You're comparing a series which was made for <s>pre-teen</s> teenage girls to one which was made for thirty-year-old men.
Of course there are going to be differences in tone, athmosphere, and plot detail. And fanservice. <_<
I can understand if you guys can't take SM seriously due to the tone of the story, but please don't apply that mindset to the power levels. And before you start flaming another series, please keep in mind that most people don't take Nanoha seriously because of the lolis, the fanservice, the "everyone's a lesbian" vibe, the dissonance between the magical girl characters and the potentially dark plot, and its target audience. I mean that seriously; the vast majority of people I showed Nanoha to ultimately rejected it because it was too loli, too over-the-top, too dark, too boring, too many gay people, too much like Gundam, and so on and so forth.
Even among anime fans, Nanoha fans are ultimately a very vocal minority whereas Sailor Moon is recognizable even among non-fans.
So in conclusion: stick to Rule of Funny guys. Most people can take depreciative humor or jokes about a series they like, such as the multiple Abridge series. The same people will flip you the finger if the jokes start getting too harsh, the put-downs too nasty, and the non-canon presentation depicted as truth. Because it just isn't funny anymore.
P.S. I am a Nanoha fan. I just don't like to pretend that most people are as well or that Nanoha is the most powerful magical girl to have existed. (She's the Coolest magical girl to have existed, yes, not the most powerful.)
P.P.S. On that note, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle has Sakura weilding dual pistols. I know dual pistols can never be as powerful as the Clow Cards. But damn, that is cool.
Of course there are going to be differences in tone, athmosphere, and plot detail. And fanservice. <_<
I can understand if you guys can't take SM seriously due to the tone of the story, but please don't apply that mindset to the power levels. And before you start flaming another series, please keep in mind that most people don't take Nanoha seriously because of the lolis, the fanservice, the "everyone's a lesbian" vibe, the dissonance between the magical girl characters and the potentially dark plot, and its target audience. I mean that seriously; the vast majority of people I showed Nanoha to ultimately rejected it because it was too loli, too over-the-top, too dark, too boring, too many gay people, too much like Gundam, and so on and so forth.
Even among anime fans, Nanoha fans are ultimately a very vocal minority whereas Sailor Moon is recognizable even among non-fans.
So in conclusion: stick to Rule of Funny guys. Most people can take depreciative humor or jokes about a series they like, such as the multiple Abridge series. The same people will flip you the finger if the jokes start getting too harsh, the put-downs too nasty, and the non-canon presentation depicted as truth. Because it just isn't funny anymore.
P.S. I am a Nanoha fan. I just don't like to pretend that most people are as well or that Nanoha is the most powerful magical girl to have existed. (She's the Coolest magical girl to have existed, yes, not the most powerful.)
P.P.S. On that note, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle has Sakura weilding dual pistols. I know dual pistols can never be as powerful as the Clow Cards. But damn, that is cool.
