Right now I am raging over the fact that Ranka was dallying with Brera…well at least it was good to see Klein finally getting her way and it seems Ozma and Cathy have to put up some sort of awkward front…

Looking forward to Naked Klein, though.

@d3v
Good to see that in the future our Alto-hime will only look better as the years do by. Suffice to say it seems that Alto-hime got most of his genes from his mum.

@Haesslich
Oh man I can’t wait to actually know what they were actually saying…but well we all have confirmed our suspicions that Alto-hime did get most of his genes from his mother. Wow I can’t believe she married Ranzo. From what I can gather though it seems Ranka is fooling around while Sheryl is being egged on to be serious with Alto-hime. Hopefully Sheryl will be flattered to be compared to Alto-hime’s mom, after all she was prettier than Sheryl.

Oh, and Naked Klein next ep. Let the nosebleeds begin!

I agree, there are strong feelings there when a guy will run through the rain for you.

And Ranka does seem to be losing her way a little, but I think in the end she’ll realize what’s going on and not allow herself to be a puppet. I think Brera would protect her from everything, including Grace!

As for Sheryl, I think along the same lines. Grace certainly pulled strings but without the determination Sheryl has I don’t think she would have become as popular an idol as she is.

I think with some time at Hime’s place she’ll find her voice again, and will sing, eventually ^-^

Such a reference would be rather poetic in more ways than one…

I agree that this one of the more memorable roles Kikuko Inoue has snagged hopefully she will be able to break out into other roles. She is much more than the voice of a caring mother. Even if she doesn’t get much time as Cecile Croomy in Code Geass at least she has one big role as arguably the most evil femme fatales in recent memory. Right now Grace seems to be much more insidious than many evil characters this season.

Sad to see that video game roles didn’t seem to count in terms of casting.

But given the resemblance, it’s either coincidence that Sheryl looks like Ranshe Mei… or a real good knife-twisting, as now she’d have had her hands on BOTH of Ranshe Mei’s daughters, and used them both. Plus it’d let Kawamori put in one more Macross Zero reference, and would make Ranka’s role in the movie even more ironic (playing the role of Doctor Nome when her own mother worked for Doctor Nome).

PS: If Grace O’Conner is indeed the Queen Bitch of this show, then Kikuko Inoue got one of the best roles available for Spring 2008 – The Boss was good, but being evil like this after being typecast as caring mothers (one of her more recent was Ms. Hiragi in Lucky Star) or Belldandy for years.