Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha 7
Fate and Nanoha continue their battle, but both of their "magic sticks" are damaged. Fate tries to stop the jewel seed with her own power and succeeds, but it uses up a lot of her power...
At home Nanoha worries about Raging Heart.. Arf tends to Fate's wounds. She has to go report to her mother tomorrow... Fate's mom doesn't seem like the nicest person the way they talk about her... The next morning Nanoha wakes up early and watches her sister practice while she and Yuno speak telepathically. She wants to know more about Fate.. Fate and Arf leave to go see Fate's mother..
And now things change completely and go sci-fi, as the dimensional spaceship Asura of the Space-Time Administration Bureau and its crew are introduced. The captain is Lindy and also on board is Crono.
The scene shifts to a rather ominous looking place in interdimensional space called the Garden of Time, and there we see Fate, all bruised and her clothes in tatters.. And her mother is the one whipping her.. Arf is outside the room and can't stand it.. Her mother isn't pleased at all. She needs the power of the jewel seeds to make her dream come true and she expects Fate to make her happy next time. Then she beats Fate some more.. Arf meets Fate as she comes out.. Fate just wants to make her mother happy, the way she used to be...
Fate and Arf, Yuno and Nanoha search for the jewel seeds again, and another one activates and makes a tree into a monster. Fate and Nanoha once again fight over the jewel seed, but Crono stops them..
There were a lot of Crest of the Stars-like timestamps and such this time. I wasn't expecting that kind of sci-feel in Nanoha, but we'll see how it works.
But getting to what's important this time.. I certainly wasn't expecting Fate's mother issues to be like that. It's pretty sad that Arf is more caring than Fate's own mother. Poor thing... Perhaps these circumstances could lead to Nanoha and Fate teaming up? ;) Don't exactly know what the Time-Space Administration people are up to yet, but I guess Crono will explain things next time. Seems like Nanoha's going to find out something rather suprising about Yuno then, too.. We shall see :)
Dragosmore brings up something in the comments I forgot to mention:
As for the Time-Space Administration people, who knows. There's a possibility for anything, but isn't it their fault in the first place? As explained in episode 2, there was an accident when the ship was carrying away the Jewel Seeds/Lost Logia for safekeeping so they should be the ones blamed, not chasing after the one trying to get them back, geez :P
And yeah, the Garden of Time castle/fortress where Fate's mom lives is pretty cool. Somewhat reminds me of all those last dungeons from RPGs ;)
Crono's voice is so bad for the character. I was expecting someone like a little lighter than Paku Romi, but the voice is just too light and girly. I know he's young like everyone else but nonetheless :PP Overall, the episode owned. I really hate Fate's mother now despite her house (garden) in the time-space mid-dimension thing is kind of awesome. As for the Time-Space Administration people, who knows. There's a possibility for anything, but isn't it there fault in the first place? As explained in episode 2, there was an accident when the ship was carrying away the Jewel Seeds/Lost Logia for safekeeping so they should be the ones blamed, not chasing after the one trying to get them back, geez :P