Forum - View topicMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance (TV).
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Edjwald
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance (TV) Source: Original Demographic: Animation Studio: Seven Arcs Genres: action, fantasy, science fiction Themes: aliens, dystopian, magical girl, war Plot Summary: 30 years ago, an unknown "invasive alien species" appeared, bringing the world to the brink of ruin. Humans and the invasive species are fighting for dominion, and although humanity has now barely secured its own safety, its world could collapse at any time. While people are terrified of death, they also turn a blind eye to the peril around them and live their everyday lives. Amidst this, the "United Nations Investigation Agency EXCEEDS" works to combat invasive species and disasters. On the island country Mizuho in the far east, on an isolated island, lives Shiina Kuze. She is a hunter whose job it is to eradicate the invasive species on the island, and she wishes to live a quiet life with her sister, Setsuna. Air Date & Platform: July 04, 2026 (Saturday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Pending Trailer [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] Last edited by Edjwald on Fri Jun 26, 2026 4:56 am; edited 1 time in total |
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smurky turkey
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A search showed me that there are like 6 or 7 prequel movies so I am not sure how easy to jump in this will be.
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DuskyPredator
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Episode 1
So, is this a different continuity to the original series? What kind of surprised me was the mention of Tokyo, presumably Earth, which I never got a sense in the original series suffered something so apocalyptic. But it also said 10 years ago, and the Nanoha at the end looks to young for that to make sense with her story. She maybe looks older than she was in the kid she was in A's, but younger than Strikers, so is this maybe like an in-between bit where she worked with the Time-Space guys, and gone to an alternate Earth? Anyway, new girl, I was half expecting her head to turn into a flaming skull, that she inherited a Spirit of Vengeance. |
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Edjwald
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When they introduced the younger sister with more red flags than a racetrack, I almost bailed. But I stuck with it telling myself that if they killed the younger sister as an excuse to set the lead off on a path of angsty, tortured vengeance, I would drop the show post haste. But things turned out to have a little more nuance and complexity than that. I have absolutely no idea who or how Nanoha is, but learning about things from the perspective of a lead who also knows nothing doesn't seem like it'd be too hard to adapt.
I'll give this one a trial period. |
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DuskyPredator
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Are you really not familiar with Nanoha? There is an element that I think lives a lot as a meme of the fanbase, but I hope is leaned into. |
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Alan45
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@smurky turkey
Yeah, this series has been around for a long time (20+ years). I vaguely remember picking up the beginning of the first series and not being able to get into it. I think that was a VHS. According to the encyclopedia this is a spin off of a hentai OVA which is turn is a spin off of a hentai game. Considering that the original characters were in their lower teens, I find the idea a bit horrifying. @DuskyPredator Are you talking about a possible relationship between two of the girls? |
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Edjwald
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I'm really not. I didn't watch my first anime (Darker Than Black) until at a few years after 2010 - I'm not exactly sure which year. I sifted through Hulu and Netflix catalogs in a kind of sporadic fashion and didn't subscribe to an anime streaming service until 2017, which I only know because I subscribed specifically to watch My Hero Academia Season 2 and tried this site out the same year. I then left and didn't come back to this site or watch much anime for many years after some family members developed serious medical issues. And I didn't start trying to watch at least one episode of every new anime until two or three years ago. I guess what I'm saying is, I have all kinds of weird anime gaps. As to memes, I don't do a lot of social media. If I like this show, I might go back and look into the Nanoha experience, unless you're really, really strongly recommending it now. I've still got a lot of new anime from this season on deck (Goodbye Lara, Let's Go Kaikigumi, Recommendations from Iwato-san...) |
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DuskyPredator
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I was mostly alluding to the reputation of Nanoha being a badass, with an attitude for going extra not to different from the Symphogear franchise. A particular fan nickname for her is The White Devil. I wouldn't be surprised if series like Symphogear and Tanya the Evil have direct inspiration from the Nanoha franchise. The first two seasons have Nanoha still in the kid part of her life, so only got so serious from her. StrikerS is a little hard to describe, other than her being more disciplined as an adult and in charge. And Vivid has Nanoha decentralised in being the mum of the new main character.
I believe the spin-off element of a hentai OVA, was some similar characters like Nanoha's teenage older siblings, which I remembering hearing way back when was dubious if it is canon as they may have been assassins or something, which doesn't match their cafe owner appearance in Nanoha. I think the closest to actual iffy bits with the franchise is that, although transformation sequences wouldn't show bits, transformation sequences didn't always look super modest. |
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Alan45
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Yeah, according to Wikipedia, Nanaho was supposed to be about 9 when the first series ran. That is a bit much even for a hentai. I do remember that a least some of the fandom held that there was a "close, warm, personal relationship" between Nanaho and Fate.
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DuskyPredator
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Again, I don't think the hentai parts ever touched the kids part. Such that it is questionable if it is the same continuity. And terms of her relationship with Fate, the franchise has frankly been too afraid to ever confirm anything beyond them apparently sharing a bed as adults... and raising a daughter. |
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Edjwald
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@Dusky & @Alan45
Honestly, just from reading the convo between you two, it doesn't sound like trying to dig up the original anime and spin-offs would clarify all that much. Sounds pretty convoluted. |
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smurky turkey
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That is the problem with some older franchises: they are not that easy to get into. Sometimes you see multiple movies, series, routes etc and you just feel tired having to look up the recommended way/order of watching (gets Fate flashbacks).
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DuskyPredator
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I have never seen the stuff that the Nanoha franchise spun off from. Unless some movie I haven't seen is more than a retelling, only the original Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's are set before whatever age Nanoha appears here, with both being at 13 episodes. It isn't a super lore intensive series, mostly just that little girl takes on the role of a magical girl to complete a task the other worlder couldn't, is surprisingly good at it, and then beats enemies up until they become her friend. Magic and technology also tend to kind of blur too. |
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Edjwald
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I was pretty impressed by the animation up until thunder girl (Fate?) showed and her special effects looked less than awe inspiring. But overall, it seems like the studio put some TLC into the presentation.
So far, Nanoha and Fate seem more like background cheerleaders. I kind of liked the anti-diablech squad. At least, I liked the way they went from seeming like outright villains to being questionable vigilantes. Some of them have interesting powers. I can't tell if the way the show goes from cute to carnage is exploitative or interesting yet. And I can't tell if the author loved Nanoha and Fate and created this franchise to bring them back, or if they hastily stapled this anime to an existing franchise in hopes of getting more viewers. But I'm still up for episode 3. |
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DuskyPredator
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Based on what they said, there is a limit to how long they are allowed to stay there, so they have to work more to have someone be able to fight long term rather than them do it. I do wonder if there is meant to be picked up discrepancy that Nanoha and Fate are only able to station there for a set period of time, and that being saving the world, which leaves the question of where they could be from that would pull them away from world saving stuff. Hayate also has a specific "classified" next to her age. Nanoha also didn't need to blast Shiina to befriend her, just bring her girlfriend in. Also, the big punch thing is kind of cool. |
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