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801 T.T.S. Airbats

801 T.T.S. Airbats poster
Genre
adventure anime and manga, comedy anime and manga
Country
Japan

How it feels

A group of female pilots trains with a special military unit. They deal with rivalries and romantic tensions while flying aircraft.

lightheartedcomedicplayfulenergeticromanticnostalgic90s anime feelmilitary slice of life

What happens

801 T.T.S. Airbats, known in Japan as Aozora Shōjotai (青空少女隊; lit. "The Blue Sky Girls Squad"), is a manga by Shimizu Toshimitsu which was later adapted into a seven episode anime series, produced by Studio Fantasia and Victor Entertainment. The series was released in Japan on LaserDisc as a series of OVA episodes between 1994 and 1996, and was licensed for English language distribution by ADV Films. The title has been out of print since 2005. The series had aired on TVB in Hong Kong on April 9, 1996. Scholar Takayoshi Yamamura noted that anime was produced with the collaboration of JSDF. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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