#also eyes of an unintroduced character on here she will show up at some point. when i name her LOL.
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#ocs#elaine#director#a somewhat experimental-personal comic about mist nets and the tendency to get trapped in situations you couldn't see coming#iykyk but i have given elaine issues about it. thanks.#also eyes of an unintroduced character on here she will show up at some point. when i name her LOL.#distaxon
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nanoha vivid liveblog: episode 9
We left off in the opening rounds of the competition, with Vivio and Miura slated to fight each other at some point.
The other belkan girls!
I think I remember them being friends
Soft music and slow-mo here, as we get our first look at sieglinde’s eyes
... which are entirely ordinary
huh, i was kinda expecting more heterochromia
… RIGHT SHE HAD A DUMB NICKNAME
THEY BOTH DID
look I know youre overdramatic teenagers but I promise you giving yourselves nicknames about how good you are at fighting doesn’t actually make you seem good at fighting
also, i like to imagine that victoria’s been trying to get people to call her victor for most of her life, and sieglinde is the only one who will. victoria gave her her own nickname in thanks, and sieglinde was so happy about having a friend to give her a nickname that she didn’t care about the theme
have you considered losing the waist long twintails?
awwwww
weirdly wholesome considering the subject matter
who’s this boss? Presumably one of the other competitors we’ve seen, and I’m guessing harry as the only one who runs a thing (as well as one of the only returning successful contestants)
please tell me she didn’t pick that nickname/title herself
theyre cute together
and sieglinde pulls her hood back on as soon as more people arrive
i guess i shouldn’t be surprised that the ojou and the delinquent dont get along
at least it looks like it runs both ways
i really do like this dynamic of harry and victoria constantly trying to fight, and meanwhile sieglinde’s just there in the background trying to calm down her friends
oh hey the last unintroduced girl from the op! presumably she’s a returning fighter considering she seems pretty familiar with the others
… I can’t tell if “violator restraints rule master” is one skill, two skills, her job, or her personality
would they be wrong?
let the fangirling commence!
oh gods shes trying to hide behind that popcorn
it is very much not working
i feel like this scene should be one of those draw the squad memes
also, these four are great together, more scenes with them please
I do like how in the returning champions we’re presented with three people who all hate each other, and then one person who they all like. it’s a good setup for comedy and shipping
awwww, even while being shy, she’s still nice to einhart
come to think of it, i wonder if she also has memories of belka, and if so does she recognize einhart
sdjklaghklfaghlj
those chains were completely ineffective i guess
i like to think that harry and victoria didnt break out immediately because they didnt want to hurt els’ feelings
gods
els is extremely indignant and harry is just having a good tiem
okay that’s cool, they edited the OP now that we’ve seen sieglinde with her hood down
how do these two know each other? I mean I’ll believe it, but I’m curious now.
so what were the fights we saw last episode?
I guess prelims for the qualifiers? Which explains how some people are seeded already
this tournament sure has a sense of the dramatic
she is actually a rule master school president
and brought her council with her i guess
OH THIS IS THE PERFECT MATCHUP
I mean, I would take harry fighting just about anyone, but this is an excellent clash of anime character archetypes
The fact that there is canonically Japanese immigration to midchilda is one of the weirdest things about this setting to me. I mean, Nanoha and Hayate just moving to another planet with magic and magitek and spaceships is weird enough, but Subaru’s family immigrated generations back. How the fuck did that go? Can you imagine being a random Japanese peasant circa the 1700s and then suddenly you’re on a different world that has magic and also computers.
oh gods
she looks so happy and i love her but her nickname is so stupid
and thats saying a lot considering the competition
extremely on brand
… that is the most “go ahead please” face I have ever seen
and theeeeres the competition making an abrupt return
i mean, she could still totally call you that even if you win
“tension”
i dont know if she planned it in advance, but letting harry see and underestimate her power beforehand was pretty smart
A ranged attack?
OR NOT I GUESS
she just... blew up her own arm
That’s kinda clever. And also really metal.
WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK HARRY
Thank you for the reasonable reaction
the kind of attack name you expect from a girl called buster head
Well that was fast
Oh okay they have a set time to get back in the ring. makes sense considering how easy it is for a lot of them to send people flying
nove suddenly has competition as the best punchy redhead in this show
shes so good
…you entered a martial arts competition without looking up the injury rules
I’M STARTING TO AGREE WITH ALL THE NUNS WHO DIDN’T THINK YOU WERE MATURE ENOUGH TO ENTER
i cant decide if this is smart and practical or really creepy
that is some powerful simulation
Idk if it’s just saving on fight animation, but while their powers are cool, the actual fighting technique doesn’t seem equal to what we’ve seen from vivio and einhart
gods
please get hurt less
where did that bandaid come from?!
~tempting faaaate~
SHES BITING THROUGH CHAIN?!!!
Oh no wait shes pulling on it with her teeth
That’s… more reasonable, I guess?
Still fucking badass
this is gonna be brutal
yup.
also, anime nosebleed
awwww
i love harry’s emotionally supportive girl gang
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU HURT YOURSELF
this idiot
For some mysterious totally not screen-time related reason
That said, I do like them establishing that vivio&co are unusually talented even by this competition’s standards. I’d have a hard time buying that there are that many fighters on their caliber in the tournament
because as is well known the inter-middle tournament involves fighting buses
she’s just from a completely different samurai anime than everyone else
magic infused or something?
...no
Oh fuck.
Okay, scary sword girl vs. the wolkenritter’s student
…and whichever of them wins, vivio still has to fight
I feel like I have a lot in common with this announcer man
Is this like a general shyness thing, or an actual issue, or something minor that you’ve made into an actual issue…?
come to think of it, she mentioned leaving the tournament a year ago before she could fight victoria. did she also skip out on fighting mica? or was something in her fight with mica why she left
also, kudos to micaiah for having a sensible nickname
call and...
... response
the purpose of having a gang is to force your friends to be supportive of each other
How many times do you think vita’s gotten mistaken for a contestant? Actually, how many times do you think she’s got asked if she’s old enough to compete?
aww
in nanoha terms, i’m pretty sure this counts as a love confession
Oh yeah, vivio&co have a personal connection to both contestants. That’s gotta be awkward
Also, does everyone bring an entourage to this tournament?
Actually, considering zafira and vita are there, it looks like you get a couple helpers (which I think is a thing in actual fighing tournaments), and presumably most people have a coach or friend or parent, we just happen to have seen a bunch of fighters with minions
~tempting faaaate~
Okay, I get the whole “magic doesnt cause actual injuries, we just simulate them” but like micaiah isn’t using magic. That’s a real sword.
Well that’s a hell of a lot of damage from one attack. I don’t think Miura can afford to be hit again at all.
I mean, I don’t know about her but I’m definitely thinking that
haven’t mentioned this before, but miura’s outfit with the heavy shinguards is really cool and well-suited to her fighting style
pot meet kettle
miura backstory! and yeah, this makes a lot of sense. she’s very cheerful, but the way she’s nervous all the time and latches onto team nakajima so quickly makes her seem pretty isolated form her peers
and here we can see a demonstration of why carrying swords of different lengths is useful. Miura’s within the reach of Mica’s longer sword, so she switches to the shorter one to drive her back
fancy kick coming up!
Sword draw? Since she doesn’t seem to have one, I’m guessing it’s a kick that uses similar principles. Now the question is, is Miura’s secret weapon a technique that happens to be similar in principle to Mica’s fighting style, or is it a copying technique?
1) this is a very pretty shot
2) it would be really funny if instead of powering up her own sword draw, mica just ran over there and stabbed miura before she can power up the breaker
Didn’t seem to do a whole lot of damage for a special move
Oh ok, she can keep kicking like that for a while
Disadvantage of using a weapon: it can be broken
its pretty interesting that the show sets up various rematches and rivalries and thematic fights that can’t all happen by the design of the tournament. it makes the fights a lot more suspenseful when there would be plot and character reasons for either side to win
...remember what i said about how wanting to fight people in nanoha is basically a love confession?
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