Originally Posted by Kaijo
Reposting Iluna's notes to here, so we can get actual movie discussion here without needing spoiler tags. These are Iluna's notes, not mine!
- Majorly the retelling of the TV series, Ep.2 and 3 removed for obvious reasons.
- Precia's backstory is deeply explored instead of just a rough broughtover from the TV series.
- Precia's incident was also explained where Precia was too busy with her research work that she never got to really give time to her precious daughter Aricia. But however one day she recieved orders from her higher up that she has to show the result of her research test although Precia objects that it's far from being stable for execution but had no choice but to execute it. That day, as what Precia expected, her experiment gone horribly wrong that emitted a strong blasting light that involved the citizens around to death, including Aricia. Since then Precia has changed completely. Created Fate as her replacement but not satisfied because she can't be the replacement no matter how she is alike. Hence drown herself in research to find a way to resurrect her daughter, hence Al-Hazard plan. It was only mentioned in the TV series, but the movie made the whole thing in visual.
- Starlight Breaker's animation is different from the TV series counterpart. In the movie, a pink orb is first gathered, where the magic around the battlefield made the aura 3x (or more) larger than usual. Next the magic circle will form around the large circle and another small orb will be formed in front of the large, and finally a one straight laser (assuming aiming at the target). Nanoha then grabs the trigger and when she fires, the small orb will shoot a straight line first, then followed by a very huge blast from the large orb. This attack decimated almost the WHOLE battlefield where she and Fate fought in.
- The first monster holds 3 Jewel Seeds and the design is different (?)
- Doesn't take long to encounter Fate. In the TV series it took them 4 monsters. But in the movie, their first encounter was from their second attempt on jewel sealing.
- Raising Heart and Bardiche sounds a lot more human rather than robotic. Raising Heart speaks a lot in the movie. Bardiche however not much
- Nanoha's family have NO speaking lines. They do appear.
- Fate does have a transformation scene in the movie, compared to the TV series where she had none.
- Fate, unlike in the TV series, mentions Aricia in a lot of scenes. First of it would in the part where Fate and Nanoha had their final showdown, which that actually distracts her from fighting.
- Fate's Thunder Plasma Shot (her ultimate attack of that time) changes, I don't remember much, but her end move ends with Fate forming a long huge thunder based spear and throws and Nanoha to pierce her
- Rynith of course plays a big backstage role in this movie. Afterall, the raising of Fate in magic skills and the creation of Bardiche is all done by her.
- Yuuno's first encounter with the Jewel Seed monster is different in location.
- Nanoha retrived 3 Jewel Seeds right at her first transformation. (18, 20, 21)
- Nanoha transformed her first time from the SKY instead of the ground
- Nanoha's first encounter with Fate is also different in location.
- Arisa and Suzuka does not have much scenes. And their first quarrel between Nanoha and Arisa was quickly brought over.
- This is not in the TV version : Raising Heart trains Nanoha THROUGH IMAGE TRAINNING (It would seem that Nanoha is daydreaming). Nanoha does that when she is in the middle of the class.
- During the scene where Arisa invites both Nanoha and Suzuka to her house to play (and met Arf in her damaged state), Arisa plays Wii. This is modified from the TV version. The game played was a game similar to Wii Sports.
- The monster they fought during Nanoha and Fate's infirating on Precia's hideout during the final phase of the movie was changed. Don't be Long was played during the phrase.
- Nanoha actually suffers major damage and actually bleeds during her first encounter with Fate. This shows how Fate was much crueler than her TV version counterpart before Nanoha BEFRIENDED her.
- Phantom Minds was played during the credits roll.
Now my thoughts:
Sounds pretty much what I was expecting. The TV series condensed, fights and confrontations enhanced, with more exploration into Fate and Precia's backstory. Nothing much majorly changed from the TV series, though, as far as general plot; just a ton of stuff cut to be able to fit into 2 hours. That's actually kind of a shame, as they had an opportunity here for new canon, and to really take the series off on a new tangent.
I was kind of hoping for much more to be changed. And for a movie, I actually would have preferred something new, instead of this. Still, the enhanced battle scenes will probably be most of what I watch it for, as I love a good fight.
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