| Hi, Was just wondering if I would be able to watch this as I haven't seen the main series 1st is this just a spin off of the main series? Should I watch the main series 1st before watching this? If so which order should I watch it? Thank you. |
| This looks to be a spin-off of ViVid I mean, I suppose you could watch it without watching any of the prior anime in the series, but I don't feel you'll get as much enjoyment since there's returning characters in what not from previous season. Though I guess the main focus of this season will be on Vivio and her friends along with the new heroine. If you decide to watch it, which I advise you too since you have enough time before this season airs anyway, it'd be: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Also, even though there's no point in it, I'd recommend watching the 1st and 2nd movie after their respective season just cause they're pretty damn enjoyable themselves |
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| Technically it is possible to ignore 2nd movie but movie 1st is a must as it adds a lot to first season. |
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| I guess it depends on the question of Why you are here? Are you a seiyuu fan following a certain cast member? Or are you interested by the premises? |
| befriend (v.): To violently attack someone with very dangerous and extremely powerful blasts of magical pink light until your target sees the validity of your viewpoint. |
TYxTxYT said: I guess it depends on the question of Why you are here? Are you a seiyuu fan following a certain cast member? Or are you interested by the premises? I think it looks really good and something I think I would enjoy, but I want to know if I have to of watched the previous seasons 1st before going into this or is this just a different story with the same characters? Cos aren't they young in the original here they seem to be grown up? |
zoeanime13 said: TYxTxYT said: I guess it depends on the question of Why you are here? Are you a seiyuu fan following a certain cast member? Or are you interested by the premises? I think it looks really good and something I think I would enjoy, but I want to know if I have to of watched the previous seasons 1st before going into this or is this just a different story with the same characters? Cos aren't they young in the original here they seem to be grown up? I'm sure they will do a bit of re-introduction to the established characters. As for the 2(?) new protagonists, I'm as familiar with them as you are. |
| befriend (v.): To violently attack someone with very dangerous and extremely powerful blasts of magical pink light until your target sees the validity of your viewpoint. |
| From what I can tell, yeah, you will probably be able to. But the real question is WHY would you not want to watch the main Nanoha franchise? |
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| Will I think you stll need to see the main franchise to 100% enjoy this. Go watch at least the first movie to have an idea that you are getting. If you have no time: Nanoha 1st movie Nanoha 2nd movie Nanoha Strikers Nanoha ViviD I personally recommend: Nanoha 1st Movie (let the first season for another time) Nanoha A'S (let the second movie for another time) Nanoha StrikerS Nanoha ViviD If you become a fan and want to see more Nanoha (ignoring stuff like drama cd): Nanoha first season + 1st movie + Nanoha Movie comics Nanoha A's + 2nd movie + Nanoha A's Manga Nanoha Strikers + Nanoha Strikers manga Nanoha ViviD (you can read nanoha force but remember... is on hiatus/cancelled/whathever) Nanoha mangas except "ViviD" aren't adaptations but complementary material. |
kofmasterSep 2, 2016 2:06 AM
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Innocent and InoccentS is pretty cool too. Get your Stern and Levi fix without having to play the PSP games. |
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| You should watch those series because they are epic... 1. Nanoha 2. Nanoha A'S 3. Nanoha StrikerS 4. Nanoha ViviD |
| Well, ViVid Strike has Yumina in it, despite she hasn't debuted in the ViVid anime. So, anime-only viewers have no idea who she is. It might be also confusing why Miura is with Team Nakajima. The manga made it clearer that Miura is one of the main characters, so that's why she's here, similar like Yumina. |
| at least you should watch Nanoha Vivid. The other seasons can wait. |
| Even if you watch ViVid first, it might be confusion that most of the cast members know each other and why some of the Number sisters aren't living in the Nakajima family. Hell, those who didn't listen to Sound StrikerS X have no idea who Ixpellia is, and in this anime, she's completely woken up. Not to mention why Vivio has two mothers, why her mother is so a minor character despite her name being in the title (not here though) and why Vivio is treated like a princess (or literally like Jesus) by the church (her dark "backstory" happened in StrikerS). Some people might mistake Vivio for Olivie's literal descendant, even though she's a clone, not a descendant. For a martial arts spin-off, it is enough to know that the girls are using magic in combat and that they can be taught in different styles. It is also enough to know that Vivio, Einhard and Miura are super strong, but you might miss their parallels to the ace trio (Nanoha, Fate, Hayate). Vivio is the Nanoha, Einhard is the Fate, Miura is the Hayate, yet she is Nanoha 4.0 in terms of overall character. So you need to have high expectations on them, but there are powerful returning characters (Sieglinde, Victoria, Harry). It's hard for Fuka and Rinne to keep up with them, and Rinne already lost to Vivio. And if they start a new Inter-Middle Championship, the biggest contestants would be either Sieglinde or Vivio (or even Miura). In short, it is confusing to watch any of the seasons without watching the previous ones, since some of them have their characters fleshed-out in previous seasons or have their foundation as characters from those seasons. ViVid and ViVid Strike's major cast has a very low power scale in comparison to all the military characters from the first three seasons, especially the first two. So, even if you start with this series, Fuka and Rinne are still in the lower tier of power. Even the stronger girls in this series are not as powerful or skilled as the military characters, and those characters are doing real combat, not competetive martial arts. |
| I don't get most of these answers. The original Nanoha was a spinoff of a porn game that took a minor character and made her the star in a Card Captor Sakura inspired show with an emphasis on magic battles. In the second season she paired with her rival and they fought a whole new bunch of magic users. This new series has NOTHING to do with that. The characters are all different, they are not even on planet Earth anymore, and instead of magical girls shooting energy beams it's about 13 year old girls fighting in a mixed martial arts tournament. The original poster wasn't asking for a recommendation. The question was if there was a need to watch it from the beginning, and the answer is "absolutely not". Imagine if the protagonists of Pretty Cure grew up and became mothers to the cast of Hajime no Ippo. That's how it's like, except in that case at least they would still be in Japan so there would be more continuity. |
Gersen said: This new series has NOTHING to do with that. The characters are all different. So are you mean Vivio, Einhart and other ViVid characters is a NEW CHARACTERS in THIS SPIN-OFF and they're NOTHING to do in NANOHA series? Are you forgot Vivio, Lutecia, Sein, Nove and Ixpellia is appeared in StrikerS first before ViVid and ViVid Strike was ever created? And Tsuzuki himself has confirmed this in the interview that this spin-off can claim as Nanoha's sequel and continuous even through the older characters like Nanoha and Fate didn't even make a cameo and magic isn't showed that much. |
| I haven't even watched the show yet and this is ridiculous. I've been reading reviews for the past seasons. The answer is absolutely not. It features completely new protagonists not from the main series and focuses on them. It's set 15 years after the first season on a completely different planet and doesn't have any returning cast from the first 2 seasons. |
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| You can technically watch this one without watching the previous, but I do not recommend it. The plot itself has very little to do with any of the previous, including Vivid, aside from taking place around the same characters and in the same persistent universe - but watching the previous seasons would help you get invested in the characters a lot more than starting with Strike. The characters in the entire Nanoha series are very good. I happen to enjoy even the ones introduced in StrikerS which is almost universally the most hated installment... they're still good. The girls' coach, Nove, is one of the characters introduced in StrikerS, but honestly to get the complete picture of the universe and the type of place it is, you should start with the original Nanoha. They're good, better than this - so there's no reason not to watch the previous seasons. The plot is much more serious in the previous seasons, and it revolves more around magic than martial arts, but there's still plenty of action regardless, and it really helps establish what's going on during these tournament series / arc's. So I HIGHLY recommend starting with Nanoha season 1, or at the very least, the first two movies (which cover the first two seasons - with amazing animation) (and then StrikerS, because it introduces a LOT of the characters you see in Vivid and Vivid Strike) bestpsychosean said: I haven't even watched the show yet and this is ridiculous. I've been reading reviews for the past seasons. The answer is absolutely not. It features completely new protagonists not from the main series and focuses on them. It's set 15 years after the first season on a completely different planet and doesn't have any returning cast from the first 2 seasons. That's not true, actually. They make cameo appearances in Strike and Vivid - Nanoha is Vivio's mother. They don't really have an active role, but they're at the heart of the series. Starting with Vivid Strike is not really a great idea because you're missing 90% of what makes Nanoha, Nanoha. Gersen said: The original poster wasn't asking for a recommendation. The question was if there was a need to watch it from the beginning, and the answer is "absolutely not". Imagine if the protagonists of Pretty Cure grew up and became mothers to the cast of Hajime no Ippo. That's how it's like, except in that case at least they would still be in Japan so there would be more continuity. Fans of the series are posting their opinions on whether or not it's a good idea to START watching at this point in the series. It takes place in a persistent universe, and my all accounts this is the absolute worst place to enter the series - it will give a lot of misconceptions about what it is. The fact that it was a spinoff of a porn game has nothing to do with the series itself, because it takes itself and it's premise seriously - and I'd dare say it's far surpassed the popularity of the source material it spun off from. It's plot is not related, but it's still a crappy idea to start with this if you end up being at all interested in the characters or the world. I'd say that makes their answers and recommendations warranted. |
Alpha-MethylJul 14, 2017 3:22 AM
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| To necro this, just watched this with only the 1st season of nanoha and the second movie, wioth a lil background knowledge of vivid. No, there aren't any major prerequisites to watch this in order to get it (it's mahou shoujos + UFC, not much else is needed to understand that premise) and enjoy it. |
| To necro this again, the show was enjoyable but with many flaws. I've watched everything from the Nanoha franchise but Strikers and Vivio didn't leave anything remarkable for me. ( I remembered only Vivio but she's kinda unique. I literally couldn't even remember Einhart or any of the others ). Oh and Vivio is not even a main char (even though it says so on the site ) . So coming from this point of view the show is so much of a spin off that I don't think there is any connection with the main series ( except the universe ). There's just one mention that connects it the main series and it's pretty much irrelevant . Overall this show is more interesting than Nanoha Vivid, so no real point in watching its predecessor. But if you enjoy modern Magical girls go and watch at least the first 2 seasons of Nanoha :) |
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