Product Description

Settling into the second chapter of her life, Nagisa Aoi experiences both normal and abnormal things as a student in an all-girl high school. Various issues creep up as the school year progresses, including the election process for the next Étoile, mysteries regarding the dorms, and the midyear exams en français. Luckily, with summer break after those tests, Nagisa and many of her friends are able to enjoy a trip to the beach to bond and explore their relationships with one another.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103377 in DVD
• Brand: Media Blasters
• Released on: 2008-05-27
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 5.00 pounds
• Running time: 150 minutes

Features

• Settling into the second chapter of her life, Nagisa Aoi experiences both normal and abnormal things as a student in an all-girl high school. Various issues creep up as the school year progresses, including the election process for the next toile, mysteries regarding the dorms, and the midyear exams en fran ais. Luckily, with summer break after those tests, Nagisa and many of her friends are able

Customer Reviews

You Have to Love Strawberry Panic
I love Strawberry Panic! It really deserves every "yuri" tag that it gets, because this is quality. Tasteful girl-girl romance. No crude fanservice. Characters (all female) fall in love just like anyone else. Two girls being romantically involved is not treated like something out of the ordinary. In fact, on Astraea Hill, its expected!

This volume contines where volume 1 left off. I'll try not to spoil anything... Hikari and Amane (cover) get a little closer despite Kaname and Monomi's devious shenanigans. Shizuma and Nagisa bond over French. There are a couple silly episodes on this disc, like the one with the umbrella (8). The one with the "Seven Wonders" (9) is a little silly too, but we get to see Miyuki and Shizuma as first years and that makes it worth it.

Overall, I think Strawberry Panic is a good series. The art style is kind of standard, but is well drawn and good quality on DVD. The plot is somewhat predictable, but still fun and charming. I love all the characters, especially Shizuma.

This volume contains episodes 7-11 with subtitles. I wish there was a dubbed version on disc. I don't watch dubbed versions because they are usually terrible, but sometimes its nice to hear their voices in English.

Oh, and be sure to get the next volume. Things really get good!

If you like the anime there is a manga and light novel as well.

For what it is...
Strawberry Panic! volume 2 involves the continuing adventures of the girls on Astrea Hill, divided into three schools: Saint Miator, developing tomorrow's housewives with strict rules and tradition; St. Spica, focused on athletics and leadership; and St. Lu Lim (or Lilim or Lulim, depending on what translation you're looking at), the least intensive of the three with many clubs and fun activities to fill free time.

Each episode is a cute, stand-alone story involving things like trying to find a lost umbrella, studying for an exam, or going to the beach. Underneath these stories, however, is a constant romantic tension: all of the girls are interested in other girls (in fact, not a single male appears at any point in the show!).

The main focus this DVD (and in the series) is St. Miator, which follows Nagisa Aoi, a cheerful 15-year-old and her romantic entanglements with her roomate Tamao and the beautiful Shizuma, an older and very amorous school star. However, one episode moves us over to St. Spica, where our main character Hikaru Konohana and her "prince" Amane Otori (pictured on the box cover) are trying to overcome their shyness enough to start a relationship. Not all the girls at St. Spica are very nice, however, and Hikaru quickly finds herself the target of a very nasty predator.

Strawberry Panic! is unusual: it's a show aimed at adult men written by a woman focusing on adolescent lesbianism. The sexuality, therefore, though written to appeal to men, still has a definite female point of view in parts. Still, a lot of the more blatant sex in the manga and novels was cut out. If you're looking for racy material, you'd do better to check out Strawberry Panic! books.

Strawberry Panic! is cute, fun and full of likeable characters and constant soap-opera entanglements. If that's not your thing, I definitely advise you to stay away. But if you enjoy shoujo ai ("girl's love"--that is, lesbian elements), cute adolescent love stories and/or simple, funny plotlines, this is definitely one to check out.

Dry Yuri Drama
You really can't blame anyone if they decide that this series is not their cup of tea. While it may be a yuri story about young, nubile, Catholic school girls being angsty and dramatic with each other... it's a very DRY yuri story. Those who enjoy the easy going drama stories that focus more on the relationships between the characters and things like working on how they feel will find enjoyable viewing here. If you're someone who desperately needs their conflicts to involve some kind of external catalyst to keep things moving, this series will probably bore you to tears. Definitely for the niche audience who seeks out this kind of storytelling.