Episode 1 Low Quality

Episode Two Medium Quality

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS episode two is out by DGz and you can download it here. Overall a pretty decent episode however like the previous one it’s pretty slow. By pretty slow I mean… very slow. Once again it has the purpose of setting everything up (which makes this not your average magical girl show). Still though…

Basically the episode sets up what Nanoha is up to, reintroduces Vita, Signum, etc. and introduces two more characters (two kids) to the series. The kids magical device is a watch… which was comical until the “grope breast” scene that I thought was horribly stupid.

Anyway, once again there isn’t a WHOLE lot to say. It was kind of boring, had only 2 minutes of action (and that was with vita). Next episode looks like a “war gathering” episode so we’ll see how things go with that but at this point I’m doubting very seriously anything interesting will come out of the next episode. We’re looking at at least 3 or 4 before something good happens.

I hear that Nanoha is pretty much signed up for 26 episodes so that probably explains why things seem to be moving so slow. Oh well.

I want to say more, but really, this episode bored me:

Rating: B-

The B- is for yet another slow episode that bored me but it’s a B because the episode has purpose. It’s more of a personal thing about the lack of action and JUSTICE.

On with the review. I found episode one of Nanoha StrikerS, the sequel to the famous Nanoha and Nanoha A to be a little… boring. Now, this isn’t a bad thing, but it wasn’t very exciting. We were introduced to two new characters and the entire episode focused around their development. Their attacks were displayed along with their ability. The fact that they aren’t very aware of their surroundings was also also include.

Now, I said this was fine because there was action but it wasn’t the good burning justice kind. It was more of introducing the new characters. That slowness really kind of got to me. It however was a good episode based purly on the fact they took the time to introduce these new characters.

Yeah, a lot of anime will just shove new characters in out of nowhere. You won’t get any advancement past “they are mysterious”. Kind of like how Nanoha A added in the German group who only had advancement towards the end.

None of the previous characters return outside of Hayate, Fate, Nanoha, and Reinforce. More come in episode 2, but as I said this episode was kind of slow.

I give it the rating of B just for the slowness. Not unexpected of Nanoha who takes time to set-up (hehe) everything.