Zero no Tsukaima: The Familiar of Zero

[David75]

Well that sucks if the "love" is the power source of void magic.. I mean come on.. And just as Kraco said, Saito's role is to protect Louise while she cast her magic.. He has a role alright.. But in a logical way. I want louise to use cool magic not just random wave of her wand resulting in a big explosion.

She has been able to remove ropes on the hands of the girls in the previous incident.
That's quite remarkable, no one was hurt, no explosion and it worked for at least 20 ropes

Well, that aside, since void magic is so uncommon (1 in a milenia?) and so powerful, it's only normal Louise needs a lot of time to master it...
After all, no one around has experience for Void magic and to date there's no data on how to use it, no one to teach her. I guess though that they'll find some trick to help
her mastering part of it quickly.

What I really miss is to see a square mage in action, probably the only category able
to approach Louise's potential. So basically we would have a high power and control of that power, versus Louise's tremendous power and no control...

[Kraco]

Louise has that book. And she used a bit fancier void magic when she defeated the ghoul prince who was about to kidnap the princess. Though I don't remember the specifics, so maybe it was also nothing but a good explosion. But during that time it was demonstrated perfectly how Louis needs a (meat) shield while she weaves the magic and that glorious role belongs to Saito.

[shinta|hikari]

@Oyabin - If that were the case, they would have to rename the show to something other than "Zero" no Tsukaima. Well, if you think about it, she has pulled off I think 2 spells effectively, and one on intention, so technically Zero wouldnt apply even now.

Personally, I only want her to be able to use her magic once in a season, as long as it destroys an entire army, or maybe a castle. That would fit her character best, I think.

[oyabun]

Exactly!!!

[animus]

Episode 11 XviD - YourMom
Episode 11 h264 - YourMom

[Yukimura]

This was the penultimate episode!? Apparently they're not going to resolve the non romance part of the plot at all then. Well, the fanservice was fun, though this is a far cry from the goodness of the first season.

[Kraco]

This series has seriously started to rot. It's hard to even imagine this is still supposed to be the same story as the first season.

Sad. Just sad.

[Kraco]

Actually it's good it's over. Who knows how low it would have fallen if it had been allowed to continue:

Episode 12 Final h264 - Your-Mom
Episode 12 Final xvid - Your-Mom

[Yukimura]

I can't believe I'm actually going to wait for the SS-Ayu and burn this...other than the fanservice and Colbert's backstory did anything actually happen in these 12 episodes?

[Kraco]

Well, well, finally it's over. This last episode at least offered a little remedy for Saito but I can't say it would have offered anything else. I was getting seriously pissed off with his "run and don't die" attitude - and then he himself tries to get himself killed with a no-plan attack. Seriously, these 12 episodes would have been better off never made. And like you said, so little happened that it's amazing in itself. I at least expected them to get the ring finally back but they never even faced the witch who stole it. Unbelievable.

[Ryllharu]

I keep hearing how dramatically better the novels are, but no of those critics go out of their way to help Baka-Tsuki translate the novels. They're too focused on the Haruhi light novels. If I knew any Japanese, I'd probably be working out the chapters.

There wasn't a whole lot to this season. It was mostly fluff. I did enjoy it, but it lacked the focus they had last season, a developed plot, and anything else other than fanservice. Actually, the Saito x Louise S&M humor was much improved compared to last season. From what I've read (material only partway through season 1 of the anime), Saito's mind is a lot more perverted in the novels, and it reflected well this season. The scene where Agnes burst into their room early in the season to see Louise mounted on top of Saito, panting still makes me laugh.

[animus]

I like how the introduction of Louise's sisters which have such huge heads in the intro which emphasize importance have almost nothing to do at all in these 12 episodes.

And by the looks of it no season 2 I'm guessing. How long did the mangas/books go for? That elf plot device was ridiculous, but atleast she was hot.

[David75]

Well, the silly "I'm dead, but I'm not" plot was obvious from the start...
We don't know exactly what happened with the army, maybe the power of the potion controlling the guys faded at the right time... In fact I don't care since there's no meaning in Saito being alive.

At least the very last scene had me a very large grin

Just a shame the combat scene was so short and in the last ep also. Saito showed nice movements. And he said exactly what we're all thinking "Why didn't I do this before"

[Yukimura]

Well the last ep was kind of funny, so it wasn't a total waste, but it's the same joke over and over and even I eventually get tired of it. I"m much more interested in whatever was previewed after the credits. Nanoha StrikerS is almost over and that show looked like it could slack my need for Magical Girls pretty well.

[Death BOO Z]

well, during my few days at home, I downloaded the 2nd season and wathced it all...
my thoughts?

Best part of the series is obviously Colbert's story. a decent plot done in an extraordinary way. too bad the musketeer girl never showed what she learned from it, but who cares...

Other than that, most of the series was just stalling for time, none of the side charecters got enough development to explain it's role in the story (mainly Julios, who had 2 lines limit for every episode, but also the rest). I can understand that the charecters from last season are in to inforce the conuinity, but there's no excuse for slacking off with the new ones...

Despite that, I liked the theme of not fighting, it's a refreshing attitude that represnts more modren values, and they cared to make notice that Saito has no reason to care about the two countries, other than the fact the people he cares about live in one.

more so, I enjoyed the way they portraid the 'good guys', espically since thier action were complerly similar to those that the 'bad guys' would have done if given the chance, just shows that life's a bitch and then you die. the princess asked louise to lay ruin of a fortress, AKA. cheat with her invicible magic user. Louise failed and got to know that the enemy was even a more decent guy than the person she was dating (who else thought the princess would end up with the dragon rider from the 2nd kingdom?), and had good morals to top it.

FAR too much fanservice, which was hardly even good fanservice.. they just stalled for time...

I liked the cutscene, though, step by step they start showing the neko Louise, and i've been thinking "what's with the furr panties?"... too bad Louise's idea got nowhere... it could have at least been funny...


is there a 3rd season planned?

[Kraco]

Despite that, I liked the theme of not fighting, it's a refreshing attitude that represnts more modren values, and they cared to make notice that Saito has no reason to care about the two countries, other than the fact the people he cares about live in one.

I might have tolerated the don't fight a little better, considering Saito is Japanese, if it had been don't fight, because... but now it was just don't fight repeated a hundred times. It's not like the Japanese wouldn't fight if North Korea suddenly attacked. It was totally stupid and unbelievable of Saito not to be able to project that much.

[Death BOO Z]

is there an episode name list somewhere? I'm planning to burn the anime into DVD tonight, and i'm not entierly in the mood to write down the titles, not when I can copy paste everything from the web...

[Ryllharu]

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl...anime&aid=4915

Full listing of the names of each episode.

[Death BOO Z]

I might have tolerated the don't fight a little better, considering Saito is Japanese, if it had been don't fight, because... but now it was just don't fight repeated a hundred times. It's not like the Japanese wouldn't fight if North Korea suddenly attacked. It was totally stupid and unbelievable of Saito not to be able to project that much.

what's wrong with simply don't fight. Saito doesn't have a reason to fight, he wouldn't have even fought unless he had the familiar powers (he never trains, he never shows any intrest in tactics, he hardly touched the sword this season). He fights becuase he can fight, he fights becuase it's easier for him to fight and kill than to think and conversate.
The moment he decided that he shouldn't fight, he made his life much harder (if boh he and louise were around, they could've used the power of love to kill everybody), more than that, when the anime diverts itself from action, it gives the viewer the time to focus on the plot, like the part that the good guys (queen) is the one making the agression towards the bad guys, and that the army is taking shelter in the school and making it into a military institute, and there was probably a reason why the evil witch told the army to take away the food from the captured town (though, the true reason was probably cencored).

that aside... the sister with the pink hair and the big breasts had a terminal disease, didn't she? and that's why she wasn't next in line for marrige, right?

[animus]

The action took a sidetrack to plot development? What plot development? They're about the same as the end of the 1st season, after a full season of 12 episodes. The only thing this season did was introduce Anies, Louise's 2 sisters, Saito's shitty boring pacifist whining, Colbert's death and past. There's prob a bit more, but there seriously wasn't much of anything in these episodes besides drawn out S&M humour and ecchi moments.