@.:Anime-Anka:.@ :: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Trimis: 10/06/2007 10:42

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (魔法少女リリカルなのは, Mahō Shōjo Ririkaru Nanoha?) is a thirteen episode spin-off of the Triangle Heart series of games and OVAs that aired between October and December of 2004. Nanoha, the magical girl and younger sister of Kyōya and Miyuki, takes precedence here while her sword-wielding siblings are reduced to minor characters. Nanoha is also clearly set in an alternate universe; the late Shirō Fuwa was always named Takamachi and survived his originally fatal injury, new characters such as Fate Testarossa are added, and others, such as Fiasse Crystela, are removed.

A sequel, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, aired between October and December of 2005. A third series, titled Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS began airing on April 1, 2007. There have also been corresponding manga series bridging the story and adding new elements to it, as well as CD dramas.

The series, whilst having some of the traditional trappings of Magical Girl shows, differs in several key ways. First, Nanoha bases its 'magic' on technology in lieu of traditional 'magical' elements of said shows. Second, the series has more carefully crafted choreography than more typical magical girl shows, reflecting the different target demographic (teenage and young adult male viewers rather than the traditional young female audience of the magical girl genre). Third, and perhaps most importantly, the show's story is significantly more emotionally intense than those of other magical girl series, dealing with themes such as social alienation and child abuse.

[edit] Story
Nanoha Takamachi is a 3rd grade elementary school girl. She lives with her parents who run a coffee shop, and her older sister and brother who are in high school and university respectively. Nanoha's regular life changes when she hears a voice calling to her on the way home and ends up rescuing an injured ferret (who is actually a transformed boy called Yūno, an archaeologist from a distant world). She obtains a magical crystal called Raising Heart (レイジングハート, Reijingu Hāto?), and gains magical powers.

After their encounter, Nanoha and Yūno have to collect the twenty-one "Jewel Seeds" (ジュエルシード, Jueru Shīdo?), powerful lost crystals from Yūno's world that grant wishes and are very dangerous when misused. However, Nanoha and Yūno are not the only ones after the Jewel Seeds. So is Fate Testarossa, a foreign girl with sad eyes...

[edit] Characters
Main article: Characters in Nanoha
Nanoha Takamachi (高町なのは, Takamachi Nanoha?)

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura
This sweet grade three student feels that, though she plays a good supporting role in others' lives, unlike the rest of her family and friends, she has no closest friend to turn to and no direction in her own life. However, when she meets Yūno and discovers her strong aptitude for magic, Nanoha activates Raising Heart out of a magical crystal that Yūno was carrying and wholeheartedly carries out her search for the Jewel Seeds. She's slightly dense and much too trusting, but has a tremendous insight that leads her to reach out to Fate.
Yūno Scrya (ユーノ・スクライア, Yūno Sukuraia?)

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi
Yūno is a magic-user from Midchilda, and is the same age as Nanoha. Despite his young age, he worked as an archaeologist and discovered a set of ancient and powerful artifacts (the magical term for this is Lost Logia) known as the Jewel Seeds. When the Time-Space Administration Bureau lost the Jewel Seeds, Yūno went to Earth to track them down; whilst fleeing from monsters, he was injured and transformed himself into a ferret. He acts as Nanoha's familiar, though his true form is that of a regular human being and she did not făurite him.
Fate Testarossa (フェイト・テスタロッサ, Feito Tesutarossa?)

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki
Abused by her ruthless mother, Fate regardless remains blindly and unquestioningly loyal to Precia and carries out her search for the Jewel Seeds. When this search leads her to cross Nanoha, she scorns the naivete of her rival and strikes out against her. However, as Nanoha persists to try to learn her motivation and become her friend, Fate is faced with a shocking truth from everyone around her and must decide what to do with it.
Arf (アルフ, Arufu?)

Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani
Fate's outspoken dog-woman familiar. Her distaste of Precia is mutual, but she cannot do anything to protect Fate from her mother. Arf instead takes out her anger on her enemies. She is very kind to Fate and rather protective of her.
Precia Testarossa (プレシア・テスタロッサ, Pureshia Tesutarossa?)

Voiced by: Rei Igarashi
Precia is a mage residing in the Garden of Time. She went insane when her daughter Alicia died. She instructs her daughter Fate (who is the clone of Alicia) to find the Jewel Seeds and beats her ruthlessly when she does not do enough to satisfy her. Precia desperately wants the Jewel Seeds to revive Alicia, to the point that she will not hesitate to remove any obstacles. She was kind and stable once upon a time, but any trace of that is long gone.

[edit] Glossary of terms
Main article: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha terminology

[edit] Episode list
Main article: List of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha episodes

[edit] Trivia
Jewel Seed #14 appears two times in both episode 4 and episode 6.
The text in pink under the logo reads "Magical girl lyrical Nanoha. She whispers some words mildly in your heart, and makes your gentle days."
Starting in episode 7, the black title screen of later, "serious" episodes begins to replace the Raising Heart title screen. However, the Raising Heart screen reappears twice after that.
Because of Nanoha's heavy use of high-firepower ranged attacks, fans have nicknamed her "Demonic Cannon Girl" (魔砲少女, Ma Hō Shōjo?), a play on words since in Japanese it sounds identical to "Magical Girl" (魔法少女, Mahō Shōjo?).
Nanoha is left-handed and consequently is always shown wielding her staff in her left hand.
The magical incantation which Nanoha said in episode 1 to activate Raising Heart is exactly the same as in the autentic game of Mahō Shōjo Lyrical Nanoha Toybox when the Pixie Lindy Harlaown grants her magical powers

[edit] Theme songs
Opening
"innocent starter" performed by Nana Mizuki
Ending
"Little Wish -lyrical step-" performed by Yukari Tamura
Insert song
"Take a Shot" performed by Nana Mizuki (in episode 12)

[edit] External links
Official website (Japanese)
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

Trimis: 11/06/2007 20:36

Ok ! Ok ! Deci sa inteleg ca sunt inca multe animeuri pe care nu le stiu ! :'-(

Eh se pare ca nu le poate sti nimeni pe toate nu ? Multumim pentru informatii !