I guess I won’t be seeing as much fighting as I had anticipated since it seems that the newbies are really no match for the cyborgs. I guess the fight between Zest and Vita in the next episode should be pretty good. I’m going to keep hoping for a unison between Hayate and Reinforce II. If they can do a unison with Vita, they have to do one with Hayate.

It was pretty nostalgic seeing Lindy again. Ah, how I adore Aya Hisakawa’s voice. It’s such a perfect fit for her role here too. Since we haven’t seen much of Yuuno either, this could very well be the first and last of Lindy’s appearance. Amy also popped up albeit only in a photo. :(

Will Vivio unleash any of her latent powers when the bad guys come over to try and take her away? We all know Zafila is not awesome enough to protect her from all of them anyway. Given the situation at hand, he’s probably going to get his ass handed to him before he even does anything.

I haven’t noted this in the past couple of entries I’ve written, but I think that the art quality has been fairly decent these past couple of episodes. I do catch a few oddities here and there when I pause the show to take a screen capture, but since you probably wouldn’t catch these while you’re actually watching the show, I’d say that the production team’s been doing a pretty good job.

It seems like we should either be getting a major battle in the next episode or the one after that with it starting at the end of the next episode (for the creation of a cliffhanger atmosphere). With nobody available, I don’t know what Vivio’s going to be doing. I guess letting her cry her heart out shouldn’t really have any adverse effects. I mean, they all stop crying at some point, uh, right?

Will Regius be able to dig up any dirt on Hayate and friends? The most likely thing that he’ll probably point out about would be Vivio since such experiments have essentially been banned. Although, you would think that the council must surely be sane enough to not simply act on that since it’s not like they don’t have a “good reason” for keeping her around (instead of sending her off to some orphanage). Well, we’ll just have to wait and see how it goes…

So it seems like the series is slowly moving towards something extremely big. I don’t really care if the base is going to be attacked from the inside or the outside as long as I can get some decent fight scenes, really. I think we’ll probably get a large scale battle although it’ll probably just be against a bunch of lame gadget drones as I don’t think that Dr. Scaglietti is going to send off his cyborg cronies given how laid back he’s been.

Fate’s conversation with Vivio at the end of the episode was rather disturbing if you ask me. The yuri undertones of there being “two mothers” was much too great to be ignored. I think it’s damned creepy even if Nanoha and Fate really were lesbians. That’s really something that we’ll probably never be able to confirm. And until we get a confirmation, I’ll keep praying for a Nanoha x Yuuno pairing…

With the viewers learning that Subaru’s mother was killed by cyborgs, we should ask ourselves when will be getting that emo Subaru scene. It never came after the Teana incident, but since Subaru was pretty pissed over that (on the spot at the time), I think there’s a good chance that she might be incapable of controlling her emotions upon the possibility of avenging her mother’s death.

Well, this episode was really quite funny. It’s nice to be able to get a few laughs after all that seriousness we’ve had for the past couple of episodes. Vivio’s tantrum over Nanoha and Chrono blushing over Fate was hilarious. Teana’s tsundere blush during her conversation with Subaru also drew out a hearty laugh from me.

That said, the ending of this episode did get a little emotional in my opinion. It seemed like Gil Graham has passed away since the epilogue of A’s, and of course, seeing flashbacks of Reinforce’s departure was also a little depressing. From what Auris noted and what Hayate said, it sounds like she’s going to put her life on the line if she has to. I don’t personally think that StrikerS is a show that’s going to kill off anyone, but eh, you never know.

From the looks of it, the Saint Church certainly doesn’t seem like the bad people I made them out to be in my last entry. The prophecy’s all rather vague at the moment but since the cause of the disaster is going to be the Lost Logia, I’m wondering if it’s going to be caused by the relics that have been secured thus far. It’s quite possible that Regius will try to get a hold of them and use it improperly, bringing about the downfall of his own department. Or maybe Auris is going to pull something since she’s such a suspicious fellow? Who knows, who knows.

Wow, so I was sorely mistaken about the assumption that there’d be no fighting in this episode because there was a fair bit of that. We also got to see a couple of the faces of the antagonists and it seems that they’re not really “clones” in the literal sense even if they are rehashing some of the seiyus. If we’ve got an enemy for every person, the final fight’s going to get a little messy. We’ll see how that turns out when that comes along.

When I was watching the helicopter scene, I couldn’t figure out if Nanoha or Vita was going to get hit. I figured that Vita might fly over to try and take the hit, but I guess there was really no way for her to fly there in time. Afterwards, I was really hoping to see Raising Heart transform when the limiter was unlocked, but that didn’t happen. :( We got some broken English for compensation though.

I have to say that I’m quite impressed by Teana and Caro’s sleight of hand. I was wondering what they were up to when they were talking about, but I soon forgot about that as the scene shifted out of the sewers with them going up against Lutecia and company.

Well, this episode more than made up for the filler that was episode 10. There weren’t a lot of real “fighting” per se but there was still plenty of action scenes. Nothing could’ve pleased me more than seeing both Hayate and Ginga on screen kicking ass. The art quality was also quite respectable in this episode, thankfully. :)

We saw a bit of the Saint Church again this episode and again I can’t help but have this suspicious feeling lingering on my back. Every time I see them, I keep thinking that they’re going to backstab the protagonists later in the game, I can’t explain it. Maybe it’s because they haven’t really fully explained what ties they have with the Administration Bureau, but I just find them to be awfully suspicious. I mean, Carim has enough authority to release the limiter on Hayate, but she’s not actually affiliated with the Bureau but is with the Saint Church or something or another, what’s that all about?

I don’t personally think we’ll be getting more fighting next episode. While Agito may be doing a bit of trash talking, I don’t feel that Lutecia is going to want to bother wasting time dealing with the Subaru and friends. With any luck, we should get some decent plot advancement next episode to move things along. Maybe we’ll even see Amy? I mean, we’ve seen Chrono after all, so Amy’s got to be around, right?

Well, this episode was really quite a filler minus the bit at the end. It’s good to know that them newbies have gone up another level as I’m rather interested in seeing what their weapons’ “second mode” is (except for Teana’s which we all saw last episode). With the series’ episode count going into the double digits, I think that this new discovery of the girl and (what is most likely) a relic, we might be going into “main plot” mode.

I’m really craving for some Hayate fight scenes here. They teased us with the mention of a unison this episode, but will we ever be able to see it in action? It would be much too cruel if they never showed us anything. But, if it’s going to be in the form of the awful boss fight that we had in A’s, I think I might have to consider passing on that.

One thing I noted from this episode was that the person that Dr. Scaglietti was talking to had the same voice as Subaru. I guess this could be hinting back to that whole “Project F” thing he was talking about back at the end of episode five. Having people fight their “clones” is pretty commonplace in the anime world, so I can only hope that they’re going to play this out properly.