The record of our grand adventure continues. With the first episode out of the way, and the lack of pants becoming less of a novelty than a common element of setting, my honorable sibling and I dove into the meat of Strike Witches. Though whether said meat was flavored more with action or with slice of life, we could not tell.
Same as before: my comments are white, and Otouto-kun’s are blue.
Episode 2
(0:13) Sieg Neuroi!
(0:23) I love how the first alien ship they show looks like a 1940s plane. And the other one looks like a stingray.
(0:51) I think, regarding the magic vs. science question, we have kind of a Nanoha setup here, where they’re basically the same thing. Which is fine with me, I think that’s great.
(1:36) I don’t know about the whole furry thing.
(1:40) They’re like 2% animal. It’s not furry at that point. There’s a spectrum.
(2:55) Looks like someone could use a Brightslap.
(3:03) It’s not really far enough in for that. She doesn’t have a lot of duty to the team yet.
(3:08) Well if she’s already having her crisis…she’s about to get verbally Brightslapped.
(3:27) Bright-caress.
(4:35) I have to admit the epic here. Everyone else is in a plane, and this chick is like, “Fuck it, I’ve got flying shoes, a sword…that’s all I need.”
(5:00) I really like lasers that change direction once. It’s completely ridiculous, but I like that.
(5:13) I’m not so sure I do.
(5:17) It just looks cool.
(6:24) Did she get over her crisis already? She’s manlier than Amuro, I can give her that much.
(7:15) This is too ridiculous. And I should note that that’s not a complaint.
(7:36) If she has to use her eye so much, why wear an eyepatch?
(7:44) Maybe she’s afflicted with Cyclops syndrome. She doesn’t want to use it accidentally.
(8:02) There are a lot of torso wounds in this show.
(8:09) “Sorry, we fused your hand to your stomach…”
(8:57) You have to love how lax military structure is in these shows.
(10:06) Isn’t this happening a little early?
(10:09) Yeah, we’re getting a lot of false alarms as far as heroic crises go.
(10:16) Maybe she just has a lot of crises.
(11:02) “You’re the greatest of my creations…you’ll have to fight the other ones, though.” It’s her Rozen dad.
(11:25) Wow. You know, for a show like this, this music is fucking epic.
(11:46) “Hey, did we disable that extra pair of legs, so no one could steal them?”
(11:53) “Do we ever do that? Are we supposed to do that?”
(12:05) You know there will be Nazis in here. They have to show up eventually; it’s alternate-1944. Maybe we’ll get mecha-Hitler, or wizard-Hitler, or mecha-wizard-Hitler…
(12:43) Hitler with two machine guns.
(13:14) I was going to say her sailor uniform was a little inappropriate, but she’s kind of on a boat…this is probably the one time it’s ever been appropriate.
(13:59) This show is really capitalizing on the zettai ryouiki.
(15:18) All the different fetishes going on…whoever made this is a sick, sick genius.
(15:48) “Use the force, Luke!”
(15:52) “Stay on target…”
(16:04) “You’re all clear, kid, now let’s blow this thing and go home!”
(16:52) Too bad she died. Show’s over.
(16:55) The end.
(17:15) Remember my question from the last episode? The yuri content? Here we go.
(17:36) I wonder if they name their leggings.
(17:39) Do they name each one separately, or do they just name the pair?
(18:11) Hey, look, everyone who supposedly died is fine!
(18:14) The bridge is a little fucked. It always pains me to see capital ships in states of disrepair.
(18:37) I really want to sing the song, you know?
(18:40) What song?
(18:41) “Rule Britannia.” It’s a song that was co-opted by Richard Garriott for use as the Lord British theme.
(21:21) One annoying cry later…
(21:24) I know, I hate that exaggerated anime cry.
(21:30) At that part even more so. It kind of came out of nowhere.
(21:51) I want to see some whipping.
[Also: I'll be damned if this isn't basically Toma's grave at the West Cape. You win this round, Strike Witches!]
Episode 3
(0:39) You know, under that table, they aren’t wearing any pants, either.
(1:57) “Look, Major, you’re not cool just because you use a sword. You’re going to die out there. Use a gun.”
(2:07) That’s a Final Fantasy contrivance right there.
(2:23) You know what would be really funny? If they sleep with pants on.
(4:07) They probably did a dub of this. I just have to wonder how that turned out.
(4:36) How the fuck is she a sergeant?
(4:37) She’s a sergeant!? Wow.
(4:40) They bumped her right up to NCO.
(4:51) “Oh yeah, and everyone gets a free gun. It’s one of the perks.”
(4:57) “What, you don’t want the free gun?”
(4:59) “As a priest, I don’t have proficiency in that weapon.” Stupid clothies.
(6:15) “Ilyasviel von Einzbern.”
(6:50) I bet I know who your favorite character is.
(6:55) Shut up.
(6:58) Tell me I’m wrong.
(7:02) Can we continue to watch?
(7:04) Let us continue.
(8:16) “But Legolas got 201.”
(8:44) Well, hey. Stay in the back and hit that F2 button.
(9:39) Oh, I guess there won’t be any Nazis, then.
(11:39) You know, I’m really glad they had a leggings character.
(11:42) Yeah.
(11:47) I’m really glad you didn’t ask me any questions about that.
(11:51) What? I completely agree.
(13:45) “It’s my second day! Come on!”
(13:49) Yeah, what is this little lecture about?
(14:01) If it were Zeta Gundam, that lady would’ve just slapped her around for no reason.
(14:58) “Hey, I’m not the protagonist. Don’t hold me to your standards.”
(15:12) There are so many pairing opportunities here, and I bet that is just as planned.
(17:53) I just keep thinking that this would be a very different show if Captain Bright were around.
(17:59) It’d be an extremely different show if there were a Bright.
(18:03) No, I mean Bright himself.
(18:05) If Bright himself were here?
(18:07) Oh yeah.
(18:08) As long as he’s wearing pants.
(18:10) Oh, no. No, he’s not.
(18:49) I love this British schoolgirl. She’s Hermione Granger, just with no pants.
(19:19) So I wonder if this is essentially military slice of life. I wonder if we aren’t going to see that much combat. If that’s the case, I’m kind of surprised they started with as much combat as they did.
(21:47) That really creeps me out. They look like they have no feet when they have those things on.
(21:52) At least they don’t have hooves.
(22:04) “You broke two perfectly good pairs of flying leggings! They aren’t supposed to get wet!”
(22:21) “We could get the guillotine for this! Yay!”
(22:38) What do you think? Is this more slice of life, or is it more action-oriented? It’s definitely both, but I just wonder where it’s going to go from here.
As a former First-Sergent I object for that instant promotion !
If you are watching the DVDs be prepared for lots of (uncensored) bathing shenanigans…
Oh yes. Such shenanigans have been seen. I think there was a bit cut from the next post where one of us says, “…Oh. So this is the DVD version, then,” and the other, being somewhat distracted by the scene in question, voices some vague agreement. There’ll be more on that in whichever post includes the seventh episode, which was more…difficult than it had to be due to certain errors on our part.
Too bad she’s not nearly as awesome as Ilya :<
Hahaha, I agree with Otouto-kun’s tastes in this case. Is it terrible that I can’t even remember her name though? All I remember is she is voiced by Nazuka Kaori and that’s good enough for me :D
The convenient thing about a show like this is that you really don’t have to remember names. You’ve seen these characters before; you’ll see them again; by now you just know them. It’s all about the database — which doesn’t necessarily preclude their being decent characters, I think, but it does make them recognizable at a glance.
I laughed my ass off, sorry for being late. These are some of the best Strike Witches posts ever.