#Nanoha Vivid

[rodrigazo5]

Vivio Takamachi

[lachatalovematcha]

🌈🧇🎀わがままな流れ星 願う☆.:*・🎀⭐🌈☆.:*・には時間が足りない☆.:*・卒業して 久しぶりに🍓☘️🐱ＡＲＩＧＡＴＯＵ🍮🎀˚ ˚　✿.　Ｉ ＬＯＶＥ Ｕ 🎈⭐️🌈自分の夢のように・・・🎈⭐️🌈あの夢と　みんなの笑顔…ずっと🌈🎀🍮♡(｡・//ε//・｡)未来 教えねえだろう?🥬🎀🌈突然　一人出てった:･ﾟ★🌻๑• ω •๑🌻:･ﾟ★🐾🎀

[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girl of the morning is: Rinne Berlinetta from ViVid Strike!!✧・ﾟ:*

[littlemisspinky]

the takamachi family ❤️

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group K Round 1: #K4 vs #K5

#K4: Highschool superheroes

Hajime Ichinose's ordinary life is in for a change when a transcendent being named J.J Robinson hands her a small book called NOTE—a device which transforms her into one of the Gatchaman, the legendary protectors of Tachikawa City. Stressing that the existence of their group must remain a secret, fellow Gatchaman Sugane Tachibana takes Hajime to their base of operations, where Paiman, the panda-like alien leader of the Gatchaman, reveals their purpose: to eliminate aliens that pose a danger to humanity. These existential threats, called MESS, are becoming increasingly dangerous, destroying everything they touch. Now it's up to the Gatchaman and their new recruit to stop them before the world is engulfed in chaos.

#K5: Adopted magical girl learns to love, live, and also fight.

Vivio Takamachi, a Sankt Kaiser royalty of ancient Belka, was previously subjected to mistreatment. Fortunately, she now lives a peaceful life with family and friends while practicing martial arts with her coach, Nove Nakajima. However, Vivio soon becomes the target of the mysterious fighter Heidi E. S. Ingvalt, who demands Nove to reveal the location of the ancient Belkan royals. Refusing to disclose this information, Nove finds herself in a losing battle, but Heidi soon falls unconscious. In addition, Nove discovers Heidi’s true identity to be a middle school student named Einhald Stratos.

When she regains consciousness, Einhald clarifies that she has no animosity toward ancient Belkan royals. Having inherited the passion to defend and harboring regretful memories of her ancestor, the ancient Belkan ruler Claus Ingvalt, she simply wants to prove that her fighting ability is strong enough to protect others. Intrigued by the girl's situation, Nove arranges for Einhald to meet with Vivio. Although they get off to an unconventional start, Vivio enthusiastically trains with Einhald, assisting her in finding peace of mind while developing a vivid friendship along the way.

Titles, propagandas, trailers, and poll under the cut!

#K4: Gatchaman Crowds

Propaganda:

Crowds is a very ambitious anime in my opinion! It takes place in a world not too different from ours, where most problems are solved quickly due to an app that everyone uses. Technology makes it so that everyday people can save each other. In a world where everyone’s a hero, what use are heroes? What even makes one? It follows a girl named Hajime as she joins a team of superheroes with her unique perspective. If you like animes that are different and somewhat whimsical (with the occasional battle). This might be up your alley!

The visuals are also unique and colorful, with creatures and locations that can be pretty abstract. The characters are interesting, each have their own personalities, perspectives, and motivations for what they do. Crowds is short, but it manages to give everyone some kind of character arc, and give them depth. I personally find the team very endearing, and Rui has STYLE! As a fellow guy who wears dresses and heels sometimes, I love him very much.

Also, THE MUSIC. If you don’t check out the anime you should at least check out the opening and ending songs, they are absolute bangers.

Trigger Warnings:

Blood, murder, manipulation. I don’t remember there being transphobia/homophobia, but anime has a bad track record in general and there are 1 or 2 LGBT characters and I could have forgotten.

#K5: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid

Propaganda:

It’s such an interesting setting, like it’s so fucking weird and I love it despite the queerbaiting. But basically these two magical girls retire ro run a dojo and adopt another magical girl who was abused. It focuses on the abused kid (previous series focused on the two magical girls) and that kid learning to be a kid and fight not for survival but like fun, and making friends and having a family they trust. All while in a sci-fi magical world with some fascinating and enjoyable world building. It has flaws, but for me the setting and characters make up for the sometimes misogynistic additions.

Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Gender Identity/Sexuality Discrimination

If you’re reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that I’ll be sure to see it.

[wrongweaponsdrawn]

Tippet: I'm sorry! Did I offend you in some way...?

The Narrator: You did not.

Tippet: Then, um...! Was I... too weak for you, my lady?

The Narrator: No. You did better than well... for someone who treats the arts as a mere hobby.

(Tippet is speechless for a moment, with a hurt expression on his face)

(Source: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, after Einhart easily defeats Vivio in a spar.)

[most-enchanting-magical-girl]

[theothin]

is that all

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

You can look at Nanoha's first reaction to Vivio being "we need to find this kid's real mom" / "but I'll look after her meanwhile" / "but we still need to find her ACTUAL mom"

compared to Fate's history with Caro and Erio of

"I'm not old enough to adopt them so my adopted mom will sign the paperwork until I can be their legal guardian" and Vvio "legally I'm just Nanoha's friend but I am also the 'fate-mama' to our newly adopted daughter" and then with former enemy Lutecia "so her mother is still out of commission and that means I'll be her guardian until things get better"

you could say, that's just Fate being kind softhearted Fate, and Nanoha being stubborn like usual, but the thing is, it tracks so well with both their experiences AS children WITH their families

Nanoha's childhood was lonely sure, but never because her birth family didn't love her or try their best to care for and support her. She values the way she was raised- repeats it with Vivio later on, giving her freedom and responsibility, focusing on teaching Vivio how to stand up on her own after getting hurt, letting her have the tools and chances to make dangerous mistakes and learn from them. Even (spoilers for Vivid) even when her kid has a completely messed up leg after fighting in a tournament for FUN, Nanoha says she's proud of her for that, for Vivio following through and putting in her all, and helping her new friends and competitors grow as people along the way

All of that Nanoha got from her parents and her family, the ones she was born into.

So when she first meets lost and abandoned Vivio, she thinks, where is this girl's family? It takes a while for Nanoha to sink into the idea of Vivio not being born into a family that cares or can care for her. It takes time for Nanoha to decide, actually, maybe SHE could be Vivio's family now. Maybe she already is

And Fate- it's easy to joke about her running around adopting every kid she sees- but a lot of people I know who WERE happily adopted later in life are like that too. It's not universal. Still for people who know what the difference can be and how GOOD it can be, some of them end up like Fate, they end up repeating what their own adopted family did (Lindy her mother, and Chrono her big brother, looking after Fate while she was still facing trial, asking her very gently if they could all be a family together) and when Fate sees other kids being abandoned or locked away she also repeats what her family taught her by immediately reaching out. She offers to be there for Erio and Caro and deals with figuring out HOW to do that afterwards, accepts making that her job to study up on and get advice about while already knowing that it can work. She's been living proof that a family that's made by choice can be wonderful- just as good or better than the one she lost before.

But she also knows how much a parent can hurt a child, even without whips involved. Fate is soft with her kids, worried about them and for them and how they feel about her, never wanting them to think for a moment that she doesn't care or would be okay with them being hurt, and it's a reaction to her birth mom Precia, sure- (her memories of how a kind mother could be be so cruel to a child she didn't love)-

it's also just as much a repeat of Lindy's gentleness with Fate, too. Lindy who signed that paperwork so her teenage daughter could split time between her new career and two different kids who needed her. Fate wanted to be there for children who had no one, and Lindy made it work.

So when Nanoha finally decides to try being Vivio's mom, even though she wasn't Vivio "real" mother- Fate is already settled into them all being a family. She's there and ready to make this work.

I just always really like the writing in that. How you start off with these nine year old magical girls, and when you check back in with them 10-15 years later, everything they lived through at age nine has shaped them into the people and parents they end up being together today.

It's very sweet. I love that for them, for all of them.

[rodrigazo5]

Miura Rinaldi

[lachatalovematcha]

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[magicalgirloftheday]

✧・ﾟ:*Today’s magical girl of the morning is: Elsa Edix from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid!✧・ﾟ:*

[booksandchainmail]

oniisama e, episode 12

hey, I recognize that "rolling along" onomatopeia from Train to the End of the World!

I love how determinedly normal Nanako is. Sainte-Juste passes out calling her a doll, and rambling about some prophetic fairytale, and Nanako is just like "okay. how about I make you some pudding. :)"

"incredibly edgy dramatic tragic-backstory anime girl meets a girl who is just like. normal" is a very fun story to me

incredibly niche comparison: this is just like the nanoha vivid manga

Sainte-Juste is very tragic and all that of course. But "fridge only has random frozen ready meals" is I think the state of most teenagers who are cooking for themselves. Or at least a normal amount of them.

Kaoru to Sainte-Juste: "Are you a masochist!" I don't know, she wasn't in the room when Nanako started rambling about de Sade

ah fuck. well that scar is not in a great location. very symbolic the way the bracelet hides it though

I want Sainte-Juste to wear a t-shirt saying "if found return to Kaoru"

look, I get why Nanako is lying to Miya here, and I do think that admitting she helped Sainte-Juste would not go well. But if she admitted it, she could play it off, make it sound like she didn't know what/why was going on. Lying badly about it not only makes it clear something happened, it makes it clear she doesn't trust Miya

love nanako just bringing Sainte-Juste food. I don't care how tragic you are, you will eat some veggies

"If you don't like it, throw it away"... is that what you did to Sainte-Juste?

it is certainly a choice to have Miya holding a riding crop throughout this scene

WHAT

SISTER?????

ok.

so that changes things.

did not expect it!

I mean I guess I can see it, they both have the blonde curls and the long faces and the fondness for frills

is this like, actual for realsies sisters? or the yuri onee-sama~ thing? both???

WHAT THE HELL

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group K Round 2: #K5 vs #K8

#K5: Adopted magical girl learns to love, live, and also fight

#K8: Fishing with friends (both human & alien)

Details and poll under the cut!

#K5: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid

Summary:

Vivio Takamachi, a Sankt Kaiser royalty of ancient Belka, was previously subjected to mistreatment. Fortunately, she now lives a peaceful life with family and friends while practicing martial arts with her coach, Nove Nakajima. However, Vivio soon becomes the target of the mysterious fighter Heidi E. S. Ingvalt, who demands Nove to reveal the location of the ancient Belkan royals. Refusing to disclose this information, Nove finds herself in a losing battle, but Heidi soon falls unconscious. In addition, Nove discovers Heidi’s true identity to be a middle school student named Einhald Stratos.

When she regains consciousness, Einhald clarifies that she has no animosity toward ancient Belkan royals. Having inherited the passion to defend and harboring regretful memories of her ancestor, the ancient Belkan ruler Claus Ingvalt, she simply wants to prove that her fighting ability is strong enough to protect others. Intrigued by the girl's situation, Nove arranges for Einhald to meet with Vivio. Although they get off to an unconventional start, Vivio enthusiastically trains with Einhald, assisting her in finding peace of mind while developing a vivid friendship along the way.

Propaganda:

It’s such an interesting setting, like it’s so fucking weird and I love it despite the queerbaiting. But basically these two magical girls retire ro run a dojo and adopt another magical girl who was abused. It focuses on the abused kid (previous series focused on the two magical girls) and that kid learning to be a kid and fight not for survival but like fun, and making friends and having a family they trust. All while in a sci-fi magical world with some fascinating and enjoyable world building. It has flaws, but for me the setting and characters make up for the sometimes misogynistic additions.

Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Gender Identity/Sexuality Discrimination

#K8: Tsuritama

Summary:

Yuki Sanada has always felt like a fish out of water. Socially awkward and anxious, he struggles to fit in with his surroundings and moves from town to town with his grandma. As he and his grandma settle into the charming seaside town of Enoshima, Yuki hopes for a fresh start. However, his reputation at school is jeopardized by the arrival of fellow transfer student Haru. The eccentric Haru immediately makes a splash, wildly claiming to be an alien and declaring that Yuki is his friend. Pairing the reluctant Yuki with their classmate and fishing talent, Natsuki Usami, he tasks both of them with the absurd mission of saving the world from a mysterious threat in the ocean. Mischief and hijinks ensue, as these three embark on a whimsical adventure filled with laughs, heart, and self-discovery!

Propaganda 1:

Tsuritama is a heartfelt show about learning to cope with anxiety by building confidence through learning new skills (fishing). It’s also about learning to be vulnerable with others and rely on them. The soundtrack is almost entirely recorder, as they asked the Kuricorder Quartet to put it together for the show. On top of that, the color scheme is very bright and hopeful.

Propaganda 2:

This show left me feeling both happy and incredibly emotional. It started off very goofy but really reels you in (get it? Reels?) and becomes quite an emotional journey at the end. Also, the art style is really beautiful and colorful and the opening is a bop!

Trigger Warnings: None.

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