April 25, 2015
It's ep 4 and time for swimsuits! (sheesh; Houkago no Pleiades did it in ep 3.)
More, including spoilers, below the fold.
So it's summer, and whatsisface decides to get all the girls to go to the beach.
He also invites his older brother, who is a cop. The beach they go to is beautiful -- and completely deserted. That's because it's haunted.
Inoue has it tough. She no longer doubts, but the idea still scares hell out of her and she tends to freak.
The pervy cat shows up, and the local ghosts take a dim view.
OK, watermelon breaking, right?
Well, she taps it lightly and it falls open in 8 perfectly sliced pieces.
And everyone knows who did it, the "Roll Call Samurai" who follows Amami around and has taken it on himself to protect her.
Everyone has to tell an embarrassing story about themself. Amami confesses that when she was little she was afraid to go to sleep alone in the dark.
And spirits would come and keep her company, and even hold her hand until she fell asleep. It's a very happy memory for her.
Which is... different. Most kids who are afraid of the dark are afraid of ghosts.
Moving right along, one complaint I have about Nanoha Vivid is that it looks too much like Earth.
Those buildings could be in Chicago.
There are bar codes on their books. (I wonder if that's an ISBN?)
If you saw that house in San Diego you wouldn't look twice at it.
And if you were driving that car, no one would look twice at it. (Except for the fact that it has right-hand drive.)
Where did MidChild get corn from?
OK, that's better. Nothing like that flying in our skies...
In this episode a swarm of people get together for a long weekend of play and practice, visiting Lutecia on her otherwise-unused planet. Nove takes the little girls to play in a river, which is why the swimsuits, and they practice "water cutting", which means firing a blow and trying to kick up as much water with it as possible.
The next ep for Re-kan is "school festival". I bet their class does a haunted house. (I bet it turns out to be a haunted house even if they don't intend it to be.)
Next ep for Vivid is "surprise attack". Which I'm sure is going to be friends crashing the party; probably Vita and her protege. If it's a genuine attack, the attacker is going to get his/her ass handed to him/her. Present right now are Nanoha, Fate, Eriol, Caro, Fried (her dragon), Subaru, Teana, Lutecia, Megane (Lutecia's mother), Nove, Garyu (Lutecia's favorite summon), Rio, Corona, Vivio, and Einhart. Every single one of those is formidable, and if things get really real, Caro and Lutecia will go nuclear.
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The number certainly isn't valid on Earth. Here we currently use a 13-digit number that begins with either 978 or (eventually) 979. The barcode doesn't look like any of the normal L/G/R code bar number formats, either. Not saying it wouldn't scan, but it's not a traditional EAN barcode.
Posted by: Wonderduck at April 25, 2015 03:35 PM (jGQR+)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 25, 2015 04:07 PM (+rSRq)
And some things make enough sense for different cultures to have invented them separately (four-wheeled vehicles large enough for a family, angled/tiled roofs to shed rain, steel skyscrapers). But the little details (the barcode, the bookbinding, the... er... mailbox-shaped mailbox on a post in front of the house) are quite a bit too much.
And everyone is either a human (everyone from Earth, Midchilda, Vaizen, etc... and apparently former Belka given Vivio is a clone), or they're a magically-created or cyborgized human. So either evolution is amazingly convergent across the universe, or we are them. (Colonies from before the time of Belka? Some magical artifacts making sure we all turned out this way?)
So, if the TSAB is administering that many worlds (Earth is the 97th one), why does Mid look like Earth with a few bolt-ons, rather than a mish-mash of a hundred cultures? I think the only possible answer is they're not big on the Prime Directive; they've actually loaned their tech to all these worlds... either intentionally, or because the Nanohas and Gil Grahams and Thomas Edisons of the world brought their ideas back home with them. (And then Mid/TSAB borrowed back their favorite evolutions of all of it.) Midchilda doesn't look like Earth; Earth looks like Midchilda.
Once we're advanced enough for space travel, we'll have surprisingly Midchildan-looking spaceships, too. Maybe made by Takamachi Industries.
Posted by: Mikeski at April 26, 2015 04:52 PM (aLP9q)
That asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?
"Have you tried rebooting it?"
...same thing.
Posted by: Mikeski at April 26, 2015 04:56 PM (aLP9q)
Also, it's easier on the artists and the director who don't have to constantly come up with alien designs for everything.
The Nanoha series has never been big on trying to avoid engineer's disease.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 26, 2015 06:02 PM (+rSRq)
The just-like-Earth suburbs ventures into the uncanny valley a bit, but if you look at the background of the house, the skyline looks a lot like the Midchildan skyline from StrikerS. Of course, it looks like a generic futuristic skyline, too.
Posted by: Ben at April 26, 2015 06:20 PM (DRaH+)
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