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+==================
+ Strike Witches 2
+==================
+:CreationDate: 2012-09-23 19:40:14
+:Id: anime/review/strike-witches-2
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 2
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/strike-witches-complete-series-2-collection
+
+You may remember how the `first season of Strike Witches`_ managed to
+hold my interest despite its many problematic aspects: a "fight story"
+with half-naked little girls, a standard alien menace, and arbitrary
+magical elements.
+
+We left our heroines on the verge of meaningful communication with the
+alien invaders, with hopes for insights into their motives and maybe
+even peace talks. I was then expecting the second season to expand
+upon these elements, giving us more background on the aliens, on the
+inventor of the Strikers (and father of the main character), and maybe
+even on the military hierarchy.
+
+Instead, I got a nearly trope-by-trope repetition of the first
+season. The human-shaped alien emissary is destroyed by the same
+aliens before any talks can take place, another territory is invaded
+(Italy this time, called "Romagna" probably because the capital is
+Rome; funny since Romagna is the name of a region of Italy…), and
+everything happens just like the first time around. We get, again,
+some faulty untested technology; a spunky newcomer who lasts for a
+single episode; an excuse to force the girls to lose their knickers;
+even a second attempt at incorporating alien technology into Earth
+ships (which, of course, backfires, just like in the first season).
+
+There are some new stories, like a training session with an old witch,
+and a treasure hunt. There's also some back-pedalling on some details
+that were hinted at in the first season, for example about the
+correlation between age and magical powers.
+
+All in all, it feels very much like the studio decided to "play it
+safe", and re-hashed the same plot instead of using all the hooks they
+had put into the story. I think they wasted an opportunity: they could
+have developed a rather good story, and decided not to. (And now I've
+discovered a few hundred non-erotic Strike Witches fanfics… there goes
+my week).
+
+If you want interesting new stories about the Witches, you're out of
+luck. If you want more of the same, or you really like having complete
+series, you won't be disappointed.
+
+.. _`first season of Strike Witches`: ../strike-witches/