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Digital Downloads
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Written by maehara
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 16:00 |
 More story-lite fanservice from Strike Witches, as two more of Yoshika's team-mates get their introductions in the form of a beach episode. Although given how little the girls wear at the best of times, a swimsuit isn't that much more revealing. It also seems that Shirley's going to be one girl Yoshika will have trouble keeping up with, in every sense of the word...
Yoshika's been having dreams about her and Lynne being in compromising positions - someone's got a dose of boob envy, it seems. Lynne's are so large and cuddly that you just want to reach out and touch 'em. Mio's too, come to that. A trip to the beach (for training, honest) only threatens to point out Yoshika's lack of, er, assets. Meanwhile, speed-freak Shirley has been working on modifying her Striker Unit to get every ounce of speed out of it that she can - but when Luccini makes a few forced adjustments of her own after a hangar accident, it spells trouble for Shirley...
No Perrine this week, thankfully, so no ojousama-slapping urges to deal with. Instead, it's speed-freak Shirley and sleepy-head Luccini who get the attention, in an episode that uses the flimsy excuse of "underwater training exercises" to get the girls into swimsuits - including some very un-military bikinis. Yay, I guess.
Call me crazy, but I'm starting to see some similarities between Strike Witches and Aquarion. Bear with me on this: both shows have a set formula for each episode, with the first half focussing on one of the main characters and featuring a training exercise of some sort, and the second seeing the team put their training into use after the bad guys attack. Both shows, by most measures, aren't really very good, but both manage to somehow still be very watchable. The only differences are Aquarion's higher production values, and development of the bad guys rather than just leaving them mysterious and faceless. Those two items seem to be what's responsible for the "Aquaricrack" factor, that elevated Aquarion past "so bad it's good" and into something else - Strike Witches doesn't quite reach those heights, but it's entertaining nonetheless.
It's still never going to win any awards for depth, though. At the rate they're going, the series has just enough time to give each member of the squad a quick introduction before we run out of episodes, so I guess this is going to be filed under "slice of life" with military setting rather than anything with huge amounts of action. No matter - as long as I continue to be smiling at the end of each episode (and this episode managed that with no problems), I'll be happy enough.
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