Audience reviews
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thewiru
Imagine that you have to make the last arc of a long-running series, but from zero, without previous arcs, and in only 26 episodes.
This was the challenge and building block of Nanoha StrikerS, finding a way to show the tip of the iceberg of it's universe that exists inside it's creator's mind, investing heavily in having cool character designs and interesting concepts, and winning in terms of quantity what it can't in terms of quality, with it's end result being similar to reading a Wikipedia article about a huge war in terms it's huge amount of participants, their different origins, motivations and conflicts.
StrikerS first couple episodes might seem difficult to watch due to slow pacing and the plot barely moving, mostly consisting of training episodes with barely any glimpses of our v…
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS:
I loved this season, this is how you do a time skip. We see our beloved cast all grown up as working adults and how the events of the first 2 season shaped them growing up. The new cast members were also great additions, especially Subaru and Tiana. All the characters get some great development. The shows has themes of motherhood, family, the importance of discipline and accountability as well as the burdens of leadership and command. The stand out as always are the well executed relationships between the characters. Like in the previous seasons the OST is outstanding. We also get some updated animation and art style. The direction is good as well with some well thought out action choreography.
The biggest weakness of the show is the antagonists, wi…
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Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS is one of few series (or at least, seasons) that can put me at a complete loss for words. Before I start, I'd like to clarify to anyone unclear that while the previous two seasons were magical girl seasons, the third (and potentially onward) deviate from this so severely that it's almost a complete tonal change, which may detract from the experience, depending on your enjoyment or reason to be invested in this. However, there are severe changes to the formula and many other factors as well.
The first major change is that Nanoha (as well as Fate and Hayate) are no longer the main characters of the series, as they were in previous versions. Despite the series still being named after them, the focus is shifted onto four new characters: best friends/lovers Subaru and T…
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Yeah who doesn't love anime time-skips? It's a cheap and easy way to do lots of character development and not have to the leg work of actually showing it. Avengers Endgame did it and it made the most money of any movie ever so it must make for good storytelling, right?
Honestly, though, I think this is the best entry in the series so far. There was a lot of boring stuff to slog through still but the ending had a strong emotional core thanks to the introduction of one character: Vivio. I think without the addition of a cute, young anime girl you immediately want to protect there wouldn't have been nearly as much investment in the villains boring generic evil plan.
I think there's no measure of how effective a villain is greater than how good it makes you feel to see them get brutally murd…
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I've watched the Nanoha series but the movie I havent still need to tackle that, but overall my favourite series of Lyrical Nanoha seires is the second season Lyrical Nanoha A's its also the season I started with before watching season 1 which I quite enjoyed, but season 3 (Lyrical Nanoha Strikers), I didn't like it as much I was quite happy that it wasn't 13 episodes and we had more episodes which makes it more pleasurable to be fair, but some of the characters for example Tiana Lanster I beleive she could've been better I dont really know how to explain it but like in battle I feel like that character had more potential I guess especially since she was abit in a duo with subaru and their always together we see in the first episode they work together I also feel like Tian had Daggers afte…
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This is an anime series where two, adult female characters actually ※tie the knot, and then they raise an adopted child! Despite this series breaking conventional norms and being a full thirteen episodes longer than the two series prior, the plot had a lot of problems, and perhaps, the world building got a little bit too out-of-hand... after all, there are now over THIRTY reoccurring characters to keep up with, not to mention over TWENTY antagonists that are thrown in the fray! This is like the weirdly named extensive cast in U.C. Gundam's continuity, except if many of them weren't as colorfully designed and had drab personalities!
※This isn't explicitly stated in the script, but there is official art of them in wedding dresses together. Not to mention that they're living together intimat…
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Oh boy where do I begin with this. StrikerS marks the point of no return for the Nanoha franchise. What began as a more thoughtful take on the dark mahou shoujo genre has morphed into a mindless action mecha romp with minor mahou shoujo elements in it. It marked the turning point for when Nanoha would finally begin its downfall and fall from grace. StrikerS was still entertaining for different reasons though, and I'll go through them with you in the following review.
By far the biggest change is the season's shift in focus to more base primordial emotions. What I mean is, where the previous seasons focused more on emotions such as reflection, redemption, sacrifice, guilt, regret and sense of belonging, StrikerS instead focuses on anger, revengeance and impulse. While previous seasons fea…
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This review previously appeared on my blog: https://countzeroor.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/anime-review-nanoha-strikers/
The Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise has been interesting when it comes the Magical Girl genre of anime. The original series was something of a conventional Magical Girl vs. Dark Magical Girl show, like the Pretty Cure franchise, with the difference being that the battles between Nanoha and her opposite number, Fate, played out a lot like a superhero fight.
The later series played up this concept, with the second series, Nanoha As setting up a battle of superhero teams (or superhero and super-anti-hero teams), with Nanoha, Fate, Arf, taking on a team of opponents with more-or-less similar abilities. The series also played down the school adventure side of the tradit…
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Mahou Shoujo Nanoha first and the A's have been great. The character development, magic upgrades in the dire pinch, and finally working together after the rival fighting have been very attractive. However, StrikerS lacked all of them.
Nanoha is supposed to be a typical elementary school girl with two friends back home on Earth. There's no Earth; there's no family (which she had bother and sister), and a house she lived in. She's already a fully grown adult at 18 years old, living at Magic central station Honbu (Home Station). Nanoha is no longer the main character who we get to feel, listen, and be, it's about building the perfect team called the StrikerS against the great scientist. Thus the focus of the story has been on Nanoha building the team, along with stories on all of the other c…
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I've talked about Seven Arcs' Nanoha franchise twice before. Today, I'll be looking at the third series, StrikerS. First, let's do a quick recap. In the original series our heroine, Takamachi Nanoha, gained powers and used them to help her ferret friend, Yuuno, find artefacts called Jewel Seeds. Her rival in this endeavour was a young lady named Testarossa Fate. The two experienced their first feelings of romantic love and Nanoha was eventually able to help Fate escape her abusive mother. In the end, they weren't able to stay together as Fate had to face trial over her part in her mother's scheme. The second series saw the pair reunited under less than ideal circumstances. Yagami Hayate, no relation to Light, found a magic book that unleashed four guardian spirits who were stealing magic p…
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Back when Bandai Visual USA had their blog open, I argued with the guy who run it about me being an "anime historian." Because I noted the audience-approved "degradation" of character creation and plot execution. And there is no better example of said "degradation" than Lyrical Nanoha. Let me start:
* Triangle Heart (an h-game turned h-anime)
* Triangle Heart Sweet Songs Forever (which I didn't watch)
* Lyrical Nanoha (magical girl becoming Gundam Wing)
* Lyrical Nanoha A's (Gundam Seed-esque lesbian magical girls)
* Lyrcal Nanoha StrikerS (Gundam Seed Destiny -esque lesbian magical girls)
Now all of this would be fine and dandy (as "magical girl spin-off" material) if Lyrical Nanoha wasn't ripping off Gundam Wing and blasting lasers of cute pink destruction. But since the people behind…
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First up, I'll be honest, the primary reason I went into this show is because I heard it had some "mecha" relations, which is true, it does revolve heavily around cyborgs, and the secondary reason was because I heard that Subaru was a pretty awesome character.
But that being said, I'm not an idiot, I realise that being a "Magical Girl" show, this probably had about as much chance as being /m/ as Dragon Ball Z, so I was willing to give it a shot to see if it was good for its own sake. And cudos to the first two seasons, they were pretty good. Nothing mind-blowing, but something that even I, despite it being well outside my realm of usual viewing, could watch (and heck, there were even mechs in the first series for a little bit).
But then I got up to this one, the one I actually wanted to…
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Nanoha, Fate and friends are back and they bring even some more friends with them. This time they have to face some bigger enemy than before. I won't say too much who they are going to fight but it will be revealed later on after some episodes in the story...
I have to say that the pace of the story is kept thanks to the higher number of NOW 26 episodes pretty slower at the beginning...but around the half it is getting to the real plot and also increasing the speed. Before it was more like an introduction to the newer characters and how they train or progress.
Don't get me wrong ;) everything is build up pretty nice for the final battles and they are also well executed...even though a little bit predictable.
To the characters...the old ones are all the same and I have to say that I perso…
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:::INTRO
Fast-forwarding ten years after A's, our little heroines are all grown up.
PrimeSonic once again, here with the final part in my review of the Nanoha trilogy: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.
Does the final chapter in the Nanoha trilogy live up to the hype? Well let's take a look.
:::STORY
Say goodbye to Japan, and Earth for that matter, as the entire story takes place on Mid-childa, home to the Time and Space Administration Bureau's main branch.
All the supporting characters from the previous seasons that had nothing to do with magic or the Bureau are pretty much gone.
Four years after the conclusion of A's, the girls have risen through the ranks, reaching the goals they set for themselves long ago.
At present, Hayate is leading a newly created section and, with the help…
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Ah... the phrase "Magical Girl". It makes you think of a Shoujo anime, doesn't it? Soppy little transformation sequences, annoying mascot animals, ridiculously cute lolis...
But make no mistake. Maybe people have the wrong impression from the title (which may account for the surprisingly low ratings), but StrikerS is, in fact, squarely in the Shonen denomination, and is a rambunctiously good Shonen to boot.
Plot
Lets have a quick summary. StrikerS is set 10 years after the previous iteration of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, in which the titular character has outgrown her loliness and become a full time Instructor, training the new generation of horribly underaged TSAB recruits. The cast is further expanded with the introduction of new recruits. As industry standard, a threat to world secu…
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Well here I have arrived at the final season of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. It’s been a nice ride. The final season brings back most of my beloved characters, provides a decent story and action and lets me enjoy grown up versions of Nanoha and Fate. While I did find myself glued to my television watching this there was quite a bit about this series I found extremely disappointing. I will get into that further later, but as a sequel to the Nanoha franchise IMO this series fails. It just doesn’t feel like the originals, it also has a very overbearing military theme to it that just feels out of place for a Nanoha show. Taken though on its own merits this is a well crafted drama with good action and is fun to watch.
When you compare the story in StrikerS to the first two series then this sho…
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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS indisputably falls under the mahou shoujo (i.e. "magical girl") genre-- heck, the words are even in the title. So it should come as no surprise when I say it's got transformation sequences, mascot animals, and a whole slue of magical girls (one of which is even a pink healing type).
But what should come as a surprise is when I tell you this is a series with awesome, mind-blowing action. The action sequences are great, and never choppy. StrikerS's got the type of action that rouses excitement and gets your adrenaline pumping, not what you'd expect to get in mahou shoujo.
And perhaps a little background history is in order. The Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha franchise was originally created and geared toward seinen audiences who like their flat-chested lol…
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Lots of people didn't like how the general focus of the Nanoha series changed to Subaru, Teana, Caro and Erio in StrikerS. Well that and the fact that our favorite magical girls were no longer loli's. But the series picks up with some interesting (and plentiful) villains and some new characters that are also very cool. The multiple plot lines near the end is done very well and even those new characters you may or may not have liked in the begining become interesting and exciting as we get to our big StrikerS finale.
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Story
Nanoha StrikerS is set ten years after Nanoha A's. Nanoha, Fate and other characters they've met now work full time for the TSAB. We meet two new characters in the first episode: meet Subaru and Teana. They are mages who have Nanoha as trainer and they're trying to rank up as a mage. It doesn't take long and two new characters appear: Erio and Caro. Nanoha, Fate and Hayate must train these four mages to work together and to save the world from new enemies.
The story is not longer that original if you ask me, but still, Nanoha StrikerS has things that makes it different than other mahou shoujo. ''What makes it more different than?''. It are the military and the political part of the story which makes the difference, but which also makes it sometimes harder to understand what it is a…
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