Epsilon Wrote:But only the good ones. No pushing a ball of energy back and forth for 5 episodes that are punctuated by the occasional incredulous 'Impossible!'. The fight choreography is also many, many times better. But yeah, there is a lot of beam spam. And it follows Magical girl formulae only to a certain extent. And the third season discards almost all of the ones that were left over from the first two and turns into gundam with Magical girls minus the gratuitous character deaths.Bob Schroeck Wrote:Nanoha isn't a magical girl series. It's a Gundam series, with the robots disguised as little girls.Having watched the first two season I can say... no, its not. If it were a Gundam series than half the supporting cast would have exploded into little bits by the end of season one. No, its pretty much a magical girl series. But like when Sailor Moon stole tropes from tokusatsu shows to expand its genre, Nanoha stole tropes from Dragonball Z.
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As to anime in general though, I'm more and more going towards the direction that Jpub is. The 5% just seems to be harder and harder to find.
For bait and switch fics... enh. I think in most of those you can see it coming. It's just that it had a promising start so you want to stick with it just a bit longer. I definitely agree with the character bashing bit though. That _really_ annoys me. (An just once I'd like to see a _competent_ manipulative Dumbledore).