Normad

Infobox animanga character
name = Normad/Nomad
series = Galaxy Angel


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first = Episode 3, Galaxy Angel Season 1
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voiced by = Mika Kanai (Japanese, same as Vanilla H) Richard Ian Cox (English dub)
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nihongo|"Normad/Nomad|ノーマッド|Nōmaddo is a character that appears in the Galaxy Angel anime.

Normad is an artificial intelligence placed within a pink stuffed tanuki. He is carried around by Vanilla H and serves the Galaxy Angels by providing information and analyses. When removed from his stuffed body, his actual form is a transparent circuit board/diskette. Some of the humor in the series involve Normad’s constant put-downs toward others and inability to avoid injury.

Normad was originally a guidance program for a missile. Realizing that the missile’s detonation will bring about his death, he left the silo before his mission took place. Normad drifted across space for some time and ended up in a debris field where he was recovered by the Angels and brought to their base where the Angels extracted his programming and gave him his stuffed body.

With brash criticism and a nonchalant attitude, Normad shows very little tact talking to or about other people. As he sees himself morally and intellectually superior over humans, he takes it upon himself to point out perceived flaws in others every chance he gets. Targets of his criticism would often return the favor by inflicting harm upon his stuffed body. Despite a general distaste of humanity, Normad is deeply in love with Vanilla and compliments her to no end. He considered her to be the perfect example of humanity and often suggests others to be more like her. He is very serious in his infatuation and has on a couple occasions remotely operated base weaponry to destroy those he deems threats to his relationship with her. Vanilla, however, seems oblivious to his praise and periodically abuses him herself.

As his body is nothing more than a stuffed animal, Normad is unable to move by himself and must rely on Vanilla and others to carry him around. As a consequence, he is frequently in harm’s way, a problem exasperated by Vanilla's indifference and his demeanor toward others. Among other things, he has been shot, beaten, crushed, burned, twisted, boiled, eatened, kidnapped, blasted, transmogrified, and molested at least once. Amazingly, the disk within his body is never damaged.

Four years after his recovery from the missile, his whereabouts is unknown. Vanilla seems to no longer have him.

Injuries

* Shot at countless times, especially by Forte.

* Ranpha forcefully ripped out his card and jammed it into a cactus, which for a moment functioned as his new body.

* When stranded in a cave, Vanilla became hungry enough to try eating him.

* Used a wish-making device that shortens the user's life span and lost over 700 years, or half his life span.

* Strapped with dynamite and detonated.

* When Milfeulle was turned into a baby, she suckled upon his body and soaked drool into him.

* When used to plug a breach in a space station, his stuffing was blown out into space.

* Doused in alcohol by Ranpha and ignited.

* Caught fire in a forest fire and lost half his body.

* Repeatedly punched by Forte, Ranpha and Mint out of boredom.

* Used as bait by Vanilla in capturing a sea serpent.

* Occasionally used as a guinea pig for Lost Technology with unknown powers.

Trivia

* Normad's voice is performed by Mika Kanai, who also does the voice of Vanilla. Richard Ian Cox voices Normad in the English dub.

* Normad's full name as it appeared in the anime is "MA347612890GT4078579132R74 malumalu Z17924398TZR two thousand modular guidance type 452963752391MQTO gold launch system GLS installed self deciding type double 0 three seven 293165734285YGNKTIO1200YMCA4126PPPKG53 Normad" (MA347612890GT4078579132R74マルマルZ17924398TZR二千モジュラー誘導タイプ452963752391MQTOゴールドランチシステムGLS搭載自己判断型タイプダブル・オー・スリーセブン293165734285YGNKTIO1200YMCA4126PPPKG53ノーマッド)

* It was eventually revealed that Normad was created to destroy a sentient giant die in space named Kyutaro. This mysterious entity is capable of reading human minds, causing it to become immune to direct attacks by humans. As it cannot sense non-human minds (i.e. artificial intelligence), Normad's mission was to pilot a missile into Kyutaro.

* Normad/Nomad is likely a reference to an episode of the original Star Trek TV series . In this episode the Enterprise encounters a sentient weapon in space named Nomad. Both robots have very high pitched voices.

External links

* [http://galaxyangel.wikia.com/wiki/Normad Normad] on [http://galaxyangel.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Galaxy Angel Wiki] at [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] .