Review of Strike Witches: Road to Berlin

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 knowquestion such things as the guns with near-limitless ammunition but then don't question that they have planes on their legs or how Sanya is one of very few witches with bottoms on as such. Don't take the show so seriously since it has more fan service than anything else.

The art is more polished than before and does randomly although oddly change into a CGI format at times with the girls although that stops a bit as it goes on. The girls, as usual, have great fanservice about them which suits them completely.

The OP is still a banger with an ED to boot. Generally, sounds are nicely done and SFX is used but again as the most show could just have a bit more oomph at times.

Characters develop a fair amount in the regard most are already established. You get a few stories in the show that support such things. You also get what this show does which I think is superb is the way they can change characters out by them getting too old to be a strong witch anymore. Meaning if a new season after this was to come they would have a few replacement witches to keep it fresh.

The show does do one thing that annoys me. Although whether Strike Witches or Brave Witches you always have the weak character who is strong. Yoshika who is well established as an amazing but unstable witch seems to have this thing about having multiple segments through the history purely about her losing control of magic which has got a bit old now. As seen with episode 3 she is the issue and later in episode 10, she is still an issue. One thing I wonder is I know the Shinden is secret and powerful but it suits Yoshika as the only person who can use it properly yet she barely has it.

In the end, the show is very enjoyable and although not as good as before it is a delight to see it. It finishes in a way that can stop the show but also let you know there is room to continue. The finale was spectacular.

8/10.