History Headscratchers / Vandread

** At the first episode of ''Second Stage'', it is implied from crew member conversation that Mejalians were raised under the belief that men are a pile of bacterias, which goes along well with women's nature in general to be clean

** Phobia's are not rational and many require very specific triggers based on unique mental associations formed by an individuals experience and trauma. She has positive associations with a space ships or combat ships interior as that is a "normal" and accepted state but has negative associations with the situation she found herself in when her phobia was revealed to us.

** It's part and parcel of being part of a pirate crew. They initially tolerated the men because they were ordered to, but were still shown to have some friction as a result as teamwork cant be forced, they then later settled into a new dynamic with them as one team due to the experiences together until the child nurse manipulates a number of them with their old biases. Pirate captain's themselves have to be very careful about what they order or refuse for their crew, often employing subtle manipulation and reaching out to allies in the crew to get them back to their senses. Which his exactly what happens in the show.

** Welcome to the wonderful world of Japanese romanization. The unfortunate truth is that unless the Japanese company ever releases their own spellings for the terms, the fans will probably never agree. And something even ''that'' doesn't stop them (Japanese companies have a bad habit of using different English spellings "officially").

* It's been stumping me for years: [[SpellMyNameWithAnS There seems to be no consensus whatsoever as to how a few certain proper nouns are supposed to be spelled]]. Tarak is also spelled Taraak, Mejere could also be Mejerr, Mejale, etc., and the Paksis might also be spelled Pexis, and Paeksis. It's just one of these little niggles that gets to me.

** At the first episode of ''Second Stage'', it is implied from crewmember conversation that Mejalians were raised under the belief that men are a pile of bacterias, which goes along well with women's nature in general to be clean

** It wasn't Meia, but the data that came with Meia that was important (and later re-used to cripple one of the Earth capital ships. ) Likely she's just an excuse to add to Hibiki's harem of unwanted affection while making Dita jealous and find her true feelings. As for the body part harvesting, it doesn't make logical sense, but that gives the pirate crew an urgent sense of purpose to return, and not be Star Trek Voyager.
*** Quite simply, humans are easier to put together by unskilled(but fun!) labor than trying to grow an entire body(transplant immunological factors aside, apparently Earthlings got around that). Given how polluted earth is, they may not be able to create clean areas without vast expense. Since there are a whole lot of humans already happily breeding, why not gather? It also seems to me the whole plan was only come up with once the red paksis was discovered making automated self-reproducing fleets possible.
* When it's first mentioned that Earth is going after Majer and Tarak for their "reproductive organs", Bart panicks. How did he know what they were?

* Two things really bug me about this series enjoy it though I did. First, Misty! Why does she exist? She serves no purpose to the plot, she doesn't have any special abilities, she doesn't help anyone or anything. they try and make her a contender for Hibiki's affections but that never gets dropped in favor of her being [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds paired]] with Meia, sorta, and was unnecessary in the first place. There is no reason I can see in all the story for the existence of her character. The other big thing that bothers me is the entire harvesting plot itself. Earth, why? You have sentient living alien power sources and borg like machine colonies not to mention transforming mecha! In the face of this, how is your medical technology so far behind that its more reasonable to go colonize dozens of other worlds for the sole purpose of in the future harvesting one specific organ type from them? Instead of oh... I don't know, vat growing clones? you don't even have to vat grow whole beings! Just the parts you need! Perhaps in the future the immortal humans require regular doses of dog raping to stay immortal?

** At the end of the series, it seems pretty clear that the "liberal democracy" isn't quite as liberal or democratic as it seems. They throw Magno and her crew in prison to shut them up so they can't reveal the truth, SoYeah...

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