Today, or rather last evening, I pontificated on the popularity of Strike Witches-- and my lack of understanding of it. Feel free to set me straight, if you have some inkling as to why the show's such a relative hit.
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Based on Fumikane Shimade's "Mecha Musume" illustrations, the series revolves around moe girls who are anthropomorphic WWII-era planes.
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FYI, one fansubbing group even went so far as to increase the nudity on one of the ecchier DVD episodes by digitally editing out what little censorship there was, frame by frame. Check that ep out & then get back to us. =b
srsly. No other reason to like this show.
The first episode if I remember clearly was an absolute bore save for the battle scene at the very beginning. Then, the anime progresses and it shows you the back-stories of every character once the main character settles into the Strike Witches unit.
It's pretty generic at times, but offers up some pretty lovable characters with some of my favorite art-styles in anime to date (the night-time episode was an absolute beauty to watch). The battle scenes were particularly well-done and it always feels refreshing somehow to see girls without pants and animal ears/tails shooting the crap out of alien ships with oversized weaponry.
If "not getting it" justifies not watching past the first episode, then you have no idea how many other animes I would have neglected.
The first episode if I remember clearly was an absolute bore save for the battle scene at the very beginning. Then, the anime progresses and it shows you the back-stories of every character once the main character settles into the Strike Witches unit.
It's pretty generic at times, but offers up some pretty lovable characters with some of my favorite art-styles in anime to date (the night-time episode was an absolute beauty to watch). The battle scenes were particularly well-done and it always feels refreshing somehow to see girls without pants and animal ears/tails shooting the crap out of alien ships with oversized weaponry.
If "not getting it" justifies not watching past the first episode, then you have no idea how many other animes I would have neglected.
The pantsu was ridiculous and un-endearing, the technical plane-girl/ history (by 'history' I mean the random no-reason ripping of famous pilots throughout history and tying them to these people) perspective of things was flat out nuts, and the story and enemies were about as one dimensional as they could possibly be. I mean seriously, the bad guys looked like the friggin pixel monsters from space invaders... you could probably have replaced them with that and nothing of value would have been lost too!
I had to sit down and marathon this turd with 3 other guys who were huge fans of it... I eventually got fed up around episode 10 when Yoshika went to the Neuroi nest....god I feel so stupid for keeping up with it that far. I really wish I could refund that time that could've been spent playing Kagetsu Tohya instead...
I had to spend the whole next day playing Guilty Gear and rereading Love Hina in an attempt to beat my brain back to it's senses and remind myself that there are still good things in this world...
ONElastthing: This show is a fanservice wank. No excuses. Not always in a pedo kind of way though, even though a lot of it is, but regardless it is definitely a fanservice show.
Of course, part of it is also that while I'm willing to download anime to watch it (usually raws), my personal policy is to buy anything I watch more than an episode of-- importing from Japan if it remains unlicensed ($$$!), or from the US licensor if possible. When you add in actually PAYING for anime, your priorities on what you're willing to watch more of change somewhat. Then it's not just because I can't afford the time, it's also because I can't afford the money! ;)
The character interaction, arguably the only non-fanservice reason to watch the show, only really comes into play when everyone is together... this is an ensemble cast with 11 main members who are featured to some degree in EVERY episode... watching just the first episode and complaining that there's nothing there is like reading the jacked cover of a book complaining it was too short because there's only one paragraph there. While I freely admit the pacing of the show could have been improved to have an in media res introductory episode and feature Miyafuji's recruitment as a flashback in 2 and 3, I don't feel it hurts the series as a whole except to those people who are turned off by the slow start.