Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
This is my first series of this type and I'm noticing something that really stands out to me...I have detected almost no character conflict. I don't know if I'm just missing it or if it's not generally part of the genre or what but it feels like every single character gets along quite well with every other character and there are no shady opposing factions working from the inside against the main protagonists.
Did you watch the first two seasons? Well, no matter, I'll just mention a couple of things: The core old cast in this is composed largely of former enemies. Nanoha and Fate were enemies in the original series, Signum and the rest were the enemies of the second series. So, the some sort of concept of the series is to get to know your enemy and find out why she's an enemy, and then, if possible, make her not your enemy. Keeping that in mind it's not surprising they get along so well. Though in the second series there was some villainous background play, so who knows...

Anyway, the one thing that captured my attention in this episode (aside from shower scenes) were the particularly artificial sounding personal power limiters. Limiting device power in training makes some sense so that the newbies wouldn't kill themselves or each other, but restricting the officers' power levels looks only like a way to make them practically usable in battles (so that they won't blow the enemy out of the sky in three seconds). After all, unless they get paid according to their power rank and the unit budget wouldn't allow it, it seems stupid to limit their powers. Not having overqualified people in due to some regulation sounds only like bad or envious management, if it's not a money issue.