV series, but this is a OVA. Those who bought the VHS tapes must have felt teased with the first 3 eps. I though we will get back to the plot after a special/filler vacation episode. But no, another filler ep for a visiting character, special/filler eating contest…
Read at the sourceFlintPaper
A show about a squad of female fighter pilots training to become good enough to not get banned by the JASDF (Japanese Air Self Defense Force - yes, this is also a military ad in some ways) - count me in! The detailed drawings of all things mechanical, the concept of the show itself and even the visual character design is great, but sadly the writing is abysmal. Because it was the "style of the time", they had to include a love triangle with the super-lame male protagonist, which forces all the female characters go head over heel about that dude for absolutely no reason at all. That was a good way to ruin an otherwise solid show. I wonder if the manga is better?
Read at the sourcePlastik
I've never been a very objective person. There are plenty of things out there that are 'Objectively Bad' or 'Objectively Mediocre', well according to most 801 T.T.S. Airbats would objectively be somewhere under the 7-10 mark, the MAL rating is currently 6.51/10. Well, screw whatever objective scores anyone gives this show, I enjoyed the hell out of Aozora Shoujo-tai! I'm not one to indulge in romcoms very often so I can forgive a lot of the tropes and what-not. Airbats was a very enjoyable watch, I loved all of the characters and was happy to see all of them get their own time to shine. Despite being a romcom, Aozora Shoujo-tai is a comedy first and a romance second, the love triangle that forms never unnecessarily gets in the way, nor does it ever get incredibly serious. The only bad thin…
Read at the sourceSenpaiStar
"In Cooperation With JAPAN AIR SELF DEFENCE FORCE"
This anime is easy 7 of 10 (if you really like planes, military theme and this 80-90s vibes of pilot movies you can easily add 2 points to the final score as I did)
The story is nothing serious, just a small simple slice of life. There are planes and girls and a boy. Enough for an entertaining evening or two.
I really enjoy the show, maybe the characters are not so remarkable, but some moments really are.
The title is short (only 7 episodes long), but almost every character got its moments to shine. A bit naive, but really relaxing show. I like it a lot.
Read at the sourceKristiwazhere
This is one I didn't enjoy at all and had to force myself to finish.
The problem here isn't the artwork or the animation. Both are above average for it's time. And the music is good as well. It's also not that it's a slice of life anime, I enjoy that sort of anime more than most here seem to. My main problem is that it tries to dip into the love triangle thing that was popular at the time, a sub-genre that I'm not particularly a fan of, but even so it does it very poorly. There is really no build up, the female characters don't get to know the male AT ALL before they are suddenly fawning over him and fighting over his affection. The whole thing seems tacked on and prevents me from enjoying the anime at all. It really seems like the writers didn't know how to handle romance plots and any r…
Read at the sourcesiriuswrites
This one..is a weird yet likeable. Even me, I don’t understand. All I know is that I really really like and enjoyed watching this odd ball short OVA series.
The main story focuses to the 801st Squadron, and the never-ending love triangle rivalry between the main heroines to the main protagonist. Each episode focuses on a specific plot, but its still telling the overarching narrative of the main story. You can pretty much tell this series is from the 90’s with the weird but passable comedy, its quite amusing and interesting watching it. It never made me laugh, but I did slap my forehead a couple of times cuz of its absurdity.
The art & animation is so 90’s. Watching the OVA’s made me go on a nostalgia mode. The art even reminds me of Saber marionette series. Infairness, the animation went…
Read at the sourceArcherKinao
This is possibly one of the most underrated animes out there. Probably because it was never completed. But it really had potential.
Even though the story never took off because it didnt have enough time. You get to know the characters and enjoy watching them get to know each other and learn new things.
And unlike most plane anime this one doesnt focus on killing, instead they are an airshow plane group. That makes it a lot more interesting for me.
With only 7 episodes you don't go very far storywise, but you do get to have some fun along the way. Don't expect an ending because there isnt one.
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