While they’re beating the shit out of Rinne, Rinne’s mother is trying to call her on the aforementioned busted phone. The bullies are the ones who destroy Rinne’s family heirloom, her cellphone, and kick her while she’s down. While Rinne’s initial suffering comes from complete dick wads, her primary suffering is self-inflicted. Fate wants her mother to love her like old times, justifies the abuse because Fate’s been a “poor daughter”, and carries on.
Fate’s mother, Precia, abuses her physically, emotionally, and still demands that Fate gather the mcguffin seeds on top of everything else.įate puts up with it because she “remembers” how happy life used to be with Precia. Throughout the series, Rinne gets fleshed out and further development as she strives to become strong enough to protect herself and fend off anyone who tries to make her life hell.įate Testarossa is probably the closest mirror I can think of for Rinne’s development, but it feels off. Weirdly enough, this helps her feel like a protagonist which *is* characteristic of a Nanoha series. It’s cruelty for the sake of garnering sympathy for Rinne. Rinne’s notebooks are slashed apart, her lunch is squished and shoved into her desk (I swear, she must’ve had soup or something because it was dripping), and they toss water on Rinne while she’s using a bathroom stall. Three of her classmates start bullying her to an extreme. Unfortunately, orphans in this universe aren’t allowed to have nice things. Truly the face of fear and intimidationįlash forward to episode four, and Rinne’s been adopted into a happy life by a wealthy family.
Fuuka isn’t having any of that, threatening to wallop them while Rinne is cowers behind her friend. The first episode demonstrates this when Fuuka and Rinne have juice poured over their heads by some older boys. The original had character and plot reasons for some of the cruelty that built up, but the cruelty that comes from ViVid is literally the result of kids being assholes to orphans.
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That scene was too brutal for me to rewatch, and it gave me a distaste for the series before I’d given it a fair shot. If you haven’t, then I would ask if you can stomach watching an emotionally broken girl break another girl’s arm physically. If you’ve seen ViVid Strike already, you can guess what I’m talking about. My first real exposure to ViVid Strike was an infamous scene at the end of episode four. But unlike Fate trying to please her mother, or Vita trying to save Hayate, this show’s suffering is about self loathing and punishment. Suffering for your loved ones has always been a theme with Nanoha. Since it’s billed as “ViVid” and not “Nanoha”, I’m not too annoyed but if you didn’t want to associate with your more popular predecessor, why bring back its characters? And I use the term “bring back” pretty loosely here ViVid Strike might carry the spirit of the Nanoha franchise, but I really wish it had been it’s own thing. Spoiler Level: Minor – Character related evaluation
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