The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches. These darlings of the great blue yonder may not have standard issue uniforms, but they do have all the right stuff. Where the average flyboy falters, these dolls blast aliens to bits in the bat of an eyelash. With a little magic and a whole lot of leg, the girls of the 501st are winning the war on pants, and aliens!
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It will take a good 2/3 of the series to see the depth, but it is proof a brilliance in a story beyond characters.
Three years ago, I watched this anime and slapped it a rotten score. After all, an anime featuring pantless, gun-bopping teenage girls couldn’t possibly ascribe anything of depth to the varied community of anime goers and entertainment seekers today, right?
Right.
Then during my second time t…
For a dumb fanservice show, it more than exceeds the sum of it's parts.
The year is 1939. Rather than the Earth we know, this is an Earth in an alternate reality... Where the global land mass looks quite different, and magic flows like electricity... Humanity was attacked by a mysterious alien force known as the Neuroi. Armed with devastating power and hostile inten…
Strike Witches doesn't know what it wants to be, and it shows.
Overall, Strike Witches is a mediocre show. Gonzo, the studio that developed it, needed a show with sales, and it shows. Looking back, Strike Witches is almost certainly a half-baked idea, a universe with little to no development and no real idea of what it wants to be. It started as a series of ske…
Strike Witches takes multiple routes to stand out and does not quite excel in any of them but its good none the less.
Strike Witches is a show that seems to be attempting to be more than one type of anime, from wholesome moments to straight up pervy fanservice and then to serious and gritty plots towards the end. Its hard to grasp just what they were going for with this show and whilst it wasn't bad I feel there wa…