Frame Arms Girl...
In a break from my tradition of collecting anime on archival media, I waded back into anime streaming, to watch Frame Arms Girl...
In Frame Arms Girl, although the robot girls can fight in the real world, in the series, their battles are conducted mostly in a virtual environment. The robot girls' adventures involve activities like buying a bottle of vinegar from the store, retrieving a notebook from a school building after hours or using a bookshelf as an apartment building and decorating each of the rooms in the tiny apartment bookshelf. The robot girls are remarkably unhelpful to Ao and manage to make a mess of Ao's apartment, breaking the front door, breaking the window and gluing the closet door shut. And, one robot girl in particular, even threatens to harm Ao. But, even with all of the trouble the robot girls manage to cause, Ao is sweet and surprisingly tolerant of their antics.
The robot girls are dressed in rather skimpy attire and are not afraid to have their itty-bitty panties showing throughout Frame Arms Girl. There are, of course, a number of low-angle panty shots from below and behind the robot girls. There is some yuri behavior including some girl-girl kissing. And, quite a bit of inappropriate dialogue from the robot girls, particularly from Black and White. Although the robot girls cannot get wet, there is a ubiquitous bath scene. Even in the midst of the infamous kimono panty incident in episode 6, which, by the way, was amazingly funny, there were no actual naughty bits to speak of. There is, of course, no bloodshed or gore in Frame Arms Girl. Overall, I the series was fast-paced and very entertaining. I would give Frame Arms Girl a 3 out of 5.
According to Anime News Network...When Ao found the package on her doorstep, she thought it was a present from her father, but inside the box was something truly unexpected: Gourai!
A Frame Arms Girl, Gourai is a walking, talking, miniature artificial person with the intelligence of a ten-year-old human and a selection of snap-on weapons and armor. And the reason Gourai needs armor quickly becomes clear as two more Frame Arms Girls, Stylet and Baselard, arrive intent on testing Gourai's combat capabilities! It seems that Ao has been chosen to help test a new toy line and the good news is that she'll get paid for hosting her diminutive charges' battles! Of course, since they're mainly interested in fighting and gathering information, things are going to get awkward when they follow her to school.
Kotobukiya's Frame Arms models are a line of plastic robot model kits designed by mechanical designer Takayuki Yanase (Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse). The new Frame Arms Girl line, introduced in 2015, introduces new designs by Humikane Shimada (Strike Witches, Girls und Panzer character designs), featuring robots from the original Frame Arms line portrayed as girls. The first model in the line, Gourai, is based on Yanase's robot design with the same name.On its face, Frame Arms Girl is pretty much Busou Shinki all over again. So, if you're not a fan of the earlier series, you're probably not going to like this incarnation any better. That being said, while Frame Arms Girl does share some similarity to the earlier series, it does stand reasonably well on its own. In Frame Arms Girl, Ao, finds herself hip-deep in a small army of tiny robot girls that spend their days having adventures in Ao's apartment, exploring the world beyond and, of course, fighting one another -- all for the stated purpose of gathering information. There is some eye candy in the series during the battles, and, even though some of the dialogue is a bit risque, much of the series is actually quite sweet.
In Frame Arms Girl, although the robot girls can fight in the real world, in the series, their battles are conducted mostly in a virtual environment. The robot girls' adventures involve activities like buying a bottle of vinegar from the store, retrieving a notebook from a school building after hours or using a bookshelf as an apartment building and decorating each of the rooms in the tiny apartment bookshelf. The robot girls are remarkably unhelpful to Ao and manage to make a mess of Ao's apartment, breaking the front door, breaking the window and gluing the closet door shut. And, one robot girl in particular, even threatens to harm Ao. But, even with all of the trouble the robot girls manage to cause, Ao is sweet and surprisingly tolerant of their antics.
The robot girls are dressed in rather skimpy attire and are not afraid to have their itty-bitty panties showing throughout Frame Arms Girl. There are, of course, a number of low-angle panty shots from below and behind the robot girls. There is some yuri behavior including some girl-girl kissing. And, quite a bit of inappropriate dialogue from the robot girls, particularly from Black and White. Although the robot girls cannot get wet, there is a ubiquitous bath scene. Even in the midst of the infamous kimono panty incident in episode 6, which, by the way, was amazingly funny, there were no actual naughty bits to speak of. There is, of course, no bloodshed or gore in Frame Arms Girl. Overall, I the series was fast-paced and very entertaining. I would give Frame Arms Girl a 3 out of 5.
