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「クィーン・オブ・ネーデルラント」 (Kuiin obu Neederuranto)
“Queen of Nederland”
Like flowers? Enjoy girls driving mainstay American military machinery? Well you might just like the latest Girls und Panzer Strike Witches episode. As expected it was the usual return to the unique quirks of specific witches (now with added tsuntsun), but don’t let that stop you from taking time to smell the roses. Er, tulips.
Pretty much as guessed earlier Yoshika’s magic problem was succinctly wrapped up this week thanks to a combination of change in mindset and gentle encouragement. Perrine made a good driver for the needed shifts, with her stature and personality (not to mention Sawashiro Miyuki’s voice acting – the Pancakes soft spot for her is real) providing the needed oomph to approach Yoshika’s problem from a different way. Not to discredit the help of Shizuka mind you (gotta love her spunk!), but as is all too often, sometimes the solution becomes blatantly obvious after a simple change of scenery. Not all effort is useful effort after all.
On the other side of things it was more or less typical Strike Witches in action. Besides featuring a young Queen Wilhelmina stand-in (in real life she was 64 in 1944), we also got a surprise tank appearance courtesy of an M4 Sherman and the ubiquitous Neuroi shenanigans that ended in toasts and happy times all around. Why was a Neuroi buried at the bottom of a water well? Your guess is as good as mine, but hey, cannot fault it giving Perrine a better understanding of what her family did in the past. Also playing up the difficulty of breeding blue tulips for more fun trivia knowledge to smugly showcase with your friends (as they don’t actually exist in real life) since no Strike Witches episode would be complete without that kind of random fact. Well that and the usual airborne scenery, because reasons. All the reasons.
Best enjoy the downtime while you can boys and girls, because next week it looks like we’re back to shooting flying aliens. Western front best front didn’t ya know?.
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Specifically, this episode gave viewers a chance to appreciate how far Perrine had come since the first season, a time when she hated Yoshika. Seeing how big differences are now and then really drive homes Perrine’s true personality and makes me glad she’s in the 501st’s corner.
Perrine has always been one of my favourites for this reason, she’s grown a lot over the seasons while still retaining the signature “bite” originally known for.
It’s funny how the Kasteel de Haar shown in this episode looks less like the actual Kasteel de Haar than their base in Den Helder.
It’s over a month and still no Love Live reviews. Still not on the goddamn schedule either. What the hell is wrong with this website? What’s your problem with Love Live, huh? Are you upset that it’s one of the most anticipated anime this season? Seething that there are no males around, or that the self-insert is a cute girl? Sounds like you people have a massive hateboner for Love Live since you’re not reviewing it.
Except Love Live is on the schedule as per the Fall 2020 Schedule post.
As for coverage some of us do watch it, but the ones who would be up for covering are on hiatus because, as per that schedule post linked above, real life responsibilities come before hobby writing.
Let me finally say posts like this are also a surefire way to ensure we don’t cover something.
Quick question… Would there by any chance for a quick review of D4DJ?
It’s a strong competitor to Love Live this season in my opinion and there’s just an overwhelming feel good vibes and adorableness from it
This season of Love Live is just not very good compared to the original series. I enjoy Strike Witches but would like to see some plot development this year.
Who are the Neuroi? Are they from the future? Why was there some that tried to mimic Sanya and Yoshika? What happened to her father and where are letters and blueprints coming from?
As a Love Live fan I have to agree on you with this. Nijigasaki seems to be quite weak thus far as opposed to Aquours and Muse.
I do think SW3 is the best of all 3 seasons on 501st thus far
Congrats, you just proved him that this site does hate Love Live. Thanks, A-hole. It’s not Sunrise/Lantis’ fault that they announced the airing date so late. You ALL should have seen it coming despite the pandemic. Stop making excuses
Wouldn’t that kind of plot development destroy the market for future ‘witches’ product? Plus, any information about the neuroi would likely just be silly and would limit the range of future encounters. The more mysterious they are, the easier it is to make new ones up.
Come on let’s have some civility here please
Nekodere never hated Yoshika. She was jealous of Mio.
https://randomc.net/image/STRIKE%20WITCHES/Strike%20Witches%20Road%20to%20Berlin%20-%2005%20-%2016.jpg
“weapons to plowshares”
Well the Origin of these Tanks was Tractors
Actually, the M4 we see here was a development from attaching a mine plow to a Churchill tank, and that was developed from a similar device used by the FT-17. The variant used on the Churchill was the Bullshorn Plough, and these were eventually tested with the M4 Shermans, as well. The tanks were collectively known as Hobart’s Funnies, and certainly did not begin their operational life as tractors.