“Military Intelligence”…one of the funniest oxymorons evar!! If they had normal intelligence, they would have realized that a mecha made out of a Neuroi core would eventually turn into a Neuroi. And I’m quite worried the final episode won’t really answer all these Neuroi questions…but we shall see if the can pull it off… [...]
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Paging for the ER Looks like we’ve got a serious one on our hands this time folks. It is time to get in the car strike unit. A BAWWWWWWWWWWW GONZO ending? HONTOU NI? Rez pls. And so that leaves us from last week, wherein Major Sakamoto, a hardened war veteran with multitudes of experience, charged headlong into a Neuroi’s [...]
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Ominous music, Yoshika flirting with truths that cannot be spoken of, and a mobile suit, if there aren’t the bath scene and the Perrine x Mio will it fit scene, I’d think I’m watching a different show. This episode alone contains more plot than the previous nine combined. From last week, we were left with [...]
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Somehow, I believe she can say this without hesitation because of what happened to Major Sakamoto due to Miyafuji’s disobedience. And here I thought she cared about ALL the witches and didn’t want them to get shot down. She should have at least opposed the order at least a little bit more…>_> Well, that’s military [...]
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Rock-mounted landline As you can see I’ve being procrastinating with Strike Witches. Partly because I’m busy with life, but mostly because I’m just lazy. Since everyone has propably watched this episode already, I’ll just skip the summary and thoughts parts and go straight to the screencaps with my “witty” captions. Of course that has nothing to [...]
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Trust and Friendship Mio survives and Perrine is not Happy with Miyafuji. Anime Impressions Miyafuji disobeys orders and tries to find the Human Neuroid on her own. Minna and the rest attempt to chase after her to bring her back. Miyafuji successfully makes contact with the Neuroid and it seems to want to tell her something, but [...]
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When  I first heard about Strike Witches I was excited because I really liked the Mecha Musume figures that were in a similar style. Part loli, part mecha - there’s all sorts of ‘action’ implied with that. And from what I hear of the show, it doesn’t fail to provide all sorts of action in [...]
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So I was right all along. More elaboration on the Neuroi, at the price of Mio and Miyafuji. Minna has ordered Yoshika to be detained, even though the latter was the reason Mio was saved from the critical ordeal of the last ep’s encounter. Yoshika tries defend her beliefs on the matter, saying that the Neuroi [...]
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I know I have asked for some assemblance of a plot before, but I’d never thought that when I do see it, I’d be watching Déjà vu. The cliffhanger from last episode turns out to be one big anti-climatic teaser that deflates all my hypes as fast as the Strike Witches flashing their panties across my [...]
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How many characters can you name (via)? No fair looking up in your stack of screencaps, do it cold. For me, Luccini, and, to an extent, Barkhorn and Sanya are dead giveaway. A moment of thinking uncovers Miyafuji and Sakamoto. Finally, I think I can spot Pierrine, based on character traits. The rest is a mystery, [...]
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And get down to it we shall. Just look at the DRASTIC and SERIOUS detail. And so the treachery unfolds, or so we think~ So picking up where we left off, with Major Sakamoto being held at gunpoint, which surprises me. What kind of military is run without officers knowledgeable of Hand-to-Hand Combat. Which is odd, all Minna really [...]
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As I expected, my predictions were true. So much for the anticipated Mio-Minna lovey-dovey. And since the dorama is out in the open, along with a lot of extensive information and all that blablabla, I got a good dose  character material for today’s ep. You’ll have to pardon the tl;dr. Minna’s held Mio (thank you TheBigN [...]
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The plot becomes serious, real serious. No more characters running around in bikinis or witches stealing each other panties. Strike Witches is looking into sad and depressing issues like life and death. I remember catching the very first episode with an optimistic and curious manner. It started off on a light note though the plot was [...]
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And with Tanaka Rie’s performance, it just look so much better. (I’ve been doing summary, but there are other blogs that review raw, so go look them up. I ain’t gonna waste my time for no reward.) In any event, the high ups in the military is hiding something about the neoroids, and at this point, it’s [...]
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They say that kanji’s are pictorial words, so how else is better to learn them than with some actual, descriptive pictures. Here goes. 控 /ko.u/ restrained, withdrawn, held back, moderated 並 /na.mi/ average, medium, mediocre 豊 /yu.ta.ka/ full, rich, plum Left word already covered. 貧 /fu.n/ poor, lacking, deflated Left word already covered. 無 /mu/ nothing, void, empty, nonexistent 巨 /mu/ gigantic, huge Right word already covered. Already covered. So go stare at read them, draw write [...]
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Well, it’s still right up in your face, but this time around, we get a bit of more plot development…something I’ve been wishing for since the earlier episodes. What caught my attention first was the reason why Sakamoto’s magic shield didn’t work previous episode. Apparently, there’s an Achilles heel to their magic power, the older they [...]
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Minna’s ep! MYLF alert! MYLF alert! Yoshika tries to bond with the other military members of the 501st, only to do so in vain. Commander Minna said that everyone was ordered not to have any kind of conversation or physical contact with any Witch, even if the Witch herself was the one who approached. Of course [...]
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There was something on Strike Witches 8 that I thought I would never see—men, boat load of men, aircraft-carrier load of men. Too bad none of that testosterone got to mix with any of the estrogen, thanks to a certain orange hair commander who lost hers and now would not let anyone else get [...]
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“This is my final journey“ “I know I can never return to my world again” “Who are you?” What began as a Dream…. “The view of Ritardando is so beautiful at night…” Has become a journey. Beyond Imagination “Is it all really….just a dream?” To save a world.. A line WILL be drawn “We need to Lure the Girl to us!” And Boundaries Of Reality “The time [...]
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I was looking forward to more Minna’s screen time since the start of Strike Witches but episode 8 on her is so boring that I regretted looking forward to it in the first place. Episode 8 touches not on Minna’s simple past but on her love-love relationship with a guy whom she has difficulty letting go. [...]
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