Introduction
Several months have passed since the Jewel Seed incident, and Nanoha Takamachi is getting ready to welcome Fate Testarossa back from her trial with the Administrative Bureau. Having received conditional clemency for her role in preventing the crisis, Fate has been allowed to attend school with Nanoha. However, before the two girls can settle into their daily lives together, a group of dark mages suddenly descend upon them. Overpowered by their unknown assailants, Nanoha and Fate have their mana absorbed by an ominous grimoire, and both Raising Heart and Bardiche are damaged in the process.
The ones behind this ambush are known as the Wolkenritter, and its four members—Vita, Signum, Shamal, and the familiar Zafila—were summoned by the Book of Darkness to carry out its malignant bidding. The book's current owner is the young girl Hayate Yagami, oblivious to its true nature while the Wolkenritter, charging its power with the forcibly stolen mana, is duty-bound to seek the tome's completion.
Left drained and weaponless, Nanoha and Fate must race against time to recover their strength and confront the Wolkenritter, with the aim of preventing the quartet from finishing the Book of Darkness and unleashing its devastating magic upon the world.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
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ktulu007
At this point I've reviewed quite a few instalments in the Nanoha franchise. Including the first film and the A's series. Thus far, it's been a very strong franchise and I hope we're ending this year's film festival week on a high note with this.
Story:
We open with Hayate taking the bus while holding a chained up book in her lap. She' get's wheeling herself home in her chair when a sleeping truck driver nearly rams into her only for her to be saved by a mysterious light. Meanwhile, Nanoha is beyond excited for Fate's upcoming return. They're enjoying their reunion when we learn that mages and magical creatures alike have been attacked and had their linker cores drained. These events are quickly linked with the Book of Darkness incident that cost Captain Lindy her husband years ago.
Th…
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Lyrical Nanoha Movie The 2nd A's is the second movie and appropriately reboots the second season of the anime, Lyrical Nanoha A's in much the same way as its prequel did. While I had high hopes which were certainly held up to for the first movie, the second movie, while still very enjoyable, can be a bit of a mixed bag. Unfortunately, the second movie suffers from pacing just a bit more than the first; due to the sheer amount of content that was necessary to be crammed into the movie, it's not able to achieve the same level of success.
Certain elements that were present in the series and were able to be expanded on here. As examples, General Grahm and Chrono's teachers are nowhere to be seen, while events are given much less focus. There really is no easy way around this; there was more t…
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For anyone new to the franchise this is the definitive way to watch the A's arc. Much as with the previous film, this movie has clear, crisp new visuals, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the story a big boost. All the fat has been trimmed to fit it into a runtime less than 3 hours, but it never feels rushed and still manages to tell the whole story in a coherent fashion. Sticklers for cannon or people who liked those twin cat characters for some reason may complain that they omitted quite a few things, but looking at it in the grand scheme of things those were all unnecessary to the greater story being told. I think they were able to really cut to the emotional core of the story. It also felt like there were a lot of minor retcons to bring things more in line…
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First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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Short review for BOTH first and second movie.
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✦Story
Remakes of 1st and 2nd season. Read synopsis of main series or reviews or whatever. Not gonna comment the same story all over again. I'm going mention only obvious things for most part.
Basically its condensed version of series. So of course it will suffer from faster development and cut content. But as standalone I did enjoy it same as series. Did yes, watch with skips, but it's because I binge watched Nanoha and I cannot be bothered to re-watch something in a row.
✦Art&Sound
Years have passed and so has animation&art. It's years after main series so obviously Animation and Art is much better. It was quite enjoyabl…
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Alright, so to be clear, this movie is a remake of the original series.
I love the Mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha series and out of all 3 series, I enjoyed A's the most. So I was thrilled to hear that they'd make a remake. A lot of this review will be me ranting so please bear with me.
Story 9/10
The story was amazng as usual and I think that it was very fitting. Cramming 13 episodes which are 23 minutes each into a 2hour 40 movie will obviously get rid of some scenes. But the major down point in that was that they took out the main villain that appeared in the original. In a sense, that made the show go from being a story where there is a mastermind manipulating 2 sides to a pointless battle caused by a misunderstanding and 'lack of communication'.
Art 10/10
The art and animation is the part…
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"Mahou shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's" surpasses it's predecessor in literally ever aspect. For the longest time I've always figured sequels were inferior products just by definition alone, but Nanoha 2 proved just how wrong I was.
Story: 8
This adaption of the second season's events was handled far better than its prequel's attempt at the first season. Gone is the jagged pacing of the previous film, which I'm thankful for. Along with that the tale is just far more interesting this time around. Our heroes were up against a foe that actually felt more like a threat. This is largely because of the first fight in the film which highlights this fact. True to form like the prequel, Nanoha 2's antagonists are even more interesting, and have their own special dynamic that makes the f…
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Ah, the second Nanoha movie. Based off a season that the fandom seems to love even more than the first. So how did someone who didn't see the actual series until now think of this movie? Pretty good, actually. Not as good as the first movie, but still a good compilation movie nonetheless.
(Again, I've never seen the actual A's season, so if I'm ignorant of things that happened there that got cut out in the movie, sorry.)
Story (9/10): Once again, we have a condensed season put to movie form. The plot features a new character named Hayate and her relationship with the Book of Darkness and all of its protectors. We also have Nanoha and Fate joining up again to work on this new case.
There's a LOT of plot here that I can't really describe without total spoilers, so, in short, I can see ho…
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When I first watched Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's (the TV series), I loved it. It had a compelling story, great characters, and a beautiful OST. It eventually became the standard that I held perfection of an anime by and was the pinnacle of the Lyrical Nanoha franchise.
Needless to say, I was absolutely excited after I found out that A's was going to get a movie version like the first season. After all, the first movie was great. It trimmed the fat of the first season to make a stellar narrative. Of course that meant that with A's, something was going to be cut out. This was probably what I was most worried about that since I found it hard to cut scenes out of A's without losing something.
Now, without further ado: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's.
Story: 10
Since the…
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha MOVIE 2nd A's
Genre: Action, Magical Girl, Drama, Sci-Fi.
Length: 1 movie, 2 hours 40 minutes.
A side note guys - I ADORE the "Mahou Shojou Lyrical Nanoha" series. It's my favourite series. Therefore I may ramble on a bit thoughout this review.
This movie is a retelling of the 2nd series, "A's" ... Most retell movies only have improved animation going for them, truncicating the plot to cram it into a shorter time limit. Nanoha had previously proved an exception to this, as the first movie not only perfectly retold the season, but ADDED details and backstory. It's a bit interesting to note now that 2nd movie DOES cut out a rather significant plot point, but I always hated that particular plot point, and never thought it made much sense. It's replaced by some mo…
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's is a movie rendition of the corresponding tv series, and a direct sequel to the 1st movie which covered the first season of the franchise. While the first incarnation started out as a fairly ordinary magical girl series, it eventually evolved into what could be described as the Magical Girl Lightshow of Befriending, involving flashy combat and interesting swaths of character development that made it unique in this genre.
Visually speaking, the movie is extremely shiny and polished, despite a few moments of off model that were barely noticed. While the first movie looked great, it still resorted to stills in combat scenes, but 2nd A's makes these weaknesses far less pronounced, leading to a ton of fluid movement. Regardless of the actual cont…
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