Anime Discussion Thread - Page 667

The death of Yang Wenli really caught me offguard for instance when i was more or less sure he would be saved (by Julian most likely). I kinda refused to believe it and even thought it was Julian having a nightmare or something. But then I think it was Attenborough who said "this isn't a third rate anime, the dead don't come back", I laughed.

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First, my complaints. There were a few things unexplained that are really bothering me about this. Keep in mind that I haven't seen the TV series, so I don't know if this was explained in the show.

In that initial scene where Yuuno got his ass kicked, he turned into a ferret afterwards. I'm assuming because he was out of energy or something. He stays in that form until they board Arthras, then when asked, turns into his humanoid form, and proceeds to fight every battle in that form from then on. Wtf? I thought he was stuck in the ferret form. Why didn't he change for the other battles? >.>

Once on Arthras, they enter the captain's room. And she's sitting on a mat, drinking tea or whatever, in a room with cherry blossom trees and an artificial waterfall. They're from a different planet right? Why do they have a Japanese culture? @_@

That aside, it was overall really well done, considering they had to take a 20+ episode TV series and turn it into a two hour movie. The visuals were beautiful, the fight scenes were nicely animated, and the overall plot wasn't bad. That scene at the end when Nanoha and Fate trade ribbons had me bawwwing ;_;

Btw, where do they get the lyrical for the title? I don't really understand.

And now, for similar character designs! We have Nanoha's friend, Tsukimura Suzuka, who looks almost the same as Daidouji Tomoyo (Cardcaptor Sakura), except for a minor change in hairstyle.

The part where Yang died took me entirely by surprise. It was easily the saddest thing in any anime ever. I've never seen Clannad: After Story, but people claim that one is sad... But there is no way that can even come close. Watching Yang bleed to death was like watching a long time friend die. We saw him rise through the ranks, we saw his victories, we saw his love for Jessica, we saw him try to raise Julian as best he could, we really felt for him when Jessica died. We were with him all during his struggles against the Alliance Government. We even attended his wedding. And finally, after many hard fought battles, Yang finally achieves what he set out for, a chance for peace. And then... He dies... Our friend for 82 episodes that we had all come to like and relate to, was gone. No anime even comes close to the emotion from that event.

Because Yuuno is comfortable in both forms he just forgot about shapeshifting, I guess. He is more useful in his humanoid form for combat, but he is still a pure defensive/barrier/healing mage, so even that usefulness is limited in direct conflict.

There are other mages that come from Earth, even though she is from a different world, some culture has spread around. You could say she got the basic idea from a movie or something, but implemented it in her own way. That's why Nanoha is so shocked when she sees her putting sugar into her tea for example.

It's only 13 episodes for the first two seasons but apart from that you are right.

Lyrical was Nanoha's incantation for her spells, a concept that was basically dropped from the show after episode 2 or something.

Edit: Well there are incantations later on, but they are nothing like "Lyrical Magical". Fate uses one for Phalanx Shift and of course the badass incantation(s) used at the end of A's by a certain something.

The original explanation is that Yuno stays a ferret to hide and remain inconspicuous. At Nanoha's age, you can't really just bring a random boy home (well okay, it happens a lot in other shows, but still). He can still cast spells and whatnot in ferret form, so it's no big deal.

Edit: Oh yeah, he also gets petted by girls when he's a ferret.

@Timeout: Didn't Yuno use forced teleportation in ferret form? I'd argue that he's just as good in either form.

Magical lyrical are Nanoha's magic words or something that increase her powers or whatever. I can't really remember. Anyway, I think she says the words a total of once in the entire series.

I understood that, but why didn't he fight the first few battles in his humanoid form? Oh well. I'm probably just thinking too far into it.

Because the scene on the ship wouldn't be as funny.

Like I said, he turned into a ferret to hide. He didn't need to hide until he totally botched sealing that grief jewel seed.

By the way, Yuno may seem useless, but he's actually a badass in disguise. At no point in the series does any attack manage to harm him aside from the jewel seed. And he doesn't even use a device. He just sucks at attacking.

Hayate

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I'll just have you make a contract with me...

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