Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Japanese: 魔法少女リリカルなのは English: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 13 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Oct 3, 2004 to Dec 26, 2004 Premiered: Fall 2004 Broadcast: Sundays at 00:30 (JST) Producers: Starchild Records, Omnibus Promotion Licensors: Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA Studios: Seven Arcs Source: Original Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama Theme: Mahou Shoujo Duration: 25 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 7.411 (scored by 43,056 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #22752 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2091 Members: 106,498 Favorites: 1,059 Available AtResources |
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Dec 5, 2008 Skadi Recommended As a fan of anime, the magical girl genre has not always been a favorite. Perhaps I have watched the wrong shows up until now and got a bad impression of it. Up till now, magical girls are usually extremely silly shows with way to many loli's, overly long and indecent transformation scenes, and perverted magic animals from other worlds or dimensions. Did I miss something? Happily, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha is not one of those. Starting out there is nothing particularly original or extremely interesting about this show. Nanoha, an ordinary young girl gets magical powers from a magic using ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 5, 2007 Killuan Recommended Nanoha is not spectacular in part, but as a whole it shines. I can explain this by saying that the animation, sound, story, and character development as seperate entities are nothing remarkable (with some deference to the opening sound track) - As a complete intertwining smorgasbord of sensual imagery, these elements form an exceptional, and enjoyable investment of time. The animation got me hooked in the first episode with two short lived but highly innovative sequences that are never again revisited in style or similarity. Lukily for me, that was not near as important in further episodes as I became further engrosed in the series. ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 17, 2008 Shini-tan Recommended Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (I'll abbreviate it to MSLN in the review for the sake of convenience) is an anime about a magical girl named Nanoha. Along the way, she meets another magical girl named Fate, and tries to help her with her problems. story; Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 31, 2007 jet2r0cks Recommended 5 WORDS OR LESS REVIEW: Mahou shoujo with some zing I watched “Triangle Heart ~Sweet Songs Forever~” before Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, and personally, I’m glad that MSLN’s story is a lot different from Triangle Heart. Nanoha Takamachi was also a character in Triangle Heart, but she was sort of an extra character there. She takes the stage as main character in MSLN as a normal third grader who suddenly meets a ferret who is actually a mage from another world, and he asks Nanoha to help her collect Jewel Seeds that have scattered all over her world. It seems a lot like Card Captor Sakura, but ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 18, 2011 Reckoner Mixed Feelings While perusing over titles in the magical girl genre it is almost impossible to miss that which is the Nanoha franchise these days. Touted by many as a revolutionary magical girl show with its Gundam like magical battles and its supposed expansive universe, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha is certainly not lacking any hype. However, as reactions may vary, I found this show to be quite the disappointment. This show can definitely be split into two halves. The very beginning is typical enough for a mahou shoujo show, it certainly plays off the very roots of the genre with how Nanoha first finds and comes into contact with ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 7, 2015 ktulu007 Recommended Welcome to the new year, everyone. It's time for magical girl anime month and let's open with a look at Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Nanoha is the first TV production of Seven Arcs. The same studio that did Sekirei & Inukami, both exceedingly stupid. So, how did their first foray into tv anime go? Story: Our tale opens with our protagonist, 3rd grader Takamachi Nanoha, getting a psychic message in a dream asking for her help. The next morning she finds an injured ferret on her way to school, hearing a call for help that leads her to it. She and her friends take it to a ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 23, 2015 Jupiter05 Recommended Let me start off by saying that I am a complete fantasy maniac. In other words, I really love watching anime that include transformations, spells, and talking animals. This probably tweaked my rate on this anime up a little. If any of you like fantasy anime, then you'd be missing out on a lot of things if you didn't or are not going to watch this anime. Story [9] The story line for this anime was (in my opinion) exceptionally good. It was not as easy to predict as I thought it would be. I enjoy it when there are sudden plot twists or confusions because ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 1, 2007 DragonsWhip Recommended Ah, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. When I first watched it, I dropped it. Untill recently! I came to the conclusion that the first episodes are so typical mahou shoujo, but I continued. Indeed: it turned out to be a good anime if you like mahou shoujo in any way. The story is, like I already said, very mahou shoujo. Girl meets unknown person, person needs help with collecting stuff, girl helps the person. Yeah, very typical. The story is in the beginning very Cardcaptor Sakura like, but later on the real and interesting story begins. The real story is interesting and emotional. The art of the anime ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 17, 2008 Splitter Recommended How does something that starts with a load of magical girl cliches end up transcending the entire genre by the end? Nanoha starts as a thinly-veiled Cardcaptor Sakura ripoff, yet by the end, it stands as an anime unlike anything other "magical girl" anime out there and quite possibly the most well-thought-out of them all. Despite the three episodes of classic magical girl exposition, the character Fate appears afterward and instigates the series' rapid evolution into something much more respectable. The elements of the plot become darker with the passing of time, especially parts of the plot that regard Fate and her reasons for fighting. Soon, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 4, 2014 ZachM Recommended In 2011, director Akiyuki Shinbo teamed up with Studio SHAFT and writer Gen Urobuchi to create an anime by the name of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Prior to Madoka, Shinbo was known to have only directed one other series from the Magical Girl genre. That series was Seven Arcs 2004 anime, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Now, why do I bring up Madoka you ask? Well its because they are extremely similar (as most anime directed by Shinbo are). Heck, if it wasn't for Gen Urobuchi turning Madoka into a deep dark pit of death and despair, I'd think they were the same show. But Nanoha, being a ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 21, 2007 FFViper Recommended This would be my first review, so I'll get straight to the point... Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha stands by its names as a magical girl show in the sense of girl discovering magical powers with near-nude transformation and such, however it has several points that place it apart from it peers. It has action that is on par with Shounen with its battles and a more realistic plot then most magical girl series. The show itselfs is short and goes by quick and lacks the 'slow' nature of most magical girl animes. The biggest thing about Nanoha is its straight to the point, we don't ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 9, 2014 ZeroReq011 Recommended A few episodes into this series, I couldn't quite tell what exactly was especially grim about this series, it being one of the quintessential dark magical girl narratives. Fairly ordinary girl meets fairly odd ferret. Fairly odd ferret provides her with a charm of sorts, granting her magical abilities to fight off malevolent creatures and contain arcane energies plaguing her hometown. Fairly standard magical girl setup. Then, several episodes later, I understood. Beside the universe that the events of the story that takes mostly in place in are other dimensions. Within these other dimensions exist legendary artifacts of power known as Lost Logia. Several of these ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 13, 2017 Angry_Anime_Nerd Not Recommended Funny Preliminary (1/13 eps) I only saw the first episode of this and then dropped it. Nanoha does not act like a nine-year-old. She is in third grade, yet I found Arisa very annoying and bratty. Like how she yelled at a dog to stop barking but she loves dogs? She's a hypocrite! There were some religious things in it, the thing that I hate the most Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 2, 2019 Honghan1995 Recommended As the series opens, Nanoha Takamachi is presented as an ordinary girl, living with her family, taking the bus to school and playing the gold-hearted average girl to her multimillionaire best friends Alisa Bannings and Suzuka Tsukimura. However, she always felt like a third wheel; her parents had each other, so did her siblings, and so did her best friends, while Nanoha had no such close companion. Additionally, she says she feels her life has no direction, as she has no plans for what she wants to do with herself. When she finds the injured Yūno in ferret form in the park, she brings him ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 28, 2009 Da_Nuke Recommended Before watching this, remember: MSLN is *not* a magical girl shoujo anime. It's a 100% straight action series. In fact, when I describe it to my friends, I describe it as "equal parts Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z and Star Trek, of just the right length". The first few chapters are typical magical girl fare, yeah, but that's just a bait and switch story that paves the way to a completely different story that focuses on the conflict between Fate's superiors, her relationship with Nanoha, Nanoha's own life issues, her new career as a magical girl, and the powers that are behind Nanoha's job. And all of ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 14, 2010 malvarez1 Recommended When I heard about this anime, I thought it sounded generic, but fun. I was kinda right. If you've ever watched any magical girl show where the main heroine fights monsters, then its probably like this. But still, it can be fun. In this anime, the main 9-year-old heroine, Nanoha, finds a talking animal that gives her magic powers, and now she must find these "Jewel Seeds". However, another young girl, Fate, is also searching for them. One major problem I had was Fate's motivation. I won't spoil it, but it felt lame. Her reasons were so dumb, I couldn't believe it. The fan-service can be annoying. ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 30, 2023 Animelover875 Mixed Feelings Lyrical Nanoha (season one), in a few words, is a series that's very difficult to recommend, but if you can deal with the negatives, it could be worth investing time into. Let's start with the positives. The series starts as a typical magical girl series with a focus on a "collect the items" mission and turns into something different by the end. There are a lot of great visuals and original songs here, and character designs tend to be mixed; Nanoha and Fate look great, but other characters fade into the background. The series somewhat mixes the slice-of-life genre with the magical girl aspect by giving ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 5, 2022 Ringrose Recommended I have heard about the Nanoha franchise for many years now, so I checked into it. While I’m not blown away, it is entertaining enough to keep my attention, which is rare for me. The story essentially follows the adventures of Nanoha becoming a magical girl, collecting the jewel seeds with her animal sidekick, which is standard fare. The plot takes an odd turn when science fiction is thrown into the blender. Yes, Nanoha is not a pure magical girl show. I happen to be a sucker for sci-fi, so this was a pleasant surprise for me. However, I have to admit this element has ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 1, 2010 PrimeSonic Recommended :::INTRO Hello all, this is PrimeSonic, here to bring you my review one of my all time favorite anime series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Lyrical Nanoha starts off like an overly generic mahou shoujo anime. This would be Yuuno who asks Nanoha to help him recover the Jewel Seeds and gives her the Raising Heart, an intelligent magical device that holds her staff and armor. Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 28, 2008 Tekky99 Recommended Length: 13 Episodes Plot Synopsis Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
