Posts in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Category
October 16, 2005
At the headquarters of the Space-Time Adminstration Nanoha's healing from her injuries from the battle. Her linker core, the source of magical power, is much smaller than it was before, but it's already started to recover according to the doctor so everything's fine. Fate comes in to visit Nanoha. They're both happy to finally be able to see each other again :) Fate, Nanoha, and Crono go to see Yuno and Arf who are looking over Bardiche and Raging Heart. They won't be able to recover themselves so they'll need some replacement parts. But what were those weapons Vita and the rest were using? Crono explains: their magic is different than that of Bardiche and Raging Heart, using a cartidge system to increase their power...
Fate, Nanoha, and Crono go to visit an advisor of the Space-Time administration, Admiral Gil Graham. He's a very nice person, and he happens to be from Earth like Nanoha. He even got his powers in much the same was as she did. He only has one request of them: that they not betray each other as friends. He won't limit their actions if they do so...
Did somebody say they wanted to see some mahou shoujo fighting? You asked for it, you got it this time as the entire episode is devoted to fighting. It'd be better to just watch it yourself, so I'll go over things quickly this time ;)
After Arisa and Suzuka talk over the phone about Fate coming back and doing a welcoming party and such for her, we continue from where we left off last time with Yuno and Fate arriving on the scene to assist Nanoha. Fate and Viita fight it out, and Alf is there, too. They've got the number advantage so they should win... well, no, since Vita's comrades, Signum and Zafira come to assist her. Signum fights Fate with her huge flaming sword (that reloads.. I want one of those... those cartridges seem to have some kind of magical energy in them). Signum's strong.. really strong (^^;;) Bardiche gets cut in half and Fate gets sent flying down through a building. Bardiche is just fine since its core isn't broken and regenerates itself. Yuno comes to assist her and they devise a plan to break through the barrier somehow. Fate goes back to fighting with Signum and Yuno takes on Vita, with Alf trying to take care of Zefira. All Nanoha can do is watch...
Opening: 「ETERNAL BLAZE」 by Nana Mizuki （水樹奈々） - Given how good "innocent starter" (OP for the first season of Nanoha) was I was expecting something great and we got it. The song definitely fits Nanoha very well, being more kakkoii than kawaii. And the animation to go along with it is excellent as well, with plenty of action (seems to be an increased emphasis on fighting this time around). I believe I'll be getting the single when it's released :)
Ending: 「Spiritual Garden」 by Yukari Tamura （田村ゆかり） - A lighter feeling for the ending with some animation of a garden (of course), along with some kawaii Nanoha.
ついにｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━ ！！！
Tsui ni kita---!!
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's, a show I've been anticipating quite a bit since it was announced is finally here! First of all, this is a sequel (a direct continuation, really) to Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (my blog entries on the show), so if you haven't watched the first season I'd recommend you do so, otherwise you will not understand what's going on. Also, though mahou shoujo is in the title this is not quite your usual mahou shoujo fare -- it's "mahou shoujo for guys" (a spinoff series from the PC game series Triangle Hearts to be exact), I guess you could say ;) Also, I'll write names of characters that weren't previously introduced in straight romaji for now (I believe some are German, so I don't know exactly how to translate them)
June 3rd, 9:05PM: A girl in a wheelchair checks the answering machine and has a message from her doctor. Seems her birthday is tomorrow so the doctor will take the girl, Hayate@Kana Ueda, off somewhere to eat to celebrate. As Hayate reads in her bed a book on the shelf suddenly emits a dark light and the chains holding it closed break. It then speaks... in German (thankfully there are subtitles), saying it's activating...
December 1st, 6:35AM: Nanoha Takamachi@Yukari Tamura is up early for some shooting practice with Raging Heart. She shoots a can up into the air then shoots it with her magical powers more than 100 times in the air, though she misses the wastebasket by just a bit. Still rather impressive, though. At home Nanoha gets ready for school and we see a picture she has of Fate, along with a DVD with a video message from Fate. Her family's doing fine as usual, though a bit sad since Yuno's not around. Nanoha receives yet another video message from Fate in the mail...
