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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (series)
2 years ago
After watching Symphogear got a lot of recommends for this as it's cited as an inspiration
Nanoha Season 1 - Some curious aesthetic for a magical girl show but goddamn it is plodding. I only stuck through this because I was curious to see where the show would go.
Nanoha A's - Marked improvement over the first season. Fate is far more interesting as an ally than she was as a rival, and doubling the cast size really keeps the plot moving and storylines interesting.
Nanoha StrikerS - It's Magical Girl Top Gun? We have abandoned the previous setting in favor of training for the wizard navy. The pacing for this show is kinda up and down and they set up a lot of fights that are honestly kinda frustrating to watch. The novelty of the setting was interesting and the varying scope of stakes was engaging but man this one tested my patience. Also we have moved in the evolution of Nanoha magical items from staves to staves that are like guns to just guns.
Nanoha ViVid - Was not expecting the shift to a sports anime but honestly it was refreshing to move away from wizard military and world ending threats to a very interpersonal story of growth. Shame that it just ends in the middle of a storyline though. It's clear there was supposed to be a second half that just never happened.
I'll probably check out the movies at some point because they have to be improvements over the originals (the first movie especially has to be better paced than the first season of the show).
Nanoha Season 1 - Some curious aesthetic for a magical girl show but goddamn it is plodding. I only stuck through this because I was curious to see where the show would go.
Nanoha A's - Marked improvement over the first season. Fate is far more interesting as an ally than she was as a rival, and doubling the cast size really keeps the plot moving and storylines interesting.
Nanoha StrikerS - It's Magical Girl Top Gun? We have abandoned the previous setting in favor of training for the wizard navy. The pacing for this show is kinda up and down and they set up a lot of fights that are honestly kinda frustrating to watch. The novelty of the setting was interesting and the varying scope of stakes was engaging but man this one tested my patience. Also we have moved in the evolution of Nanoha magical items from staves to staves that are like guns to just guns.
Nanoha ViVid - Was not expecting the shift to a sports anime but honestly it was refreshing to move away from wizard military and world ending threats to a very interpersonal story of growth. Shame that it just ends in the middle of a storyline though. It's clear there was supposed to be a second half that just never happened.
I'll probably check out the movies at some point because they have to be improvements over the originals (the first movie especially has to be better paced than the first season of the show).
