Strike Witches tackles some very serious subject matters pertaining to battles and wars in a magical girl series.
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Strike Witches
- In the prologue, the Neuroi appear into our world via the vortexes in the skies and wreak havoc on various cities.
- As often the case in Truth in Television, soldiers get wounded and killed in battle. As summed up in one of the military officer's lines:"This is a slaughter, kid."
- Gertrud witnessing the destruction of Karlsland and Chris getting injured in the resulting attack.
- When Gertrud gets shot down by the Neuroi, she bleeds heavily from her stomach and came this close to dying when Yoshika heals her.
- The fact there is a Neruoi unit of unknown type that is trying to stalk Sanya, one that often hides in the clouds and on it's first contact with the Orussian Night witch didn't fight back AND escaped being destroyed. The second time it is encountered by Sanya, Eila and Yoshika it's presence is preceded by a "song" it was singing in a way like Sanya Sings....but it's voice and song echos across radio waves and the skies itself in an echoed and eerie, metallic sounding cross akin to an eldritch whale singing through a poorly cared for radio and miss-tuned speakers. It's song also apparently disrupts radio communications and radar systems to some degree.
- The death of Minna's childhood friend and (implied) lover can catch people off-guard.
- Minna trying to stop Mio when she loses her powers is unnerving.
Brave Witches
- Takami exhausts her powers to the point of unconsciousness.
- Hikari getting frozen in the icy water during a mission in Orussia.
- The Fridge Horror sets in when you consider that for Hikari, when she was hit by a weaponized blizzard attack from a Neruoi weather control air unit; she was promptly subject to the early stages of onset hypothermia and both Sadoko and Georgette are deeply worried for her safty and well being; expression concern that she might freeze to death, succumbing to hypothermia. And consider that Hikari is a witch, and wither her magical power, even factoring she has lower then average magical potential; she was hit by an weaponized icy blast of cold air that took her to showing symptoms of hypothermia at all. Imagine what would have happened if a normal person without magic was hit by that same attack..... it's likely they would be frozen to death as a proverbial block of ice.
- Towards the end of the series, Hikari realizes that Takami will use her Absolute Eye to exhaust her powers again and rushes out into the Final Battle to help.
