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>>1054731

I thought that at first, but Teana and Subaru did really well out of the series and I enjoyed their development. Teana had a huge inferiority complex made worse by being in a team full of elites, only to come around to realise her strength wasn't in her magic potential like everyone else, but in her intelligence. She completely owned three numbers at once. Sure, one of them got better and she was saved by Vice, but it was a real sense of accomplishment that made all her crap seem worth while.

Subaru dealt with her hesitation towards combat and pulled herself together to realise why she wanted to become a powerful mage in the first place. Subaru got one probably the best scene in all of StrikerS when she started berserk packing the numbers over her sister.

Elio and Caro could have been completely forgotten. At best they had maybe one reasonable scene each, usually they just got poor animation and weren't very interesting. Caro basically ammounts to StrikerS trying to find a new magic gimmick like they did with cartridges in A's and failed when they realised they can't draw monsters for shit, so adding 'summoning' to the types of magic wasn't very well thought out.

Basically, they should have summed up Teana and Subaru with less training crap, used manga material instead of some of the shit they put in about the red tape of the organisation and completely dropped most of Elio and Caro's involvement to mere background characters, giving people like Signum, Hayate and Chrono more time to do shit.

I kind of expected the men to get less time, it's just how Nanoha goes, but all of Hayate's screen time amounted to her giving orders or getting permission. She finally gets to be the magic girl and doesn't get to do much other then artillery. ;_;

>>648085

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