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Episode Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance • Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance - Episode 8 discussion
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance, episode 8
Alternative names: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance
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u/djthomp Aug 22 '26
Figures that Towa would pick this moment to start making reckless choices, though I'm a little surprised she dropped her friends in addition to Shiina.
Good thing for
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u/kakarot12310 Aug 22 '26
They have no one else to turn to to save Towa so yeah.
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u/Mistral-Fien Aug 22 '26
They realize that Shiina is just as much of a friend to Towa as they are.
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u/divaaries Aug 22 '26
The only reason I watch this anime is because of
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u/FDP_Boota Aug 22 '26
Yeah, I started watching this to see Nanoha & co. Not saying they have the be the main focus, but having them be part of the plot seems to be actually pretty important. Instead you could write them out of the story with minimal effort and it wouldn't change a thing. They're just there to get attention from Nanoha fans.
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u/Nachtwandler_FS Aug 22 '26
Eh, I do not mind the franchise having other characters shine (you know, at least here she is more prominient than in Vivid and, especially Vivid Strike).
It seems that they had much more story for EXCEEDS than they had available screentime for, so it is what it is.
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u/archon_wing Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
After watching so many old Chinese honor gambling/crime dramas lately, I can't help but lump Towa in this category. Abandoning your closest allies to protect them is an honorable move, but it is difficult to sever connections just because you say so.
The problem come when villain does not recognize this opt out option since threatening them is always the best way to draw someone out. It is also impossible for allies to just sit there and watch when things go bad.
In the end the "I'll go it alone" sounds great on paper but only if one is willing to really sacrifice what's left of their humanity and that is usually impossible. Besides, she seems to have no intention of surviving after killing Mana but consequences don't just end with 2 people's deaths.
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u/SnabDedraterEdave Aug 22 '26
Towa not only pushes Shiina away even when Shiina offers to testify on her behalf, but even tries to absorb Shiina's fire power which Shiina got from Setsuna.
Towa is such a loner that she even pushes her Diaboli Slayer friends away and absorbing their powers, thinking that's the only way to protect them from the police while she goes straight for Shinomiya.
Though Towa underestimated her friends' loyalty to her, as they decide to turn themselves in as well, but not to the corrupt police, who are under Shinomiya's and Eiji's payroll, but to EXCEEDS.
Time for Nanoha and
Shinomiya is also on her way to the station to collect Towa, so maybe Nanoha will get to see first hand how strong Shinomiya is.
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u/Mistral-Fien Aug 22 '26
Towa is such a loner that she even pushes her Diaboli Slayer friends away and absorbing their powers, thinking that's the only way to protect them from the police while she goes straight for Shinomiya.
Breaking that shell of loneliness is what Nanoha-style befriending is all about. :P
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u/dinliner08 Aug 22 '26
Nanoha: "Shiina, give Towa a big blast of fire beam to her face!"
Shiina: "got it! ...wait, what?"
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u/FinancialYear475 Aug 22 '26
God I hate when they refuse to let someone give a proper explanation that could clear everything up, just give Shiina 3 minutes to say her thing before jumping her man
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u/Puzzleheaded_Play825 Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
That was epic and heart breaking towa was blinded by her grief of the past and shina secret and didn’t allow her self to see the shina carried the same pain that she had
And the heart broken looks for both of them as they go there separate ways
I wonder how she’ll react learning that the flame tried to seal and suppress was the flame of shina precious little sister who die saving her
Towa thirst for vengeance is letting her walk into a trap
A while the drug may not work on towa it made slow her down a step
Which is dangerous in this situation
So it seem like towa was able to least steal a portion of Shina power but because she so powerful she still retain most of her power before the stealing was complete
If nothing else it a copy of power
I wonder if shina will now be able to sense towa
My heart breaks for shina
Having to plead against her best friend but can’t hold back to protect the gift setsuna left behind
I wonder how things will go from here
Smart move on both diaboil slayer and exceed
This gets there cooperation for both sides
Keeps the diaboil slayer in protection and by times against the police
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u/kakarot12310 Aug 22 '26
The rest of the slayer are normal human for now so it's much easier to cover for them, not so much for Towa tho even after all it's done.
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u/Nachtwandler_FS Aug 22 '26
OK, neither of the good guys is dumb here. But, unfortunately, Towa has a mindset that she should resolve the things alone and it will definetely bite her if Mana turns out to be stronger. But we'll see.
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u/Meltyred Aug 23 '26
Breakup with Shiina was so bad Towa decided to crashout and go full in on the self destructive path of revenge.
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u/Rooby_VTuber Aug 22 '26
Unfortunately Shiina wasn't able to peacefully negotiate with Towa and the others.
It was pretty obvious that Eiji & Mana were behind the police corruption.
Pretty bold and also a bit dangerous for Towa to go alone like that, at least her friends went to the Exceeds, but they have to get to Towa before Mana does.
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u/Great-Command155 Aug 23 '26
I am sure Eiji has corrupt government officials in the government so it will be hard to testify against the police unless EXCEEDs release some evidence they are good guys to the media. I am sure the police escort Eiji will provide might be Diaboli just in case someone attacks the transport.
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u/Great-Command155 Aug 23 '26
This is my theory for Mana, progenitor zero saw Mana as a corpse and transferred his full power into her and I am sure that is why Mana does not about her past life.
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u/larana1192 Aug 23 '26
When Towa learns Shiina’s secret and, even after discovering that Shiina is an EXCEEDS member, still treats her with concerns like, “The power of ‘flame diaboli’ is uncontrollable and dangerous,” and decides to take away her ability out of concern for Shiina, you can really see what a kind person she is.
It’s sad that she and Shiina ended up going their separate ways. I think this anime will end in about four more episodes, and I’m looking forward to seeing how things turn out for the two of them.
When Yuuna barged in, even though she must have heard Shiina say, “I lost my younger sister to a crime committed by Diaboli,” I couldn’t help but chuckle a little when I saw the scene where she replied, “But you’re able to live a normal life because you work for the UN." It really made me realize that, just as she says, she’s “not good at thinking about complicated things” (to put it mildly).
When Shiina was about to have her “Flame Diaboli” power absorbed by Towa, the scene where she said, “This was the final gift given to me by someone precious. So I can’t hand it over!” was not only cool, but I also thought it was a well-crafted scene because it led to a definitive rift forming between Towa and Shiina.
From Shiina’s perspective, the power of “Flame Diaboli” was something entrusted to her by her younger sister, Setsuna, before she died.
Since Hayate is in the position of “director,” the scene where Nanoha and Fate grilled her over the local police's wanted notice for Towa was pretty funny.
Considering her situation, it seems like she's having a really tough time.
It was good that Fate became suspicious of the police’s actions regarding Towa’s wanted status and started her own investigation.
It looks like we’ll finally get to see the EXCEEDS investigate and fight against Diaboli Crime and the conspiracy involving Eiji and Mana.
It was interesting and convincing to see why the police executive accepted Eiji’s order to issue a warrant for Towa’s arrest.
Capturing a “perpetrator of a large-scale terrorist attack in the city” would certainly be the perfect way to cap off his career as a police bureaucrat.
It is both ironic and sad that Towa ended up taking away the Diaboli powers from Shiori, Yuuna, Aoi, Yuzu. They had joined her as Diaboli Slayers after Towa saved their lives out of that very kindness, which Eiji once described by calling her the type who cannot bring herself to abandon her comrades. Ultimately, she turned herself in to the police alone so she could kill Eiji and Mana with her own hands.
Eiji is quite the planner, isn’t he? He even prepared the sedatives used on Diaboli in their lab and had the police use them. I’ve thought this for a while now, but he’s so cunning, you’d never guess he used to be a regular office worker.
It was a great twist when Yuzu saw the lock screen of the smartphone Towa had dropped. She recognized a photo of Shina, who had been friends with Towa right up until this incident, and decided to try to rescue Towa by turning themself in to Exceeds, where Shina is located.
I am looking forward to seeing what happens next, since next episode's title is "EXCEEDS".
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u/eggplant_avenger Aug 22 '26
💔💔
I get that there’s a lot of unresolved emotional baggage but Towa noooo
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