Audience reviews
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mrfried
Brave Witches deserved better
So a little context and background history, I first watched this when it was released in 2016, and the studio deserved all the criticism that was thrown their way. They didn't have enough money, enough time, or enough staff working on it.
They were riding high off the success from Strike Witches, and wanted a spin-off, but then decided that they wouldn't put in the same kind of resources towards making that series. For the studio this was a cash-grab.
But for the team behind it, this was a labour of love, and they did the best with what they had, but it was rushed and it showed as episodes were released with CGI that was so bad that it looked like they hadn't even finished working on it, this meant that on its release all anyone talked about was how bad the a…
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Brave Witches is the concept of Strike Witches retooled into an actual show. It's an abstract remake of the first season of SW starring Miyufiji with an inverted color palette and hair that goes down instead of up. A gang of magic girls with airplane legs is once again waging war against shapeshifting aliens with the help of their new recruit from not-Japan. Despite that premise it's a very different take on the same basic idea. The characteristics of Strike Witches are mostly inverted: the MC is noticeably underpowered instead of overpowered, she's not competent and nearly kicked out of the 502nd on arrival, and her relationships with other characters start as standoffish or antagonistic instead of instant friendship. She's still in a support role like Miyufiji but has no magical ass-pull…
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So I have to say that brave witches is better that Strike witches in some some aspects. Brave witches have more drama and a complex character development for protagonist and the others characters. The plot is more focus in tell a history than show fanservice, I have a problem with strike witches that every 5 minutes has some form of fan service not counting the filler chapters that is all about fan service, in breve witch the plot in mandatory, we still have some form of fan service but is like every other normal series. The lore of the WWII is still present like Strick witches, and I have to say is very well done (that for me is the main reason for watch). Strike and Brave witches share the same world but the history telling is better for me in Brave witches in comparation for at least th…
Read at the sourceYemi_Hikari
Clumsiness is not a flaw.
The mantra repeated over and over in my head despite the fact I knew that in the right hands clumsiness can indeed be a good character flaw, but this often happens when I find myself introduced within the narrative to a character whose main flaw is clumsiness only for said flaw to go away when it is no longer convenient. In this particular series Hikari's clumsiness is explained away by having a lack of magical power, not that this really stops her later on because she's just that much of a hard worker and with that being her counter trait she's able to overcome her flaws.
The problem is, this idea that a person simply needs to put in the hard work and they can thus overcome anything is a lie. Its always juxtaposed around this idea that every genius out there do…
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Hikari Karibuchi, is a much deeper character, and is a much more interesting protagonist, than Miyafuji. The Neuroi too were such a step-up from the past seasons, it's great seeing the witches have to use their brains to take out the neuroi.
Hikari Karibuchi's magic struggle no doubt made Brave Witches very compelling to watch as a story.
Plus the neuroi became smarter, making the battle scenes give me the same hype akin to good shounen fight scenes.
Brave Witches is not "meh," and it is much more than just a "spinoff." The flawed but hardworking 502nd Brave Witches should have its own franchise, a foil to Strike Witches' super-aces that never fail.
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iTS GUD AS DIS GUY SAID :
"Brave Witches it's a spin-off of Striker Witches, but unlike the main show, Brave Witches had less ecchi and it's focus more in the plot and the development of the characters."
its 2021, After watching the Strike Witches Road to Berlin, i can concluded dat Brave Witches is still the best in strike witches series, although it categorized as a spin off.
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Well, DON'T Believe the "BELOW 7 RATING" dis series had. While strike witches had avarage 7 rating in MAL (as per today), it doesn't compared to Brave witches Story plot.
i mean , In Brave Witches they emphasis not only just air, but The Ground Troops as well. Even from this series we can even confirm the existence of Ground Witches (witch equip with ground arsenal) although its just a cameo. Dis was just the…
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To say Brave Witches is a rehash of Strike Witches is to be willfully ignorant of the fact that Brave Witches is an improved version of the pantsless magical girl franchise.
Brave Witches is what Strike Witches could be if it bothered to emphasize characterization over fanservice, and the results are more than satisfactory.
Brave Witches succeeds where its predecessor fails, in that its not a slow burner in giving you emotional investment in its main cast and protagonist, Hikari, who is the complete opposite of the previous Strike Witches' protagonist Yoshika.
In the world of witches and magic, Yoshika starts out as a overpowered witch whose Gigantic overpowered magical shield and healing abilities make her a natural genius talent wise; she isn't particularly challenged by the Neuroi…
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What I find fascinating about Brave Witches is the fact that its protagonist is different in just about every way to that of Strike Witches'. Whereas Yoshika has prodigious levels of latent magic power, Hikari has less than average, and isn't much good at using it either. This creates a set of problems for her that Yoshika never even had to think about, for example where Yoshika was scouted Hikari had to prove herself, a feat possible only with her incredible levels of grit and stamina. This extended socially as well, manifesting in Kanno. While Yoshika and Lynne became friends because they saw eye-to-eye and related heavily to each other, Hikari and Kanno start out hating each other's guts. Right, "each other's." I appreciate that Hikari responds to Kanno's aggression with a reasonable am…
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Brave Witches (2016)
First off a round of applause this time around to Aleksandra Ivanovna Pokryshkin or better know Sasha. Not only is she best girl and super cute she also has the bottom half of her outfit on. Yes, that is right she has a skirt on.
The second place goes to Naoe Kanno who is a proper Tsundere so always cute to see. Cute design also.
Overall best girl is still Sanya from the 501st who is just perfect.
This time around we have a good storyline to follow that is taken much more seriously than Strike Witches but also has cameo appearances. This one also has a satisfying continuity that makes sense and also ties into the universe well.
I would say that this time although Hikari the main to begin with was a bit hard to like she was great in the end and this season by ep…
Read at the sourceChristopher_Lum
This is more of a comparison to its parent story Strike Witches.
This anime is very similar to Strike witches and when I say similar, I mean very similar.
Character development and story progression were almost exactly the same with a few minor changes.
Art is similar to Strike witches despite being made by different studios. There are hints of 3D-CGI that slightly throw things off when it appears.
Animation here is an improvement, battles are no longer (how do i say this without spoiling/summarizing part of it) linear. Fight scenes are slightly more inspired is all i can really say without giving too much away.
MAL says this is a side story of Strike witches but its also a sequel to it. they tie the 2 stories such that its almost necessary to watch the parent story Strike witches first t…
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This show illustrates the value of knowing clearly what path you want to take, persistence in pursuing that path, and seizing opportunity as it presents itself. Also touches on how others can be flexible, find ways to utilize such passionate spirit, and how those with "talent" can be inspired by those that show results through hard work.
The show, overall, was average at best. No part of the production quality really stood out. The main reason I rate it below average is because it was fairly emotionless, with tragic and suspenseful moments not registering. I tend to like military oriented shows for the mixture of various backgrounds/cultures, and the eventual camaraderie, but this had none of those qualities other than one event involving members from a neighboring base. I can only call i…
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Ten years ago "moe anthropomorphism" was a bit of a new thing. The shock that you could turn WWII fighter jets into small Japanese and British girls and pit them against literal space-nazis in a weird U.N. coalition alternate timeline that also featured superpowers granted only to the aforementioned pubescent girls was new. The final item in the mix? None of them are ever wearing pants. It was an ecchi-military-action-moe-comedy that catered to such an incredibly niche audience you couldn't help but be endeared. The question of who would watch this was overshadowed by how was this made. Of course, Strike Witches became a cult classic.
Now after two seasons, a film, and some spin-off OVAs the second iteration of Strike Witches called Brave Witches is here. With the exception of cameos, non…
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I see no actual reason why people might enjoy this anime. It is a spinoff of "strike witches" but doesn't bring anything to the table whatsoever.
It focuses on a completely new group of witches but everything from character developemend to world developement is plain out idiotic. Now I have to make it clear that it doesn't focus on advancing the plot at all, since it focuses more on the slice of life part here which is made ridiculously clear since they are supposed to be in the front lines battling alien enemies and all of the front lines is managed by 7 girls that mostly, don't even battle, but instead have "fun".
So if it's not about the story and it's about character developement, how does that hold up? Well, short answer is, it doesn't. They have choices where you can pick a good ca…
Read at the sourceEndlessGr8
First of all, before I start my review, I want to explain that I am an avid fan of the World Witches and I went into this new anime with unbearable levels of excitement. I am very well versed in the franchise by reading the novels, manga, short storys, watching the anime, translating several works, and operating two Strike Witches fan communities with the intent of using the powerful fanbase to create new and exciting things. So... while I intend this review to be more of a constructive-criticism type... it may come off to some people as overhwelmingly negative. This doesn't mean that I didn't like it... it just means that I went in with exceedingly high expectations, only to set myself up for disappointment when Brave Witches brought nothing new and exciting to the table. So if you want t…
Read at the sourceKitsunehimeMilhi
Edit (8-6-17): I'm not changing my review a lot. I know I didn't write that good of reviews back when I wrote it, but it's been helpful to people, so I'm not completely changing it. Even when I'm trying to write better reviews now, they're aren't necessarily getting as many helpful replies as even older, kind of poorly written, reviews, so no sense changing one of the begging reviews if it's been more helpful than a good amount of the better written ones. Anyhow, I realized when watching the dub as it was airing, just how sub par the animation quality is due to the use of so much 3d cgi and I'm changing my score just slightly because of it. Unless I give a number rating to the category, assume it's still a personal 10.
As you can tell from my profile I'm a huge Strike/ Brave Witches fan d…
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i want to start by saying i love strike witches and that ever i typed below is not a rant of hate but more like a constructive review. (like the creators will ever see this lolz)
after finishing watching brave witches and had recently finished watching strike witches (season 1 and 2 with movie) it seems this series was more like a cash in on the franchise, first off why introduce a new main character if you are just going to copy the likeness of the previous one, if you have seen the strike witches the movie you know that the main character can still fight soo why not just keep the chars we had?. i swear at first i really couldnt tell the diference if it wasnt for a lame segment where hikari sees a news paper about unit 501 and how they won their battle, the side chars are not nearly as c…
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Anime's featuring girls with magic that fight against invaders are one of the most common and popular anime genres in japan and as a result is quite popular and common. What sets brave witches apart from this is that its set within an alternate world where the various powers that would have fought ww2 have united to defend against the threat of an invasion by an alien race called the Neuroi. As a result Brave witches which is a spin off that takes place between the the first and second seasons of the strike witches anime is a combo of a military and magical girls anime.
The main story of Brave witches follows the adventures of of Hikari Karibuchi a young witch that lives on the island nation of Sasebo as she joins the 502nd Joint fighter squadron in Orussia as they fight in the war again…
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Brave Witches it's a spin-off of Striker Witches, but unlike the main show, Brave Witches had less ecchi and it's focus more in the plot and the development of the characters.
When I saw Strike Witches I had a big problem with the main character. It feels that Yoshika it's introduce as a complete developed character for the first chapters...
With Hikari I hadn't that problem, when you saw her in the first scenes you could understand perfectly that she's trying to reach someone, this someone is her own sister, Takami. Here we have the perfect point to start the plot.
We have a reason to follow Hikari's path. As I said with Yoshika I don't have this feeling until the end of the first season and all the second season.
The story. It has the same background, Witches fighting an alien race ca…
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