Midori, once again

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Okay, so I got Mon Colle Knights volumes 6 and 7 today, and watched episodes 21 and 22 (episode 22 first). From what Adalia Glenys told me on Rokumon Sekai (accessible through my user info) under the "Rockna's Mother" thread, Midori appeared in the beginning of Prince Eccentro in the Temple of Dumb. However, neither character on the video at the beginning of that episode looked anything like Midori, just an taller version of Rockna and a "teddy bear" version of Mondo. Okay, no big deal. In fact, no one would expect anyone with Midori's clothes and hairstyle to teach chemistry to 5th graders.

Okay, why did I ever start asking about Midori in the first place? Probably because of her sex appeal, but I also wanted to know what her fate was in the anime. After all, probably because I tend to avoid forced creativity, I don't have the kind of talent to think up the various outside-the-box hairstyles that one would find not only in MCK, but in many other anime as well.

Speaking of which, at first glance, I thought her hair was styled as a pair of crescent-shaped ponytails coming down from either side of her head. I did realize later that those were just flow lines in a black-and-white drawing. Her hair is actually a bunch of large puffs forming a "cloud," as was noticeable at the beginning of the first manga.

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Well, as I said, I don't know if that's Rokuna's mother, since I haven't begun translating that one. It's the only time, to my knowledge, that such a character appears in the anime. It doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that is Mrs. Hiiragi, though, given the fairly standard practice of drawing mothers and daughters with highly similar features. The fact that her bosom is less prominent than in the manga may be attributed to the fact that the anime is directed to an audience that includes younger children, girls as well as boys, whereas I suspect the manga is mostly shounen-oriented. Female characters in anime for younger viewers tend to be far less busty and supply less fanservice than in a series like Cowboy Bebop, for instance, or Master of Mosquiton.