Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

[RyougaZell]

No, you're not the only one. That was the first thing that came to my mind too.
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Personally I thought the OP was a little weak.

Well, I'm afraid my worst fear is coming true, it seems like the series will focus more on the new characters (Heck, Signum and Arf didn't even get air time (was Arf even in the OP?). Nanoha and her gang are probably too powerful to be main characters, that or the enemies will have to use some uber hax

Where have you been all these months?
It was announced ages ago that Nanoha's role wouldn't be main character, despite her name being on the title.

[Munsu]

I don't know, I liked the new characters introduced... and a focus on them for the series shouldn't be a bad thing. For one, they have some instersting weapons at their disposal, which is refreshing.

I enjoyed the first episode, the only thing is that Nanoha matured very badly, I don't like her new appearance, she looks cross-eyed.

[Ryllharu]

I've found Subaru to be particularly likable. I had my reservations about the change in primary characters, but I really wouldn't mind the focus on Subaru. Her fighting style is so different from the other characters in A's, except for maybe Signum. It still has the same overwhelming enemies with shear force that we've come to expect from Nanoha herself, but because it's all point blank range, it makes her combat seem even faster. Tiana (I prefer the phonetic spelling over the engrish on the site), compliments Subaru with more technical abilities. She's the brains of the pair, thinking before she acts, unlike Subaru.

We still have the old cast to act as mentors, and they'll obviously get some action. The problem is most of them became so absurdly powerful, Nanoha and Hayate most of all, that seeing them have any trouble with enemies would be wrong. But having them simply waste any opponents would be boring.

The show still has a slow, introductory pace, but the same can be said for the first series until Fate showed up.

I agree that 19 year old Nanoha does look somewhat strange. At the end of A's, she looked fine when she was supposed to be 15. Fate and Hayate aged appropriately though.

[Kraco]

Edit: Episode 2 link:

Episode 2 - Yesy

This is a normal quality episode. They seemed to drop releasing the LQs, which is a good decision.

Man, the AIs of Nanoha and Fate's staffs still remind me of C&C2's GDI and NOD AIs, every time. Since Fate was the bad guy in the beginning, it's appropriate her staff has the NOD voice, of course.

Well, anyway, the introductions still go on. Looks like there will be a good amount of new people to remember. And what's even worse for me is that I have blissfully forgotten already a good deal of the old cast, though I do recognize their faces when shown for the first time in this series, but that's about it. I can't connect names to faces, most of the time. In any case, I hope some dark, vicious enemy soon appears. After two episodes, this series desperately needs more focus. Right now it gives the feeling the people, especially the old cast, are just hanging around not too sure of what they should be doing.

[Ryllharu]

I was apparently wrong about Nanoha&DGz. Any claims they just copied Triad obviously can't be true, since they are the furthest ahead. Their subs are excellent, other than using some of the "official" names off the site. (The Nanoha Staff has horrible english and can't romanize names well). Their translations are better than yesy, and the video quality is good.

Episode 3 - Nanoha & DGz

EDIT: This episode seems to be the final training episode before things get started. We get to see the various fighting styles of all four Forwards, and most of them are variations on the characters from A's. Subaru is like a point-blank Nanoha with a little bit of Signum, Tiana is a brainy, high level technique user, Kyaro (Carol) is like Shamal with a few more offensive abilities, and Erio is like Fate in Scythe/Sonic Form.

As a side note, Shamal in a labcoat looks exactly like Ritsuko from Evangelion.

[Kraco]

Yesy got their version out:

Episode 3 - Yesy


Edit: Fixed the wrong number. Sorry folks. Thanks for pointing the error out, Ryllharu.

[Yukimura]

I just picked this up, it looks interesting, and I've been wanting something mahouish for a while. I haven't seen either of the previous series yet and I have a question...I get the impression that Nanoha and Fate make/made a habit of sleeping in the same very large bed together, am I supposed to be reading into this at all?

Also, Rollerblades = Win therefore Subaru = Win!