June 1st, 2015 
AstroNerdBoy Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid – 09
魔法少女リリカルなのはViVid
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid episode 09
SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:
Victoria pays a visit to Sieglinde, who’s watching the Inter-Middle fights, when Hallie joins with her gang, leading to a conflict between Victoria and Hallie. This is observed by Vivio and company. Hallie faces Els, who’s determined to bring the delinquent under control, but Hallie wins. Vivio, Corona, and Einhart also win their matches. Elsewhere, Mikaya goes with Deed and Otto to test her new sword technique in a junkyard. She then has her bout with Miura. Miura launches an attack, so Mikaya counters, but the attack that should have taken Miura out is not completely effective. With nothing left to lose, Miura goes all out and defeats Mikaya.
Thoughts/Review:
Well, the tournament is now well underway and while not unwatchable, I was reminded why I don’t like tournaments.
When Victoria first showed up to talk with the hooded Sieglinde, I thought she was going to do the typical ojousama “I’m superior” routine, so it was surprising to me to see how friendly and kind she was to Sieglinde. This too is an ojousama trait, but it wasn’t the one I expected.
OK, so I was wrong there, but when Hallie showed up, we got the “I’m superior” ojousama attitude since Hallie is a “banchou” — a leader of a group of delinquent (yankee) girls. So now we have our comedic bickering items.
For some reason, I figured Sieglinde would be a boy since the character was seen in a hoodie and acting in a male fashion. I actually laughed when Sieglinde’s hood was dropped and “he” turned out to be a “she” with long, twin tails. I should have expected this since the only male thus far has been cameos by Erio.
The fight between Els and Hallie bored me because it was pretty predictable what would happen, that being that the punk would win.
The fight between Mikaya and Miura was a bit different. Because the anime episode went out of their way to show how powerful Mikaya was (and she was Einhart’s trainer to boot), combined with fan reaction to Miura’s awesomeness caused me to think that Miura would probably win the fight, though I wasn’t quite sure.
I liked that Vita showed up for Miura’s fight. Now where the heck is Nanoha for Vivio’s fights?
Speaking of Miura, although it totally broke the flow of her fight with Mikaya (and was yet another indication that Miura would win), I did like the flashback showing how the timid Miura discovered Hayate’s dojo and was convinced to join. This was a nifty way to give Hayate and crew some cameo, while explaining how Zafira became Miura’s trainer.
In the end, this wasn’t a bad episode, but I’m just not a fan of tournament stuff.
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Victoria’s relationship with Sieg is actually a pretty good one when you consider who they are related to. of course, Sieg is almost like Nanoha when it comes to making friends (though her and Victoria’s past goes back a long way)
I actually went and reread the fights of this…[spoiler text="Future Fights"]…including the Vivio vs Miura. I have to say though, like my reaction in the manga, they haven’t shown Miura’s full power yet. I figured Miura was fighting Mikaya using about just under half of her full power.[/spoiler] I won’t make any more spoils right now as I know pretty much everything that’ll happen(though they missed a few pages) until about the end of the current translated chapters up right now.
[spoiler title="Power Levels"]Hence, Victoria, Harry, Sieg and Miura are akin to friggin Powerhouses on par with Nahoha, past, and now. And for some hype, or not, Sieg has more knowledge of fighting than Nahoha, and is about maybe on par with her as far and just pure skill and possibly magic power goes. When we actually learn about her, the reason will be clear as day.
And thats mostly where I fan ship in going for this season.
BTW, just a message for fanboys, because I said something about Sieg being as powerful and skillful as nanoha, doens’t mean anything. It’s Okay for a Newer character to be stronger than an original Main Character.[/spoiler]
Oh right if memory serves, Nanoha and fate should be there next episode, or the one when Vivio fights Miura… don’t remember, only read the fight between Miura and Vivio onwards…
And forgot to mention…[spoiler title="Info on Buster and Nanoha"]…the Main reason why the Buster system is a very taxing thing for Nanoha, the stress on the body is one thing.
The real things is the fact that Nanoha got f*cking stabbed right in the bloody spine by one of Jade’s mechancal freaks between the A’s ending and A’s Epilogue. And Nanoha is still, struggling with that crap.[/spoiler]
Anyway, just wanted to add some vent because people elsewhere infuriated me about this… yeesh hopefully that last bit is understood.
I’d like to remind you that majorities of mages in midchilda couldn’t fly and most of new characters in vivid couldn’t fly too. so it’s like you’re comparing tank(land-close quarters combatant) with jet fighter(hi-speed flying, bind them up and breaker Nanoha).
I hadn’t paid attention, but now that I think about it, Fate and Nanoha fly for sure, but Subaru does the rainbow bridge thing ( 😉 ) and Caro flies on the back of her dragon. Tia stayed on the ground the whole training fight.
So? Sieg is of Ancient Belka descent, not Midchilda. And if you’ve read the manga, there is the possibility that she could very well fly if she wanted to. Plus don’t assume that just because Nanoha can Fly means someone couldn’t land a hit on her.
There are more than plenty of ways to take down a Flying type Mage. And I am sure Sieg knows those methods. There is a weakness for every type of ability.
[spoiler]The whole thing is Experience. Which Nanoha has more than enough, it’s not enough against Sieg’s experience.(which will be explained later)[/spoiler]
and i forgot how to do spoiler tags lols.
Moderator edit: Wrap the word spoiler inside of [] to start the spoiler tag. to close the tag, wrap /spoiler inside of []. If you want to give your spoiler tag some text information, you’d do spoiler title=”tag information text here” and wrap that in [].
midchilda I said is a place not magic system. I mean mages that live in the world call midchilda. belka is also an area in north of midchilda
it’s not impossible for tank to hit a jet fighters, right? it’s just hard to do that’s why I compare them that way.
Nanoha is not a martial artist and she’s not a in-fight style. so if it in a small ring on ground of tournament I agree that Sieg could beat Nanoha after she take Nanoha’s heavy barrier down.
it’d be strange if Sieg don’t have few counter measure for flying mage but we’re talking about ace of ace here too. so I think it’s more up to situation of the match and I agree that maybe Sieg have a fighting technique on par or more than Nanoha.
I’ve read manga and know what you mean when you said that maybe Sieg could fly too. but I still don’t think that Sieg coud fly though.
I had to throw spoiler tags around some of your comments since they seemed spoilerific.
Don’t know whom they are related to. ^_^;
This is the problem with the extra materials never being officially licensed for the U.S. How would one even know this vital bit of info unless they’d read the canon extra stuff.
Are those mangas unofficially translated out there? I need to look for them.
Well, it’s actually explained in the episode in Strikers after Riot Force Six gets curbstomped and Vivio gets taken. That and the Blaster system is hinted to be dangerous every time they talk about it wher nanoha uses it. Fate even always showed worry, i think few others like Vita displayed the same worry.
It has been ages since I’ve watches StrikerS, so there’s a lot I’ve forgotten. ^_^;;;