A lot of anime bloggers these days blogs about Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (MGLN) StrikerS. StrikerS is the third season of a popular ongoing series of a girl named Nanoha. For those who aren’t related with the popular series it remains a mystery how people loves Nanoha so much. It’s just a story about some magical girls flying around in beautiful uniforms. They battle around and keep the planet safe fighting together as friends. Linear plot uh? It’s what the anime bloggers complains in the last season. But it’s not like that, it’s just the start. So, what’s Nanoha about.
For me the Nanoha series is special. A bit revealing of my past will clarify it. Not for all to long I watch anime and the first anime I ever watched was Ragnarok the Animation, at November 2004. At the very first time I tasted the fruits of anime existence and fellows I loved it. So I went to animesuki to get some unlicensed anime. (I still do, great anime resource.)
My little research
Looking for an non-particular anime I had two claims in mind. The anime should be recent and have a magic involved genre. The little research results into (minimized to two) the all spoken Card Captor Sakura and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. CCS looked great, but wasn’t recent. Nanoha on the otherside was still fansubbed by The Triad, started in October. So I had 3 episodes to start watching as ‘promo’. Which went well. ~Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha was the first anime I ever bought!~
What’s Nanoha all about?
Nanoha is a cute girl who has a nice family. Her family cares about a restaurant in the neighborhood. Not too small but not very popular. In fact only the locals seems to know the pleasant place and is more a social location for passing scholars and job takers. Nanoha is lucky to have both her parents with a big sister and brother to look at. At school she has reliable and nice friends around her and nothing seems to be a problem. As an regular scholar she goes to school, do sports, play with her friends, invite them and whatever. Until a midday when only Nanoha hears a fading voice, begging for help. Hearing the voice Nanoha jumps to it’s source. From there all events starts.
Why watch?
The anime is rich of magical battles and a good plot. The story has multy storylines but it doesn’t complicate the story at all. In fact it’s a lineair story which you will find no problem following the series. No deep plots are hidden like we may know of ‘Lain Serial Experiments’ which is very, very deep and complicated. Overal quality equalls a medium anime. So if it’s not a big and deep story, not a great quality graphic, what makes MGLN great?
Simple, it’s a warm telling story about hope and true friendship. How an intertwined feeling of love and hatred reaches the burden heart and enlights it’s presents. How blind and strong love can be and how friends safes their comrades. Telling about friends on who you can count on and ofcourse he great magical battles.
You should give it a shot once. Don’t waste your time looking for a low quality stream around the net. Instead of starting a search, enter the stream beam section and hit Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Episode 1 ‘That`s a mysterious meeting, is it not?’ and start watching. The stream beam section is still in beta fase, sorry. Also we find an upcoming summary of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Episode 1 at this blog.
Information about MGLN seasons
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha 03.10.2004 till 26.12.2004
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s 02.10.2005 till 30.12.2005
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS 02.04.2007 till 24.09.2007
Not directly related series
We find more of Nanoha’s family, Takamachi, at Triangle Heart - Sweet Songs Forever though it’s a complety other story. It has further NO relations to the Nanoha series I’m posting at the moment.
This anime is worth to buy and I have placed it in my anime collection. The series was almost a year unlicensed, but the first series got licensed on 30 June 2007 by Geneon Entertainment at the anime expo 2007 (source: animeondvd).
I bought the anime, but it’s still unlicensed and you might get it at the Triad’s torrent. However you should like me buy the DVD if you really, really likes the series. It’s just $15 … come on, those people deserves it.
Updated at 21 May 2008
- misspelling, licensing info and dates
