Her magical familiar, Arf (a dog-girl with a tail and big breasts), rubbed me the wrong way when she debuted as well, going into the obligatory "You don't understand what my master is going through! GRRR!! Prepare to die!!" threat to Nanoha that many other underlings for rival characters in anime often do. This could've been used to great effect, but instead director Akiyuki Shinbo apparently wanted you to see Fate rejected, sad, and abused instead. Fate's mission is driven by fear and worry more so than Nanoha's optimistic "everyone should be friends, I loooooove people" view. Mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha series#Even better, to drive that last point home, we see her regularly whipped by her mother for failing her missions, beating treated like dirt throughout the entire series by her. Not to mention that her character design was made to attract certain adult Japanese males: she's soft-spoken, has blond hair in two pigtails, dresses in black, is very shy, and has issues involving her and her mother. (The Monster of the Day formula is thankfully not the driving force of the entire series.) Her talking animal familiar, Yunno, is actually a pretty cool character, and he's actually useful in battle, casting barriers and other such things for Nanoha.Īs for Nanoha's rival, Fate Testarossa: she's a pity character if I've ever see one in anime. Also, the series is not so much Nanoha twirling a baton around and converting things so much as her physically attacking things with her staff at times. For one, Nanoha's staff talks in English (by someone who's native language is English) instead of Japanese. Still, there are still unique concepts to her character. Her family is also extremely nice, even when Nanoha leaves her house for hours and days upon end, they don't even so much as bat an eye as to why she does so. While it's nice that for once we have a heroine in a magical girl series who's not klutzy or boy-crazy, there's very little to Nanoha herself aside from her being a nice girl who wants everyone to be friends. Nanoha is cheerful and likable, but there's nothing particularly unique about her. The characterization in this series isn't outstanding, either. At least there isn't any filler: in a show this short, I'd be annoyed if there was. The fact that we see Nanoha's panties when she transforms didn't help my initial impressions of this series, either. They aren't so much bad as they are typical of the genre: magical school girl collects stuff with the help of a talking mascot (a ferret, in this case), while facing a distant rival who doesn't understand her (whose mascot, a talking dog, can turn into a human with big breasts for fan service. The first few episodes of Nanoha are some of the most forgettable, boring, and just plain uninteresting episodes of any show I've ever seen. You just wouldn't know from how the series starts off, that's all. I'm glad I stuck with it, though, because the show actually does have likable characters and a few nice ideas. Nanoha, I thought, was destined to be one of those shows. However, she faces competition in the form of fellow magical girl Fate Testarossa, who's collecting the Jewel Seeds for her own personal reasons.Įvery now and again I review a show for this website that I practically force myself to finish, regardless of my wanting to watch it and do something more constructive of my time (like taking a shower). Yuuno gives the ability to transform into Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha to gather all the Jewel Seeds from the evil embodiments they consist of. He can't get the Jewel Seeds on his own, so he enlists the help of a cheerful, upbeat third-grader named Nanoha Takamichi. Yuuno Scraia, a mage, has had a bit of a problem with them as of late: they have scattered all across the world, and when the young mage (no more than 10 or so) tries to go to Earth to get them back, he finds himself in the body of a ferret. Jewel Seeds are powerful crystals that, when all 21 are combined together, are pretty powerful stuff. Unlike most magical girl shows, Nanoha ran late at night in Japan and is not meant for children, but for an older male demographic. Notes: Spinoff of the video game Triangle Heart ~Sweet Songs Forever~, particularly on a CD drama that starred Nanoha as a magical girl long before this series aired on T.V. Related Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, Magical Girl Lyircal Nanoha StrikerS, Triangle Heart ~Sweet Songs Forever~ Length: Television series, 13 episodes, 23 minutes eachĬontent Rating: 13+ (fan service, violence) AKA: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, 魔法少女リリカルなのは
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