Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force Manga Discussion

[Justin_Brett]

I didn't mean slaughter exactly. Just that the phrase doesn't lend itself well to peaceful negotiation. If nothing else you'd think she'd avoid ambiguous wording with Touma standing right there.

Also this is off-topic, but shouldn't he be grateful to Arnage's help in that situation rather than Cypha's?

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Akiyoshi

Yup, while Signum was indeed a cold blooded killer, she was never a bitchy character like Cypha. Even Vita has more logical reasons to be like that than eye-patched psycho.

Vita near-killed Nanoha(and we didn't even know how that would be turned if Fate wasn't appeared, maybe Vita's comrades themselves would stop her from killing Nanoha, remeber that Signum and Shamal entered the scene very shortly after that) because she lost control of herself after seeing the gift of the most important person to her being destroyed by her prey. That don't justify her behavior by any means but still makes much more sense than Cypha's "lol, i'll kill you cuz i'm awesome" behavior xDU

Vita was rude cause she was a traumatized child-like girl holding deeply on the object of her affections. Cypha was a bitch just for the hell of it and also to leave the message of "we rulz, you suck, lol".

I like the logic that Vita wanting to kill someone over a hat is less psycho than Cypha wanting to kill Signum because she's trying to capture her. And trauma isn't really an excuse when both sides have their share of trauma (y'know. Eclipse. Outcast. That sort of thing?).

Originally Posted by Justin_Brett

I didn't mean slaughter exactly. Just that the phrase doesn't lend itself well to peaceful negotiation. If nothing else you'd think she'd avoid ambiguous wording with Touma standing right there.?

You do realize you're setting yourself up for disappointment here, right?

[Nanya01]

Don't bother, Keroko, it's Justin and Aki.

Their minds are already set in stone and they won't change their opinions at all.

[Tiresias]

It's hilarious how someone condemns others for never changing their views when it's clear they're equally hard-headed, only on the opposite stance. Pot, kettle, black? Eh, whatever makes you sleep at night, I guess

Anyway, I'll just leave my opinion on the recent development:

And change my stance from "Wait for a miraculously good plot development" to "Never, ever, ever touching Force with a Barge Pole." (Is there any way to ignore just one thread? Hmm, I'm gonna have to look)

Anyway, we will now return to your usual programme (whatever that is). I'll see you in...well, anything but this thread

[rxrx]

Strange. Signum, knowing the situation at hand would not fight Cypha until they are done with the Grandels as she is a good helper in a way. On the issue of Touma, maybe one should see him in either the Yakuza or the Hong Kong mafia films like of moralilty code.

Despite the intent the Hukes have for helping him, a debt is a debt and he would pay them back. Its more like help them once, then fight them again. Touma knows that Cypha is a criminal and is onkay if he is given the order to capture her, but that doesn't mean that he cannot be happy to see her.

[Kaijo]

Originally Posted by Tiresias

It's hilarious how someone condemns others for never changing their views when it's clear they're equally hard-headed, only on the opposite stance. Pot, kettle, black? Eh, whatever makes you sleep at night, I guess

Except I have seen Raiser change his mind quite often, when confronted with evidence. It's a rather poor argument to pull out the "well, You don't change your mind either! So I don't have to! Aha!" tactic. And even if Raiser was hard-headed enough to never change his mind, that still doesn't excuse someone else holding onto a viewpoint despite all evidence and arguments.

Really, I wish we could do away with that particular debate tactic. "If you don't accept my particular viewpoint on this argument, that means you're a closed-minded fool who obviously doesn't ever change their mind or accept anyone's arguments, ever."

It's a really silly argument, because one is rarely aware of every debate the other person has been in, and thus has no way of knowing how often one has changed their mind based on good arguments and evidence.

Anyway, back to Force. Any word on when translated chapters will be out?

[Justin_Brett]

You do realize you're setting yourself up for disappointment here, right?

It's better than just blindly accepting something stupid.

[Proto]

It's a rather poor argument to pull out the "well, You don't change your mind either! So I don't have to! Aha!" tactic.

It even has a name

[Justin_Brett]

Wait a second, I just realized something: the TSAB know what the Eclipse Virus does, right, since Shamal was able to make a cure for it? So Signum couldn't have not known about it when she was fighting Cypha.

Maybe they realized attacking someone without cause made her look like kind of a bitch.

[Akiyoshi]

Originally Posted by Keroko

You do realize you're setting yourself up for disappointment here, right?

That's why i'm refusing to welcome such toughts yet xDU

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Don't bother, Keroko, it's Justin and Aki.

Their minds are already set in stone and they won't change their opinions at all.

I like you too Nanya xD

Originally Posted by rxrx

Strange. Signum, knowing the situation at hand would not fight Cypha until they are done with the Grandels as she is a good helper in a way. On the issue of Touma, maybe one should see him in either the Yakuza or the Hong Kong mafia films like of moralilty code.

Let's see how Tsuzuki handles this but yeah, it's not like an alliance but letting Cypha deal with the grendel and have both enemies tire each other seems like a very good idea. Unfortunately this situation has already happened a couple of times in the franchise before and neither character has ever taken advantage of this, so it's very unlikely for that to happen xDU

Originally Posted by rxrx

Despite the intent the Hukes have for helping him, a debt is a debt and he would pay them back. Its more like help them once, then fight them again. Touma knows that Cypha is a criminal and is onkay if he is given the order to capture her, but that doesn't mean that he cannot be happy to see her.

That's what makes Hayate and Isis so worried for Tohma, he's certainly attached to the Huckebein which could be dangerous for him and everyone else, we don't know Signum's two cents on the matter yet and i suposse we only get to know once she and Cypha meet again.

Originally Posted by Kaijo

Except I have seen Raiser change his mind quite often, when confronted with evidence. It's a rather poor argument to pull out the "well, You don't change your mind either! So I don't have to! Aha!" tactic. And even if Raiser was hard-headed enough to never change his mind, that still doesn't excuse someone else holding onto a viewpoint despite all evidence and arguments.

Problem is, Force haven't showed me yet any solid evidence that managed to change or even challenge my viewpoint xDU I'm still waiting.

EDIT: Well, on second tought, Force do have changed my toughts a bit. Now i don't thing that Signum "sucks" per se since she has demonstrated to still retain some sort of fight capability, she's good ...just not awesome as she used to be.

[00-Raiser]

Originally Posted by Kaijo

Except I have seen Raiser change his mind quite often, when confronted with evidence. It's a rather poor argument to pull out the "well, You don't change your mind either! So I don't have to! Aha!" tactic. And even if Raiser was hard-headed enough to never change his mind, that still doesn't excuse someone

Wait, why am I being brought into this conversation?

It's fine having opposing opinions and stuff, but you don't have to keep reminding everyone about it insistantly.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Justin_Brett

It's better than just blindly accepting something stupid.

"Accepting that something will happen" does not mean liking what is going to happen. I'm not happy that what at first looked like it was going to be a twist on the series (clearly evil enemies that don't hesitate to kill) turned out to be a minor twist, but I'm not fooling myself here.

[LostSome]

- Erio and Caro consider the Raptors their new comrades and are determined to protect them.

Now they are friends with combat androids ?!
Those kids really need to get a life... Going to school, make friends, have sex...

[Akiyoshi]

^ More drama potential if the Raptors get turned on them xD!

Being controlled by a single hive mind can backfire with disastrous results xD

[Justin_Brett]

That's gonna be awfully traumatic for them when they start fulfilling their main purpose of getting destroyed by the dozens so humans won't have to.

I'll call it right now: two of those guys in the Raptor trio are gonna die. Having three characters with the same weapons and appearance around would just be silly.

[Keroko]

Well, given that these kids have had various artificial intelligences in a variety of forms around them since they were... well... kids, it's not that surprising that they feel empathy for droids.

[LostSome]

So long that they don`t see them as people.
Liking them and feeling empathy is fine, but they are robots with a hive mind...
Nothing worth dying for, but I don`t think it`s like that.
I was just having fun with how Aki put it.

Originally Posted by Justin_Brett

That's gonna be awfully traumatic for them when they start fulfilling their main purpose of getting destroyed by the dozens so humans won't have to.

Definitely.

[Akiyoshi]

Originally Posted by LostSome

So long that they don`t see them as people.
Liking them and feeling empathy is fine, but they are robots with a hive mind...
Nothing worth dying for, but I don`t think it`s like that.
I was just having fun with how Aki put it.

Erio: Raptors finally are our partners, we won't let them be stolen.

Caro: yes, we're gonna protect them

Half-baked translation of their actual dialogue xD

So yeah, they seem to get kind of attached to the humanoid drones xD

[LostSome]

One think, Aki...
Hades is worried about legal disputes over the Eclipse ?
So he`s not the only money-crazed one ?

[Akiyoshi]

Originally Posted by LostSome

One think, Aki...
Hades is worried about legal disputes over the Eclipse ?
So he`s not the only money-crazed one ?

The way i understood he isn't "worried" if anything he's implying he's willing to do what's necessary to take his plan into success. He sumuggly comments that stuff like bloodshed and legal disputes aren't uncommon for this sort of issues. and right now he's undergong a legal investigation from the TSAB.

But yeah, probably there's more money people involved. We don't know Caledfwlch Techniques true intentions yet and there's also the miesterious "date" Mr. Vandin will have with "that girl". My crazy theory is that he and Curren share a background but probably she's not Hardis's misterious date xD.