天下制覇

  

Having greeted them I thought about how I just greeted them.

Impressions:

I really want to say “Like Prisma Illya, but with Nanoha,” so I will. It’s like Prisma Illya, but with Nanoha characters. I guess there might be somewhat more and more obnoxious over-narration filling the gaps though. “Good morning, Mom.” “This is Nanoha, my mom.” Thanks, guys. That was so subtle that I almost missed it. The rest of the episode was bound and determined to continue in the same vein with a goddamned tour of the characters, nearly all of them narrated about to the camera, none of them actually doing anything of any note or worth, and the most exciting thing being Vivio getting her own magical widget to transform to a big girl and thereby double the number of possible figurines. That’s it. That’s everything that happened in this episode. What a hook.

Nothing even the least big ambitious here. Not art, which has eyes and faces frequently moving at different speeds. Not animation, which is basically nonexistent for most of the episode. Not characters, who are all 100% completely safe made-by-the-marketing-department boredom piles. Not plot, which went absolutely nowhere in an excrutiatingly long 20 minutes. Why does this exist? Who would look at the Nanoha franchise and say to themselves, “This seems cool, but what we really need to do is remove all the action and things happening”? The Nanoha is already filled enough with sappy melodramatic power of friends crap, but at least that was usually expressed in the form of lasers. If this episode’s anything to go by, the best anybody can hope for from the series is a still of someone holding a laser pointer.