Oh look! Classic ‘Girl With Bread In Her Mouth Overslept This Morning!’ scene!
I hate and love this show. After a promising start with its first two episodes, the show is now focusing on the fanservice rather than bonerific aerial and naval battles.
Ho ho. It HAS to be from that angle. lol
But what keeps me going is its quirky way of offering fanservice. Unbashful and blatantly deliberate, the presentation is humorous from the view of the those on the other side of the fourth wall as the knicker flashing ladies are totally oblivious of the impact of their actions. And this episode goes on to tease the audience with a series of coincidental censoring which is also responsible of the sudden outbreak of suicides among young men throughout the world.
Sanya and friends, returning from duty.
This week’s episode was disturbingly fun as it was a vicious cycle of knicker stealing among the girls. The true culprit behind the fiasco made an impressive debut as a center of focus for this episode without a lot of lines or actions, Erica Hartmann is your (wo)man indeed. Serving as the envoy of chaos, Erica sends the base into panic without seemingly having any awareness of her own involvement in it. Are Erica’s antics compensating for a drought of STARLIGHT BREEAAAAAKER decent fights? Not really since I did not start on this show for the Days Of Their Lives.
Disturbing and wonderful. 2 in 1.
Strike Witches is a very misleading show. I do not know whether it is meant to be somewhat like an epic or a charity for fanservice only. But since it is set in such an apocalyptic world, there will surely be more explosions. Because it would out of place for the show to end so anti-climatically with a lack of those, given its setting. Please make it awesome, Gonzo.
Which reminds me, Francesca’s offense would have gotten her charged in a real military organization or at least over 9000 extra duties!
5 Comments
August 17, 2008 at 2:02 am
Read the light novels for the battles. It’s great, and much better than the anime imho.
Stuka dive bomber squadrons taking out quadrapedal tanks with 37 mm cannons? Ground strike witches? Ziggurat mobile fortresses? Going down under a hail of large caliber Neuroi shells to save a comrade? Hell yeah.
August 17, 2008 at 2:08 am
Now if they could just ANIMATE that. Bonerific.
August 17, 2008 at 3:34 am
Poor Francesca, everyone blamed her when Hartmann was the culprit. Well, if you run it does make you that much guilty! ^_^
August 17, 2008 at 1:28 pm
But they found out that Erica is the culprit at the end of the episode. I wonder what terms will she be serving? Pants washing duties? XD
August 17, 2008 at 10:36 pm
@53RG10
Her reaction was timeless.
@Hynavian
I am speechless, my lady…. >.<;