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Nathan
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"Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
 
   LAST EDITED ON Jan-13-15 AT 05:08 PM (EST)
 
Hibiki is alive, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. This must be kept in mind throughout, or all that follows will assume a grim and shaggy-dog character that will mislead reader and viewer alike.

Tachibana Hibiki is our main character, a cheerful and not-always-that-bright girl who was invited to attend her first concert, only to find it attacked by the menacing Noise, phantasmal monsters whose very touch burns human life away to ash in mere seconds. To save the lives of the fans, the musical duet they were there to see, Zwei Wing, reveal themselves as secret superheroes possessing what we later learn to be Symphogears - fragments of legendary ancient artifacts like Odin's Gungnir, which can be unlocked to grant superpowers via resonant frequencies - through song.

Hibiki is one of the last ones out, and one member of Zwei Wing, Kanade, sacrifices her life in a 'swan song' that saves Hibiki, wipes out the Noise attack entirely...

And leaves the shattered fragments of her Gungnir implanted, Tony Stark style, in Hibiki's chest cavity. Three years later, Hibiki discovers that she, too, can wield Gungnir as a Symphogear user, and attempts to live up to Kanade's legacy at the side of the surviving member of Zwei Wing, Tsubasa as they come face to face with an orphaned girl, Chris, who's been given her own Symphogear and manipulated into a living weapon by the main villain of the series, who is #1 Double Fine USDA Prime Crazy.

I'm serious. Her plan involves the words 'Blow Up The Moon', which is always a sign.

So, yeah. Symphogear is a hell of a lot of fun, and more than that, I think that it's a sort of fun that the management here will like even better than I did. All of the main characters - except Hibiki's girlfriend Miku - are at least a little bit crazy, and all but one of them help each other get better throughout the course of the show.

If you like Super Robot Protagonists, awesome music, Bruce Lee movies, people who start their shows in a relationship, Magical Girls, the Tower of Babel, or The Wonderful World Of Neon, I'd say you should give Symphogear a shot.

And now I'm off to watch the second season.

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"V, did you do something foolish?"

"Yes, and it was glorious."


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  RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear Terminus Est Jan-13-15 1
  RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear TsukaiStarburst Jan-14-15 2
     RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear Nathan Jan-14-15 3
  RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear Gryphonadmin Jan-14-15 4
     RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear dbrandon Jan-14-15 5
     RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear jonathanlennox Jan-14-15 6
     RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear Peter Eng Aug-14-15 7
  RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear Berk Aug-16-15 8

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Terminus Est
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1. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   Getting this outta the way first, I loved this thing from beginning to end, and the Cheerful Boisterous Hero types usually grate intensely on my nerves.

That being said, the Big Bad from season 1 is... kinda obvious if you pay attention. At all. And season 2 starts off with something that made me headtilt so hard I have yet to watch the rest of it, though it does make a certain amount of sense.


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TsukaiStarburst
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2. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   Symphogear is absolutely amazing, I totally recommend watching it to everyone. Considering the number of subverted magical girl shows these days with sad endings, this sort of thing is definitely in the Nanoha/Vividred vein of 'actual happiness and hope and adventure with friends' stuff.


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Nathan
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3. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   >Symphogear is absolutely amazing, I totally recommend watching it to
>everyone. Considering the number of subverted magical girl shows these
>days with sad endings, this sort of thing is definitely in the
>Nanoha/Vividred vein of 'actual happiness and hope and adventure with
>friends' stuff.

You can literally describe Symphogear's cast in terms of Nanoha characters - Hibiki is Subaru, straight up, Miku is Suzuka, Chris is Angry!Fate, Tsubasa is Sane!Precia, Fine is Jail, etc. But yeah, the actual in-practice style feels very Vividred, although fortunately usually with more restrained camera angles.

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"V, did you do something foolish?"

"Yes, and it was glorious."


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4. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   >I'm serious. Her plan involves the words 'Blow Up The Moon', which is
>always a sign.

CHA

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5. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   I am laughing, for the record. Quietly, because I am at work, but still.

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6. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   >>I'm serious. Her plan involves the words 'Blow Up The Moon', which is
>>always a sign.
>
>CHA
>
>--G.
>some of you are laughing now; others are merely
>puzzled

They can start a club with Admiral Zhao.

We're re-watching ATLA, and just got to the end of Book 1; the comparisons with Mr. Chippendale came up frequently.


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Peter Eng
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7. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   >some of you are laughing now; others are merely
>puzzled

14 Jan 2015: puzzled.

14 Aug 2015: laughing.

Peter Eng
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8. "RE: Recent Anime: Senki Zesshou Symphogear"
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   Just hopping in here to commemorate the day, August 15th 2015. The day that the sixth major member of the cast, after a season and a half of teasing, FINALLY got to put on her OWN big girl boots and stride FORTH.

- Berk Watkins
Student of Quantum Bogodynamics


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