Force and Vivid suck, and the game is hard to obtain. I doubt the franchise is dieing in Japan...but over here, there isn't much to discuss when that's all they have to offer.

To be fair, there hasn't been anything new to talk about. I'm sure there will be more activity when we get more info on Gears of Destiny and the A's movie.

PjJkJ2WQ: And how sad is it that both mangas have been running for two years and we still don't know where the hell they're going with them? Vivid might as well be called "Nothing Fucking Happens: The Manga," because it's been running for two years and... nothing fucking happened. It's the creators' sad admission that they're fully aware they can get by on nothing other than exploiting moe fanboys with fanservice. The only reason you can say Vivid is "staying consistent" is because everybody here still flips a shit when they see Nanoha and Fate holding hands again.

Worst part is, they'll show us all the minor characters' tits but not Nanoha's or Fate's. Probably something in the contract.

Force on the other hand, there might be something happening but it's impossible to tell because it's so glacially slow paced. They had to hax the new villains to make them dangerous, made Hayate a buttmonkey in the process, and then tried to lampshade it by bringing the villain in to literally tell the audience that they know it's cliche but they don't care. And this took them TWO YEARS? They should have just made a movie out of it, because there's way too little going on to justify dragging it out like this.

Also they totally should have used the Muvluv pilot suit designs.

Ugh. I'm gonna go put some more doujinshi together and upload them. At least Kamogawa Tanuki's coming up with some new--wait, I'm sure this is the exact same plot he's done before, just with different guys raping her. At least it's in full color.

>>14
FYI, Vivid sold 1 million volumes this month. The combination of SoL and Sport genre in addition to the loli/milf lesbian characters that we all love make this manga a very appealing reading, for Japan and for the average Nanoha fan.

The pacing is correct, the SoL moments and fluff are good, the new characters are interesting, and the fights are great. If you want to bash this manga with OPINIONS do it somewhere else.

Force is horrible though, I think we can agree in that. Though pacing is the lesser of its problems.

I fail to see how either Force OR Vivid is anything to write home about. They both bore me half to death.

>>14

Vivids the same shit over and over again. I fail to see what's "correct" about it. It's gotten so bad I honestly only read it for the cameo appearances of Fate.

>>15

You're really gonna pretend Vivid's not a fanservice exploitation manga when it's drawn by a loli eromanga artist and they put naked girls on the covers, repeatedly?

(No goodies visible but I'll take it down if it's too much for this site...)

Anyone have the special cover for volume 3? I have the rest, just not that one.

I would not say the Nanoha franchise is dead so much as nothing of note is happening in it. Strikers -- though mildly entertaining -- was not what fans of Nanoha fell in love with. Gone was the cute Nanoha, gone was the unrestrained battling -- and in return we were given politics and limiters. Bleh. And I don't think the creators know quite how to extract themselves out of that mistake. Perhaps a collapse of the TSAB with Team Nanoha as the last defense against an insanely powerful foe to end the series on a high note? Eh, just some thoughts.

>>20

If you haven't read the doujinshi "Nanoha BetrayerS" yet, give it a look. It's based on a similar scenario, and there's an English translated version available.

>>389
It is a parody of "the account of un-visiting Japan"MIRAI nikki!
Is it popular also here?

>>398
Same girls.

>>399
Reference image.

>>398
>>399

>NOPE.jpg

>>401
Ayup.

It's so quiet in here lately...

>>401

>>404
3DPG

>>165

Still better than FORCE. Let's see here... Howabout...

Or...

Or...

Force 18 is out ....in spanish xD

http://www.multiupload.com/L74AT1AQOI

inb4 Signum is gonna be raped in battle again XP

Why you hate her so much Tsuzuki!? T-T

Ah, resting on a beach....

>>174

..That image have a look more reminiscent of the A's era Signum xD

She was quite cute back then.

The Lieze Twins JOIN THE BRAWL!

....also Chrno and Reinforce xD

>>23 >>24

So far so good... I'm surprised at the twins though. They didn't have a lot of combat skill in A's, so are they going to be a gimmick twin-switch thing, or something different entirely?

>>25

Hentai Kamen.

>>27

Joke aside, it will be cool if there are an alternate costume for the lieze Twins that make them appear as the Masked Guys xD!

>>27
oh god, I had forgotten about that particular comic. BRAIN BLEACH!

>>24

While re-reading the thread, I thought for a moment you said "Chirno and Reinforce" due to your mispelling of Chrono. This was only reinforced (pun intended) by the knowledge that Chrono used Ice elemental effects at the end of A's.

Thankfully, I could find no Touhou / Nanoha pics that invoked that.

>>28
But what would they have as 'normal', instead of as the Masked guys?

>>23

Good, I want to beat their asses in anyway.

>>30

Now we only need Cypha in the game to have our pitches and torches ready xD.

Release date Dec 22! Promo and more details available too! http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-12-06/lyrical-nanoha-a/gears-of-destiny-psp-promos-posted

All season 1/2 chars playable, including the likes of Precia and both seasons' catgirl familiars, plus the Force and ViVid stars, plus the Materials and the new originals! And loads of alternate costumes too! How much does a PSP cost again?

>>6>>7
Unhappy Hayate is unhappy.

>>8
Record 14 is out, but I havn't found raws yet.

Ta-da! Force 13 in English is out!
http://www.mediafire.com/?r46d1d17x43fqo5

>>10
http://www.mediafire.com/?945ljz6zxzaqfzm

>>11

If only Force was as awesome as that pic of Rein, then all would be good in the world.

>>12
Geez, did it have to be scanned with the Hubble telescope?

>>12
Strike Cannon+Fortress=useless
Fate=awesome
Wat. They still can't make equipment that can keep up with Nanoha's awesomeness.

Ch. 13 up on mangafox

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_senki_lyrical_nanoha_force/v03/c013/1.html

Oh Curren, you silly girl.

>>MORE of Nanoha As and less of the garbage they're feeding us these days

Only reason why I'm still in this fanbase is the upcoming PSP game. Honestly I didn't even like Hayate until the first game came out.

and the SRW reference that keeps on popping up. I have not watch nor play many media for it. I just don't like how it seems like the story is just pulling off reference from a genre I rarely have anything to do with.

>>64

I think is not that bad as long as they're just references but lately Tsuzuki apparently is making just copy/paste of various elements and storylines from SRW.

Case in point: Signum is progressively becoming less of an expy of Lamia and more of a flat-out clone of her.

>>64
There is a new SRT game in the works BTW, but with anime characters directly in combat instead of robots. I forgot its title, but it looked good.
It was sort of like this old flash: http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/battle-fantasia-w/301765
If Nanoha and Fate were in the game, they'd be canon lesbians there too I bet.

>>66

Honestly, i don't care. As long as we get Nanoha and Fate as playable characters in an awesome Endless Frotnier-like SRT game they can be as lesbians as they want.

...they still will be kickass characters xD!

>>66
Now that looks awesome.
But that's not the actual game, or is it?

>>67
They're kickass AND lesbian in the anime, we sure don't get that combo too often.

ilVg6x+d at different cpu

>>65
Sounds like I should be watching/reading SRW instead of continue following this series if they're copying and pasting.

>>66

already knew about that. it's still in the works? I thought it's just fan video only since I hear nothing else about it for years.

btw there is a crossover game coming out called Nendoroid Generation on the PSP. I'm not sure if I should care about this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o2gorYranc

>>70

Actually Subaru and Teana would fit incredibly well in one of those games, both Endless Frontier games portray Gunfighter/Brawler duets among the main cast like Haken/Aschen and Alady/Neige. Teana/Subaru are almost the quintesinal example of the franchise(as Nanoha/Fate have more similar skills), plus, they also fit the Haken/Aschen trait of SkilledGunner/RobotGirl.

>>64
They ARE taking the espy thing a bit far, but it was an element of Signum that I've always liked (even though personality-wise the comparison has ALWAYS been overstated just because they have the same VA).

But there's a part of me that wants to see more SRW references, not less. At the very least, some mage version of Shuu Shirakawa or Vindel Mauser (granted, they DID have one for a pseudo-Mauser role, they just killed her off in the first season...this franchise would be imo way better had they kept Precia alive somehow, especially considering how anti-climatic and badly executed her death was)would be the most credible threat this series has ever had, at least since As.

Also throwing in some Jam Project songs can only help your soundtrack :D.

>>71

I did played that game.

Teana would so fit in with Reiji & Xiaomu's blast everything in sight special.

Subaru would perform a double team attack with Aschen.

Why haven't Exceed came out here yet?

>>59

oh for... beep's sake. About the only good thing that'll come from such massive defeats is that none of it will be permanent-ish.

>>59

>protect Hayate

hayate should never need protecting, shes a goddamned infinite battery. rein needs to step the fuck up as the books ai.

>>61
She has shitty defenses though.

...But you have a point.

It seems Hayate is the only one that hasn't received any upgrades. You'd think they would have made a version of Fortress for Hayate. When I think about it, Fortress probably would have served Hayate better than Nanoha...

>>62

You have a good point there.

Nanoha is more like a fighter jet while Hayate is more of a bombarder or a killsat xD

>>62
reinforce hayate had the spells to shrug off everything nanoha had, including a point blank divine buster after her tank shield was down.

stands to reason that the book of the night sky does have what hayate needs to be untouchable, but rein still hasnt gotten a grasp on all of it yet.

>>64

StrikerS Manga adderessed this during the 'Who is strongest' arc. Hayate admits to the Forwards that in a fight, she's actually very weak because she doesn't have anything for use in proper combat as she's more a Command and Control person whose offensive skills tend more towards extreme-long range.

In effect, Hayate throws around nuclear weapons, and gets into a knife fight.

>extreme-long range

By the way, it is strange. Reinforce in near fight was very strong.

>>66
Reinforce or Reinforce Zwei? I refer you back to StrikerS itself where Hayate laments that without Zwei, she need help from her support staff just to aim properly, and her lack of offensive spells against the Cradle.

>>66
reinforce is pretty much hayates maximum potential, fully leveled out she'd probably easily beat the tar out of anyone in universe, so they nerfed her with zwei and her own inexperience.

hayate has everything she needs to be unstoppable, but rein doesnt have the know how and experience to actually use it. hayate herself can barely fight since shes never had any reason to learn.

I wonder is this old news... anyway Manga fox has the second to last translated chapter Call Your Name.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_shoujo_lyrical_nanoha_movie_1st_the_comics/c015/

>>1 I believe somewhere in the Nanofate.Us someone did made a lesbian text... now where did i put it... ah there it is.

>>4
DDL is available as well.
http://www.mediafire.com/?k83ss93as2wiaac

I like my NanoFate but...eh the yuri fans need to stop making every scene with Fate and Nanoha perverse...

>attracted to each other
>"Friends"
>Two hearts bonded as one
>my face

>>4
The original text was lesbian enough already.

This chapter almost killed me of a heart attack.

>>7
Wasn't it? I almost thought they were about to announce NanoFate as canon.

>>8
We all know that already, no need to reannounce anything.

>>9
But...... :|

Oh I won't even bother.

>>7
This manga is made of love and rainbows. Delicious NanoFate is delicious.

Now waiting for the touching final chapter T-T