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Sunday, June 03, 2007
Nanoha Episode 02: My Magical Incantation is "Lyrical"?
Nanoha Episode 02: My Magical Incantation is "Lyrical"?
Well, we continue on with Episode 2 of the series, wrapping up the first battle and getting a handle on the backstory..
After a quick recap, it's back to the battle between Nanoha and Dark Slimy Monster #1. It dives for her..luckily her wand comes with built-in protective measures.
Little Ferret-san explains that Nanoha has to seal the monster using her new-found powers, and to do that she needs an incantation ... "Lyrical Magical!"
She defeats the monster, and receives Jewel Seed Number 21. Yup, you guessed it, that means there are at least 20 others, somewhere. Nanoha takes off out of the area to evade the police (you'd think they'd be grateful she trashed the place sealing the monster..), and ends up in a park with the ferret. The ferret introduces himself as Yuuno SCRYA, and after some initial difficulties calling Nanoha by name, finally manages it (cute :)).
Nanoha and Yuuno-kun attempt to make it back to her house...but aren't quite successful in making it past her brother and sister. After a little talking, though, the entire family is besotted with cute lil' Yuuno-kun...who bears it as well as he can. (We also get a glimse of something shiny on the ground at a local shrine.. foreshadowing, perhaps?)
In the meantime, Nanoha's gotta go to school, and can't stay to talk to Yuuno-kun about...well, whatever this whole thing is about. Not to worry, the Raging Heart jewel that Nanoha carries functions pretty well as a telepathic receiver. Apparently things are pretty boring at school, because she spends most of her day conversing with Yuuno-kun.
We learn that he's an archaelogist on his home world, and that he uncovered the Jewel Seeds, mystical gems that can grant the bearer great powers, and allow one to do great deeds. However (there's always a catch) they can also, of course, be used for not-so-good things. So, when the jewel seeds went missing, and nasty icky monsters like the fella from before get a hold of them, well, bad things happen. (This makes you wonder why people go around making collections of powerful magical items that can go haywire so easily. Then again, it's getting us an anime series, so I won't complain too much). So Yuuno-kun, our eternal and stalwart hero, decided to go get them back. Too bad he's not good enough on his own. Nanoha offers to help, though, and won't take no for an answer..
On her way home, Nanoha senses a strange presence..yup, it's another jewel seed. Nanoha and Yuuno-kun dash off to the aforementioned shrine. Thankfully the transformation sequence is abbreviated a little here (Nanoha even, somehow, skips past the activation password that is supposed to trigger the Raging Heart), because that gives Nanoha the extra 30 seconds she needs to defeat today's monster - a possesed dog. Turns out all she has to do is block the monster's attacks, and repels it, sufficiently stunned, so that she can extract the Jewel Seed from it (number 16 this time). This is good because Nanoha still hasn't learned any attacks.
So, we have another happy ending, as Nanoha and Yuuno-kun head home for some much-deserved (and much-needed) sleep.
So, the backstory has begun to be revealed. We still don't know much about Nanoha or her family or friends, though that's likely to change in upcoming episodes. Yuuno-kun was rather apologetic about the jewel seed incident, even though it wasn't him that lost them..either he's an apologetic guy by nature, or he has some more to do with the current situation than has appeared so far. Other than that, we've seen two mage battles in one episode, so I suppose we can't expect much character development just yet...stay tuned until next time, I guess :)
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