Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: Difference between revisions

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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 [[~~Play Station~~ Portable]], ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As 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.

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 As 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 and is available by [[FUNimation]] along with the original series.

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* [[Lighthearted Rematch]]: After the incident is over, Signum tells Fate she would like one. The last chapter of the manga involves a 5-on-5 sparring battle in which Nanoha, Fate, Yuuno, Chrono and Arf fight against Hayate and the Wolkenritter.

* [[Living with the Villain]]: Hayate's place is villain central, although it turns out the problem is on the bookshelf, not with the people. Nanoha's friend Suzuka becomes friends with Hayate, later introducing Nanoha to her, and even meets the Wolkenritter. In the first Sound Stage, Nanoha and Fate go to the public bath at the same time as Hayate and the Wolkenritter, and the two groups barely avoid seeing each other.

* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: The show already devotes an inordinate proportion of its [[Transformation Sequence|Transformation Sequences]] to shots of the characters' magical armaments, which include a surprisingly large number of moving parts. These evolved into full on [[Lock and Load Montage|Lock And Load Montages]] in ''A's'', they begin literally loading their weapons with cartridges and magazines.

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Fate gets caught in one by the Book of Darkness near the end of ''A's''. Reinforce offers Hayate one, and planned to put the entire Earth into one, but she refuses.

* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Averted; Nanoha is able to finish firing off her Starlight Breaker after her Linker Core gets damaged.

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* [[Tempting Fate]]

** In Vita's second fight with the title character, Nanoha fires a cartridge-boosted [[Magic Missile]] spread of twelve (in the first fight, Nanoha used twos or fours at most when shooting). Vita responds by deploying [[Beehive Barrier|Panzer Hidernis]] to protect herself while saying: "Are you stupid?! There's no way you control all these bullets!" A moment later, [[Improbable Aiming Skills|the bullets start speeding up]], and Vita's Panzer Hidernis begins cracking. [[Sarcasm Mode|Good job, Oh Great Hammer Knight]].

** In her ''third'' encounter with Nanoha, Vita used Eisen Geheul ("Iron Howl", kind of a flashbang/flare) to distract Nanoha while the knight escaped. After flying quite a distance (though still in sight), Vita muses, "OK, this is far enough..." Cue Nanoha charging up [[Wave Motion Gun|Divine Buster]]. "Is she seriously going to shoot anyway? At this range?!" Yes, Nanoha was and did. {{spoiler|Vita was saved by a third party intercepting the beam and slapping a binding spell on Nanoha in just a few seconds.}}

** Nanoha notes it would be funny if the master of the Book of Darkness happened to be a girl her age. Moments later, she gets an email from Suzuka telling her about Hayate.

** Amy, [[You Are in Command Now|having taken charge in Lindy and Chrono's absence]], tells Nanoha and Fate that she doesn't expect anything to happen, and is ''cut off in mid-sentence'' by the alarm going off as the Wolkenritter are detected.