Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Wait, I should have said magical talking helicopter.

You know what else was silly? {[spoiler:How the Saint's Cradle looked.]]

You know who sucks? Jail Scaglietti.

Worst villain ever.

I can't take a military-themed show seriously or even ironically seriously when everyone is wearing cute bright-ass colors and goofy outfits.

Also, the discipline and proper relations between commanders in the TSAB would make General Patton cry. (Then again, Patton never had to juggle mages, cyborgs, Phlebotnium refugees and other such sci-fi whatnot in his army.)

I thought Jail Scaglietti was an alright villain. Quattro can go to Hell, though.

Let's just agree that Strikers was... "odd".

Yes, let's.

Oh, and it took too long for any interesting foes beyond dime-a-dozen Gadget Drones to show up. I was about ready to cry when the Numbers first started actually appearing.

I wouldn't exactly say that particular word.

And then, the Numbers weren't even good antagonists. I mean, I don't even remember their faces, apart from Quattro. They weren't even strong, they just extricated themselves out of every dangerous situation and use stupid tricks like SWIMMING THROUGH WALLS or this goddamn anti magic field.

It's like a rat is laughing at you because she caught you in a trap and there's nothing you can do about it even though you're like 500 times stronger than the rat.

Unfortunately, the only other option is to watch the new protagonists train. And train. And train.

Well, we can all agree that A's kick all sorts of ass and then some, right?

Totally.

Eh...

It was condensed cuddliness alternating with condensed ass-kicking.

I need something like that once in a while.

StrikerS sure is feeling some love here, huh?

I'm probably one of the few that actually quite liked it on its own merits, which is not to say that I can't find things to rant about. One of them wouldn't be the silly costumes though and bright colours, though; I was under the impression that these were pretty much the common denominators of the medium, whatever else was subject to variation. Seems especially strange to me if you liked the second season, because the art style doesn't shift that much and they keep the same clothes: it would possibly be more of a Mood Whiplash if everything was suddenly Darker and Edgier. Maybe it's a context thing, I don't know, but I don't think you're meant to see it as a military procedural in space. Your mileage obviously varies. Nobody wails on Gundam for the same reasons, and there's plenty that's preposterous there.

Singling out individual costumes or talking vehicles to ridicule is shooting fish in a barrel: the whole premise (much like, let's face it, the majority of works in the medium) is inherently silly. Not saying that it isn't valid, but you could easily dislike Vita's costume (and croquet mallet-inspired weapon) for the same reasons as you dislike Subaru's outfit. But obviously consistency is not something that applies to preference.

I haven't seen Strikers either, but I have an implicit understanding that anything in animated shows will almost necessarily be in bright colors. Especially clothing and armor and often monsters and hair.

I think I might like it. Perhaps.

You know what's really silly? A talking helicopter. Seriously?

How about a dirty-mouthed helicopter that plays World Of Warcraft?

Having not seen StrikerS, I have to ask — are the villains still divisible into Fates and Precias?

What do you mean?

Oh, I think I know what Shay Guy means: as in woobified cloned mages and their master, right?

Well, sort of. They're cloned, but not woobified (some of them are unambiguously nasty), and Scaglietti treats them rather well. Doesn't mean he's not an asshole, though.

Er, guys, I don't know fuck all about Nanoha. Why does everyone keep talking about this As and Strikers stuff? What's it got to do with Nanoha?

Those are the weird names for the second and third seasons. I knew that from the trope page and I haven't even seen the series.

OK that's kinda fuckin' weird.

But not that uncommon.

Hm? Pay attention. The one talking isn't the helicopter, it was from the base form of Vice's Sniper Rifle Intelligent Device.

And I'm fairly sure Teana was meant to have a generic Tsundere personality at the start, since she was supposed to grow out of that childish personality and mature into an effective enforcer by the end. (Shooting the Big Bad in the back in Sound Stage X while the Big Bad was busy monologuing, then chiding the Big Bad for that afterwards? <3)

Hold on, but they're not sequels, they're meant to be the second and third series. Of the same show, right?

Yeah, but Nanoha's arc based, to the point where you can think of each season as one long story. In that sense, the later seasons are sequels.

Plus, it's not that uncommon to call new seasons something different in japan.

edited 1st Aug '09 5:12:21 AM by Elfive