History Anime / MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs

** In her second fight with Nanoha, Nanoha surounds him with a lot of MagicMissile and she perform [[BeehiveBarrier Panzer Hidernis]] to protect herself while saying: "Are you stupid?! There's no way you control all these bullets!" A moment later, [[ImprobableAimingSkills the bullets start speeding up]], and the Panzer Hidernis slowly took damage. [[SarcasmMode Good job]].
** In her third encounter with Nanoha, she was using Eisen Geheul to distrat Nanoha, giving her time to escape her. After a while, she muses, "OK, this is far enough...." Cue Nanoha charging up [[WaveMotionGun Divine Buster]]. [[spoiler: She was saved by a third party intercepting the beam and bind Nanoha.]]

* TheWorfEffect: Nanoha loses to Vita, and Fate is losing against Signum for most of their fight, to show the power of the new antagonists.

* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: Present in the later seasons as well, but probably best showcased here. Generally Midchildian mages focus on defensive barriers and WaveMotionGun tactics, while the Belkan Knights swarm up close with punishing melee attacks and cartridge-enhanced weaponry. There are exceptions to both rules like Fate and Hayate.

It has a supplementary SliceOfLife manga and [[AudioAdaptation Sound Stages]] that take place between the episodes. The NamcoBandai game for the PlaystationPortable, ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable TheBattleOfAces]]'', is an AlternateContinuity sequel to ''A's'', which changes the events of the last episode of the anime. 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 second season of the ''[[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]]'' franchise, ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's'', set six months after [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha the original series]].

The second season of the ''[[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]]'' franchise, ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's'', is set six months after [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha the first series]].

-->"[[ArcWords It was only a small wish...]]"

* RousseauWasRight: Nobody is evil in this story, our heroes are trying to stop the Book of Darkness as it could that could destroy the earth, Wolkenritter are trying to complete to save Hayate. When Reinforce appears, she is simply doing what she believes Hayate wishes by trying to put the entire Earth in a LotusEaterMachine to remove all pain from live. The closest things to straight up villains are the Book of Darkness' defense program, which is more insane than anything else; and [[spoiler: Admiral Gil Graham, who had to kill his best friend before the Book of Darkness could wipe out his fleet several years ago and vowed to stop it for good this time around]].

It has a supplementary SliceOfLife manga and [[AudioAdaptation Sound Stages]] that take place between the episodes. The NamcoBandai game for the PlaystationPortable, ''VideoGame/TheBattleOfAces'', is an AlternateContinuity sequel to ''A's'', which changes the events of the last episode of the anime. 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.

* GoodVersusGood: With a side order of world-killing EldritchAbomination thrown in at the very end so both sides can really cut lose.

Nanoha and Fate are working together with the TSAB to investigate an [[LostTechnology artifact of incredible power]] called the Book of Darkness, which has been linked to a number of attacks on magi that have left the victims drained of {{mana}}.

Widely regarded by fans as the best season of ''Nanoha'' and the only sequel to the original not to have caused a BrokenBase in some way.

* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Both parties pull this off against the raging EldrichAbomination, and it was AWESOME!!!

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The second season of the ''[[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]]'' franchise, ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's'', is set six months after [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha the first series]].

Nanoha and Fate are working together with the TSAB to investigate an [[LostTechnology artifact of incredible power]] called the Book of Darkness, which has been linked to a number of attacks on magi that have left the victims drained of {{mana}}.

Unknown to them, the Book of Darkness has attached itself to an orphaned girl in a wheelchair called Hayate. She just wants to have a family, and she lovingly adopts the [[{{Mons}} sentient defence programs]] of the Book- a sympathetic female PowerTrio and their NonHumanSidekick- as her own.

But what Hayate is unaware of is that the Book of Darkness is slowly eating away at her life, and only by feeding it the {{mana}} of others can she be saved. Not wishing to lose their kind master, the servants of the Book go behind her back and attempt to satisfy the Book's hunger on their own, leading them to an inevitable confrontation with Team Nanoha.

Widely regarded by fans as the best season of ''Nanoha'' and the only sequel to the original not to have caused a BrokenBase in some way.

It has a supplementary SliceOfLife manga and [[AudioAdaptation Sound Stages]] that take place between the episodes. The NamcoBandai game for the PlaystationPortable, ''VideoGame/TheBattleOfAces'', is an AlternateContinuity sequel to ''A's'', which changes the events of the last episode of the anime. 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.

'''NOTE:''' Only general tropes for the series are listed here. For character-specific ones, check out the [[Characters/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs character]] [[Characters/LyricalNanoha sheets.]]
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!!!''MGLN A's'' provides examples of:

* AnAssKickingChristmas: The final battle takes place on Christmas Eve.
* AnonymousBenefactor: Hayate has an "[[HonoraryUncle uncle]]" who provides her with money [[spoiler:and turns out to be Admiral Graham]].
* ArtifactOfDeath: The Book of Darkness, because of the malfunction.
* BiologicalMashup: The corrupted defense program of the Book of Darkness, which seems to be a hybrid of the magical monsters whose linker cores the Wolkenritter absorbed.
* BittersweetEnding: The threat of the Book of Darkness is over, as is its control over Hayate and the Wolkenritter's lives, but [[spoiler:this requires Reinforce's HeroicSacrifice, preventing her from sharing her mistress and knights' happiness and greatly upsetting Hayate]].
* ChekhovsGun: The Arc-en-ciel is a Chekhov's WaveMotionGun. The Arthra is put into maintenance while it's being installed, and it is repeatedly spoken of as a last resort that the protagonists are reluctant to use.
* ChristmasEpisode: The first Megami Sound Stage, set during this season, takes place around Christmas time, and features Nanoha telling Fate about Christmas, among other topics. Nanoha has a belated Christmas celebration on the 26th, as a result of her family restaurant being busy on Christmas Day.
** As well as the last four or five episodes taking place on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Reinforce isn't evil, but she can't control her own actions.
* DemotedToExtra: The rest of Nanoha's family suffered a steep decline in importance in ''A's'', and stopped appearing altogether afterwards, barring a couple of Sound Stages. During this season, Yuuno gradually transitions from a major character who fights alongside the protagonists to one who stays behind and helps by researching.
* DidMomJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Inverted when Fate and Nanoha accidentally stumble upon the Wolkenritter in the hospital, while visiting Hayate, and thus discover she's their master that they've been looking for. Since they had their oblivious friends with them as well, the conversation was a little awkward.
* DistantFinale / WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: A sequence taking place six years after the main story. It's somewhere in between the two, since it's an extended scene with both dialog and on-screen captions.
* EldritchAbomination: The Book of Darkness's defense system after [[EnemyWithout it goes berserk]].
* GoodVersusGood: With a side order of world-killing EldritchAbomination thrown in at the very end so both sides can really cut lose.
* GrillingTheNewbie: Fate receives this treatment when she transfers to Nanoha's class.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Fate's HeelFaceTurn.
* TheLibraryOfBabel: The Infinity Library.
* LightheartedRematch: 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.
* LivingWithTheVillain: 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.
* LockAndLoadMontage: The show already devotes an inordinate proportion of its {{Transformation Sequence}}s 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}}s in ''A's'', they begin literally loading their weapons with cartridges and magazines.
* LotusEaterMachine: 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.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted; Nanoha is able to finish firing off her Starlight Breaker after her Linker Core gets damaged.
* MadeOfIndestructium: Technically you can destroy the Book of Darkness, but it just pops back, good as new, ''somewhere completely different''. So the book is functionally indestructible and can only be neutralized by freezing it... which doesn't work. Ultimately they hit it with something capable of taking out a good chunk of a planet. And even then it's not completely gone until [[spoiler: they seal Reinforce as well]].
* MoodWhiplash: The relationship between Hayate and the Wolkenritter is absolutely adorable, until it's revealed that they are only able to serve her since the Book of Darkness is slowly devouring her soul. No one involved is really happy about this.
** Episode 9 begins with Nanoha having Fate over for dinner and planning to surprise Hayate in the hospital. The surprise visit causes them to run into the Wolkenritter (who had originally took pains to not be there when Nanoha and the others visited to avoid them finding out about Hayate being their master). Things then get '''much'' [[ItGotWorse worse]].
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: Present in the later seasons as well, but probably best showcased here. Generally Midchildian mages focus on defensive barriers and WaveMotionGun tactics, while the Belkan Knights swarm up close with punishing melee attacks and cartridge-enhanced weaponry. There are exceptions to both rules like Fate and Hayate.
* PhantomZone: There is a spell called "Barrier" that pushes everything half a dimension over. The city is still there, but all non-magic users are no longer present, and thus cannot witness the light show. It can be breached from the inside though, as Nanoha demonstrates in episode 2.
* RousseauWasRight: Nobody is evil in this story, our heroes are trying to stop the Book of Darkness as it could that could destroy the earth, Wolkenritter are trying to complete to save Hayate. When Reinforce appears, she is simply doing what she believes Hayate wishes by trying to put the entire Earth in a LotusEaterMachine to remove all pain from live. The closest things to straight up villains are the Book of Darkness' defense program, which is more insane than anything else; and [[spoiler: Admiral Gil Graham, who had to kill his best friend before the Book of Darkness could wipe out his fleet several years ago and vowed to stop it for good this time around]].
* SoLastSeason: Nanoha and Fate are easily beaten the first time they go against the Wolkenritter with their cartridge-loaded Devices. It's not until they copy the system for their own Devices that they can fight them on an equal footing.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The TSAB ship's name - Arthra (official) vs Asura (FanSub). This one is so widespread that most of the fandom seems to think that Asura is the official name.
* SuckingInLines: Starlight Breaker, some of Hayate's and Reinforce's spells, and the Arc-En-Ciel.
* TemptingFate
** 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, [[YouAreInCommandNow 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.
* ThatsAnOrder: Hayate tries to invoke this [[spoiler:to stop Reinforce from sacrificing herself]], but fails.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: "Brave Phoenix" for pretty much everyone in the final fight.
* TimeSkip:
** 6 months between ''MSLN'' and ''A's''.
** 6 years to the DistantFinale.
* TreacheryCoverUp: [[spoiler:Admiral Graham's plan to seal the Book of Darkness away with Hayate]] is largely overlooked outside of the upper echelons of the TSAB, and he [[KarmaHoudini merely resigns]], only being officially accused of breaking into Bureau systems and interfering with the investigation.
* TogetherUmbrella: Nanoha and Yuuno. The shippers must have gone nuclear...
* TheWorfEffect: Nanoha loses to Vita, and Fate is losing against Signum for most of their fight, to show the power of the new antagonists.
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* LivingWithTheVillain: Hayate's place is villain central, although it turns out the problem is on the bookshelf, not with the people.

Nanoha and Fate are working together with the TSAB to investigate an [[LostTechnology artifact of incredible power]] called the Book of Darkness, which has been linked to a number of attacks on magi that have left them drained of {{mana}}.

Nanoha and Fate are working together with the TSAB to investigate another [[LostTechnology artifact of incredible power]] called the Book of Darkness, which has apparently attached itself to an orphaned girl in a wheelchair named Hayate. She just wants to have a family, and the [[{{Mons}} servants]] of the Book are a sympathetic female PowerTrio and their NonHumanSidekick, all of whom she adopts. But the Book demands the {{mana}} of others... or it will kill Hayate. This leads to an inevitable confrontation between Team Nanoha and the Servants of the Book of Darkness.

* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Shamal dons a trenchcoat and sunglasses to spy on Nanoha and Fate while they're (unknowingly) hanging out with Hayate. Luckily for her, they don't see her at all.

* RousseauWasRight: Nobody is evil in this story, our heroes are trying to stop the Book of Darkness as it could that could destroy the earth, Wolkenritter are trying to complete to save Hayate. When Reinforce appears, she is simply doing what she believes Hayate wishes by trying to put the entire Earth in a LotusEaterMachine to remove all pain from live. The closest thing to a straight up villain is the Book of Darkness' defense program, which is more insane than anything else.

* LotusEaterMachine: Fate gets caught in one by the Book of Darkness near the end of ''A's''. Reinforce offers Hayate one, but she refuses.

* MoodWhiplash: The relationship between Hayate and the Wolkenritter is absolutely adorable, until it's revaealed that they are only able to serve her since the Book of Darkness is slowly devouring her soul. No one involved is really happy about this.

* SuckingInLines: Starlight Breaker, some of Hayate's and Reinforce's spells, the Arc-En-Ciel.

* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted; Nanoha is able to finish firing off her Starlight Breaker after her Linker Core gets stolen.