Strike Witches: Season 1 Box Set

Now here's an interesting premise for an anime. It's got cute girls, aliens, panties, magic. What more can I say for my opening paragraph? Oh, the DVD's are generally uncensored, so it's an ecchi anime, don't like then you might not enjoy this one. The story starts in the year 1939, A mysterious Black cloud appeared in the sky, Aircraft were sent to get rid of the black cloud, but soon after they attack a mysterious black aircraft emerged from the darkness and fired lasers to wipe the fleet out, this is where the battle with the Neuroi began. In order to combat the Neuroi threat, man worked to make a new weapon, this weapon was known as the Striker Unit, a special set of plane engines powered by magic one wears on their feet and legs. A call went out to all the nations of the world to recruit witches with the potential to weild these Strikers, thus the 501st Joint fighter wing was formed. Now we meet Yoshika Miyafuji, a middle school girl from the Fuso Empire, she soon finds herself being recruited by the Strike Witches, of which she refuses as she hates war. That is until she receives a letter from her supposedly dead father, Dr Miyafuji, the inventor of the Striker unit. She goes with them to find out if her father really died. I'll leave it at that for now. The art style is pretty standard for the character models, they are pretty cute in this respect, where the anime seems to excel is the designs of the weapons and striker unit, modelled on actual World war aircraft and weapons. There are one or 2 instances of which small attempts at 3D are trying during flight, which works I felt. The soundtrack is appropriate considering the themes, war time band fair and orchestral songs as well as more cutesy music. Some is memorable while some isn't as much. The Opening and Ending themes "To do what I can" and "Bookmark ahead" are cute but don't feel different or unfitting. But then I have heard the songs over and over through my headphones from a dual album. The dub now I'm sure some of you are curious to know about. Considering the reputation Funimation seems to have for dubbing from the fan sub group, the voice work is not bad at all, no voices grated on me but a need to adjust to the voices might be needed, but as per usual the original Japanese voice work is included. Now for the DVD's, for a fan like me, the DVD cases are lovely, featuring art of 8 of the 11 Witches spread out over the 2 covers, the cover case that keeps the DVD's together has a synppsis on the back featuring Shirley and Lucchini (Characters not included on the DVD cases) and some screen caps, which are pretty sweet. Whilst Miyafuji completes the set on the front of the case. The DVD's themselves feature different art of Miyafuji. The contents on each disk are: Disk 1 - The first 6 episodes and the option of voice work Disk 2 - The final 6 episodes, the voice work option and Trailers from Funimation Not much on the disks, bare bones stuff but I can give it a pass Overall, Strike Witches is a series of fan service to both the otaku crowd and the aviation fans, the story might seem unfocused till the final few episodes but most episodes have character development, Art isn't going to win any awards but it's very cute. A soundtrack that is fitting and a pretty good dub to accompany it. It's a personal favourite of mine, so if it sounds like your kind of thing then I implore you give it a go .

At first it looks like little more than fan service on a stick. Get past it, this is one of the best stories I've seen in a long time. Character development is good and the story line is engaging and well written. It's not as generic of a storyline as it seemingly starts out either. Due to the "fan service" and some adult situations I'd probably not recommend it for children, at least not without adult supervision and having watched it first. On the plus side for parents, there's not a lot of blood and it's handled tastefully (It IS a war, injuries happen). The setting is an alternate world where WWII was preempted due to an alien invasion and the only effective force to fight them is magic. Magic is not commonplace, so witches are recruited from all over the world to fly the "Striker Units". (If you look at the case, you'll see one on each leg of the main character). They even have magic propellers keeping the "WWII" feel intact. The countries are all renamed to give it a more "alternate world" feel, but it's not hard to figure out. I prefer not to give away the storyline in reviews. I will say there is an interesting contrast in the main character, who fights only because she wants to protect as many people as she can. (And at first seems to be an adamant pacifist, which never entirely fades). There is also some interesting character development around why people fight and the effects their reasons have on them. A little simplified, but it is only 12 episodes. LASTLY! This is a DO NOT MISS IT anime for most fans, almost regardless of the type you like. Don't pass it up if you don't like one aspect of it, like setting, or combat, or fan service. It has a wide range of appeal!

Great dvd ❤️ it thank you again

The anime is very fun to watch and has many good scenes as well as very good historical references. Each episode, aside from episode 7, develops each character and gives the viewer a good look into the lives of the characters. The designs of the leg-wear (striker units( that the girls wear are based off of the propeller planes of the time. Guns used by each character is representative of their home country, even if the names are changed, including various light machine guns such as the MG42 (aka Hitler's Buzzsaw), the American derived version, as well as various Japanese and British machine guns and sniping rifles. A slight disappointment with the sniper rifle since there are several guns of the period with magnifying scopes, although the caliber was not as high as the gun in the show. A very strict warning to those with sensitive ideology, due to the difference in culture and public acceptability, this anime may NOT be fore you. Strike Witches offers a LOT of fan service and non-sexual nudity. It also touches upon the Loli aspect, so if you are a type of person to judge primarily on that aspect, turn away now. There is a reason for the MA rating... The anime was a bit short with 12 episodes and many holes are left un-answered. It should also be noted that this IS the censored version, so there are conveniently placed soup bubbles and steam clouds. Although at the end, it does hint greatly at a season two, however, it does not hint weather or not the current characters will make a return or now if season two is produced.

If you love the idea of cute little girls and military drama combined, then you my friend have come to the right anime. The story isn't too complex and is quite easy to follow, but it's really good and you will adore these little girls as they fight for justice and form friendships with one another. But it isn't just action, there is also comedy and some sweet fanservice. And thank god for Funimation as it contains uncut nudity. Awesome fanservice awaits in some episodes where the girls' private areas are exploited in the glorious open for all dirty minds to see! Anyways just wanted to make a short review. I'm pretty sure you'll find better reviews of this awesome series, but I just wanted to give my 2 cents. Buy it if you like science fiction, high-flying combat, and young anime girls!

I loved this show so much. Being set in an alternate 1940s-era, it was interesting to see nations fighting alongside each other instead of what happened in real life. The show is very funny and cute. I loved it so much that I went and ordered the 2nd and 3rd seasons after I finished the 1st.

When I first seen this show I though, WTH, girls with no pants??? I blame funi, being British pants means underwear, so I though the characters were stark naked but it turns out they do wear pants (underwear) so it wasn't so bad. Bar this misconception I also had the worry that it was made just to please the lolicon fan base in japan but I was wrong, if you can look past the pretty harmless as it turns out, fan service, than the show is a quite enjoyable one. If you watch the episodes, you may notice that there isn't much in they way of story, but SW makes up for it in what it brings in character development with a good 8 episodes focusing on the girls of the 501st + 2 episodes to set up the story and 2 episodes to end the season. I didn't enjoy the first 2 episodes because I am not a big fan of Yoshika (the main character ) but after this, strike witches become entirely enjoyable. I must apologize this review has kind of gone round in circles but I would recommend any anime fan that they should add this to there collection. I know of several people who normally dislike moe shows but where pretty hooked by SW. I also liked the packaging, it as very nice, all eleven girls get there place somewhere on the boxes and on the inside of the dvd boxes is a character sheet of who the eleven girls are, what striker unit they wear, panties, and what animal there accosiated with, finally I liked the sow on patch that comes with SW, its nicely made and look very good, I shall need to find a good use for it, I love it.

This is an excellent anime! Strike Witches has a funny and touching plot line that is comprised of many underlying themes, two of which being loyalty and honor. Much of the time I was quite literally on the edge of my seat; the action is top notch and not gory. I loved how they were able to maintain a quality, action-packed series with little to no blood. Yes, it has a bit of mature content and there are a couple of tongue-in-cheek innuendos. But, by no means is any part of this show pornographic. That being said, I would still caution that this isn't for young children.

Many reviews stated you will love or hate strike witches though many mention its story wasnt to impressive I purchased this on a whim and watched through it and i must say it is much better than i imagined. The story is quite well played through, Humans are at war with a race (Nuroi or something) and was loosing quite drastically, that was until a certain someone invented the 'Striker Unit' (leave name out, its not much of a spoiler but its a tiny one). With this Striker unit a team of elite soliders battle the enemy on the front line (in the skies) to protect Britania which has already suffered great loss to this enemy. As Earth's only remaining weapon this squad 'The Strike Witches' have to keep on high alert, but this doesnt mean there isnt time for fun aswell. The anime is full of great fun scenes which arnt so story based but are quite enjoyable and have lots of laughs with them but because they know how to play doesnt mean there not serious at there job! They train tough and battle for there own reasons, this means the story as you guess is quite solid... each character has a small story to them and wether they fight becase they want to save people or to avenge someone there quite serious... thats all but they lack... lower body clothing, no skirt's no jean's/tights/trousers/leg wear, this is the strike witches Its actually halerious, but i personaily found the story very good, im not one for war stories so the future type style (dispite past settings) was enjoyable and the whole war its self just made me loose track of how many episodes i watched until i relised i was done, both my brother and sister also found the show very enjoyable I gave it 5 stars as not only is it real funny and very interesting for a story, its animation is very smooth and very well done with enjoyable artwork aswell as the soundtrack op/ed are also enjoyable as the soundtrack as a whole. It's a watch most should enjoy i will warn it contains a few fan service scenes but this isnt blown out of proportion, episode 7 is mainly where it will be scene otherwise its just a small 1min clip here or there which features such which isnt to bad

super anime pour tu les fan de fantésie et de la secode guerre mondiale et les fan de magie et witches je le recomande

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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 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!