>scared of loli
>blames the show for his inability to tell the characters apart
>token Evangelion reference

>http://www.toonzone.net
wtf are you doing there in the first place?

>(like the "American" being a brash, well-endowed, and slightly less hateful Asuka Langley Sohryu).
What? Shirley was chill as fuck.

>>35075176
>Mio
>one-eyed

yeah, no.

I don't think this guy did actually bother to even watch the show before cranking out his run-of-the-mill review.

>>35075176
>instantly forgettable anime
>strike witches

>powered by jet leggings
Someone clearly didn't watch the same show I did.

>>35075495

Quiet you philistine, he's trying to display his taste for highbrow philosophical anime like Eva.

FUCK YEAH EARTHBOUND THREAD
I was thinking of booting that shit up on my SNES and play through again. Grind to level 5 and beat the shit out of Starmen Junior fuck yeah!

what happened to the thumbsdown option?

The worst thing is that when he does have a decent (is subjective) point (most eps have forgettable plots and too much focus on fanservice) he undoes them by displaying total stupidity.

>>35075580
This happens in what, the second episode?

>>35075668
I really wish they'd put that on the virtual console already. What's the fucking hold up?

>>35075774
Nintendo is too proud to give into the demand now.
There are some music licensing issues as well but I doubt many people would be grudge some changes in the OST if it meant getting the game.
Nintendo of America won't do it though, not after they fucked up the original release so much.

>>35075495

She has long-ish red hair so she must be like Asuka!

Also Shirley thread I guess.

Can we not go one review without Eva being mentioned?

>>35075967
Everything is an Eva ripoff.jpg

>>35075967
no, thats how we separate people whose opinion matters and people whose opinion's dont matter

>>35075958

I haven't watched any of Rebuild... maybe the Asuka there is more similar to Shirley? I have no fucking clue.

>>35076078
They turned her into a generic tsundere according to the fags who watched the camrip of 2.0, hopefully they're trolling.

>>35075774
>>35075830
>There are some music licensing issues as well but I doubt many people would be grudge some changes in the OST if it meant getting the game.
Actually, here's where the problem comes in. Because of all of the references, changes were made. Nintendo of America is trying to avoid getting sued for this game (ie. losing money.) If you consider how sue-happy people in America have gotten over the years since the original release, their decision makes a least a little sense.

Also, it seems Nintendo of Japan doesn't like the changes made and would only accept it being released like the way it was originally.

So, in short, Earthbound is at the center of a bunch of drama. It's a shame homages wouldn't apply to the references...

>>35076137

well that'd be even less like Shirley

faggot fails at character-driven narration forever

>>35076140

music licensing is why we can't have nice things. ever.

it's what cost us Monster's splendid ED as well, for example.

>>35075830
>>35076140
>>35076247

music industry is fags. news at eleven.

Liberion girls are fun times.

>>35076247
>>35076378
i know right

It's a shame, too.
I heard Brownie Brown was interested in making a port of Mother 3 for the DS, but only if they were requested to do so. I see the reasons why Mother 3 didn't make it stateside was more due to the fact that it was released at the end of the GBA's life span (despite the Super Robot Wars games coming out after Mother 3 was released in Japan.)

I guess the Mother series has no way of making it stateside ever again. ;_;

the American being well endowed isn't even an inaccurate stereotype. I mean, comparatively speaking.

>>35076470
I know, I'm American and I have a tiny penis.

>>35076470
Even then it's also a nice, positive stereotype.
It's better than being portrayed as gun-ho, trigger happy retards who treat everyone else like shit.

guy just went in actually wanting to hate the show, came up with a couple aerial and witch puns and rolled with that. whatever, I don't care.

>>35076247
>music licensing is why we can't have nice things. ever.
Like official Jojo releases.

>(like the "American" being a brash, well-endowed, and slightly less hateful Asuka Langley Sohryu).
Um. Did Shirley hate anything? At all? Or express any kind of negative feeling throught the entire series?

Also wasn't Asuka Langley German?

>>35076804
The most she did was make fun of how flat Perrine was which seemed good humoured for the most part.

>implying Asuka was hateful
>implying there weren't Strike Witches threads on pretty much a daily basis on 4chan and 2chan

Did a Christian write this? Because only a Christian (or maybe a Muslim) would complain about "too much perversion". There's plenty wrong with Strike Witches, but that particular critique, which I have heard echoed elsewhere, is the biggest bunch of bullshit ever.

Awfully pretentious for someone writing reviews at "Toonzone."

>>35076804

dunno really, I just remember her to be friendly and, as >>35075495 so aptly put it, "chill as fuck"

as for the whole American / German thing, I don't think the lolreviewer wanted to bring Asuka's nationality into play. or maybe he actually IS that stupid...

I'd her.

>(like the "American" being a brash, well-endowed, and slightly less hateful Asuka Langley Sohryu).

what the fuck, seriously, WHAT THE FUCK

>>35077000

She'd you.

Is this the same guy who thought Azumanga was a racist piece of shit?

>>35077036
>Azumanga
>racist

wat

The thread is just as high quality;
http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?t=268235
>Strike Witches however, specifically deal with underage, flat loli characters and sexualize them to a point where most feel uncomfortable.
This really is true and not at all hyperbole.

>>35077061
I has Japanese people in it and three of them are kind of dumb, thus is is saying that all Japanese are dumb. That's racist!

>>short ride up
>>strike witches
>>implying those who watch have small cocks

>Namedropping Eva characters to sound cool
>Calling Asuka "hateful"

Try "jealous", "spiteful", "insecure" or "vain" next time, Chad.

>Strike Witches follows a young girl as she goes on a quest to find out if her father is still alive.

by this meaning the series ended at second episode and 10 next episodes were useless

>>35077036
Here's a list of his article's.

http://www.toonzone.net/news/archive.php?reporterID=1434

People really need to stop reviewing character-idol/moe shows in terms of how they score as plot-driven stories for normalfags. It's completely pointless. It's like having a man review Twilight.

>>35077169

OH MY GAAHHHH
wait, it also has a genius child prodigy in it...
and it features mostly girls...that's sexist!!!
OH MY GAAAAHHHHH

http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?t=268235

These will make you rage even harder

>>35077299
ep1: Where is my dad? Who took my dad? ps: I will find my dad.
ep2: Here's his grave. lol.
ep 3-12: Fuck those neuroi! Holy fuck, Neuroi withc! HOLY FUCK BATTLE SHIP AKAGI! Also your dad might be alive.

Still, watching things you're reviewing is hard when you can read TVtropes and Wikipedia.

>>35075336
Pigziggy comments on my youtube videos... wtf

>>35077271
>>Calling Asuka "hateful"
>Try "jealous", "spiteful", "insecure" or "vain" next time, Chad.

It's especially funny because none of these adjectives describe Shirley.

>>35077100
>the strike witches are a horrible squadren and should be dishonorably discharged ASAP!!! LOL!

I'm not sure if I will be able to stomach any more of that thread...

>>35077359

I like that Crystalice1 guy...he actually seems to have some brain

>>35077322
>>35077169
>>35077036
From what I can find he hasn't reviewed it and the only review of it was very positive. Bonin was probably scared off because it had a ten year old on the cover.

>>35077312
yep, "IT SUCKS BECAUSE NOTHING HAPPENS" in moe slice of life anime threads always annoy me

The community is waiting for dubs of other shows to come out.

Isn't that enough to disqualify their "review" ?

It seems the majority of otaku on normal forums are are type A otaku, while the type B otaku are more regularly found on chan-boards.

>>35077437

Oh god the dub voices, they still haunt me.

>>35077036
http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/3766/adv-animinis-quantity-doesnt-equal-quality
Only time I see him mention Azumanga Daioh

>>35077409
Then I'm thinking of a similar blog, it was like WORST ANIME OF THE DECADE and Azumanga was on there

>>35077100
>loli

seems pretty much 50/50 to me. never mind Yoshika's obsession with boobs.

>>35077553
I get it.
http://awesomelyshitty.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/20-shittiest-anime-of-the-decade-2000-2009/

>>35077499
I'd say most /a/ users are something from between those two.
I mean, I doubt there are many people who dont appreciate both characters and a good plot.

>>35077553
http://awesomelyshitty.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/20-shittiest-anime-of-the-decade-2000-2009/
>awesomelyshitty

the name describes it well

>>35077499
>Type A
>Type B

majority of us here are Type AB

>>35077628
"Your Favorite Anime Sucks - The Blog" ?

In case it hasn't been posted yet there is another new Witch, Edytha Rossmann

>>35077581


>>35077638
The point is if people are able to appreciate a show that's based an characters and their interaction as well as the overall mood and which doesn't tell any big story.

>>35077628

This is a troll, right?

>>35077427
I agree, but moe pandering shit is not slice of life.

>>35077710

holy god!

エディータ・ロスマン
edytha rossmann

第502統合戦闘航空団(502JFW)所属
カー ルスラント空軍JG52

44年末19歳、曹長　1月11日生まれ
使い魔はキツネ。

長い軍歴を持つベテランウィッ チ。
撃墜数は100機未満と、カールスラント
空軍内では珍しくない数字だが、その
実力は多くのトップエースからも評価
さ れている。

幼少時に大病を患い、体の成長が遅れ、
部隊最年長でありながら、管野に次ぐ
小柄な体格である。

陽 気で前向きな性格だが、戦闘スタイルは
クレバーそのもの。
これは、長時間急激な機動を伴うドッグ
ファイトが行えない体のため、入 念な観察と
一撃離脱を主軸にした戦法を身につける
必要があったためである。

エーリカ・ハルトマン少尉（当時）の散々な
デ ビュー戦時に長機であった。

人当たりが良く、教え上手であることから、
新人教育を任されることが多く、エーリカの
空戦術 の基礎は、彼女の指導による物。

一部のドッグファイターエースが持つ野性的
カンや、天才的センスに頼らない堅実な
戦闘法 で、多くの新人を一人前に鍛え上げた。

育てた「生徒達」が自分の階級、撃墜数を
抜いていくのが楽しみという人格者。

「可 愛いハルトマンをあんなにされた」という
ことで、同隊のクルピンスキー中尉から
新人達を守るべく奮闘する。
とはいっても、半分冗 談で、個人同士では
頼もしい戦友といえる関係。

「あと何人の面倒をみられるかしら･･･　こら！
そこのニセ伯爵、なに新 人に酒飲ませてるの！」

Should I watch Strike Witches?

>>35077759
no

>>35077724
depends, many of them are technically slice of life; just call them moe slice of life anime if you want to make a difference between it and something else

>>35077710
Holy hell she is cute. I thought we peaked out with Georgette, but I guess not.

>>35077710

also reposting Georgettes profile from yesterday

>>35077721
I think so.

So, is this a case of a show not being anything like what it looks like it is?

In other news: Night witches = Best witches.

>>35077628
>8.) Aria (2005)

I lost it...

>>35077710

EARTHBOUND THREAD?

>>35077891

wat?
it is more or less what it looks like.....

>>35077915
Dat Moedar.

>>35077759
>Should I watch Strike Witches?

If the character designs appeal to you, sure, give it a try. Bear with the first two episodes, it gets better once the rest of the cast is introduced. First eight or so episodes are mostly spent on the setting and characterization, rest of the show has a little bit of actual plot to wrap it all up.

The fanservice shots can indeed get a bit blatant, but if you don't mind (or actually enjoy) it, it's all good.

It's mostly a character-driven / slice of life type show with some action thrown in, as has been said above.

I for one just picked it up because /a/ wouldn't ever stfu about the show. Went in expecting nothing, ended up liking it a lot. ymmv.

>>35075176

It comes down to normalfags not liking loli. People who don't like a show for whatever reason will find other things they don't like about it or just not like certain elements of the show that they would otherwise be indifferent to because they go into it with a negative mindset.

Strike Witches was excellent. Fuck that guy.

>>35077710
>>35077754
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Roßmann

>He is also noted as being Erich Hartmann's, histories leading fighter ace, early mentor.

>>35077710
Man, he just keeps pumping them out.

>>35077891
It's fanservice heavy, no doubt, but it has good action and while the plot wasn't up to much the characters and their interactions are really good.
It's not the intellectual anime of the decade but it isn't mindless either. It's fun, pure and simple.

I hope the second season works on the plotting a bit more but I won't mind more of the same.

>>35077958
Moedar is indeed very moe

>>35077956
Just saying, I saw this character an immediately though "big-chested character that is brash and unashamed of sexuality. Basically wears lingerie as a swimsuit". I mean, it's probably supposed to be more of a stereotype than actually being how Japan sees America (Not going into that issue), but, still, that's the first impression. Also, those are totally jet leggings.

>>35078067

Shirley's great, there's nothing negative about her, unless you think, having big breasts itself is a negative stereotype.

I always wonder how the younguns balking at Strike Witches' "loli" character designs would react to classic cutely-drawn stuff like Gall Force.

I wonder what Eila would say to this

Shit funamation hit the site I like to download my mkvs from. Anyone know a good site to download this w/o torrents?

>>35078179

different style at that time...the art of cuteness wasn't perfected yet...

>>35078067
Shirley isn't a shy girl. She wears a small swim suit in the one beach ep but she's not brash. She's kind of like Miyako from Hidamari. Warm, friendly and laughing a lot.

>>35078160
Not a negative stereotype, just saying, it can definitely come off as "Oh, the American has big breasts and isn't ashamed to show them off? I bet she has a southern accent and pushes people around and blah blah blah".

I haven't seen the show, so I'm trying not to comment on it, but, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't slap you in the face with a pretty shallow first impression. As such, you're probably either going to get pulled in because you like what it offers (basically, a positive bias), or you're just not going to be able to go in without a negative bias.

>>35078183

like this?

>>35078270
So possessive.

>>35078270
>>35078324

>>35078183

>>35078183
She'd probably get all jealous and such, but ultimately it doesn't matter much. Eila is Sanya's waifu. That's all there is to it.

>>35078259
No, she's as nice as sunshine. She's proud of her tits but she isn't rude or pushy. She acts like a big sister to most of the girls.
The only pushy girl is the French one, Perrine, and even that's not really shown as really negative.

>>35078503

Perrine is an aristocratic tsundere type girl, so she can be annoying, but in the end, ep.12 especially she gets much more likeable.

>>35078562
Even before, while she's shown as annoying and gets some friendly teasing the show seems to just treat as "some folks are just like it but that's okay."

Perrine is best paired with Lynne to soften

>>35078562
tsundere? nah, she's just stuck-up and jealous of how Yoshika is hogging so much of Mio's attention.

>>35078663

tails

To be fair to the writer of that review, I would have liked Strike Witches a lot more if they all had skirts. I can sympathize somewhat with the fanservice complaints, but he takes it much too far.

But then again, anyone who made anime to cater to my tastes would be a goddamned idiot who was about to go bankrupt.

>>35078811
damn you, muro

Alright, well, just so long as no one is pretending that the show is some deep, intellectual well of brilliant story-telling.

>>35078817
Having them wear skirts would have prevented the scene at the beginning of epsiode 3 where Minna's strong determination is shown via the subtle clenching of her butt cheeks, which was god damn cinematic genius.

>>35078943
I didn't say it was a good idea, just what I would have preferred.

>>35078817

Yeah, I for one don't even think the show is particularly good on the whole, no matter how much I actually adore it. There's a lot that could've been handled differently and for the better imo.

It's just that the guy is terminally idiotic about how he actually describes and criticizes the show. He could've reached mostly the same conclusion using valid and informed arguments, yet he pulls most of his points out of someplace dark and smelly, giving those unfamiliar with the show a wrong impression while invariably making the ones who know and like it rage.

Glorified fanservice crap

>>35078943
That was glorious indeed.

>>35079047
>I haven't read the thread.

Then why do you post in it?

>>35078943
>determination is shown via the subtle clenching of her butt cheeks
Truly one of the high points of 21st century animation artistry.

>>35079134

ignore the trolls

>>35079026
In other words, he'd fit right in on AnimeNewsNetwork. What the hell is with that attitude, anyways- "I must express how offensive this is, and how much I hate it! I will use dumbass jokes that everyone else has used to do so!"?

>>35078875
Well, that's the one thing I've never seen Strike Witches being accused of, not even in the daily threads on /a/.

>>35079204
ANN's review of Strike Witches was actually glowingly positive, since they got a fan from AoDVD to do it.

>>35079300
I'm impressed, for once. I guess too much Zac got to me.

>>35079300
they made up for that by reviewing it again later that month
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2010-04-19

>>35079300
I doubt Funimation (who they advertise for, I don't have the screenshot but for a while ann had a fuckton of Strike Witches ads) would be very happy if they gave it a negative review.

>>35079399
>"teenagers with low self-esteem get fetishized and I find that offensive"
yes this sounds more like the ANN we know and love

>>35079399
>Francesca, from "Romagna", is the darker-skinned character who sleeps in the trees. Like a little monkey, she's carrying on a racist trend from Su in Love Hina and Tanya Natdhipytadd in Battle Athletes.

...........can someone please shot this guy?

The one thing that baffles me about that review is how the guy accuses the characters of not being memorable and the show of being instantly forgettable... characterization was probably the show's strongest point in my opinion, and the silly premise of pantless girls flying around in "jet leggings", as he puts it, pretty much makes sure that you're not going to forget the show anytime soon.

Five years from now, if you were to ask any person who has been exposed to a significant amount of related material, "Hey, remember Strike Witches?"

I bet they will.

>>35079460
It's a girl who wrote it.

>>35079399
>No one has sex in Strike Witches or Hetalia. (If these virgin girls had sex they wouldn't be pure, would they?) That is left up to the collective fan imagination as they pen doujinshi in Japan, and/or write a lot of fanfiction Stateside and make music videos about various "OTP" couples.

Yeah, let's just ignore the official yuri sexings for the sake of the point this review is trying so hard to make.

also, this:
>I haven't read a Strike Witches script, but here's what I think episode nine's screenplay must look like:

It's funny because he then proceeds to describe the beginning of episode SEVEN.

He does raise a good point.

The show was far too much focus on fanservice...creepy creepy fanservice.

what the fuck did I just find???
http://kriegsaffeno9.deviantart.com/art/Talent-Dossier-Strike-Witches-101942131

>>35079605
>Charlotte E. "Iron Maiden" Yeager

IRON MAIDEN!

>>35079605
What the fuck..

>>35079593
I don't agree with the creepy part but it does feel like they tried to shoehorn in a few too many panty shots.
They just need to tone it down a bit but if they don't I'm not gonna mind all that much.

hahahaha, these are hilarious

>>35079460
>Like a little monkey, she's carrying on a racist trend from Su in Love Hina and Tanya Natdhipytadd in Battle Athletes.

Holy shit that's retarded. Bitches don't know 'bout her leopard familiar/aspect/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, apparently. Makes like a cat and sleeps in trees. Big fucking duh.

>>35079605

Something epic.

Especially Hartmanns power.

>>35079837

well, there were a couple scenes that were really just too much for me, no matter how I look at it

>>35079899

Letting Sanya get killed by Stalin and Eila kill herself?
Fuck you

>>35079913

Only thing I found overdone was that puffy vulva especially Sanya had in shots like these.

>>35079605

thefuckamireading.psd

>insinuating people watch SW for plot and characters, and not only fanservice.

>>35079913

>>35079976

Minna has the biggest balls of all witches

>>35079950
You know nothing about how russians mate.

>>35079913
Yeah, those were odd. These would be the things I'd tone a bit. The amount of leg and ass on show, plus the general yuriness is fansrervice enough for me.
That said, if the overdone fanservice continues in S2 I'm not gonna really complain, I just won't jump for joy either.

>>35079950

I guess they wanted to throw in a couple "real" fan service scenes and were looking for something to top the usual "lol no pants"

>>35079605
>Hartmann, a German flier manifesting at age 31, was rather embarrassed at the operation of her Talent, which required her to pantomime the operation of an airplane, including making sound effects for flying and shooting

hahahahaha

>>35079865
francesca is mai waifu

>>35077710
>>35077754

Waiting for our awesome translation anon to translate this and make a profile pic.

>>35079962
You don't understand moe-ota.
That's OK, you don't need to.
Just be on your way.

>>35079962
>insinuating people watch SW for plot and characters, and not only robots.

Oh dear. All I have to say is lol.

>>35079913
stuff like that is funny
it elicits much ちょっｗｗｗｗｗｗ from the real-time watch threads

>>35080218
>Strike warlock keeping it real pose.jpg

>>35080112
Yeah she's adorable. Hope she'll get to do more than just mess with other people's gear and underwear next season.

>>35080243
Ah, that I wouldn't know, I only picked the show up a couple months after it aired...

>>35077647
Self-important butthurt faggots making "Top" lists of anything are never worth anything.

Yeah like at least 1/3 of what was on his list was fairly disappointing, but a lot of what was on there was decent or him just trying to be elitist.

>>35080373

well he makes people rage whenever a link to that entry gets posted, so... mission accomplished, I guess?

dat hair

>>35080436
Well I'm not raging, just finding it rather par for the course.

I got fed up with ultra fanservice shows years ago, and I still ended up somewhat enjoying Strike Witches after all was said and done.

Sure the no-pants thing at first I thought was overboard. But since none of them have pants, and none of the characters make a big deal out of it, I quickly found myself looking past that and enjoying the fun character interactions.

I just wish they would have done more with the Neuroi "Witch" instead of just killing it off. I assume more along those lines will happen in S2.

dat hair indeed

>>35080236


Also, am I the only one amused that, despite people constantly harping on Strike Witches for "over-fan-service", all anybody actually talks about is the pants... they never mention the frequent nude bathing scenes.

>>35080450
Good god I hope this is a shop.

>>35080546
>implying that anyone who complained about strike witches ever actually watched the show.

>>35080501
>But since none of them have pants, and none of the characters make a big deal out of it

That's one little detail that seems to elude most reviewers.

Something else that I''ve read in way too many SW reviews:
>An infinite number of shots begin close-up on a character's underwear before panning up to her face.

Yeah well no fucking shit, how else are they going to do character pans? Close-up on the face and then pan to their underwear?

>>35080546
What are you talking about ? Nude bathing is completely normal in anime and there is nothing wrong with it, even naked lolis are fine in nude bathing scenes! But don't you dare try making them walk around without pants because that shit is disgusting.

>>35080633
>Close-up on the face and then pan to their underwear?
You may be on to something.

>>35080569

not a shop, just slightly ASPECT RATIO

what's wrong with it?

>>35080633
Well I'm not gonna defend those types of pans. You could just as easily pan across the character. It was obviously chosen for fanservice reasons.

Much like all the pans of female characters that start with just looking at their chest. Or the convenient "skirt-level camera angle while a conversation is being held". Or the "under the table camera" during a meal, etc.

There's no real artistic reason for that. It's purely for fanservice.

>>35080546
Baths are fine, they feel natural. A crotch shot at 30,000 feet feels a bit over the top.

>>35080633
Why do you bother reading reviews of a show you've already watched anyway? Just to rage?

>>35080072

VROOOM VROOOOOOM!

DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!

REEEEEEOOWWW!

>>35080722
>Just to rage?
/a/'s primary hobby

>>35075176

Meh, who cares about opinions...

>>35080700
Probably Minna's forehead

>>35080751
Joking aside, that's not why I come here and SW threads are generally pretty chill.

>>35080633
Complaining about fanservice shots in a fanservice show is like complaining about young people being in a teen comedy.

>>35080722

Because people occasionally post about them on /a/ and discuss them. Terminal curiosity? I dunno. Have a bespectacled Minna instead.

>>35080773

hm. maybe. the hairline looks fine to me, fwiw.

Neuroi-taaaan ;_;

more Mio

>>35080569
>Good god I hope this is a shop.

How dare you?

>>35077710
How many more witches are we going to get? They just keep coming!

Seriously though, it's just the wind messing with her hair.

>>35081378

Dunno... weren't we supposed to get another night witch?

Could someone translate these twitter posts by Humikane?

>501以外の部隊は元々そこで活動してた部隊が母体になってるから、基地
のある場所に近 い国籍のウィッチが多め。カールスラントと扶桑はまあ構成
上別枠ですが

> 502が出来たら504にいってみるかなー　リベリオンキャラもかけるし　どっち
みちまだ基礎設定

>>35081378

I want more Liberion Witches, or maybe Venezian ones

Strike witches profile book in english
http://www.mediafire.com/?2nayk4omjjr
here u go /a/

>>35081505
So rumours say but they never mentioned Georgette or Edytha.

>>35081555
Trud's hight is wrong. Here's the fixed version.

never watched strike witches just remember i had that book and wanted to contribute a bit.

One thing I don't remember -- what do they do in winter?

I would think you would just have to wear pants in winter...

>>35081861
Suomus is winter, they don't wear pants

>>35081861

Guess their magic protects them from the cold or something? They should be freezing in flight anyway, winter or not.

I don't remember if something was said about this in the show... (haven't read any of the additional materials)

HA HA HA HA

>>35082001

HO HO HO HO

>>35081953
The books say their magic keeps 'e warm. It's also how they lift such heavy guns so easily.

>>35081938
They wear leggings! Those are close.

ITT: Butthurtfags

>>35082182
But Eila, Sanya and Perrine wear stockings too, and it's the summer.

>>35082317
Tights breath well so they can keep fairly cool.
Eila is just hardcore and doesn't mind being overly hot.

>>35082317

>>35082317

It's magic!

Argh.. this profile is killing me, the 2nd half I swear I just can't "get it".

The front half, though, I'll post just to keep debate lively[Unfinished and likely for even this half to be revised eventually]:

Argh... the new profile is destined to piss me off... I can't get my head around the phrasing, especially for the latter parts.

But a quick rundown:
Edytha Rossman

Currently attached to the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing(502JFW)
Formerly Karlsland Air Force JG52

19 as of 1944; Rank: Flight Sargent; Familiar: Red Fox; Birthday: January 11th.

A veteran witch with a lengthy military service record. Despite having a confirmed kill count of less than 100 craft, an oddity for a Karlsland Air Force member, her ability is still evaluated as that of a top ace.

She suffered a serious illness in childhood which left her growth stunted; despite being the eldest in the 502nd she has the next smallest build behind Kanno.

A girl with a cheerful sort of "face forward" personality, her fighting style is the very essence of cleverness. ??Because her body can't handle the high-speed maneuvers of dog fighting for an extended period of time it was necessary for her to learn a style that married careful observation of the target to a single decisive blow and followthrough escape.??

(The part in ?? I'm SURE contains reference to a specific combat maneuver or fighting style that's just not making the jump from Japanese to English in my head.... )

>>35082688
where'd you get art of her this early?

>>35082758

my money is on japan

>>35082758
Dude, Japan. They had Naoe fanart within an hour of her showing up on his twitter.

>>35082688
I assume it was a reference to what would eventually be Hartmann's "See - Decide - Attack etc, etc" technique, but I wasn't sure...

>>35082786
>>35082798
oh didn't want him to be THAT specific

>>35082836
The filename suggests 2chan specifically.

its gonzo of course its shit

We should do translations of Humikane's twitter account on the wiki.

>>35082758
Yeah, 2chan is all over the e-wacs witches, especially since Fumikane has been releasing them in batches recently...

Nao, Pretty Princess Pinski and Rall all had a half-dozen pics within an hour of being posted... Rall had porn (and tentacle porn) within 24 hours.

>>35082881
I've culled all of his posts out that include reference to Strike Witches (Well most, his talking about DVD distributors and what he was eating that afternoon and whatnot I didn't, but anything he mentioned talking about the show itself and characters) that I've been keeping up with the idea to eventually translate it... if I can remember where I put it....

>>35082887

so where do I look? (can't really moon for shit, I'm afraid)

>>35082984
Well it would've been easier to just translate on the fly, probably...

somehow I have embarrassingly few good Mio pics.

>>35083032
Oh, sorry... 2chan has a rolling(one thread goes till it hits extinction, then they make a new one) Strike Witches thread on their May Anime/random board.

http://may.2chan.net/b/

If you don't feel like searching for, check out the Post Index page:

http://futaba.qs.cjb.net/nijiran/fCatalog_MAY.html

Links to every thread on the board with a tiny thumbnail of the picture and the first couple of charactes of the post.

The main rolling SW thread is tagged as スト魔女, so search for that on the index to find the thread.

>>35083879
Or you can just look at the may index
http://may.2chan.net/b/futaba.php?mode=cat&sort=3
Much easier to find it that way imo

>>35083879
4chan needs something like that thread index.

>>35083879
>>35083998

I see, thanks a lot!

them nips be quick indeed

>>35084156
Well if the guy that maintains easymodo could be convinced to make one... moot hasn't done anything about it so far and probably won't.

bump

...as I was saying, I want more Naoe. hurry up, Japan.

Just so huggable.

The tomboy is strong with Naoe.

>>35088451
It's strong in the 502nd. Nikka and Walturd are both noted tomboys as well. It's great.

I'm loving it.

>>35088486
Nipa has a pretty shapely figure though. Naoe is close to reverse trap level...

>>35088486
>Walturd

>>35088953
...

It's her juvenile nickname given to her by Naoe!
Yeah!

>>35088730
So is her Super Punch only useful against Neurons or is she a brawler as well?

I almost forgot, it's the 20th.
It's Wilma's birthday.

>>35089355
A punch is a punch. She can fuck up your nervous system and break your ribs!

>>35089528
Yeah but if the magic is only effective against Neuroi then it'd just be getting punched by a little girl. Like Sakamoto's eye can only see cores and not see through panties.

>>35089974
The witches super strength doesn't work like the eye though. The super strength is how they can carry their huge guns with no problem so punch from any of them would be significant. Add to that Naoes shield technique and you have quite the punch.