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When she did, I was hoping Erio or Subaru would have picked up some small pebble and thrown it at her, hitting her in the head to stop the crybaby action...Quote:
Originally Posted by Yukimura
But seriously, the next episode is the first of a two episode vacation arc..? From what I can see, this whole series has so far been one big vacation with only a couple of minor skirmishes here and there. Just when are they going to get serious, if at all?
I could see the second half of the vacation going sour, and the forwards on their own. The Doctor will want to test them soon as well.
I'm hoping all this training will be a warm up for the second half of the series, which with any luck could be non-stop action episodes. Perhaps it's a bit too much to hope for. We've been spoiled by Nanoha's own reckless development.
Just finished watching episode 5, after they finish rescuing the train. Is it me or does Erio really suck? He's lacking quite a lot in uniquity as well. I mean, being the only male mage on the forward team, should allow him to be special or do something decent right? But, he's total fodder, and relies a lot on Kyaro's boosting spells as all his abilities seem to stem from there, like the Spear Snake or whatever. I haven't caught up yet, but does he stay so useless?
The pacing has been kind of slow so were not sure where anyone stands yet. Nanoha believes in each of them for specific reasons which you discover in ep 9.
Neither Erio nor Caro get any screen time time after the train incident, so it's hard to say whether he really is that useless or not. But if you look at the shots where he is with the others, you see how small he and Caro are. Maybe they mentioned how old he and Caro are, maybe not, but he's gotta be really young to be so tiny. So, I guess it's reasonable he's not showing huge prowess in battle yet. Still, let's hope he will be in a real life or death situation sooner or later and will then show the girls who's the Man...
Got tired of waiting for DGZ's releases so I downloaded 3 eps of Yesy...
I see different reactions to the eps here. And maybe its just me, or maybe it was because of seeing three eps together... but I liked them, a lot. Must have been because it could have been a 'full arc' or whatever.
I would love to see the battle where Nanoha got almost killed animated though.
Wonder if Nanoha StrikerS manga covers this... hmmm... should get scanlations... (supposedely the StrikerS manga ties A's to StrikerS)
Actually, the A's to StrikersS manga ties A's to StrikerS. There is another series that is just StrikerS, but I don't know how it's different from the series. Scans don't seem to be widely available, so you'd be on your own.
I wonder how big the group they are fighting against is. I can't see them introducing a new set of villains partway through, so I imagine the next 15 episodes will show them how big this conspiracy may be. I just really want to see more mage vs. mage fights, the gadgets are a letdown so far, since they get destroyed very easily.
True, what made Nanoha so great was the mage vs. mage fights that werent limited to crappy chanting and pretty lights. The cool moves and exciting action made nanoha nanoha, and different from all the magical girl shows. I hope they dont forget this fact in StrikerS.
"Fighting" gadgets sounds wrong, its more like "destroying/eliminating" them. They dont really provide decent and interesting counterattacks afterall.
Yeah. It's kind of sad the fateful (or is it nanohaful...) training fight might be the best fight in this series so far. At least Nanoha shooting Teana out of the sky had a much greater impact than any number of mindless bots getting destroyed.
Well, I don't actually have any great complaints so far, but I surely hope as well that serious fights against living opponents would soon begin. In the mean time they should give a bit more screentime to the opponents so that the fights would be more meaningful as the opponents wouldn't be faceless.
And after a couple of months the cadre of mahou shoujo and one mahou shounen in the midst are back:
Episode 10 - Yesy
Good episode. I seriously was expecting less since it was a 'vacation arc, part 1'. But the bit at the end seems to be the beginning of the good episodes.
Now... if they subbed this faster... both Yesy and Nanoha-DGZ suddenly dissaparead for a long time without warning... oh well.
I just hope there are more mage battles!!
Fate makes a surprisingly good mom... Considering how her own "mother" was back in the original series. Clearly she's not going to repeat the mistakes she had to suffer through. But still it looked really funny considering Erio, despite his age, is quite a kickass mage already and, again despite his age, is going through such a strict military training and doesn't seem to have any troubles with it. Truly two-sided indeed.
I can't help but wonder who really had more fun: Erio and Caro or the ones who wrote the detailed plan for their date...
StrikerS - 11 - [yesy]
Lots of excellent action in this one. Including an even better homage to Sentai then the first time they all activated their devices. Then there's the massive ownage handed down by Hayate (it's no wonder she has to have her power restricted, she'd probably be able to scorch the surface of a planet at full power). But the best by far was poor Caro taking that giant blast to the face, I don't know how she plans to walk away from that one with any dignity whatsoever.
Grand episode indeed.
Lots of action and enemy mages finally introduced. This is what makes Nanoha good.
BTW... Nanoha and Nanoha A's are finally licensed. Who wants to buy the dvds? Im thinking of getting them myself.
Such a pinch, but fortunately there's always the next episode!
Episode 12 - Yesy
Nice ep, those numbers chicks are all pretty quirky, but they have neat powers and totally out class the Forwards, which of course means it'll be the kiddies will rise to the occasion and stomp them out by the end.
P.S. Ginga is hawt.
The battle tactics in this episode were questionable at best, especially for the good guys. The villains fought a bit better. The deception was a nice detail, though.
We know that the Forwards are in for a big jump in power though. Nanoha, Fate, and Vita cleared them to use their second modes. Teana's we've seen, the dagger, and Caro has hinted that she has a much stronger dragon in the wings, so the only two we don't really know are Subaru's and Erio's. I'm most interested in seeing Subaru's. Subaru was told she fights like Vita does, breaking through anything. I hope she develops up to a point where the only way to fight her is to run out of her range.
We've also got politics involved now. Approvals, review boards, committees, life was simpler when all they had to worry about was making new friends.