I can't remember anyone's name but that's par for a first episode

Our star witch for this season has a reasonable motivation, I think we have a reasonable grasp on her skill-set and she seems to have a reasonable skill design.

Also points for creative use of a witches' shield.

-D-

Shimada has been using the World Witches tag on, e.g., his art books depicting non-501st witches and whatnot, for some time now. After all, "Strike Witches" within the story itself refers specifically to the 501st, so using it as the overall title for the franchise was never very expansion-minded. When most of the non-501st-oriented products were un- or semi-official (for instance, the semi-official dōjinshi series about the witches of North Africa), it wasn't as much of an issue, but now that they're doing an actual TV series about another JFW, it's evidently something someone felt a need to address.

Shorter version: I remember remarking, to myself and I think somewhere on these boards, that Strike Witches TVA was a slightly wonky title to give a series that was going to feature some other group. I guess someone at the home office came to the same realization. :)

--G.
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Or, if you're like me, it produces an image of witches playing baseball.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

I think they call that "Princess 9." :)

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

>I think they call that "Princess 9." :)

Of course there is.

If you want a non-anime baseball fix with a chunk of weird on it, I recommend https://www.amazon.com/Carnival-Baseball-Colby-Cox-ebook/dp/B0042JT11O

Colby Cox's "Carnival Baseball", which is basically Harkness High's baseball team meets League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

They aren't witches in Princess Nine, though. It's a regular school sports anime—kind of thing Girls und Panzer is a surrealist wink at.

--G.
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But, but, but... this is UF! Why can't we have witches in Princess Nine?

-- Bob
(And tanks. And swords. Oooh, Duelists with magic tanks!)
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

That would be young Jeb Stuart the 23rd. Not enough to have his ancestor still hangin' around, oh, no, he's gone and got his hovertank *ensorcelled* too.

"Penalty: Team Stuart! Additional crewmember, and illegal performance enhancement! 200-kilometer loss, first down!"

"Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"

--G.
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That sounds like the type of affair that one would be best not to meddle in. ;)

"Ooh. Chocolate!"
"So many...."
"It's not chocolate, it's salmiakki. Good, huh?"

--G.
she's cute, though
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>Is that a Suomi tank witch who isn't Aurora Juutilainen? Tempted to
>throw a flag on that play. :)
>
>--G.
>she's cute, though
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It was a pretty good ending for the series. There certainly was a lot of "If we try hard enough, we'll suceed," but this is anime. The plan was a good one, the Neuroi just seem to adapt and change.

My personal working theory is that they are some kind of "immune response" to magic, either natural or created by aliens. Unfortunately, it seems to have created an arms race on Earth, where the Witches and the Neuroi just keep getting more powerful in response to each other. Perhaps Neuroi-chan represents part of the Neuroi Hive that recognizes this will only lead to mutual annihilation and has evolved enough self-awareness to try and step outside its "nature" to stop it

>You can tell from the subtitle that "Countess" Krupinski agrees with
>you
>
>>Is that a Suomi tank witch who isn't Aurora Juutilainen? Tempted to
>>throw a flag on that play. :)
>>
>>--G.
>>she's cute, though
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