The Disappearance of Nanoha Takamachi's Eyebags

Left image from yesy fansubs and right image from Taedium's DVD rip. I really appreciate that yesy has completed the subbing of StrikerS especially doing their best within the constraints of the lower-than-usual quality of the raws too. The latter (right, from the DVD rip) is definitely brighter, sharper, and better looking - makes the DVDs better VFM. But as the title of the post suggests, I'm a bitty bit upset by the cleaning up of one detail which made me go OMG! in the first time round.

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Fate's many faces of consternation.

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Nanoha x Fate lovers' quarrel 4TW. 'When we get back, let's have the wedding ceremony!' LOLOLOL.

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In the battle between Imouto and Onee, the latter must surely be victorious!

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More background and no fighting but I had a big stupid grin plastered on my face by the end of this episode.

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The complication in the plot has considerably reduced my ability to understand the raw episodes. Have been reduced to making smart arse remarks about various scenes and plot points while waiting for the subs.

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The captains give the newbies their off-pass. Subara x Tiia and Elio x Caro go on their respective "dates" respectively. However, there are ominous signs in the politics of the TSAB, Ginga's discovery of a biological (cloning?) pod amid another gadget raid and the arrival of another loli, via the sewers, chained to relic cases.

Unexpected fan service with Subaru's sexu hara method of waking up sleepy head Tiia. I must confess grimacing though. Partly because how I felt bad for Tiia, whom I now firmly think is attracted to Subaru, because she probably doesn't mind being felt up by Subaru but that she'd want a different mode of intentionality from Subaru who's just being thoughtlessly playful. The other thought that occurred to me was: 'Ah, characters voiced by Mai Nakamura Nakahara [Thanks, Ivy!] should be busty. There's just a bustiness about her voice.' orz

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After being knocked out by Nanoha's Crossfire Shoot during the morning mock battle, Tiia finally wakes up at night; Shamal noting that her exhaustion due to extra training contributing to this. The Doctor deploys new flying gadgets and the flight-capable Nanoha, Fate and Vita head out to deal with them - not before Signum punches Tiia for [edit: implying favouritism in selecting the others and how she didn't need that, wanting to prove herself by getting stronger even if it kills her.] Signum, Shamal and Shari show recap footage, SUNRISE-style, mainly from the first season to the forwards about how Nanoha's been there, done there and got the t-shirt at the tender age of nine.