Fate’s many faces of consternation.
I was quite shocked at how easily Fate got trapped. Though it wasn’t as bad as Vita getting stabbed through the chest from behind or Teana being injured, out-numbered and cornered, it was still pretty bad and unexpected. Mainly because she’s FEITO, you wouldn’t expect her to be so beat down.
And then there’s not much about Fate in Ep 23 and it’s only in Ep 24 when she has her mind battle with the Doctor and revisits her trauma of not being loved by Precia. I’m not sure how much of Freudian psychology is applicable to women but the Doctor was able to use Fate’s mom fixation to break her down mentally, even managing to depict her love and compassion for Erio and Caro as a twisted reaction that still ultimately perpetuates Precia’s behaviour towards her but now through Fate herself.
Damn, that was one hell of a guilt trip. Then again, it might have been worse if the Doctor told her that Nanoha only loved her for her hot loli body, is no longer interested and is going to marry Yuuno. orz
Fortunately for Fate and her fans, her kids use the Free Will Defence to get her out of funk. Much delight too as she changes into her New Skimpy Sonic Form with twin Riot Zamber blades.
I LOL’ed and then cheered when Fate delivered the smackdown on the evildoers. There was almost a thong flash after she batted the Doctor with the flat of Bardiche Zamber. 0_0
FULL THROTTLE. I’ve been amazed at how much Teana has grown as a character. She was an annoying brat and I cheered when Signum gave her the Fist but now I’m in admiration of how, despite being the Forward with the least powerful and/or special magic, she took down three Numbers on her own. I guess being the most intelligent of the four newbies also helped tremendously. The Mai Nakahara voicing helped too. :P
I was almost waiting for the captured Number to see through Teana’s spiel about how she knows a combat cyborg who can laugh and love and accuse Teana of having feelings for Subaru and then Tiia going all tsundere. LOL
Very nice to see Shamal and Zafira get the better of Otto. Would have been even better if we had a StrikerS Nano!-esque scene with Shamal then forcing Otto into various kinds of cosplay while Zafira looks on, thinking that it’s better the Number than him having to undergo the Pet Dog Treatment again.
I may disagree with your inter-dimensional crimes, but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire.
Of course, Nanoha shows how She The Ultimate Weapon is. Also nice to know that Arf has been getting babysitting experience by looking after Chrono and Amy’s twins. Definitely part of FEITO’s plans to ensure that they can still enjoy hot dates after Vivio joins the matrimonial home.
Putting her foot down.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the exit, it could be a train coming towards you. Or a Blaster Three Divine Buster.
I was cheering when Nanoha’s Wide Area Search found Quattro, the Number Four realizing that she’s in deep shit and then going down to a Divine Buster with a scream of “IYAAAA~~~” She was easily the most unlikeable of the combat cyborgs, mainly because of how smug she was and derisive towards even her fellow Numbers. Such a marvellous scene, I rewatched it quite a few times. Though not nearly as many times as the Lucky Star cheer-dance.
Being the sort of person who saves his strawberry until the end of his shortcake, it’s time to sing the praises of Signum-neesan who finally gets more screentime. Her coily attack getting owned by Zest/Agito was a bit of surprise because she’s also an S rank, though unison with Rein does have the benefit of not flashing her panties (what colour after unison?) as she plummets to the ground.
Agito’s also had the hots for Signum ever since she saw Levantein go into demonic fiery sword mode. Neat foreshadowing of the Signum x Agito unison in the final episode.
Lots of inevitable jokes about Signum letting her hair down but I don’t care, Signum-neesan is AWESOME. It was a good fight; rather neat ending for Zest because he was dying anyway and Signum’s the most worthy warrior he’s met thusfar and so the most suitable person to end his life. Did I mention that Signum is awesome?
I enjoyed the final episode too. But am waiting for a better raw before I post on it.
So which is better sounding:
Hi Nu Nanoha or Strike Freedom Nanoha
And Signum needs to let hair down more.
DEE VEE DEE!!
Yes!
Fate-chan proved once again as to why she is still in tie for Number two most fav female character (With Nagato Yuki)
Damn it!
When is the next season?!!
And of course…LOL at Quatro trying to run from 4xDevine buster! Most entertaining scene of StrikerS
Quatro getting a face full of Divine Buster made my day. She may be quite hawt with her hair down and glasses off (really hot… I was a bit surprised :x), but she still much deserved that smack down.
Fate’s Shin Sonic Form is so cool… I want a figure of it @.@ But Fate getting caught so easily was kind of surprising to me, as well. I wasn’t too pleased with the whole AMF thing, since I really wanted to see the Aces go nuts on the bad guys. Throw some nice, over the top, epic fights of insane proportions. Each of the big three taking on 4 of the Numbers each and tossing them around like ragdolls. But oh well… ;; Though it really does show how powerful they’ve become when they can do all they did despite the AMF.
You and I should create a Mai Nakahra fan club really..the woman’s got talent!
Xellos-_^, definitely Strike Freedom Nanoha! LOL
Demon Eyes, so who’s your Numba Wan? Rei Ayanami?
Mandy, I felt that StrikerS has handled the power creep problem very very well. In retrospect, the limiters were a brilliant idea and totally plausible given the fierce inter-service rivalry which was central to the story.
Ivy, I’m sure she has a huge fan club already and now we just have to find its HQ! But she has quite a few forgettable roles but her good roles are really good.
That is so hilarious and sad for Arf at the same time. However, it reeks of typical Fate brilliance. The more I think about it, the more I realize Arf would be a perfect babysitter, as long as you didn’t come home to find her asleep in front of the TV with the baby tied up with a binding spell.
Particularly since Loli-Arf and Puppy Arf would be perfect for kids besides being so cute - though Vivio didn’t seem scared by Zafira’s big beast form.
I wonder why Nanoha didn’t create a familiar… maybe she just makes her Fate-chan dress up in cat ears, mittens and tail and go ‘Meow, goushujinsama…’ from time to time.
That’s because Nanoha was never lonely like Fate. When Nanoha needs a friend, she just goes out and beats up a bad person to convert the bad guy/girl into a friend.
I totally lost count of how many times I watched the Divine Buster scene. It made me the happiest magical tome in the world.
re: Arf babysitter - looks like Erio had a tough time under her. :P
jpmeyer, AWESOME scene that was. Oh noes, the magical tome analogy just bring to mind so many possibilities… like the Mistress and Administrator making the Tome of JP watch CLANNAD. XD
if you guys haven’t heard the news yet.
Fate has been defeated by Suigintou in 2007 Saimoe
1700+ votes for Suigintou and 1600+ votes for Fate.
All the hopes and dreams of Nanoha fans now rest on the shoulder of the White Devil.
Nanoha’s match is Next week.
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-Depress Fate Fanboy
Another reason why I couldn’t care less about SaiMoe.