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Monthly Archive for May, 2007
*SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS* HOLY SHI- Nanoha executes Tiia for insubordination.
Well, not really. But she does some serious damage in order to knock some sense into her wayward trainee (who has Dead Brother Complex). Just when I thought this was going to be 20 minutes of training session where Tiia overcomes the angst of almost killing Subaru in the previous episode and we go back to happy clappy mode, but what we get is Nanoha going White Devil, quietly sad, seemingly hollow but also terrifying in her calm and ruthless exercise of power - not just physically breaking Tiia but also shattering Subaru’s mental image of her (what a Shinn face). And all this is linked to the serious injury that Nanoha suffered which was alluded to in the A’s to StrikerS comic.
Added MQ screencaps and comments.
1. Spring is here Fate and Nanoha chat about how they’ve been busy with school and TSAB training since last Christmas. Wonderful lines from Nanoha about how she’s happy when she’s with Fate and from Fate about how her heart is strongly (something… happy?) when she’s with Nanoha.
2. Later with the Yagami Family Dr Ishida tells Hayate that she is making great progress in her rehabilitation. Signum and Shamal take their leave of Admiral Leti, they’ve been discussing the knights’ incorporation into the Armed Bureau. The former two gossip about a possible rival scene between Nanoha and Vita, Shamal teases Signum about the same with respect to Testarossa. Zafira in puppy mode is being fought over by girls squealing about how cute this mixed breed is while Vita gloats.
3. Cherry blossom viewing? Nanoha, Arisa and Suzuka explain to Fate what a hanami session is and plan a session for Saturday, inviting friends and family.
Tiia-centric episode with a fair bit of fighting. On the latter bit, Riot Force 6 provides security for an auction which is a marvelous excuse for Hayate, Nanoha and Fate to don evening dresses. There is, however, no evening dress combat. Sigh. That’s left to the Hayate Cosplay Company Belka Knights (with nekkid transformation scenes ex Zafira of course) and the newbies. Loli Rider is indeed a summoner and an expert one at that. She buffs the attacking gadgets with winged pins and also sends a shadowy summoned to retrieve the mystery goodie. Meanwhile Hayate is reunited with Verossa and Nanoha x Fate with Yuuno. Bleah.