My copy of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha got delivered about ten minutes ago and now I'm going to start watching.

The first DVD wouldn't register on the internal drive on my computer. Fortunately, my external USB2 DVD drive was able to read it.

And here's what the sound-track menu looks like:

Good lord!

UPDATE: Having watched the OP, it becomes blatantly obvious that this is a ripoff of Cardcaptor Sakura with vastly increased fan service and fetishness.

For all the loliness of the CCS series, the actual amount of fan service was quite low. CLAMP wasn't trying to pander with it. CCS ran 1998-2000.

The first Nanoha series (the one I just received) ran 2004. I hope it doesn't turn out that this series is ruined for me by gratuitous fan service. (I am NOT a lolicon! Not! Not!)

The visual style of this series is obviously modeled on CCS, such as the appearance of the magical circles. And I'm sure I'll see other parallels before this is all over.

Of course, one big difference is that CCS has no equivalent of Fate. So that should change the series dynamic quite a lot. And although this is another magical treasure hunt, the magic itself is quite a lot different. Or so I assume.

Another big difference is the length. CCS was able to maintain its treasure-hunt/monster-of-the-week going for fully 70 episodes, but this Nanoha series ends in 13.

On another note, whoever mastered this set flags to disable a bunch of playback features, damn them. I can't use the skip-forward or skip-back features of Zoom Player.

There is no good reason for them to do that!

UPDATE: I do hope that Takamichi Miyuki is a significant character in this series. MEGANEKKO!!!

UPDATE: They do seem to be ripping off CLAMP big time. The school uniforms remind me a lot of the ones in Angelic Layer.

UPDATE: A lot of what I'm seeing is "CCS except more". Nanoha has two parents and two older siblings and two best friends; Sakura has one of each.

Sakura's older brother had magical powers, and was more aware of what Sakura was doing than she really realized. I wonder if Sakura's family will eventually learn of what she's doing?

UPDATE: There's also some deliberate reversals. Math was Sakura's least favorite subject, and Nanoha is strongest in math and science.

UPDATE:

Good lord, again. It's going to keep going like this, isn't it?

UPDATE: Pardon me for a moment; I'm hiding under my bed shivering.

That transformation deck is worse than I feared. I had heard that this show was lolicon bait, and at least after the first episode it seems to be.

I think I have to cultivate the same attitude I had towards Popotan: there's (maybe) a good story here about interesting characters, and I just have to plow through the lolicon and try to ignore it as best I can.

I assume there's a good story, mainly because the series is really popular and it spawned two sequels. Of course, that could have been because of a good story and interesting characters, and it could have been because it's lolicon bait. Maybe both. (Shudder...) I hope we don't all end up in jail.

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