Nanoha Manga Discussion

[Password]

A few days late, but the western translation used for Schach's device in Nanohawiki is Windenschaft. Seems German (Winding Shaft?)

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Tempest Dynasty

It's a Touhou in-joke.

The correlation is possible, but it's still too early to make that suggestion. Same hair =! same person.

Pssh, come on as it wasn't obvious enough with the heterochromia, now we have the character page's 'yee, this looks kind of similar to Fate' kind of description.

Originally Posted by Tempest Dynasty

Then comes the shipping. Oh god the shipping. That horse is deader than death.

Nah, shipping wars in the Nanoha fandom only begin when a guy is involved in one of the pairings. You can argue Nanohayate or Nanovita and nothing happens. It's only when you mention Yuuno that forums ignite.

Originally Posted by JamesEdwards

@Dri and Drethillsh: Gents, if you're still planning to continue to duking it out, might I suggest moving this over to Magic and Technology?

No need, I can stop this with one post:



Note in particular that second one, Vivio was plugged into the magical reactor of a battleship which not only supplied her with limitless energy, but also increased her power to terrifying levels.

Bottomline, Vivio outside the Cradle is nowhere near as powerful as Vivio on the Cradle. How strong Vivio is right now is unknown, but will undoubtedly be shown as the manga progresses, and its quite pointless to debate that now with virtually no information.

[Jimmy C]

I can make one prediction about Vivid: Vivio will soon face an unprovoked assault by Ingvalt. It's the most likely way to get her involved in the case, as she isn't working for the Bureau yet.

[Password]

And to give some contribution to manga discussion

Nove: We'll be careful (...If she shows up, I'll kick her ass right back)

I expect Nove to have a chance meeting with Ingvalt in the near future and getting curb-stomped.

[Kyral]

Wow I'm slow. I just realized that Caro has short hair again.

Canon or just an error from the artist?

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by Kyral

Wow I'm slow. I just realized that Caro has short hair again.

Canon or just an error from the artist?

Lol, that's right, her hair is short >_>
I was kind of distracted by how tall Erio is in ViVid

But Caro was supposed to have let her hair grow...it might be the artist's mistake

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Tempest Dynasty

I'm afraid I can't follow this hypothesis. With only one chapter of the manga out, and three pages out of nineteen featuring Stratos, and one page with Ingvalt, there is very little available information to draw conclusions from. Wait. Stratos doesn't even show up in the first chapter other than in the colored pages. Where are you getting these conclusions from?

In the drain, my Fight Club joke goes.

[Nina.Wolken]

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

But Caro was supposed to have let her hair grow...it might be the artist's mistake

I don't think he (she?) would have let think kind of mistake in the very first chapter. Caro may have just cut her hair after the SSX...
But yeah, Erio sure grew tall, he wasn't that different form StS in SSX, but one year after, he looks totally different (from what we've seen so far, not much actually ).

[Demi.]

When does Force release?

And nice first chapter of Vivid. It's everything I love, that I never expected it to focus on. Hopefully it doesn't deter too far from that path in the coming chapters.

[Ottocycle]

Originally Posted by Demi.

When does Force release?

And nice first chapter of Vivid. It's everything I love, that I never expected it to focus on. Hopefully it doesn't deter too far from that path in the coming chapters.

Best answered with this:

Originally Posted by selkirk

Next issue of Nyantype (in which Force is serialized) is scheduled for July 30. Have fun waiting.

[Keroko]

A new translation of Memory 1 is out, grab it here.

Still uses Saint King, but does use Hegemon Ingwalt.

[Drethillsh]

Originally Posted by JamesEdwards

@Dri and Drethillsh: Gents, if you're still planning to continue to duking it out, might I suggest moving this over to Magic and Technology? Last I checked this was the Manga discussion thread. I mean, sure, it's really cute how you guys are play fighting with each other, but if you're going to debate, then you ought to follow the proper etiquette (re: Rules of Engagement). I do believe one of those statuettes to be debating in the proper thread.

It is regarding the manga. It's about what power level Vivio will be at in ViVid.

Originally Posted by Keroko

No need, I can stop this with one post:



Note in particular that second one, Vivio was plugged into the magical reactor of a battleship which not only supplied her with limitless energy, but also increased her power to terrifying levels.

Bottomline, Vivio outside the Cradle is nowhere near as powerful as Vivio on the Cradle. How strong Vivio is right now is unknown, but will undoubtedly be shown as the manga progresses, and its quite pointless to debate that now with virtually no information.

That doesn't address all of the points we brought up, but it's nice information to have.

The first one says that the Saint's Armor is Vivio's ability, not the Cradle's, and that was one major element in giving her that level of power.

As for the second one, I thought the effect of that energy was that she could keep fighting without getting tired (yes, another major part of her power, but in a short fight she could be just as effective). That might be just wishful thinking, though, because of how awesome Vivio was (I really wanted some random plot device to bring every TSAB character into that room, and Vivio would just keep beating them down).

But Nanoha as a series so far hasn't been in the habit of disappointing me my want for characters to show that the power they had as enemies doesn't evaporate when they join the good side. I still see Vivio as a much stronger character than at least most of the rest of the cast, and it was just bothering me to see lots of "Vivio's become really weak now" type comments without having any information that put her much below her power level in StrikerS. Again, maybe my hope is blinding me, but I'd be really surprised and dissappointed if Vivio was weak, and in five years of products, Nanoha (the series)has only dissapointed me once. That's a good track record.

Lastly, where is that picture from?! I needs my information sources, I needs them...

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Drethillsh

It is regarding the manga. It's about what power level Vivio will be at in ViVid.

No, I agree that this kind of talk is better suited for the tech thread. We are technically discussing StrikerS here after all.

So with that said, porting my reply over there.

[Nagumo]

Originally Posted by Password

And to give some contribution to manga discussion

Nove: We'll be careful (...If she shows up, I'll kick her ass right back)

I expect Nove to have a chance meeting with Ingvalt in the near future and getting curb-stomped.

In other words... Vita's Worf Effect duties will be passed on to Nove-chan?


Oh poor Nove, she does not deserve that...

[Kyral]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Still uses Saint King, but does use Hegemon Ingwalt.

I pointed it out in the comments already.
Now I will be hated there by everybody!

Kyral the nitpicking baka! >>;;;

Ah well... I hope they take it into account! :3

[DezoPenguin]

Originally Posted by Kyral

I pointed it out in the comments already.
Now I will be hated there by everybody!

Kyral the nitpicking baka! >>;;;

This wouldn't bug me so much if "Kaiser" actually meant "King," but it doesn't, it means "Emperor." ("Konig," IIRC...actually, more "if I desperately remember since a fic title depends on it," means "king") There's a really big clue in the fact that it's been successfully identified as the "Belkan Empire."

The whole question of "leave the German intact" versus "translate the German" is a different issue, but if you're going to translate the German (which, IMHO, destroys the entire effect of having the Belkan stuff in a foreign language in the first place), it should at least be translated correctly.

[Kyral]

Well for the overall defense of those who go with "saint king".

They never said "Sankt Kaiser" in the anime or a sound stage, they always used "Seiou" so far.

We only know that it should be Sankt Kaiser thanks to the translation provided by the official homepage. It seems not every translator checkt it out and thus translating Seiou into english. (but shouldn't that be "Holy King" actually?)

[Keroko]

Not to mention that 'ou' as far as I know can also translate to 'emperor' so it's really another case of Raging Heart VS Raising Heart.

[jpawelw]

Originally Posted by Kyral

Well for the overall defense of those who go with "saint king".

They never said "Sankt Kaiser" in the anime or a sound stage, they always used "Seiou" so far.

We only know that it should be Sankt Kaiser thanks to the translation provided by the official homepage. It seems not every translator checkt it out and thus translating Seiou into english. (but shouldn't that be "Holy King" actually?)

In anime episode 25, at 0:20:59 (DVD version), Cradle's AI announces an alert: "Heilige Kaiser --- keine Reaktion. Funktionsgelost des Systems [...]"
(subtitled in Japanese: 晴王陛下、反応ロスト システムドウン).

Now which form is more canon? The meaning is the same, but the Cradle's form is "purer" German. (BTW shouldn't it be 'Heiliger Kaiser'?)

[al103]

Originally Posted by jpawelw

Now which form is more canon? The meaning is the same, but the Cradle's form is "purer" German. (BTW shouldn't it be 'Heiliger Kaiser'?)

'Heilig' if to trust glossary. So 'Heilig Kaiser'.