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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha is a magical-girl anime, which started as a spinoff of the visual novel "Triangle Heart 3". Under pressure of circumstances, 9 year old Takamachi Nanoha became a magic girl in order to retrieve Jewel Seeds, dangerous artifacts which were accidentally spread around the world. It has a number of anime and manga sequels.

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Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha is a magical-girl anime series which began as a spinoff of the visual novel Triangle Heart 3. It follows Takamachi Nanoha, a 9-year-old (at the start of the series) who is forced to become a mage to try to retrieve Jewel Seeds, dangerous artifacts which were accidentally spread around the world. Later series introduce a number of new characters and plot lines.

The series has 3 anime seasons, namely Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's, and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, as well as movies Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's. There are manga adaptations of all of these, as well as several more manga series in the franchise such as ViVid which has seen an anime adaption and Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force.

A New series titled Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha INNOCENT set is an alternate continuity focuses on a motion based simulation card game. the players of this game are the original series characters like Nanoha and Fate but also characters from the PSP games like the Florian Family and the Material Girls. INNOCENT includes a number of separate Manga series and a web based card game

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Was Nanoha critically injured during a Jail Scaglietti Investigation?

During Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS it's revealed that between StrikerS and the end of A's, as Nanoha pushed her body too much without proper rest, she got injured during a mission with Vita to the point where she could have never…
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Were the Jail Scaglietti clones removed from all of The Numbers?

At the end of Magical Girl Lyrical StrikerS, it's revealed that all of The Numbers had a clone of Jail Scaglietti in their wombs, so that in the event of his capture or death, as long as one of The Numbers escaped, his clone would be born with all…
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Should one read/watch Triangle Heart before diving into the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series?

The question is simple - should one read the manga, watch the OVAs, play the games (personally, I don't have access to these) of Triangle Heart before diving into the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series?
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What exactly is Nanoha's "dead" expression?

According to this Wikia page, where it discusses the difference between TV and DVD: One of the most notable differences is the change of Nanoha's infamous "dead" expression when casting Crossfire Shoot on Teana in StrikerS to a more disappointed…
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How does Starlight Breaker work?

Most of Nanoha's attacks consist of emitting some beam or ball of energy through her body or Raising Heart and firing it at the enemy. For instance, here's Divine Buster: Presumably she just uses her own magical energy for this. But Starlight…
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Where does the "Lyrical" part come from?

I've been wondering where the "Lyrical" part of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha comes from. To the best of my knowledge, none of the Magic the characters use seem to be remotely music based, and even when the writers tried to step away from the "Magical…
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What are the Lost Logia?

In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Season 1, Yuuno says that the Lost Logia are remnants of advance civilizations that have since been destroyed, but in Season 3 during Hayate and Fate's briefing on the relic they seem to imply that the Lost Logia come…
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Where do the movies fit within there series timeline?

I have all three seasons of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and the two movies. I am wondering where the movies occur chronologically within in the series. So I can watch them in the proper order.
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Why does Lindy and Leti have the same mark on their foreheads?

Both Lindy and Leti have a mark on their foreheads which appears to be 4 triangles pointing to one another 1 they aren't related. Neither one of their sons, Chrono and Griffith respectfully, have this mark and Clyde, Chrono's Father does not appear…
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Why aren't mages trusted to remove their own limiters?

In Nanoha StrikerS (season 3), several of the high-end mages had limiters imposed on them to limit their power output thereby reducing their mage rank levels: Nanoha Takamachi - S+ reduced to AA. Fate Testarossa - S+ reduced to AA. Hayate Yagami -…
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What was wrong with Presea Testarossa?

During the original series of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, on occasion when Presea Testarossa was alone she would cough up blood with more being coughed up as time went on apparently getting weaker as well. She also commented that she was running…
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When was the Wolkenritter summoned?

In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, at the very beginning of the first episode, it showed the Book of Darkness activating. Later in the series, it showed this again, but continuing on showing that the Wolkenritter were summoned at this time, and…
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Why is Reinforce so small?

At the end, of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's and during Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Reinforce is quite small. However, in the above image she is shown to be just as big as Vita. The image above doesn't look like fan art and it's…
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What differences are there between the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha anime and manga?

I'm look into reading ViviD and Force, the two sequel manga to the StrikerS manga, and I am wondering: what differences are there between the three anime seasons and the three related manga that could affect the reading of ViviD and Force?
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Does Alf work in the Infinite Library?

Throughout Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS we see small appearances of Fate's Familiar Alf. The only time she seems to have an impact in the story is near the end, when she is with Yuuno in the Infinite Library helping him research Saints…
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