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Sunday, June 03, 2007
Nanoha Episode 03: The Town's in A Lot of Danger?
Nanoha Episode 03: The Town's in A Lot of Danger?
Episode 3 starts to pick up in terms of seriousness, as we see the cloudier side of the Jewel seeds...
This episode begins at night, nearby Nanoha's school, where she starts off by capturing Jewel Seed #20 (for those counting, she has 5 seeds right now, out of 21 total. We've apparently skipped one in the meantime). She's a little tired after using her magic so much...it drains the user, which is especially tiring on those who aren't used to using it.
Yuuno-kun convinces Nanoha to take a break for the day (it's Sunday) so she ends up going with her father (who I'll call Takamachi-san) to watch a soccer game (a little league team that Takamachi-san coaches and sponsors (her family owns the Midoriya coffee shop/ famires)). Arisa-chan and Suzuka-chan come along too.
Yuuno-kun doesn't know about the game (of course) so Nanoha explains it to him. We see that a certain female spectator seems to have a something of a crush on their team's goaltender...who helps them to a 2-0 win. Takamachi-san invites everyone over to their restaurant for some snacks (with perks like that, who wouldn't want to try hard to win?). Nanoha and friends sit outside and have some cake...though the cake is soon forgotten as Yuuno-kun becomes the center of (not entirely welcome) attention.
The goaltender seems to have something for the aforementioned girl, and walks off with her, putting something shiny in his pocket. It looks rather familiar...a Jewel Seed! Nanoha sees it out of the corner of her eye, but dismisses it as her mind playing tricks on her.
Nanoha heads home with her father, dead tired..and collapses on her bed. Yuuno-kun tells her to at least change into pajamas..which she does without a second thought, much to Yuuno-kun's embarassment (remember, we know he's actually a guy, but to Nanoha he's a cute little magical ferret mascot).
With Nanoha fast asleep, the action cuts to the soccer goaltender and his female companion. He offers her the Jewel Seed (thinking it's a pretty stone of some sort), but when the two touch hands..out sprouts a humoungous tree from inside the ground. Nanoha jerks awake at the sensation of the seed activating, and dashes off outside..
She reaches the roof of an apartment, and calls upon Raging Heart..The standard long transformation sequence commences. After that's done, Nanoha gets a good look at the devastation around her..more huge trees have sprung up all over town than Greenpeace could have planted in a decade. Yuuno-kun explains that when a human comes into contact with a Jewel Seed, a tremendous power results, much more than the dog from last time. Nanoha berates herself for not believing herself earlier..that kid did have a Jewel Seed after all!
Her first job to clean up this mess is to find the Jewel Seed. It looks like it will take forever but Nanoha releases her searching magic (Yuuno-kun is continually amazed at the things she can do instinctively - she's much stronger than he, and she just started.) She finds the source of the power (the boy, girl, and Jewel Seed). It's pretty far away, but who needs public transit when you can nail the thing from afar? Her staff morphs into a cannon-like form and fires a bolt of light at the Jewel Seed. She seals it from about 2 miles away (interestingly, she knows it's number 10, even when she's that far away..either her eyesight is really good, or Raging Heart is somehow telling her..).
The girl and boy wake up, a little disoriented (after what happened, how can you blame them?). The trees are gone (so much for a short-term lucrative forestry contract), but the damage they caused remains. Nanoha vows never to let something like this happen again.
So things certainly are starting to turn serious (well, sorta). Nanoha is beginning to realize the implications of what the Jewel Seeds portend, as well as the burden placed upon her. What's more, she's all alone in doing so, except for Yuuno-kun (who she's already exceeded in terms of skill level). She mentioned that she felt apart from everyone else in the first episode, and she still is. She's trying to prove herself by gathering the Jewel Seeds, but can she really do it by herself?
Next episode her rival appears, and this question will become even more important...
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