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AND NOW…

We’ve reached half the series’ running length, so it’s about time we have our first Halftime Report for a series! I didn’t get the chance to do so in Kanokon, so it’s a good opportunity to start this maiden voyage with something good.

First off, I didn’t think I’d take this series up in spite of all the GONZO trash talk I’ve been hearing all around the series. All the more the people who started to ignore it. Koihime Musou cleared its presence first, but I was somehow convinced that this would be good enough to take on. Seems I was wrong on half of it.

The series’ plotline was good enough. As what I’d expect from Fumikane Shimada, to be able to pull off a feat that is as realistic as it was to the canonical events and information that it was based from. Then again, there are still the futuristic points are that made focal from which stems the series’ main enemy: Neuroi.

HONEYCOMBS! Too bad there’re no bees.

Okay, so they’re the bad guys from outer space that may have come from some sort of interdimensional warp gate or something. Is that your resident Protoss knocking? Maybe. There wasn’t good elaboration about their source, but I guess the conquest of interworld domination is obvious. However, it is made clear that most of the Neuroi designs came from conceptual aircraft during World War II. Well, I do recognize some of the designs, but some are outrageously peculiar for something of the era. Stingrays? In your 1930’s? Yeah, right.

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So much for getting backlogs again, but bah, what the heck. We’re already halfway through the Strike Witches series anyways, so I think this is where we go smooth cruisin’…

Or so I think…

In Soviet Russia, Sanya is your God.

I didn’t expect Sanya V. Litvyak’s story out so soon. More like I prefer shy personas introduced last than introduced somewhere else. Eila Ilmatar Jutilainen was an added value service for the episode as well.

The episode starts at night, which is obvious since we’re talking about Sanya here. It seems that the various governments and unions are trying to temper the squadron down with more policies and budget cuts and all that stupid rules and laws and shit.  That’s predictable. Any nation wouldn’t want another nation to get so powerful enough even at this point in time. This proves that they’re trying to level each nation down into equal terms, at least until they finish this Neuroi gig. After that, well, it’s about time they whack each other’s brains out… AGAIN.

To ask for Strike Witch yurisex: Stick a tongue out. If they answer with their own, then you’re on.

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Okay, two backlog eps. Hope I can pull this off on the weekends, even though I don’t even know why my schedule’s so cramped on my rest days. WHAT THE HELL?!

Next on the spotlight for this episode is Gertrud Barkhorn, the “hardened” Witch with the rank of Lieutenant. There was already implications about what happened to her during the Neuroi attack on Europe, it was made to see the light that she had a sister, Chris, that she tried to protect while the rest of the people evacuated to Britannia. She failed, and now Chris is into a coma. Now, if only she would stop remembering her when she sees Yoshika…

Bedsex: Not again…

So that’s the reason she primarily avoids Minafuji. The way Trude sees her sister in her distracts her that even if she tries to avoid, she still gets affected. This worsens by the minute, and Yoshika herself was bothered by the ire of the upperclassman. Not like we care, but hey, it’s Yoshika the protagonist we’re talking about. I feel like watching a harem anime that has a female lead instead of the usual male one. But then again, that’s another typical genre overall.

Franchesca tsuntsun is so majestically done by Chiwa Saito, I nearly didn’t care less on Perinne tsundere.

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It’s just what I feared: I took up too much anime series that a single hiatus strains me so much about having to catch up. Aggravating a feat it may be, but doable, hopefully.

The ep continues further on the encounter left off, as Yoshika is sent to the sickbay as the Naval Fleet of Aircraft Carrier Akagi tries to neutralize the Neuroi that was sent to annihilate them. Sakamoto joins in for some help, but her alone seems not enough to finish it off. And so Yoshika finally gets the idea of what her father said about her powers, and what she can do according to what she has and what she’s trying to find: Man a Striker Unit and beat the bad guy of the day!

How many times do I have to tell you: When you’re out of rounds, SHOOT OFF SCREEN TO RELOAD.

Also, now we know the major’s not really that powerful even though it was made clear she can cut alien shit like how a knife cuts into half-melted butter. And Sakamoto’s also got subordinates that are into Yuri. No wonder she looks like a boy.

Perinne tsundere is moe~!

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