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{{work|wppage=Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (series)}}
{{outdated}}<!-- The second movie's been out for a while. There's a third and a fourth movie, too. -->
''This is a
[[File:nanohamovie_2860.jpg|frame|Female bonding at its awesomest.]]
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It has been noted by TV executives that [[Magical Girl]] series usually have [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]] -- not only are they popular among [[Kodomomuke|4 to 9-year-old girls]], but also among [[Seinen|19 to 30-]][[Testosterone Brigade|year-old males]]. Shows such as ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' attempt to [[Multiple Demographic Appeal|please both demographics]]. ''Nanoha'' is [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?|made exclusively for the second]].
The series has a rather unusual production history. Nanoha first started as a [[Token
What makes ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' unique is the detail put into the fight scenes, much to the delight of the [[Seinen]] market's nostalgia for [[Humongous Mecha|grand space battles]] and fist-pumping action. Many people who can't stand typical [[Magical Girl]] shows enjoy ''Nanoha'' because of this. It is also unusual among [[Magical Girl]] series in that Nanoha ''loves'' her job, enjoys her powers, and makes responsible decisions regarding them extending into adulthood.
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== Primary continuity ==
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'' (2007)
* ''[[StrikerS Sound Stage X]]
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid]]''
** ''[[Magical
** ''[[ViVid Strike!]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' (manga, 2009-2013)
== [[Alternate Continuity|Alternate continuities]] ==
The game continuity:
* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable
* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie Second As]] - a retelling of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's|A's]]''; (2012)▼
* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Movie First the Comics]] - the manga of the movie, which is yet another retelling of ''[[Nanoha Original]]'', though [[Rewrite|significantly different]] from both sources; (2009-2010)▼
The movie continuity, which in the commentary audio tracks on the home releases is revealed to be [[Propaganda Piece|a TSAB-approved retelling of the primary continuity's events]] in-universe:
* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie First]] (2010)
▲** [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Movie First the Comics]] - the manga of the movie, which is yet another retelling of ''[[Nanoha Original]]'', though [[Rewrite|significantly different]] from both sources; (2009-2010)
▲* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie Second As]]
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation]]'' - two movies telling one story. The story, very loosely based on ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny'', is set two years after ''Movie Second A's''. (2017 and 2018, respectively)
== [[All There in the Manual|Supplementary works]] ==
* A [[Light Novel]] adaptation of the first season. It deviates from the original plot in a way similar to the movie manga and has the same artist. It has never been translated and is mostly dismissed as non-canon as opposed to an [[Alternate Continuity]].
* Three volumes of manga detailing various [[Day in the Life|slice of life moments]] throughout ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's|A's]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|
* A set of [[Audio Adaptation|Audio Dramas]] for each of the first three seasons and the movie called [https://web.archive.org/web/20120601233731/http://translationcd.wikispaces.com/ "Sound Stages",] that take place at various points in the series. ''[[StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'' is an entirely self-contained story.
* A semi-canon (though its status is debatable) anthology manga called ''Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Comic à la carte''.
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The entire series is animated by Seven Arcs and written by Masaki Tsuzuki, who has a habit of radically [[Genre Shift|shifting its tone and feel]] between almost every installment.
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* [[Air Jousting]]: Sometimes with rocket-propelled devices for good measure.
* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: The ones that we see, at least... but why would they visit any that aren't?
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Many things, from details on how spells work to how characters came to certain decisions in the series, to even major parts of characters' backstories, are only discussed in the Sound Stages and manga. Even who some minor characters actually ''are''. Recall the cheerful maid that took care of Fate and her sister in the dream she had towards the end of ''A's''? Without seeing some of the official art, you'd never know she had ''cat ears and a tail'' under that outfit. She's Precia's familiar. This was corrected in [[The Movie]].
* [[Alternate Calendar]]: Old and New Mid-Childan Calendar.
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** Nanoha and family are an [[Alternate Universe]] version of the one from the H-game and [[OVA]] series ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]]'' where her brother, sister, and father were ninja-like bodyguards. The first season makes numerous references to this. Her father, killed in ''Triangle Heart'', is alive in this universe, although covered with scars from "his old job". In addition Nanoha enjoys watching her brother and sister spar, using the same fighting style from the original series.
** It's also an alternate continuity to the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_RBghAfiW8 Lyrical Toy Box]'' mini-game [[Spin-Off]], which was the spiritual pilot for ''Nanoha'', very little of which was kept in the final incarnation.
** Within the franchise itself we have [[The Movie]]s, which
** The movie's supplementary manga diverges further into
** The PSP games ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable|Battle of Aces]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable|Gears of Destiny]]'' are also an alternate continuity diverging from the main series shortly before the end of ''A's''.
** ''Lyrical Nanoha×Prisma☆Illya'' is some kind [[Alternate Continuity]] singularity, considering it crosses over two [[Alternate Universe]] spinoffs of two unrelated franchises, while not being in continuity with any of them. It's still official, but it was done more or less for the sake of crackpotitude.
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: Common to have antagonist that aren't evil.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Lost Logia in sufficient amount is capable of X-2 and beyond class as the Al-Hazred disaster showed.
* [[Armed with Canon]]: The Megami Sound Stages were written by Yuunoha supporters, while ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|
* [[Artificial Human]]: Many of the characters, both heroic and villainous, are lab experiments.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]]'', Nanoha is just a side character who doesn't get much development outside of Kuon's route. Then the fan box came out and gave her a small game. Then, that inspired ''this'' show.
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** The Takamachi family. The White Devil herself, Fate, and {{spoiler|[[Person of Mass Destruction|Vivio]]}}. And if you go with the ''Triangle Heart'' backstory, also Nanoha's siblings, Kyoya and Miyuki Takamachi and their father, all of whom are superb swordsmen and able to defeat legions of gunmen in mere seconds. Not to mention the fact the entire family is descended from samurai.
** The Nakajimas. With the exception of [[Non-Action Guy|Non Action Dad]] Genya, all of the members of the family are formidable fighters. [[Action Mom|Quint]], [[Boobs of Steel|Ginga]], [[Hot-Blooded|Subaru]], {{spoiler|[[Badass Longcoat|C]][[Eyepatch of Power|i]][[Knife Nut|n]][[Stuff Blowing Up|q]][[You Shall Not Pass|ue]], [[BFG|Dieci]], [[Power Fist|Nove]] and [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Wendi]]}}. {{spoiler|Tohma Avenir}} will likely be joining them in the near future.
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Used extensively in transformation sequences and in all other cases for the lolis in the manga and the anime series. The adults in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|
* [[Battle Ballgown]]: Nanoha and Vita's Barrier Jackets are in this style throughout the franchise.
* [[Beam-O-War]]: Subverted for the most part. In any [[Beam-O-War]] situation, nobody ever really has to work at it. Any time it happens, one of the people attempting it will lose almost instantly, because true [[Beam-O-War]] requires standing still, and anyone engaged in [[Full-Contact Magic]] loses when they do that.
* [[The Bechdel Test]]: Passes, in large part because of the [[Fundamentally Female Cast]].
* [[Become Your Weapon]]: The Unison Devices (or "Unison Knights" in the movies) are tiny sentient humanoids who exist specifically to physically merge with their masters and give them enormous power boosts. The only downside is that very few mages can handle Unison.
* [[BFG]]: Intelligent Devices are basically the magical equivalent. To push the analogy further, the second season introduces cartridges, which might as well be magically charged shotgun shells or even rifle casings from their appearance, and Bardiche loads them [[Revolvers Are Just Better|from a swing-out revolver cylinder]], while Raising Heart does so from a detachable box magazine. Raising Heart's cannon mode in [[The Movie]] even has a sliding trigger grip.
* [[Blank White Eyes]]
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: In addition to the series' roots in [[Eroge]], the animation studio Seven Arcs made nothing but porn before they made ''Nanoha''.
* [[Blue with Shock]]
* [[Boxed Crook]]: One of the bureau's favorite ways to recruit new mages is to give defeated villains job offers. Contrary to most examples of this trope, the work involved is more akin to community service than anything else, and it's shown to be temporary. As of ''StrikerS'', Fate and Hayate have both graduated from this program and gone on to become high-ranking officers and widely-recognized heroes of the bureau, and the Numbers seem to be on their way to similar status in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|
* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]:
** "Set up." Amusingly in very beginning, Nanoha had to recite a ridiculous chant in order to activate Raising Heart. She developed the reroute/short-cut on her own, much to Yuuno's shock and amazement.
** Durandel's "Start up."
** The one-time-only German commands used to
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: And when the characters don't, their devices do it for them. Or the character and device call the attack in unison, or one starts the call and the other completes it.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: The more sympathetic villains regarding their true objectives.
* [[Casual Interplanetary Travel]]: The cosmology is a bit vague, but it seems that "dimension", "world", and "planet" mean the same thing in the setting. Spells like Dimensional Transfer are readily available to [[Magitek]] mages, and in ''[[Nanoha Vivid]]'', the heroes take a shuttle to another planet like one would take a bus to another town.
* [[Competence Zone]]: Averted with a vengeance. Where most magical girls [[Growing Up Sucks|lose their powers as they grow older]], Nanoha and company get that much more badass as they go from their pre-teens to their early 20s.
* [[Cool Starship]]: ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: All young males in both the Japanese and English versions.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The series is gradually slipping into this as the franchise wears on.
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* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: There's a single unruly tuft of hair growing out of the head of almost everyone, particularly prominent on the members of the Testarossa family.
* [[The Federation]]: The TSAB.
* [[Flash Step]]: Various spells allow this, but Fate is a regular
* [[Genre Shift]]: Each installment seems to move further away from the stereotypical [[Magical Girl]] setting, and closer to Nanoha's destiny of being an [[Gundam|RX-78-2 in a schoolgirl outfit.]]
* [[Gratuitous English]]: The more the devices talk, the less cool they get. In [[The Original Series]], they only call out attack names. In ''A's'', they occasionally speak in full sentences. By the time of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'', they even have actual conversations with their masters with painfully bad grammar. They seem to have caught on and finally fixed the grammar problems for the movie. And a couple of the new Devices in ''Force'' speak Japanese.
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* [[Holographic Terminal]]: Magical ones, but holographic nonetheless.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Most of the human cast isn't from [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet|Earth]].
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: To quote Raising Heart: "Barrier Jacket". Furthermore, it's freely customisable by the user.
* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: In both population and screen time.
* [[Instant Armor]]: The Barrier Jackets are skimpier than most example, but they still appear outta nowhere, and seem to outstrip a Main Battle Tank in terms of defensive potential. They appear to be created by the user's mana and according to the movie manga can even be regenerated mid-battle. Then again that is an [[Alternate Continuity]].
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* [[Les Yay]]: [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)/Ho Yay|Enough to get its own page.]]
* [[Life Energy]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Manageable in the first two series. Becomes quite unwieldy in ''StrikerS'', to the point that many of the antagonists receive almost no characterization at all [[All There in the Manual|outside of the supplementary material]]. ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|
* [[Lost Technology]]: Lost Logia.
* [[Magical Girl Warrior]]: With the exception of a couple of the early episodes they are called "mages" or "knights", which isn't strictly limited to females, though the ratio is [[Fundamentally Female Cast|quite heavily slanted]] in their favour.
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* [[Moe Couplet]]: Fuels nearly every standard fanship, to the point it replaces the otherwise vanilla Erio/Caro ship vaguely implied in the show.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Most of ''Nanoha'' tends to alternate between adorably sweet and terribly depressing.
* [[Muggles Do It Better]]: Thoroughly averted. Except for pesky [[Mage Killer|Mage Killers]], magic is superior in both strategic and tactical aspects. Until ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation]]'', when {{spoiler|technology manages to do better than magic... until Nanoha gets serious}}.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]:
** Raising Heart doesn't have any hearts. The name is an artifact from the ''Lyrical Toy Box'', where it actually was a puny heart-shaped wand.
** The TSAB doesn't do anything in the '''Time''' department. TSAB should in fact be translated as "Dimension Administrative Bureau", and going by the English subs of [[Nanoha the Movie First|the first movie]], this is the official English translation as used by Seven Arcs. (However, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection|Reflection]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation|Detonation]]'' use "Time-Space Administration Bureau" in their subtitles.) It could also be more accurately translated as Space-Time Administration Bureau to correspond with the "Spacetime" concept that pops up whenever the Universe is discussed in Physics, but, uhh... [[Fun with Acronyms|the problems with that acronym should be pretty obvious.]]
* [[Opposing Combat Philosophies]]: The Midchildian mages focus on defensive barriers and [[Wave Motion Gun]] tactics, while the Belkan Knights swarm up close with punishing melee attacks and cartridge-enhanced weaponry. There are exceptions to both rules like Fate, a melee-oriented Mid-childa style, and Hayate, a long-range [[Squishy Wizard]] Belkan-user, and things get more complicated as the series goes on with mixed types, defense and support specialists, exotics like summon magic, and various forms of magical kung-fu.
* [[Panty Shot]]: Mandatory during transformation sequences. Otherwise almost non-existent, save for roughly one single inexplicable shot in each season.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: ''Nanoha'' is a rare series where there's a good portion of individuals who treat theirs well. The ones who don't... well, they get [[Unusual Euphemism|befriended]], in some cases fatally.
* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Played with in many ways.
* [[Powers as Programs]]: Yuuno explains right at the start of the first season that this is how the Intelligent Devices work.
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* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: Mostly. Any given antagonist a has at least a 50% chance of joining the good guys in the next season. Well, the Huckebein will probably break the trend considering how they're all [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]] and all.
* [[Seinen]]
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: Between the three anime series, the stage just gets bigger and bigger. However, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'' and later series consciously averted the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' method of power-level inflation; in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|
* [[Ship Sinking]]: ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～]]'' had Nanoha/Chrono as canon, with none of the major alternative partners for Nanoha or Chrono available. Naturally, in this universe, it's the one suggested Nanoha pairing that we're explicitly told ''doesn't'' happen, as Chrono marries Amy between As and Strikers.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]: [[Earn Your Happy Ending|STARLIGHT]] [[Defeat Means Friendship|BREAKER!]] It fixes everything!
** And if it doesn't, Nanoha upgrades it so it does anyway!
* [[Smoke Shield]]: At least once each season, if not more.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]:
*
* [[The Stinger]]: At the end of the Kaleid Liner crossover special when everyone goes back to their home dimensions, Ilya thinks of the pair of wonderful friends she made... then suddenly realizes she's holding Raising Heart, and Ruby is nowhere to be seen.▼
** Geneon's subtitle tracks say Fate's familiar is named "Arf". The subtitle tracks in all four movies say her name is "Alph".
▲* [[The Stinger]]: At the end of the ''Kaleid Liner'' crossover special when everyone goes back to their home dimensions, Ilya thinks of the pair of wonderful friends she made... then suddenly realizes she's holding Raising Heart, and Ruby is nowhere to be seen.
* [[Stock Footage]]: Surprisingly little, but there.
* [[Stun Guns]]: Devices can't kill, except by whacking someone to death with them. Even when your opponent is slammed into a wall, buried in rubble or engulfed in flames, it somehow never causes lasting damage.
** Uh, that's because of the Barrier Jackets -- it ''is'' magical body armor, after all.
*** Case and point, within the first two episodes of ''A's'' Nanoha's barrier jacket is destroyed, and suddenly she and all her contacts are treating the battle like a whole different situation; specifically, a brief moment of [[Darker and Edgier]].
** In the first battle in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection|Reflection]]'', Nanoha specifically and verbally sets her Divine Buster to stun.
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Mostly spoken by the computers, but also by one of Nanoha's friends at school. They're correctly accented, and make sense in context although the grammar leaves something to be desired. The movie has the best English so far. They actually have native English-speaking voice actors for the computers -- Australian-born [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1051234/ Donna Burke] for Raising Heart and an unknown named Kevin J. England for Bardiche.
* [[Technology Porn]]: With the exception of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|
* [[Theme Naming]]: As in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'', characters from the magical worlds are named for cars -- (Ferrari) Testarossa, Scaglietti, (Opel) Zafira, Signum, Vita, (Maserati) Shamal, (Nissan) Teana, Subaru, etc. In total, there are around ''forty'' characters/devices that share names with cars.
* [[Time Skip]]: Between each
* [[Training from Hell]]: One particular subversion aside, most of the mage training in the series is shown to be very grueling.
* [[Translation Convention]]: Messages displayed and spoken by Mid-Childa's Magitek devices are usually in English or German<ref>Exceptions being humanoid Unison Devices such as Reinforce Zwei and Agito, Tohma's device Steed and Isis' device from ''Force''</ref>, but all non-device characters exclusively speak Japanese. Since no explanation is ever provided, and it's possible that Mid-Childa could have picked up any or all of these languages through dimension-hopping shenanigans, it's unclear where the [[Translation Convention]] is being applied, or whether it is being applied at all.
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* [[Wave Motion Gun]]:
** The Arc-En-Ciel is a good example of a traditional one.
** The others are all powered by a [[Person of Mass Destruction]]. In the first movie, Nanoha's Starlight Breaker ''levels an entire city''.
* [[Wizards from Outer Space]]
* [[World of Action Girls]]
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