Strike Witches Movie

After fending off the threat of a Neuroi invasion of Romagna and destroying the enemy's nest over Venezia, Yoshika Miyafuji goes back to her home town in the Empire of Fusou. Despite the loss of her magical and healing abilities, the former officer of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing wants to continue studying medicine. This is in order to help those in need, both civilians and those on the front lines alike. She receives an invitation from a prestigious school in Europe and decides to accept the offer, embarking on a journey back to the war-torn continent.

However, a new danger arises, as more and more Neuroi manage to break through human defense lines, appearing unnoticed in supposedly safe areas and disturbing the balance of power in Europe. Yoshika's sense of duty collides with her inability to pilot a Striker Unit, but with her friends in peril, it seems that there is only one thing she can do.

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Miyafuji, Yoshika Main

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Hattori, Shizuka Main

Uchida, Aya Japanese

Litvyak, Sanya V. Supporting

Kadowaki, Mai Japanese

Hartmann, Erica Supporting

Nogawa, Sakura Japanese

Juutilainen, Eila Ilmatar Supporting

Ohashi, Ayuru Japanese

Lucchini, Francesca Supporting

Saitou, Chiwa Japanese

Barkhorn, Gertrud Supporting

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Sakamoto, Mio Supporting

Seto, Saori Japanese

Bishop, Lynette Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori Japanese

Clostermann, Perrine H. Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer, ADR Director

Matsuzaki, Yoshiyuki Producer

Imamoto, Naoshi Producer

Ogura, Rie Assistant Producer

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Apr 3, 2021

stmwg01

Recommended

Quick take: “This is gross and tastes like boogers.” Actually, having come off of the two season mediocre series, this movie is surprisingly good.

You’re not going to find anything ultra profound in the storyline and there are things left a bit unexplained, but compared to the two seasons before, the Strike Witches movie is good. The plot feels appropriate for a war movie and for a feel-good-friendship movie, which I wouldn’t have expected anyone to pull off, let alone Strike Witches. I feel like we're actually at war, which the seasons prior seemed to make feel fake. The movie progresses in such a way that ... the pacing feels really good and natural, making the nearly 2 hour movie go by quicker than expected.

I think art slipped. There’s particularly a scene where blood is overlaid on clothes and it's clear that the clothes move, but the blood doesn’t. It's fairly noticeable. Otherwise, art would be on par with the rest of the series. Music and voice acting (English) were both really well done. I have to specifically give a bump in sound due to the scoring. It was really well done, in my opinion and added to the movie.

Characters are similar to the series, but several have undergone growth between the series and movie, and that was depicted well in my opinion. Everything felt natural and unforced and the ridiculousness of being pantless became an afterthought with all the action on screen.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie and felt it is the best of the main Strike Witches' saga until this point.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 30, 2020

robert788

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Strike Witches Movie (2012)

For me watching this movie in order with this being the latest part before the next movie that is due out in 2020 it makes a lot of sense. If you watched it back in 2012 with the order of things all over the place this would be a pretty hard movie to drop in.

The story is really well done from start to finish. It is nice to see how it links directly off Operation Victory Arrow. The introduction of Shizuka being very straight-laced from the academy is brilliant as not all witches can be so chilled out as Yoshika. Especially ... since this is Fuso a country of absolute dedication.

The art is consistent even with the later parts of the show like Victory Arrow which came after it in terms of production It is Ecchi as always and fits perfectly into the narrative. Sanya always so beautifully drawn as best girl.

The sound comes with a great opening and an awesome closing song. Generally, the sounds are superb throughout the show and make for a great ride. A few more SFX sounds would have been better but it is from 2012.

Characters do a really great expansion on seeing the new girl Shizuka being straight-laced. Also shows how strict Mio must be at the academy. I am always surprised that the military keeps discharging Yoshika and not just taking her in to train as a medical officer. The other witches all show the great admiration they have for Yoshika which is really great to see.

The movie itself is enjoyable from start to finish and I would recommend it. It would be best if you watch it in the order it comes with this being the last thing before Road to Berlin that is due this year. I love seeing the Brave Witches inclusion and some newer random witches from other units. Also seeing Michiko is great too since her voice is adorable.

The movie when it came out has the issue that confuses the timeline. Yes, season 2 did come out before the movie but having Operation Victory Arrow that leads up to the very start is the best method to watch it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Nov 7, 2016

Kuromizue

Recommended

When i started to watch the movie i just had finished the main series and thought they were good it just had it's bad's too.
For me this series got better and better to the end and this movie was very good finish because i think that to this anime the smaller length suits very well because i doesn't give enough time to do the to my opinion "pointless" fan service, so it can focus on the story.
And i'm kinda sucker for the fact that someone loses his/her powers and resurrects again at one point =)
At the end the whole series was good and this ... movie was very good finish to overall good series that when i begun thought that "this isn't going to be very good".

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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