Brave Witches

As humanity's war with the Neuroi—a mysterious, hostile alien race possessing weapons of unparalleled power—continues being fought across Europe and Africa, a new fighter squadron is formed. The 502nd Joint Fighter Wing, also known as the Brave Witches, operates on the eastern front, scouring the icy vastness of Orussia in search of alien invaders.

However, one of the Brave Witches' members suffers severe injuries on her way to the squadron's headquarters, rendering her unable to participate in any operations. As a result, her sister, Hikari Karibuchi, volunteers to take her place. Though not possessing any special abilities or significant magical powers, she is determined to live up to the expectations of her new comrades and prove herself worthy of the name of a Witch.

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Brave Witches is set between the events of the 2008 series Strike Witches and the events of the 2010 series Strike Witches 2 within the same continuity.

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Adaptation:	Brave Witches Prequel
Prequel:	Strike Witches
Sequel:	Strike Witches 2
Side story:	Brave Witches: Petersburg Daisenryaku

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Characters & Voice Actors

Karibuchi, Hikari

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Kakuma, Ai
Japanese

Katajainen, Nikka Edvardine

Main

Takamori, Natsumi
Japanese

Pokryshkin, Aleksandra Ivanovna

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Hara, Yumi
Japanese

Kanno, Naoe

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Murakawa, Rie
Japanese

Krupinski, Waltrud

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Ishida, Kayo
Japanese

Lemare, Georgette

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Terui, Haruka
Japanese

Rossmann, Edytha

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Igarashi, Hiromi
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Rall, Gundula

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Satou, Rina
Japanese

Shimohara, Sadako

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Mizutani, Marin
Japanese

Karibuchi, Takami

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Suegara, Rie
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Cook, Justin

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Nakagawa, Jirou

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Herek, Samantha

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Takamura, Kazuhiro

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"Ashita no Tsubasa (アシタノツバサ)" by Yoko Ishida

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	1: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Hikari Karibuchi (Ai Kakuma)
	2: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Takami Karibuchi (Rie Suegara)
	3: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Naoe Kanno (Rie Murakawa)
	4: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Nikka Edvardine Katajainen (Natsumi Takamori)
	5: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Waltrud Krupinski (Kayo Ishida)
	6: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Aleksandra Ivanovna Pokryshkin (Yumi Hara)
	7: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Georgette Lemare (Haruka Terui)
	8: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Sadako Shimohara (Marin Mizutani)
	9: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Edytha Rossmann (Hiromi Igarashi)
	10: "Little Wing ~Spirit of LINDBERG~" by Gundula Rall (Rina Satou)

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Jul 14, 2023

garkon_icky

Recommended

Brave Witches is the concept of Strike Witches retooled into an actual show. It's an abstract remake of the first season of SW starring Miyufiji with an inverted color palette and hair that goes down instead of up. A gang of magic girls with airplane legs is once again waging war against shapeshifting aliens with the help of their new recruit from not-Japan. Despite that premise it's a very different take on the same basic idea. The characteristics of Strike Witches are mostly inverted: the MC is noticeably underpowered instead of overpowered, she's not competent and nearly kicked out of the 502nd on arrival, and ... her relationships with other characters start as standoffish or antagonistic instead of instant friendship. She's still in a support role like Miyufiji but has no magical ass-pull to lean on, nor does anybody else. Different characters have different traits and defects making it so that nobody can entirely carry the team by themselves. Additionally the Neuroi are now a dangerous threat instead of just a present one: fighting them isn't free, and even when they lose it's after they've caused damage and bent the trajectory of events that follow. All this greatly affects the character interactions because now they're operating from an entirely justified sense of self-preservation. Being a hero will get them killed so there's a limit to how much they'll stick their neck out for each other. However they also need to co-operate to win, and there's a war in the background with a bodycount that will keep rising until they take action to stop it. Strike Witches dabbled with all of this but would eagerly end conflicts on a shitpost or gag to defuse the tension. The main difference with Brave Witches is that it doesn't and plays everything mostly straight.

Ecchi content returns from Strike Witches in a more moderated role. It has the obligatory episode where they took a doujin they liked and made it canon, and contains the biggest horndog character in the entire franchise, but gags mostly wait their turn for the plot to be finished first. This is still a fanservice show, though.

The art for this show got trashed when it was new because the CGI in the TV version was rough and they leaned into using it for every striker flying scene. In re-releases this was cleaned up a lot and now it looks a little more reasonable like Road to Berlin.

On the whole if you want to get into the whole Witches series, Brave Witches isn't a horrible place to start. It has a plot and if you're coming from other anime it'll align with your expectations a little better while not being totally unlike the other shows. If you don't like it then you won't like the other ones. If you're coming from Strike Witches it can be refreshing change of pace from the ecchi gag format.

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Jan 22, 2018

Christopher_Lum

Mixed Feelings

This is more of a comparison to its parent story Strike Witches.
This anime is very similar to Strike witches and when I say similar, I mean very similar.

Character development and story progression were almost exactly the same with a few minor changes.
Art is similar to Strike witches despite being made by different studios. There are hints of 3D-CGI that slightly throw things off when it appears.
Animation here is an improvement, battles are no longer (how do i say this without spoiling/summarizing part of it) linear. Fight scenes are slightly more inspired is all i can really say without giving too much away.
MAL says this is ...

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Jun 30, 2021

Yemi_Hikari

Not Recommended

Clumsiness is not a flaw.

The mantra repeated over and over in my head despite the fact I knew that in the right hands clumsiness can indeed be a good character flaw, but this often happens when I find myself introduced within the narrative to a character whose main flaw is clumsiness only for said flaw to go away when it is no longer convenient. In this particular series Hikari's clumsiness is explained away by having a lack of magical power, not that this really stops her later on because she's just that much of a hard worker and with that being her counter trait she's ...

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