I was looking forward to StrikerS more than I have been to any anime save My-Otome. This was not due to hype, mind you. This was due to expectations. Nanoha A’s is one of my all time favorite shows, and one of the most AWESOME anime EVAR. In the end, it [...]
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I’m still waiting for the show to pick up, but these episodes did two things right. In episode 11, they finally started to cut down on the transformation scenes. They manage to fit in four of them (Subara, Teana, Carol, and Erio) in about 90 seconds. In episode 5, they had nearly [...]
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Episode 5 of Nanoha StrikerS consisted of nearly four minutes of transformation sequences: Fate: 46 seconds Nanoha: 54 seconds Subaru: 47 seconds Teana: 29 seconds That shota whose name I forgot: 24 seconds Carol: 26 seconds I didn’t have a problem with the manequin nudity transformation scenes for the adults, but I groaned when Carol had it as well. But I [...]
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Now that we have some tasty treats from Megami, this is basically the hottest debate on the internets right now, amiright? Me, I’m glad that they’re all growed up now since now I can be like “NOW YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE SHOW BECAUSE THERE ARE NO MORE LOLIS IN IT SO NOW YOU [...]
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I randomly came upon this Nanoha wiki today. It’s all in Japanese, except for the best part. This “best part” that I speak of is a list of everything that Raising Heart, Bardiche, and friends say. Nanoha A’s part 1 A’s part 2 Now you can write things like “So I did an AREA SEARCH and read [...]
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I had remembered reading a lot of positive reviews about Nanoha from around the internets, so back during the winter or so I downloaded and watched the first season. It was really boring (and squick-y at times, like when Fate was being abused) with a trite find-the-X-number-of-Dragonballs plot, but I kept watching it because [...]
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