GXP 13 Findings

Miki Steinbeck (or Stein Buck, ,either way is common, I just prefer it not invoking BSG) is the Mitsuki doppelganger.

Hiroshi Manada is Ken’s doppelganger.

They both have their own backstories, so it’s safe to say they are not from Dual, they are the OVA dimension versions.

D is a more complex problem, and I’ve seen some stuff that suggests she knows a Mitsuki, so how she would know Mitsuki but have her bioroid body… unless KM is retconning both end episodes of Dual… I dunno yet. TBD.

The short haired Yayoi ripoff there is apparently Raireza, another scientist in charge of a major system, whom is in love with Hiroshi. The person reading Hiroshi out in the picture is Tennyo. Airi is also commonly brought up in the chapter.

Here’s their profiles from the Japanese wiki, cleaned up a bit:

Miki Steinbeck:

GP Academy student. In the year previous to Seina enrolling she was Miss GP Academy , there is also a fan club. Quite the Electra complex . In fact, her body is a prosthetic body, identity is an artificial intelligence with Astral form made by Moon Lake (person) as a test. Due to Tarrant Shank’s attack during the practical training at the test facility, her prosthetic body was destroyed. Artificial intelligence body escaped, tried to transfer the data to the NB unit of Seina, but just before completion it failed due to the line disconnected in the middle. At that time, she went to the father Hiroshi and sent data that describes the coordinates to the Kirche (person), which was in the NB earlier. Hiding in Tarrant Shank’s research facility, fearing her extermination in the hidden code, she was eventually released from the research facilities and the like Huo Balta (Ryoko Balta? someone else?), which has been in charge of the extermination been abducted by Tarrant. After that, her father Hiroshi remembered the path number, and her whereabouts was found.

By transfer, she assimilates artificial intelligence body of Fuku clone in Vol. 13, she was reunited with Seina.

By strengthening the body to Fuku level, it can become a Miki Steinbeck human form, with power similar to Ryo-ohki. Similarly as a human type, pregnancy, childbirth, and may be possible according to Washu, even though she said that it is a clone. One of the four people set to reverse the probability vector of Senia.

Hiroshi Manada

Mad scientist, the father of Miki. But wants to admission to the Galaxy Academy Department of Philosophy, not with both proven talent. Old acquaintance to Moon Lake. Friends with himself and Miki, is Ken Raraiba Steinbeck. After the incident, he became a worker in the workshop of Airi.

Of what I ripped of the last chapter and am working on, a summary…

Miki is returned post battle (sounds like the ZINV vs. Tarrant fleet battle guessing) and was in peril / damage to some extent.

Hiroshi is in a state of panic, wailing and freaking out. Raireza tries to comfort Hiroshi, but he falls back into despair, then Tennyo verbally lays him out and gets in his face about what he should have been doing as a father… to which all the women present nod in approval of her rant.

Skipping a few hours of working on it here…..

So Miki had a physical body, it appears that she was injured unto likely death, and hence Hiroshi’s breakdown. (note this is probably replaced by the description above, but from Hiroshi’s perspective he probably last saw her with a body). There’s a fair chunk about D being Zinv’s AI and now that they chose Seina, he has a power unto himself, to the extent he can demand his own nation or territory, there’s a chunk with Seto, Washu, possibly Dr. Clay (that’s what is showing up, don’t ask me, could be a substitution error) debating over sentient lifeform rights for D, the AI, and the Fukus. The last main section is Hiroshi seeing Miki as a cabbit after the operation and her being unable to speak, just meow. They both break down and bawl, Hiroshi cradling cabbitized Miki at his chest, pretty sad. He makes a teary eyed crack about her being cute as a cabbit, even though she was cute as a girl too. Notices she’s a female cabbit, inspecting the important bits, she scratches him across the face (ie slap replacement) . The last little bit appears to be a group going to a grave and crying.

I’m thinking the ais taking over the cabbits is what turns them white too, by paradise war 3.

The GXP novels I “think” start out following GXP’s anime closer initially, but then they continuously seem to diverge more as they go along. Major plot points still occur but there’s a lot more going on around them. It’s like GXP novels have more in common with the OVA trying to be a space action show, but then it drops into the anime’s perverted or sad emotional side, with little middle ground.

As I mentioned in the Discord, I was working secretly on PW and GXP 13 to rip and try to get a general quick translation overview when the board closed. So I know more than the average English only person, but it’s really fuzzy and incomplete. I know that 13 references that Mitsuki’s counterpart is supposed to have died in a previous book and then she ended up in the mainframe (if I recall as part of the Daluma guild or Shank’s ship) and she got downloaded to a cabbit during the capture. Then Mitsuki’s rescue and reuniting with her father Dr. Sanada counterpart takes place in these books. What all took place in between or in that first book, we don’t know because no one has pursued the GXP translations outside of myself.

Part of this doesn’t fully make sense either, because several years ago Mary hosted the images for the first 3 GXP novels, and the Mitsuki and Dr.S counterparts were in there. The story as it went was that Seina’s data got sucked into the GP mainframe and went on an adventure of sorts with the Mitsuki data there. Being that we see Washu, Naja, and Dr. S talking later at the GP, in the flesh… either we’re talking about a set of physical people and a set of digital people, or Seina and Mitsuki at least, end up SAO’d into the computer. D and this other green haired AI are also a question mark because the novels rewrite it so D is in Zinv (no longer called the Idol) when it is found on the Wau planet. So D being an AI being pushed into a cabbit is also ????

Bottom line, more would have to be done for translation and clarifying what was said in order to get a decent picture.