This episode reminded me of why I like Nanoha and also reinforces the thought. Beyond the fact that she can be totally badass, Nanoha is also a wonderfully selfless character. Now I’ll admit that there have been cases here and there throughout the series (as a whole including the first two seasons) wherein there were some touchy scenes that ended up being utterly lame, but the message itself doesn’t change. Nanoha is a caring person that puts others before herself and the back story presented this episode helps put further emphasis on this notion.

I’m really glad that they actually showed what happened to Nanoha with regards to her injuries since I was really worried that they’d just kind of lead in to it and then kind of fade back in without revealing anything. I felt that the entire storytelling scene was played out very nicely and I felt that the seiyus did a really good in voicing the characters.

Of course, this episode was just too perfect so they had to add oddities like this one to wake everyone up so they could shrug their shoulders at each other. Seriously, what the hell is that? Maybe it just looks stupid because she’s holding to it with one hand or something, I don’t know. I can’t say that I saw this coming despite the fact that Raising Heart and friends all have an “alternate” mode that they can transform into like how Bardiche can turn into a big hunking sword. Whatever, complaining isn’t going to fix anything, so I’ll reserve my final judgment until I see it in action I guess.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 16th, 2007 at 10:28 pm and is filed under Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.