Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS

[Kraco]

What is important, considering the henshin, is that Erio's was incomplete. It's quite enough to see only one of his spears during battles. The other one is better reserved only for Carol's eyes...

[JaySee]

The transformations were interesting. Subaru just goes buck naked in one big boom. I'm guessing that's to show she's an aggressive tomboy? Also yeah, I was amused and greatful the boy doesn't show any skin. No one wants to see that.

[Kraco]

I can't say the previous preview would have promised anything extraordinary for this episode, but I'm very glad it's here, nonetheless.

Episode 6 xvid - Yesy

Edit: Aye, it was mostly training, with something little happening in the background to prepare for the next episode/arc, which should be interesting. Not a bad episode, though.

One thing I was wondering about, though, is how these fellows are regularly cruising with space ships between solar systems yet seem to run their cars with internal combustion engines...

[Kraco]

Enemies of flesh and blood. And magic. Hopefully.

Episode 7 - Yesy

[Ryllharu]

I imagine Lutecia, the enemy summoner, will be the "let's make friends out of the enemy" this season. She's in the OP, and in the seasons of Nanoha, the idea has remained consistent so far.

Looks like this and the next episode will develop Tia some more, who has quickly developed quite the inferiority complex. I really wouldn't put Subaru above Tia in magical strength right now, since Subaru has no ranged attacks and is using brute force on most of her enemies. But if Tia says she has enormous potential (and since she's taken Nanoha's role as the primary character) I guess Subaru will be showing us some amazing things later on.

I'm guessing Tia will do something stupid next episode, in an effort to try an make up for nearly killing Subaru. Probably train by herself to exhaustion and jeopardize someone's safety.

Lastly, I've seen some spoilers about why, but Vita has had a considerable change in personality. She used to be very reckless and savage, but now she's very overprotective of her subordinates. That's why she flipped out on Tia so badly for being reckless. I hope they show what brought about Vita's change.

[TheBladeChild]

@Ryllharu
Subaru does have ranged attacks, watch episode 1. And ya Subaru really does use a obscene amount of brute force. No finess at all.

[Ryllharu]

A point blank Nanoha inspired Divine Buster is not a ranged attack. I did forget about the other ones I believe you are referring to. I suppose if you consider those, she has ranged attacks, but we've yet to see her use those again, and compared to the ranged attacks of the earlier seasons as well as Tiana's own, they aren't much for ranged attacks. She's just shoving the counter-rotating fist to move an air-burst in one scene. Mid-range maybe, since she's still using them within a room/hallway.

She still wasted a shell to even use them though.

I do want to see more point-blank busters soon.

[Kraco]

I wonder what the heck was the lone guard doing down at the storage room. It looks like no alarm was raised despite the busted truck and box. And the purpose of the whole Hayate operation was to secure the place and the wares - and the only person actually guarding the wares was the lone stupid mundane guard..? I expect Hayate to get some criticism in the next episode. Or at least she should get. Falling totally to the enemy diversion tactics and failing to protect the goods. You can't call that a success.

[Yukimura]

They mentioned that the stuff in the truck was most likely being smuggled and not part of the actual auction, so I suspect the only person who knew about the theft was the person who was planning to sell it off under the table, and maybe their buyer.

[Kraco]

Yeah. That was most likely the case. Heh. I had an overly lenghty conversation about that very issue at the Yesy forums, and I had to admit their only failure on the mission was secondary to the actual mission objectives; they only failed to reduce smuggling and hamper the operations of one of the criminal master minds.

From what I could see, I think Hayate was extra careful to see that the audience was absolutely safe, as well as her own team, and that restricted the options she could have had to respond totally appropriately to the enemy attack, especially seeing how the only attack she responded to was the diversion, and they knew the enemy was capable of teleportation.

[Yukimura]

Nanoha StrikerS - 08 - [yesy]

Damn! Nanoha embarrassed the hell out of them something fierce. But why was she so pissed off? Was their tactic that dangerous? What does she expect them to do, do she's like AA ranked with her limiters on...

[TheBladeChild]

Lol Nanoha lays the smack down this time around XD

[Ryllharu]

Nanoha was pissed that Tia was using lethal force in a practice bout. There's no need to be so serious when you're trying to learn to improve. The two of them were putting everyone in danger with reckless tactics (when Subaru was repelled), and Tia's blade. So Nanoha showed them what to expect when they were that serious. I expect it has something to do with the preview for next week where Nanoha appears to be severely wounded.

Nanoha is a monster by the way. Raging Heart disengaged, limiters on, and she can still belt out two incapacitating bursts and bind Subaru with a thought and not even focusing on her.

As a completely unrelated note, the inconsistent art throughout this series yielded Subaru a more curvaceous body than usual. That, or she's catching up to her sister Ginga faster than we thought.

[TheBladeChild]

Now that I think about it Nanoha(Kira) > Teana(Ray) + Subaru(Shinn), except for the whole Teana and Shinn turning evil kind of thing.

[Yukimura]

Experiance tends to beat vigor, especially when magic is involved. Just watched it again...poor Teana..right in the face with no remorse at all.

[Kraco]

Yeah. I guess they misjudged Nanoha a bit, thinking she would be impressed by their improvised battle techniques. It was a kind of strange conclusion to draw in any case considering what kind of a person Nanoha is.

But a funny end to that mock battle in any case. At least it should have taught them how closely to stick to the training regimens in the future... And to wait until they are trainees no more before coming up with fancy tactics (or at least displaying them during training). Stuck-up supervisors are such innovation blockages.

[Ryllharu]

I think it's much more that Nanoha doesn't want to see anyone hurt during practice matches. Herself or her pupils. Judging from the preview, Nanoha had some serious trauma when she was still young. I think she would have been happy to see them come up with new tactics, just ones that didn't put everyone involved at such risk.

Though she's one to talk, she nuked Fate with a full on blast (and it wasn't a friendship beam) back when she was 10. Then again, it was an actual battle.

[Kraco]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, Teana...

Episode 9 - Yesy

[Yukimura]

Poor Tea's face though...she shouldn't have healed up so fast from that shiner. Anyway, Nanoha is boss as usual, her maternal style is so soothing and sweet and I can understand why Teana just flopped into her lap like a baby.

[Ryllharu]

More mental and physical abuse for Teana? I'm there.

One sob story (poor Nanoha though...) and another ticket for a huge guilt trip given by Nanoha in a one-on-one chat later, and the problem is solved. Since Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha has always been about making enemies friends, we really couldn't expect this kind of thing to last. A pity.

Where's the Subaru love though? We have Caro busting out her dragon, Tia showing off skills she was supposed to learn later, and Erio...being boosted by Caro. I need to see a point-blank Buster soon, but they give us a two part vacation episode.