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corrected an error of fact - Geneon did the dubbing, Funimation merely license-rescued the title
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Widely regarded by fans as the best season of ''Nanoha'' and the only sequel to the original not to have caused a [[Broken Base]] in some way. Until previews and info for the movie below started showing up.
 
It has a supplementary [[Slice of Life]] manga and [[Audio Adaptation|Sound Stages]] that take place between the episodes. The [[Namco Bandai]] game for the [[PlayStation Portable]], ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's Portable|The Battle Of Aces]]'', is an [[Alternate Continuity]] sequel to ''A's'' which changes the events of the last episode. A movie remake of ''A's'', following the continuity of the first movie, is also in the works with an expected release date in 2012.
 
The anime was dubbed andby is[[Geneon]] availablejust before they went out of business. It was license-rescued by [[FUNimation]] along with the original series.
 
'''NOTE:''' Only general tropes for the series are listed here. For character-specific ones, check out the [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's/Characters|character]] [[Lyrical Nanoha/Characters|sheets.]]
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==== ''MGLN A's'' provides examples of: ====
 
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* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: The final battle takes place on Christmas Eve.
* [[Anonymous Benefactor]]: Hayate has an "[[Honorary Uncle|uncle]]" who provides her with money {{spoiler|and turns out to be Admiral Graham}}.
* [[Artifact of Death]]: The Book of Darkness, because of the malfunction.
* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: The final battle takes place on Christmas Eve.
* [[Biological Mashup]]: The corrupted defense program of the Book of Darkness, which seems to be a hybrid of the magical monsters whose linker cores the Wolkenritter absorbed.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The threat of the Book of Darkness is over, as is its control over Hayate and the Wolkenritter's lives, but {{spoiler|this requires Reinforce's [[Heroic Sacrifice]], preventing her from sharing her mistress and knights' happiness and greatly upsetting Hayate}}.
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* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: "Brave Phoenix" for pretty much everyone in the final fight.
* [[Time Skip]]:
** 6Six months between ''MSLN'' and ''A's''.
** 6Six years to the [[Distant Finale]].
* [[Treachery Cover-Up]]: {{spoiler|Admiral Graham's plan to seal the Book of Darkness away with Hayate}} is largely overlooked outside of the upper echelons of the TSAB, and he [[Karma Houdini|merely resigns]], only being officially accused of breaking into Bureau systems and interfering with the investigation.
* [[Together Umbrella]]: Nanoha and Yuuno. The shippers must have gone nuclear...
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Nanoha loses to Vita, and Fate is losing against Signum for most of their first fight, to show the power of the new antagonists.
 
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