Per Ardua ads Braccarum
It's all been said already but I'm still going to say it: The Strike Witches' logistics side seriously needs to indent them some pants. And the crotch shots were pure orz multipliers.
Oddly enough, I still decided to give this series a go because two of my favourite doujin artists/circles, chanomi and tamago no oheya, seem to have picked up on a heart of yuri-tinged comedy gold underneath all the awful fanservicey elements.
I've only seen the first four episodes. So far I'm really liking Mio's HOHOHO and Minna's Latent Tanaka Rie Evilness as well as the chara interaction but I'm not sure if it'll be worth my while to continue. Perhaps I need to go wash to bring out my inner evil.
Anime Festival Asia ’08 Day One

I was there. My only purchases - a set of Collateral Damage Studios works: three beautiful Nanoha prints (art by Xeph and Mycstea) and a hilarous Burning Arisa doujin (art by WaHa) for SGD 45.
Too tired to do a proper write-up. Just brief notes.
Nanoha StrikerS Egg’s Room 357-360
My ♥ for =_= continues to grow ever since I first discovered this circle's URL on the roof of the Nanoha Mobile.
357: It'll Soon Be Tanabata Nano Vivio's Tanabata wish in the second panel: 'I want to meet everyone from Riot Force 6.' She's also got a second wish, which she has kept secret from Nanoha-mama, on the extreme left of the final panel: 'For Nanoha-mama's body to recover.' Awww. I do 'Awww' a lot when reading this circle's comics. But I also LOLOL a lot too, particularly at the other wishes: 'To become Nanoha's bride' (probably from Subaru) and 'To stop that! arrow' (no prizes for guessing who Ahaha~♥) And also 'For my Figma to be released' (?)
Full of lies, Raising Heart and fatherliness
A trio of recent parodies that have recently really tickled me:
- Full of lies
'To each his own, the truth about breasts! All will be squeezed! Huge breasts, DFC, beautiful chests, all are breasts! Britannia will destroy the lies about breasts! We will carry forth the truth about breasts! All hail oppai!'
Millay is a true Britannian! So is Hayate. LOL
- Attack the neighbour nano
Nanoha comes home to her family cafe and asks her mom why there are no customers. Apparently a new cafe has just opened nearby. Nanoha has a solution: 'Hohou~~'
Where's the JFTC when you need them?
- Father's Day Nano
Signum: '....... Why does it have to be me to appear for Father's Day?'
That's because even otherwise straight girls want to have your babies, Signum-neesan! :3
Nanoha StrikerS Egg’s Room 318
Tamago no Oheya's latest comic: Sentaku nano. Hmmm.. probably choice / selection (??) rather than laundry (??).
Caro: Hey Erio-kun, should I have breasts like Fate-san's.
Erio: Naa!
I still suspect that the real reason that Stripey hasn't finished watching StrikerS isn't just because of the very different pacing in contrast to A's but mainly because Fate isn't loli anymore. Thus, pacing was the necessary condition and overt excuse while the DFC (or lack thereof) was the sufficient condition and covert genuine reason. After all, the first season didn't exactly have a crackin' pace but the tanuki still faithfully finished it deshou?
StrikerS Nano! SS01 8-9 and Egg’s Room 310

Some translation notes on the last two SS01 parodies (I skipped 5-7 because the Loli x Shota jokes were actually pretty tiresome, translation notes on 2-4 here) and, prompted by Tamago no Oheya's 310th comic, an exploration of the idea of two sharply contrasting models of childhoods (REALLY SCREWED UP versus PLEASANT BUT RONERY) that most of the Nanoha cast can be divided into with implications for the dynamics of their interactions.
I linked to the second and eighth StrikerS Nano! parody of the first sound stage some time back and learnt a new word (?? momu - to rub; 'momi' in the active tense) in the process.
StrikerS Nano! SS01 2-4
A few rough translation notes on ashita wa docchida?'s StrikerS Nano! parodies of the first Sound Stage. AFAIK while scanlation of the main body (001-182) covering the TV series has been completed, I've only seen a translated version (thread) of the first comic (original) of the first Sound Stage thus far.
Hope I'm not reinventing the wheel (and doing so rather badly in the process); corrections will be greatly appreciated.
The onomatopoeia for bust check is ‘momi’
Well, you really learn (all the wrong sorts of) new things everyday. I hadn't paid much attention to the non-dialogue parts of the StrikerS Nano! parodies, which have moved on to the Sound Stages, but I couldn't help but notice that there's a repeated use of 'momi' when Hayate checked Suzuka's bust; then those of the female Long Arch staff and, of course, she still likes Signum-neesan's assets best. LOL [Add: Actually 'momi' is a verb - see Orion's comment]
Hayate's perviness friendliness is actually canonical, if you consider the Sound Stages to be canonical (which I do), and she specifically gripes about how she has had no time to seku hara (short for 'sexually harass') the newbies in StrikerS Sound Stage 01. The above image is also official art, rather than fanart, and can be found IIRC the A's Sound Stage where everyone goes to the public bath house and also in the MEGAMI visual collection artbook.
Girl-on-girl bust-checking has now, as far as Totali and this zaku (this links to a post where I've linked the Chanomi parodies about Hayate) are concerned, become *the* official Yagami Hayate no waza. LOL
So far, I've only found one corroborating link which defines 'momi' as the sound for 'groping' while the rest are either blissfully unaware or have swept this one under the carpet. I can't even being to understand why such an important word has been left out. LOL
A question, that has come to mind, is: Would a facial bust check still be denoted by momi?
P.S. While I'm on one of my favourite subjects, i.e. Nanoha parodies, I'd just like to make a belated note of Tamagoya's Christmas cartoons of Santa Rein and the Wolkenritter / Yagami-gumi's present for Hayate - I really love how they can portray the Nanoha cast with such feelings of tender sweetness.
Nanoha doujinshi bookmark post
Just as how some people have the misperception that all anime = pr0n, I had the mistaken impression that all Nanoha doujins = OMFG IT'S THE FEDS/RCMP/MET loli-pr0n. While there is a not inconsiderable amount of that around, I've been fortunate to have my eyes opened to very funny non-hentai Nanoha doujin by other animebloggers and commenters as well as my visit to ComiKet 72.
This post is a bookmark post of my favourite Nanoha doujin circles with a brief comment each about their Nanoha x Fate dynamics.