Strike Witches: Road to Berlin

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Synonyms: Strike Witches 3

Japanese: 第501統合戦闘航空団ストライクウィッチーズ ROAD to BERLIN

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 8, 2020 to Dec 24, 2020

Premiered: Fall 2020

Broadcast: Thursdays at 01:05 (JST)

Producers: Magic Capsule, Nippon Columbia, Docomo Anime Store, Sammy, Kadokawa Media House, DeNA, Kadokawa

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: David Production

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Ecchi

Theme: Military

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.34¹ (scored by 7,140 users)

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Ranked: #2327²

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Popularity: #4099

Members: 25,501

Favorites: 87

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Preparations for a new offensive against the Neuroi—a mysterious race of alien invaders—are well underway. The objective is securing Berlin, the capital city of the Empire of Karlsland, which is necessary for wiping out the Neuroi threat from Europe. However, as the enemy is capable of adapting to the battlefield on a daily basis, the allied forces and the current state of Striker technology might not be enough to achieve a victory.

Meanwhile, Yoshika Miyafuji, a Witch from Fuso, continues her medical studies in Lausanne. Having recovered from a recent incident that deprived her of magical power, she is eager to assist in the war effort. The call to arms soon arrives and the scattered witches of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing must be gathered once again for a final push against the enemy.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Litvyak, Sanya V.

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Kadowaki, Mai
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Hartmann, Erica

Main

Nogawa, Sakura
Japanese

Juutilainen, Eila Ilmatar

Main

Ohashi, Ayuru
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Miyafuji, Yoshika

Main

Fukuen, Misato
Japanese

Lucchini, Francesca

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Saitou, Chiwa
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Sakamoto, Mio

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Seto, Saori
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Barkhorn, Gertrud

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Sonozaki, Mie
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Bishop, Lynette

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Nazuka, Kaori
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Clostermann, Perrine H.

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Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Yeager, Charlotte E.

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Koshimizu, Ami
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Cook, Justin

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Herek, Samantha

Assistant Producer

Takamura, Kazuhiro

Director, Character Design

Yoshida, Tomohiro

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Opening Theme

"Yuuki no Tsubasa (勇気の翼)" by Yoko Ishida

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Ending Theme

"Kimi no Tsubasa ni Akogarete (君の翼に憧れて)" by Dai 501 Tougou Sentou Koukuu Dan

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Dec 24, 2020

SanaeK10

Recommended

Trude punches an Su-57 with her goddamned fists. That line should be enough to convince you to watch what I consider to be the best season of Strike Witches to date (excluding Hasshin Shimasu, which is untouchable). However, if you need more convincing, the rest of the review is there for you.

Road to Berlin is exactly what you'd want and expect from a Strike Witches sequel, and apart from Shizuka's existence, it delivers on every front. The animation noticeably received a huge bump even before the BDs are out. The action scenes and 3D models look as good as, if not better than their movie ... counterparts, and the girls look fantastic in HD. Traditionally episodes 1,2,11,and 12 are the weakest episodes since they're the only plot-focused episodes with Miyafuji as the center, and here they still are the weakest episodes, but even then they're still vastly improved compared to their S1 and S2 counterparts. Thankfully gone is the formulaic "Miyafuji takes a boat ride to Europe that lasts two episodes while the Navy is useless, and the girls take down the Neuroi-fused superweapon of the season that was previously thought to be a good idea". At the very least, now, the military (in the mainline series) is finally shown to be at least somewhat competent, taking down some Neuroi or another with some degree of success, even if they still need MiyafuJesus to save their asses in the end. Yoshika's Jesus Complex is still there, and while Shizuka does receive some form of character development that makes her less bitchy, that just means she becomes even more useless than she was in the movie. I can't believe we traded in Mio for this...

Thankfully the rest of the girls fare much better, especially in their spotlight episodes. As mentioned earlier the Karlsland girls (especially Trude) steal the spotlight in this, but my favourite episode, as usual, is the Shirley/Lucchini bonding episode. Sanya/Eila's episode is fine if not as strong as before, Perriene's episode was surprisingly good, and Lynne's focus in Episode 7 is fantastic, even if she is shafted otherwise. Shizuka is useless and I dearly miss Mio's laughter.

Again, we receive little to no new information on the Neuroi, seeing as more information about them or allusions to a peace with them would mean the end of the series, and Lord knows the Production committee doesn't want to lose their golden goose. The timeline even progressed to 1946 with large swarths of the world still Neuroi-infested. Still, more Strike Witches means more Hasshin Shimasu so I ain't complaining much. The series is always better with the episodic SoL comedy stuff than it is with the action and Neuroi stuff.

RtB is a great sequel that's everything you'd want but unfortunately doesn't do that much to truly innovate or stand out on its own. It has some real great memorable moments and is great entertainment, but one wishes that they'll do more plotwise with later seasons/spinoffs.

7/10

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Dec 23, 2020

robert788

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Strike Witches: Road to Berlin (2020)

Sanya remains our queen with Eila accompanying but Shizuka has made a strong entrance into the best girl league. That being a show where all girls are best girls essentially.

Although not as good as the other parts of this series in a whole it is still an excellent addition to the franchise with an ending that was exactly what you wanted and more.

As a continuation of the story, we already know this just takes off where others have left and pushes forward with the conflict. People who are new to this and haven't seen anything else I know ...

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Dec 28, 2020

AP817

Recommended

Unfortunately I did not like this last addition to Strike Witches. I wouldn't call it a huge disappointment since there are a couple of other things in the pipeline for the series that I am excited about, but I was kind of hoping Road to Berlin would pull me through the thin fall season and it didn't.

The animation work is alright and we've already gotten used to heavy use of 3D graphics, never done particularly well, in the series, which some may find off-putting otherwise. I have a personal pet peeve about how much gradient colouring there is, as it just makes everything kind of ... blend together instead of standing out. But this is just a matter of opinion really. The story tone of the season is on point compared to past works; the kind of things that happen are like the things that happen in previous seasons. The characters are also pretty much like they have been previously. Voice talent brings in a good performance. Music is good, maybe a little short of previous seasons and movies that had really banging soundtracks, though sound design otherwise is extremely uninspired. If you told me they never once used a sound effect that didn't come in a stock library, I'd believe it.

Then the tyrannosaurus in the room: The script. I'll be very frank. It is boring. Nothing emotionally impactful really happens. Not only do they use plot points and story structures that the series has used before, they also reuse those things within the season. Repeatedly. In addition, it is very thick on lore, which was weak before but was so sparingly used that it didn't really matter. Baddies be and WW2-fighter-aces-become-magical-girls fight the baddies. A good Strike Witches entry is perhaps 20% canon lore driven material and 80% mostly lighthearted character drama, fanservice, slice of life, comedy, period observation. This season has the numbers flipped the other way around. You only get a couple of episodes of the of the kind of things that I want from the series and the rest is bland and repetitive. You even get a persistent gray filter over the screen to make sure you aren't enjoying yourself too much. Oh, and the OP and ED themes are just... really quiet for some reason. Maybe everything would have just nicely come together after all if the the opening theme really rocked your socks off at maximum volume and got you pumped for an exciting adventure. Instead it's mixed in at a polite indoor speaking voice level. Like an itch that you just can't scratch no matter how much you try. Argh.

As an independent work, as much as I would want it to be otherwise, Road to Berlin does not stand. The words that come to mind are generic and childish. But as a continuation to previous work, since you are already attached to the characters, it's O.K.

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