Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid - Anime General Discussion Thread

[Duo Maxwell]

Oh shit, I thought Nanoha has been forgotten.

God is real.

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Duo Maxwell

Sankt Kaiser is real.

Fixed that for you.

One thing I am hoping for with Vivid is that 7 Arcs applies their experience with Dog Days and the Nanoha movies in animating it, given that in terms of animation the Nanoha series is actually rather average, with StrikerS getting the short end of the stick.

[FRS]

Hum that was unexpected !

[Archon_Wing]

Meh, I hope it doesn't get overrun by fanservice. (Both the sexual and yuri fetishism kind) Yea, I know this is Nanoha, but Vivid just manages to make everything look so lifeless though that might also have to do with the character designs which I really didn't like (well I guess that Einhart girl looks okay. And yea Fate's there too.). Oh, and I hate Vivio. And if they're going to waste my time with even more non-committing NanoFate teasing, well I'm sick of that.

Would have preferred Innocent.

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by Grand Phoenix

Move over, Cardcaptor Sakura!

Nanoha Vivid better than Cardcaptor Sakura? Not a chance in hell, unless you prefer action .

[Grand Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

Nanoha Vivid better than Cardcaptor Sakura? Not a chance in hell, unless you prefer action .

I just started watching Cardcaptor Sakura a couple days ago (the original Japanese version, not the old US dub that got butchered and Americanized to the ground), cut me some slack But I love action, especially when you have girls kicking ass and taking names whether or not their Berserk Buttons are pushed.

[momotaros]

More Fate is always good in my book.

[Akiyoshi]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

Nanoha Vivid better than Cardcaptor Sakura? Not a chance in hell, unless you prefer action .

Nanoha ViVid getting animated but saying it's better than Card Captor Sakura is a bit of an exaggeration.

That beign said i'm pretty excited over this, unlike most comments i've read i like tournament arcs and i'm impatient to see the veterans animated and voiced, specially Victoria and Sieglinde.

I'll be a bit less welcoming of a FORCE anime but i'll watch it anyway. Hope Tsuzuki gets to continue the story.

[Grand Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Akiyoshi

Nanoha ViVid getting animated but saying it's better than Card Captor Sakura is a bit of an exaggeration.

That beign said i'm pretty excited over this, unlike most comments i've read i like tournament arcs and i'm impatient to see the veterans animated and voiced, specially Victoria and Sieglinde.

I'll be a bit less welcoming of a FORCE anime but i'll watch it anyway. Hope Tsuzuki gets to continue the story.

Well, I'll admit I was very stoked when I saw the headline on ANN, so saying that ViVid trumps CCS when I just started it IS stretching it. Point taken XD

Gosh, has it really been that long since StrikerS aired? I remember marathoning through the show, and not long thereafter Sound Stage X was announced. Jeez, makes me wish manga like ViVid and Force (to the best of my knowledge) weren't monthly. Could get things out much faster, in my opinion.

[MeoTwister5]

Well I would rather watch Vivid than what Force eventually developed into so...

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

Well I would rather watch Vivid than what Force eventually developed into so...

Well, from a more practical PoV, Vivid have had more material for the anime team to work with. Force otoh progressed at a glacial pace and it was not helped by the publishing rate. And was eventually put on hold. I am just hoping that it IS an adaptation of the manga instead of building on it and counting on the viewers to have read the manga just to be able to remember who is who. Remember all those side characters and bridge bunnies who ultimately didn't matter in StrikerS? "No way you would have known about them unless you have read the A's To StrikerS manga! Hahahah!"

[blitz1/2]

Originally Posted by Myssa Rei

The problem with Force, of course, is that we get an idiot male MC slotted in.

Did u really have to bring that up?

[Rising Dragon]

Don't kid yourselves. They have about the same amount of content, but Force has more plot to it--ViVid has only recently begun to show signs of a deeper plotline, while Force explored its plotline right from the get-go. I imagine we'll get a Force adaptation regardless. The reason why we're getting ViVid first, I imagine, is because ViVid chronologically comes first. Y'all might not like Force but saying that ViVid has more is fairly incorrect. Whatever the reasons for choosing it to adapt, I don't think "it has more to work with" is one of them.

Also yeah, please no anti-male bias here. The only difference between Thoma and season 1!Nanoha is their gender, so if you condemn one you might as well condemn both, and this thread's about ViVid anyway. Force talk should be kept at a minimum, unless it relates to ViVid somehow.

[Key Board]

the glaring issue with Force is that went into an indefinite hiatus
heck, it's still in a hiatus

only Togashi gets away with being in a hiatus this long

[Akiyoshi]

I also think Nanoha's comparissions to Tohma should be kept at minimum because it will get us to nowhere. They may have many similitudes but to say that Tohma is "identical to Nanoha except for gender" is a bit of a stretch. They both also have their unique merits and flaws.

[Shadow Angel]

This makes me happy will look forward to this,

[CrowKenobi]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

Also yeah, please no anti-male bias here. The only difference between Thoma and season 1!Nanoha is their gender, so if you condemn one you might as well condemn both, and this thread's about ViVid anyway. Force talk should be kept at a minimum, unless it relates to ViVid somehow.

Originally Posted by Akiyoshi

I also think Nanoha's comparissions to Tohma should be kept at minimum because it will get us to nowhere. They may have many similitudes but to say that Tohma is "identical to Nanoha except for gender" is a bit of a stretch. They both also have their unique merits and flaws.

Agreed. Let's keep any off-topic Force discussion OUT of this thread. Use the current thread instead.

[maximilianjenus]

I am glad that MMAhou shoujo is getting an anime, now I just hope they adapt the whole tenkaichi budokai arc, I kinda miss dragon ball.

[Nachtwandler]

Why should ViVid have deeper plot. You should compare it with Saki or GuP. There's not so much plot aside from tournament itself but it looks great. Same here: the main plot point is matches and the bits of players back-stories and facts from Saint King Unification war just make it better. There's no need for some other plot IMHO. It's a good thing to have some other type of Nanoha season for once. Although I haven't read Infinite library arc (no translation after 48 chapter yet). Maybe it's even better. But it would be a bit hard to cram even Tournament arc in 2-cour series. So unlike they plan more seasons I bet we'll have 1 arc adaptation.

[Archon_Wing]

That is kind of true. I never watched Nanoha for the plot, and in fact it's been pretty silly every time they tried to engage in some serious worldbuilding/complexity and I really wouldn't want them to introduce a bunch of characters and situations and forget about them anyways. At the same time, I guess it also doesn't mean they shouldn't try either. I mean, Saki was entertaining for a while, but it sorta lost its novelty value as time went along to me, for example.

The best attempt at a plot was A's, and there were many parts where it was made convenient to have cool fights and stuff, and it benefited somewhat from that.