AniWorthStrike Witches: The Movie
Introduction
After fending off the threat of a Neuroi invasion of Romagna and destroying the enemy's nest over Venezia, Yoshika Miyafuji goes back to her home town in the Empire of Fusou. Despite the loss of her magical and healing abilities, the former officer of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing wants to continue studying medicine. This is in order to help those in need, both civilians and those on the front lines alike. She receives an invitation from a prestigious school in Europe and decides to accept the offer, embarking on a journey back to the war-torn continent.
However, a new danger arises, as more and more Neuroi manage to break through human defense lines, appearing unnoticed in supposedly safe areas and disturbing the balance of power in Europe. Yoshika's sense of duty collides with her inability to pilot a Striker Unit, but with her friends in peril, it seems that there is only one thing she can do.
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 7.59/10 · 20485
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Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
stmwg01
Quick take: “This is gross and tastes like boogers.” Actually, having come off of the two season mediocre series, this movie is surprisingly good.
You’re not going to find anything ultra profound in the storyline and there are things left a bit unexplained, but compared to the two seasons before, the Strike Witches movie is good. The plot feels appropriate for a war movie and for a feel-good-friendship movie, which I wouldn’t have expected anyone to pull off, let alone Strike Witches. I feel like we're actually at war, which the seasons prior seemed to make feel fake. The movie progresses in such a way that the pacing feels really good and natural, making the nearly 2 hour movie go by quicker than expected.
I think art slipped. There’s particularly a scene where blood is overlaid on clo…
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Strike Witches Movie (2012)
For me watching this movie in order with this being the latest part before the next movie that is due out in 2020 it makes a lot of sense. If you watched it back in 2012 with the order of things all over the place this would be a pretty hard movie to drop in.
The story is really well done from start to finish. It is nice to see how it links directly off Operation Victory Arrow. The introduction of Shizuka being very straight-laced from the academy is brilliant as not all witches can be so chilled out as Yoshika. Especially since this is Fuso a country of absolute dedication.
The art is consistent even with the later parts of the show like Victory Arrow which came after it in terms of production It is Ecchi as always and fits perfectly into the narrative. San…
Read at the sourceKuromizue
When i started to watch the movie i just had finished the main series and thought they were good it just had it's bad's too.
For me this series got better and better to the end and this movie was very good finish because i think that to this anime the smaller length suits very well because i doesn't give enough time to do the to my opinion "pointless" fan service, so it can focus on the story.
And i'm kinda sucker for the fact that someone loses his/her powers and resurrects again at one point =)
At the end the whole series was good and this movie was very good finish to overall good series that when i begun thought that "this isn't going to be very good".
Read at the sourceKitsunehimeMilhi
If it's not obvious from my rating, I'm a huge Strike Witches fan. I originally found the series randomly on Hulu and eventually I watched all of it, besides the one non- victory ova that I didn't know existed until a few weeks ago, in like 4 days. I love this anime a lot because it's very true to what it is and the movie is the same way. You get a bunch of cute girls with familiars that can use magic to perform moves and fly, and they also don't wear pants, which I've read is because striker units need almost direct skin contact to access the magical energy so they can start the propellers that allow the witches to fly.
Strike Witches the movie gives you a chance to see all the old characters, the fun interactions that you want to see again, a new type of neuroi, and a new girl who was…
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There is something about Strike Witches, despite all it's cheesiness, the mediocre plot, and the panty shots that leaves you fulfilled and always wishing for more. And just like the past seasons from before, the movie of the series delivers a fun ride with a conclusion that just leaves you warm and fuzzy in the end.
There isn't much to say about plot as it follows expectations you would have a movie adaptation, and it follows the typical Strike Witches formula. The Neuroi invade Europe, they catch the protagonists and army by surprise, and it's up to the 501st to reunite and save the day. Sounds familiar? It should sound, as it is the basic conceptual story followed by the past two seasons. A basic problem of the movie's plot is that it offers almost no new information to the storyline; w…
Read at the sourcearsonal
Strike Witches the Movie is a refreshing and fitting sequel to the two television series. Those who are not familiar with the Strike Witches franchise receive a brief introduction to the premise of the series, but they may not be able to appreciate the unique personalities of each character fully if they have not watched the preceding works.
Strike Witches revolutionized the "mecha musume" genre of moe anthropomorphism, especially because of the special attention given to the realistic setting of the series. Compared to the futuristic setting of Shimada Humikane's earlier work Sky Girls, Strike Witches employs World War II era technology and personalities as the basis of its story. In a timeline where Earth's history is altered because of the invasion of unknown aliens, the total war we…
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