In both films, Shizuka learns that the entire 501st aren’t exactly the stoic heroes she’d imagined them to be, but these imperfections do not diminish each Witches’ sense of duty when the moment calls for it. Despite Joint Fighter Wing Take Off! The Movie parodying the events of Strike Witches: The Movie, it manages to inherit the original movie’s thematic elements in showing how one’s heroes aren’t always what they seem. In practise, Joint Fighter Wing Take Off! The Movie is a light-hearted parody of the events seen in Strike Witches: The Movie, which similarly started out with Yoshika accepting an offer to pursue medicine overseas, reunite with the 501st and help fight off a massive Neuroi, regaining her powers in the process. The film premièred in Japan in October 2019 and saw a home release on Christmas Day, acting as a continuation to the events of Joint Fighter Wing Take Off!. Going from the summary alone, one would never have guessed that Joint Fighter Wing Take Off! The Movie was a spin-off comedy of the main Strike Witches series. With the 501st back together, Mio invites Shizuka to join them as they continue on with escorting Yoshika to applying for medical school. She heals Charlotte and Erica after Gertrude mangled their faces in anger for having lied about Yoshika being lost to the Neuroi. Amidst the reunion, Yoshika’s magic reawakens. Erica and Gertrude swiftly locate the pair, and the Yamato shells the Neuroi, destroying it swiftly before Shizuka has a chance to see the famed 501st in combat. However, having caught snippets of their communications, Minna and the others arrive to help Yoshika and Shizuka out: the Yamato also joins the group en route to the combat area. When a massive Neuroi appears, the two hide under a jeep. They rush off to sound an evacuation of a nearby village, only to find the village deserted. En route to Dijon, Yoshika and Shizuka encounter a Neuroi. Meanwhile, upon hearing of Yoshika’s arrival, Charlotte, Francesca, Sanya and Eila prepare to head off to join the rest of the 501st. Sargeant Hattori Shizuka is assigned to help with escorting Yoshika over from Japan to Europe, and upon arriving in a port in Calais, Yoshika reunites with Lynette and Perrine. When Mio visits and learns of Yoshika’s ambitions to pursue medicine, she passes this information to Minna, who suggests giving Yoshika a recommendation to an European medical school, thereby giving everyone an opportunity to be with Yoshika again. With her magic depleted, Yoshika decides to study conventional medicine instead, although she feels that she’s become useless in the days since her return. In the aftermath of their triumph over the Neuroi Hive, the 501st Joint Fighter Wing’s members head their separate ways, and Yoshika returns home a hero. “Comedy is great because there’s no overhead.” –Ron White
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