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.

Seriously, what happened here, J.C.Staff? Did you guys use up your whole budget on the movie or something (which is somewhat understandable because the movie was amazing)?

This is really quite disturbing. I pray that these aren’t caps of the first episode because that would be pretty unacceptable if you ask me…and let’s not forget that I’m a hardcore fan. I can tolerate dips in quality a “little” further down the line (I mean, sola and StrikerS hit the gutter quite early on in the third episode or so), but you really shouldn’t be airing something like this on the first episode.

Well, my order came in today while I was in class. Jacky heard the FedEx guy at the door so he didn’t have to walk away, thankfully. Unfortunately, it seems that I’ve been shafted out of any of the preorder extras since I did not receive a poster, a 3D card, and/or the radio CD of the seiyus. They’re not necessarily items that I would’ve really wanted, but it sure wouldn’t have hurt to have received them. :(

If you haven’t heard, Geneon USA will be ceasing the sales of DVDs and the likes. I was planning to buy a set of R1 DVDs for 「ひぐらしのなく頃に」 at some point, but I guess that ain’t going to happen now.

It seems that they failed to deliver the package at 0927 today. As aforementioned, the question here is whether they tried to deliver it to my place or to Kinko’s. I guess I’ll find out once I get home today depending on whether I got that notice or not.

Well, I just called FedEx and have asked them to reroute the designated address back to my place. The person made claims that it won’t make it in time for today and could schedule a delivery for tomorrow. I quickly told him that tomorrow would not work and that Thursday would be better.

The question here is if the address change cannot be kicked in in time for today, will they still try to deliver it today despite the request for sending it on Thursday? If they did, will they try to send it to Kinko’s or my place today? Since the Kinko’s address change didn’t work out yesterday (as they actually went to my place instead of Kinko’s), does that mean that the change will get kicked in for today and that it will get sent to Kinko’s today? Alternatively, due to the request for sending it on Thursday, will they even attempt to send it out today?

This is really stressing me out.