>-- Nanoha is very probably my favorite magical girl series, and while
>like other shows, anything I can say about it would constitute a
>spoiler, I will say that as a bit of trivia, this franchise started
>life as a spinoff side story from *another* franchise; Triangle
>Heart...which is a porn game. There's none of that here though! You
>could call this an alternate universe to that origin. (Also, I think
>Gryph might enjoy Nanoha, in particular her preferred method of making
>friends.)

Is this the one that ran for so long that the protagonist grew up and had magical daughters of her own? I think someone pointed me at a clip from something once where the magical "girl" shown was, like, 30, and as badass as you would expect a 30-year-old superhero whose career started when she was nine to be.

>-- A lesser known one, I simply adore the message of this show, plus
>the 'transformation' sequences - here, have the
> first one.

Hey, this one's already appeared in UF, albeit only in the Unrelated Cold Open of a Lensmen: The Brave and the Bold episode. :)

>....Sshhhhhame about all the butt shots tho....

As I recall, the director also has a peculiar fixation with mayonnaise getting all over Akane, too. Like, to a point that suggests some kind of bet among the production staff as to whether they could successfully get certain scenes onto terrestrial television.

>There's a shocking amount of blood and death in this show, but it
>adheres too closely to the standards of magical girls for me to
>classify it as a deconstruction.

So not so much deconstruction as ultraviolent revisionism. Like Sam Peckinpah westerns!

--G.
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