Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha 2
It's Nanoha's first fight as a magical girl. That staff she has is called Raging Heart.. and it talks!.. in English (kinda that Star Trek-ish computer voice). With a bit of help from Yuno she manages to seal away the monster. The monster leaves one of the Jewel Seeds behind.. and also a big mess.
Nanoha takes Yuno home and the whole family meets him.. her mother especially likes him since he's so cute :) The next day at school, Yuno tells Nanoha a bit more about the Jewel Seeds and why he's there. The 21 Jewel Seeds were scattered around Nanoha's town in an accident that Yuno takes blame for, so he has to gather them and return them to the place they belong.
Whle walking back from school, both Nanoha and Yuno sense the presence of another Jewel Seed at a shrine and go to investigate. This time, it's a mean dog monster.. and Nanoha forgot how to activate Raging Heart. Ooops ;) But, for some reason it activates automatically and protects her and she changes into her magical girl outfit.. with no transformation sequence this time, I might add (awww, no fun). She pretty easily takes care of the monster, seals it, and retrieves the Jewel Seed.
And so ends Nanoha's first day as a magical girl. Not the most exciting stuff, but hey, it's cute and that's enough to cheer me up a bit after the Bulldogs lost the football game today :) There also wasn't any of that seemingly 3d-ish animation this time like last.. Like Momotato, I'd like to see Nanoha's rival, Fate (Mizuki Nana's character), show up soon. And I wonder when Nanoha will find out that Yuno is really a boy. Doesn't look like it'll happen next time, but Yuno's not going to take advantage of that, it seems ;) Many guys would be very envious of his position (as Mizuhashi Kaori, Yuno's seiyuu, said when talking about her character in an interview).
"innocent starter", the opening song, and the animation to go with it is pretty much my favorite opening of all the shows I've watched so far. That has nothing to do with my bias towards mahou shoujo, nope, nothing to do at all, btw ;) Anyways, looking forward to next time!
and luckily the magic stick doesn't insist on taking alphanumeric combination password :D
the quick transformation looks good, breaking the Mahou Shoujo anime tradition with long transformation stock animation. hope it'll go to the next episodes actually :)
I wouldn't have minded seeing it one more time, though ;) But yeah, I'd rather have shorter than the longer transformations like I see every darn week in Mermaid Melody (only seen it what?... 70-something times, yeeesh).
now if it would only be subbed!
this seems fun
Triad is supposed to be subbing it from what I've read. Hopefully they'll have something for y'all soon :)
maybe Fayt (where to get those official roman spellings ?) will appear after Nanoha got around 1/3 of the jewels if they both go at the same pace before Nanoha knows about her as a rival in the game.
sounds reasonable way, because collecting them one by one alone, 13 episodes doesn't sounds enough tu put a climax for the end
Fayt is just how I translated フェイト ;)
Hmmm, maybe so, Kiryuu. We'll see :)
If the Ferret guy caused the accident, why is Nanoha getting the jewel seeds back? That seems to happen a lot....