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\"\"<\/a>Alternative title(s): Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance<\/em>
Anime original by Seven Arcs
Streaming on Crunchyroll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Premise<\/h3>\n

For thirty years now Earth has been under attack by bad CGI monsters. With society teetering on the brink of collapse, Shiina Kuze makes her living hunting the invaders while trying to juggle caring for her little sister Setsuna.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Zigg\u2019s<\/span> verdict: Won\u2019t Get Fooled Again<\/h3>\n

As a fan of the original\u00a0Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha<\/em>, I\u2019m always at least a little intrigued when these periodic attempts to revive the franchise pop up, and I almost always regret that instantly. It didn\u2019t work for\u00a0Vivid<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0Vivid Strike<\/em><\/a> and unfortunately it really doesn\u2019t work here either. While the idea of shifting\u00a0Nanoha<\/em> to a sort of post-apocalyptic survival tale is kind of fascinating in concept, in practice this just strips the setting of most of its original ideas and aesthetics for a bog-standard monster hunting setup.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not really sure which of the myriad sins of this opener is the most egregious. The focus on weaponry and guns is extremely shallow and some of the most blatant otaku-bait I\u2019ve seen in a while, the kind of empty-headed fascination with killing tools that\u00a0Evangelion\u00a0<\/em>was ripping chunks out of three decades ago. Part of the appeal of\u00a0Nanoha<\/em> was always its slightly more militaristic take on magical girl tropes for sure, but without that interesting clash of tones you just have a combat anime that doesn\u2019t even deign to give its fights fun or cool choreography. In fact, this is an ugly show overall, full of awful CGI and flat, lifeless direction. If you\u2019re going to make fire such a big part of your aesthetic you should probably make it look better than the synthetic vomit that\u2019s all over this episode.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The main problem here though is absolutely the story, which is just drawn from the deepest, most hackneyed wells of cliche. An exacerbating factor is definitely the need to fill a full 48 minutes in this double length premiere, which means not only are we treated to insufferable dialogue but it has to be drawn out and repetitive as well. Listening to Setsuna prattle on about her deep and meaningful relationship with her big sister is bad enough but then we have to get an eternity of the same thing in reverse from Shiina almost back to back. It\u2019s absolutely possible to kill a character in the first episode and make you feel it, but it requres a great deal of skill and good character writing, not the witless whine that dominates here. Oh, and of course since this is a\u00a0Nanoha<\/em> show we have to get in some bad-taste stuff, namely putting an 11 year old into a combat bikini and then having her be eaten alive a few minutes later. Yuck.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the fact that Nanoha herself is *barely* in this double-length episode, showing up for 30 seconds at the end. While I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll put in a bigger shift in subsequent instalments, nothing I saw here makes me interested in coming back for a second bite of the cherry. Hard, hard pass.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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