Symphogear StrikerS: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

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With the second OVA bonus out and strong sales on the BDs and OSTs, the talk of a third season of Symphogear is pretty high, enough for a /m/ thread no less. Certainly, the show was left with plenty of open space for more (mis)adventures of Hibiki and Co. But as welcome as Nanoha StrikerS was for Nanoha fans many years ago, it did not capture the magic the first two seasons provided, despite having an excellent cast and portraying adult Nanoha and Fate well.

So if Symphogear were to timeskip forward for a third season and feature a more mature Hibiki, Tsubasa, and Chris, would it be watchable?

Emotionally Crippled

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I’m not sure what is more impressive, the fact that Megatokyo is still a comic, or that one-hundred-and-sixty-nine (as of this writing) people have put seventeen thousand dollars into the hands of webcomics’ second-laziest artist ever, behind Buckley of course. Yes, kids, not even the great Fred Gallagher is beneath coming to the Kickstarter well for your real dollars to fund the FINAL FORM of his weeaboo empire.

But that’s not all, if you give him a cool half-million dollars, he will write/illustrate softcore porn into his visual novel. So what does that make this game? Katawa Shoujo 2. Physically normal, emotionally retarded.

Plastic Dreams

This is going to be terribly short, because that’s what this show was, short. I noticed it on Nova’s blog a few days back and figured, eh, what the hell? A sub group was kind enough to put all the episodes together into one episode straight, and it was the fucking craziest twenty-five minutes of…