July 07, 2012

Dog Days 2 -- ep 1

I've only watched the OP so far, but I had to post. Lots of good stuff revealed in the OP.

Most important of all: Nanami and Becky both learn magic. Becky is shown riding a broomstick. Nanami seems to learn Tornado from Shinku, or else she independently develops an equivalent. They're shown racing.

I think that Nanami is wearing Ex Machina. Of course Shinku has Palladion.

Becky becoming a mage means she isn't going to be a useless moping sop on all the action, which is a relief.

UPDATE: Holy Cow! Eye Catch!

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UPDATE: And now to talk about it, spoilers, below the fold.

 


 

The third kingdom is Pastillage. Their princess is Couvre/Kuberu and she's the chipmunk girl.

The three from Earth get summoned. Nanami becomes hero of Gallette; Shinku of course is hero of Biscotti. And Becky is along for the ride.

A battle is scheduled for the day they all show up, and it's being broadcast widely. Kuberu watches from her palace in Pastillage, and she's jealous about all the fun that Millhi-nee and Leo-nee are having.

Millefiore introduces Becky on the broadcast, as a friend of both heroes. Kuberu decides she's going to kidnap Becky to be hero of Pastillage. In the season preview we saw Kuberu showing up on a flying carpet along with a small group of her guards, and then carpet bombing a battlefield. I think we see that next episode.

And I bet that it interrupts a one-on-one between Gaul and Shinku, leading to no-game. We won't ever see them finish a fight, because the writers don't want to decide which is stronger.

Meanwhile: Fan Service! The Genoise are eliminated from the battle!

They were unlucky. First Shinku disarmed them all. Then Rico and Yukki hit them with long distance bombardment and did an MCSA on them. (This time Vert even lost her bra and her panties.)

They made the mistake of announcing that they'd never been defeated. BAD move...

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1 Thanks for the eyecatch. I needed a new wallpaper.

Posted by: jcm3 at July 07, 2012 04:13 PM (OU30d)

2 I think this will work.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 04:14 PM (+rSRq)

3 There are chibis in the ED, and Chibi Yukki wears that same dress. So I bet we'll see it in the regular show, and yowzah!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 04:15 PM (+rSRq)

4 And another thing about Becky:

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 04:30 PM (+rSRq)

5 Jeanne has the same accent as Hayate in Strikers. What accent is that? Things like ending her sentences with yaa.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 04:53 PM (+rSRq)

6 I just realized:

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 05:02 PM (+rSRq)

7 Tornado was a skill that Shinku developed from the Seal powers, not from Palladion, so it makes sense that Nanami can learn it.  Which should be fun.  I REALLY want to see Shinku vs Nanami, but I get the feeling we won't get that until the end of the series.

On ep 1:


Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 07:07 PM (5/dUV)

8 I get the feeling we'll see a bit more of Yukikaze this time around.  I can't complain about that.

Also:




Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 07:09 PM (5/dUV)

9 I noticed her. And the new knight was one of the chibis in the ED.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 07:12 PM (+rSRq)

10 Oh, on Nanami:


Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 07:14 PM (5/dUV)

11

All of them are rings. The user can make them take whatever form is desired. In the first series Millefiore said that to Shinku when she first gave him Palladion. And he said he wanted a staff, and it became one. But over the course of the series, his standard combat weapon got modified. The final version had a break in the middle, and he could pull it apart and make two energy blades appear on the ends.

When Leo uses Granvert, she wants it to be an axe. But it could be anything. In resting form, all of them look like rings. Millefiore wears Excelide all the time, and if you look closely, you can see it on the index finger of her right hand in this episode when she's entertaining Becky.

Likewise, if you watch closely, you can see Ex Machina on Nanami's hand when she makes her grand entrance.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 07:30 PM (+rSRq)

12 I'd forgotten that she'd said they were all rings.  I was just thinking that it was just those two were rings and others were something different.  Granvert was always shown in Axe form and during the press conference with the holy swords on the line, Ex Machina looked like it was armor. 

I did see Excelide on Millfiore's hand and Nanami wearing a ring.  Them all being rings makes some sense. 


Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 07:35 PM (5/dUV)

13 Doing some pausing through the OP:


Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 07:45 PM (5/dUV)

14 Updated point on the OP:


Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 07:53 PM (5/dUV)

15 On my OP character notes:


Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 08:10 PM (5/dUV)

16 It's apparent that Kuberu

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 08:24 PM (+rSRq)

17 On Kuberu:


Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 08:44 PM (5/dUV)

18 Regarding rings:

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 09:03 PM (+rSRq)

19 By the way, did you notice that Yukki is doing a lot of gainaxing? With appropriate "boin" sound effects?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 07, 2012 09:06 PM (+rSRq)

20 I noticed.  I also noticed that I think her bust line has gotten slightly bigger.  She's also being a tad less formal, but she was never the terribly formal one of the pair. 

I still love they have a logical, in-universe reason for the "clothing damage" effect on knight-rank characters.  Obviously it exists for the reason shown in ep 1, but it's still pretty fun.

Posted by: sqa at July 07, 2012 09:11 PM (5/dUV)

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