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Sorry Erio, the showers of Space-Time aren’t co-ed.

Late Edit: Replaced the LQ caps with some better ones, but MPlayer desynced somehow, so it’s a totally different set. You’re not going crazy.

The art too a minor dip this episode, but otherwise it was still pretty well done. Nanoha’s utter domination of the new recruits was nice to see, though I’m interested in how they’re going to leverage that for later episodes since at the moment, she/Fate/Hayate could just show up and trash anything that the cadets are having problems with. The first real battle for the cadets is next week, though the preview was almost exclusively Caro, so we’ll see how the kids do.

Teana and crowd are getting used to their new surroundings and lodgings, while Erio and Fried are already forming the male core on their own. Poor guys. Teana gives a voice over about the division and all they’re doing and another round of training with Nanoha starts. This time, they need to evade Nanoha’s Axel Shooter or manage to get a clean hit on her.

Nanoha shoots at them and they scatter. Subaru and Teana try to surround her, and Nanoha zaps them, only to be revealed as illusions while Subaru attacks from above. Nanoha blocks Subaru and then redirects her two shots at Subaru who is forced to retreat. Teana’s gun misfires and she almost lets Subaru get shot down.

Caro is enchanting Erio’s spear. She boosts it a bit too high, and Nanoha continues dodging Teana’s shots as well as Fried’s attacks. Erio blasts forward straight into the moving Nanoha and he’s repulsed backwards, but since in the collision he managed to scratch Nanoha’s jacket, they pass the training, though Subaru’s rollerblades are totally fried. Nanoha also tells them that they’ll be getting their real Devices soon.

On the way back, they run into Fate and Hayate in their slick ride and do a general check-in on how they’re doing and how training is going before Fate and Hayate continue on to their meeting. Hayate chatters on at Fate about various things. I think 90% of Fate’s responses were “I see.”

Then, the important part of the episode, naked time. A little bonding the female showers while poor Erio and Fried are stuck on the stairs. Fried’s forlorn “gao” was so pathetic.

BACK AT THE GALACTIC CORE… Calina (Calima?), is doing random administrative work. Hayate’s meeting is with her, and she fills in Hayate about a new object that they believe is related to the Gadget drones and the Relic stuff. Hayate thinks there’s something strange about it though, and tells her to not worry and everything is going to be fine.

Back at Riot Six HQ, Shirley is giving the cadets their new Devices as specified by Nanoha and Raging Heart. Rein gives them the final details on the devices before Nanoha shows up and they officially get the details on them. All devices (including the ones belonging to the Aces) also have a power limiter on them so now we have the potential for Super Magical Sayajin Nanoha II. She also lets them know about their own rankings as well as her own and a few other people’s for comparison.

Back at Fate’s Car, she’s talking to Griffith about the recruits when an Alert suddenly starts. A train is out of control due to the Gadget drones attacking it. Hayate deploys Nanoha’s team for its first real mission while Fate is told to rendezvous with them. Nanoha gives them a brief peptalk on the copter while on the way there and tells them that they’ll be fine since Fate and Hayate will also be there, but Caro is distracted and tense.