LAST EDITED ON Dec-01-22 AT 00:44 AM (EST)
 
>>-- 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.)
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>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.

That's the one! You saw a clip from either StrikerS or ViVid, the third and fourth series respectively, and it's a toss up which one it might be - slightly more likely to be StrikerS though, I think. Small correction though, there's a...fifteen? twenty? year *time skip* between the second and third series, so it's not so much it ran that long, just that her story didn't end when the bad guys did.

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>>-- 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. :)

Oh heck! I must have skipped that story!

>>....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 surprising number of shows like that....I'm not complaining, personally, but, it does get a little weird sometimes. :)

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

I don't know the reference, but sure! :D

Really though, it's modern shonen high-G low PG anime style death and blood, huge spurts of strawberry jam, and people just collapsing into piles of ash, with little in the way of actual *gore*. Your ultraviolence mileage may vary. :) End of Evangelion this show ain't.