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The Adventure Continues! note 

"It was only a small wish..."
Nanoha Takamachi

The second season of the Lyrical Nanoha franchise, set six months after the original series.

Nanoha and Fate are working together with the TSAB to investigate an 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 sentient defence programs of the Book - a sympathetic female team of three and their Non-Human Sidekick - as her own.

Even more than its predecessor, this is the show that really set the tone and concept of the entire franchise in stone, and made it far bigger than just "magical girls get a little Super Robot". It's widely considered to be the best season of TV Nanoha by fans and critics alike, and every Nanoha product afterwards, not to mention a decent bit of wider anime and other media, owes something to it and tries to emulate what made it successful.

It has a supplementary Slice of Life manga and Sound Stages that take place between the episodes. The Bandai Namco Entertainment games for the PlayStation Portable, The Battle of Aces and The Gears of Destiny, are Alternate Continuity sequels to A's, which change the events of the last episode. A movie remake of A's, known as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie2nd As, was released in 2012, following the continuity of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie1st.

The anime was licensed and dubbed in North America by Geneon, but is now out of print. After Geneon USA shut down, Funimation took over distribution of the original series and A's until the licenses for both series expired in 2011. However, Discotek Media has since licensed rescued both the original series, and "A's", with the original series available on Blu-Ray in January 2024, and "A's" with no release date yet.

NOTE: Only general tropes for the series are listed here. For character-specific ones, check out the character sheets.


MGLN A's provides examples of:

  • Adaptational Context Change: At the end of the first episode, Vita asks Fate if she's Nanoha's ally when the latter has a Big Damn Hero moment, to which Fate responds that she's Nanoha's friend with confident Tranquil Fury. During the movie version of Vita's attack, it's Signum that asks Fate if they're family after having prevented her from reaching Nanoha in time, and Fate is crying when she gives her response.
  • An Ass-Kicking Christmas: The final battle takes place on Christmas Eve.
  • Arc Words: "It was only a small wish." This turns out to refer to the Wolkenritter's desire to live out a peaceful ordinary life with their master Hayate. Unfortunately for them, their very nature prevents them from obtaining their wish and their efforts to maintain the illusion of ordinary life destroys it more and more. Their wish turns out to be not so small, after all. It takes an intervention by the multiverse's most powerful mages, a space battleship, and a miracle to make it reality—if only partly.
  • Artifact of Death: The Book of Darkness, because of the malfunction.
  • Bittersweet Ending: The threat of the Book of Darkness is over, as is its control over Hayate and the Wolkenritter's lives, but this requires Reinforce's Heroic Sacrifice, preventing her from sharing her mistress and knights' happiness and greatly upsetting Hayate. To make the loss easier to bear, Reinforce suggests Hayate name her new magical device "Reinforce" in her memory. As Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS shows, Hayate did more than that: the remnants of Reinforce are used to create Reinforce Zwei, with hints that at least some of the original personality has been preserved intact.
  • Bookends: The first and final fights between Team Nanoha and the Wolkenritter both start off with Vita attacking Nanoha on a roof.
  • Chance Meeting Between Antagonists: Team Nanoha (the heroes) accidentally meets Team Wolkenritter (the heroic antagonists) in a hospital while visiting the Wolkenritter's master Hayate (who also happens to be a friend of Nanoha's friend Suzuka; they didn't know she was their enemies' master until then, however). This takes place just before the Final Battle, so it doesn't go well at all.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The Arc-en-ciel is a Chekhov's Wave-Motion Gun. 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.
  • Chekhov's Skill: Episode 8 introduces the concept of Transformation Magic through a distraught Shamal when, after finding out how close Hayate was to the heroes, she makes an offhand comment of how she should have applied it to the Wolkenritter. When The Reveal came, it turned out that certain other parties didn't forget to apply this useful spell.
  • Christmas Episode: 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.
  • Clark Kenting: Averted. The Wolkenritter have to avoid being with Hayate whenever Nanoha and Fate come to visit her lest they figure out that Hayate is the master of the Book of Darkness (Shamal even note that they probably should have used disguise magic). Arisa and Suzuka also recognize Nanoha and Fate instantly when they see them in their Barrier Jackets during the final battle.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • Nanoha and Fate are both still wearing the hair ribbons that they exchanged at the end of the previous season.
    • The photo of Nanoha, Arisa, and Suzuka on Fate's desk in the first episode is the same one that was mentioned in the third Sound Stage of the first season.
    • When Arisa see's Arf in puppy form for the first time, she comments that she looks familiar. They had previously met when Arf escaped from the Garden of Time, but she was in her adult wolf form back then.
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance: Subverted in the first Sound Stage, where Fate is hesitant to ask Nanoha to take a bath with her since she isn't aware that shared bathing is just as acceptable in Japan as it is on Midchilda.
  • Demoted to Extra: 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.
  • Distant Finale / "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: 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.
  • Divergent Character Evolution: Back in the first season, Nanoha and Fate were near identical in terms of their fighting styles (save for Fate having a greater preference for melee combat). Here, Fate begins to become more of a Fragile Speedster while Nanoha continued becoming more and more of a Mighty Glacier.
  • Dramatic Irony: In episode six, Nanoha and Yuuno discuss what type of person the Master of the Book of Darkness might be (even wondering about the possibility of it being someone their own age), followed by Nanoha receiving text from Suzuka talking about her new friend... Hayate.
  • Eldritch Abomination: The Book of Darkness's defense system after it goes berserk.
  • Episode Title Card: In a carryover from the first season, episode titles are presented over a picture Raising Heart's standby mode with a cheerful sound cue and Nanoha reading the title aloud. And then "Christmas Eve" hits with nothing more than white text on a black background with urgant music, cluing in the audience that all hell is about to break loose.
  • Evil Plan: The knights are not evil but their plan of attacking mages to drain their linker cores and power up an Artifact of Doom is certainly dangerous and it drives the plot.
  • Fantastic Nuke: The Arc-en-Ciel, which could have destroyed a fair chunk of Japan's landmass had it been fired at the surface. Firing it even follows the Two-Man Rule and requires authorization by the highest authorities, heightening the similarities.
  • Fauxshadowing: The introduction of Chrono's Disappeared Dad made it appear that he was the Mysterious Protector of the Wolkenritter, especially since the Mysterious Protector looked like an older Chrono and acted like he was familiar with Chrono. Nope, he was eventually revealed to be the disguised Cat Girl familiars of Gil Graham, the friend of Chrono's father who was trying to execute a plan to seal the Book of Darkness that killed him. Rewatching the season after knowing The Reveal shows that the writers foreshadowed that one too, but the popularity of the Luke, I Am Your Father trope allowed the Fauxshadowing to hide the actual Foreshadowing in plain sight.
  • Gratuitous German: "Graf Eisen" ("Count Iron") slaughters the German language without mercy in both the original soundtrack and in the dub.
  • Good Versus Good: As early as the second episode the audience it let in on the knights' motivation: save their master. There's a side order of world-killing Eldritch Abomination thrown in at the very end so both sides can really cut loose.
  • Great Big Library of Everything: The Infinity Library is stated to hold the history of countless planets and civilizations. One requires good search magic to find anything, since it's mostly uncatalogued.
  • Holiday Ceasefire: Subverted. The only reason that the Wolkenritter didn't attack Nanoha and Fate on sight when the two of them came to visit Hayate in the hospital on Christmas Eve was for the sake up upholding the Masquerade. The second everyone else was out of view...
  • Hourglass Plot: Fate rejects Precia in the Book of Darkness' dream world for the exact same reason that Precia rejected her back in the first season... because she isn't real.
  • It Only Works Once: The Wolkenritter must seek new targets every episode because the Book of Darkness can only drain an individual's linker core once.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Fate's Heel–Face Turn from last season.
  • Lighthearted Rematch: 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.
  • Light Liege, Dark Defender: Nanoha and Fate are the Light Liege and the Dark Defender, respectively, if only for this seasonnote . Nanoha is The Ace who manages to become friends with people even while she beats them silly, while Fate is a Broken Bird who lost everything in the previous season, and is introduced in this one by saving Nanoha from a very messy death. While Nanoha is by no means a slouch in magical combat, there is a tacit understanding that Fate has always been a little bit better.
  • Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: Fate, who has lightning-type Mana Conversion Ability, is repeatedly pitted against Signum, the leader of the season's "villains" who has flame-type MCA. Although their enmity doesn't last the season itself, their friendly rivalry continues far beyond that.
  • Living with the Villain: 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.
  • Lock-and-Load Montage: The show already devotes an inordinate proportion of its Transformation Sequences to shots of the characters' magical armaments, which include a surprisingly large number of moving parts. These evolved into full on Lock And Load Montages in A's, they begin literally loading their weapons with cartridges and magazines.
  • Lotus-Eater Machine: 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.
  • Made of Indestructium: 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 they seal Reinforce as well.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: 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.
  • Mood Whiplash:
    • 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 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 worse.
  • My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Both parties pull this off against the raging Eldritch Abomination.
  • Mythology Gag: When the group talks about parallel universes in the Guidebook comic, one of them suggests that they could have been ordinary middle schoolers with mundane lives, and Nanoha laughs about the idea. This is exactly what they were in Triangle Heart 3, where Nanoha originated from.
  • No Ontological Inertia: Averted - Nanoha is able to finish firing off her Starlight Breaker after her Linker Core gets damaged.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: Zafira argues that he and Arf serve their respective masters regardless of what they're doing is right or wrong. Arf is unable to articulate a rebuttal, especially given her role in the first season.
  • Number of the Beast: The Book of Darkness has 666 pages to fill.
  • Opposing Combat Philosophies: Present in the later seasons as well, but best showcased here. In general, Midchildian Mages use a mixture of defensive barriers, support magic and ranged attacks designed to support any situation or tactic. Belkan Knights specialize entirely in combat magic, using punishing melee attacks and cartridge-enhanced weaponry to make themselves unrivaled in one-on-one fights. Of course, there are exceptions to both rules like Fate and Hayate.
  • Orphaned Punchline: Vita tells Nanoha, "We Belkans have a saying: If you're an ambassador of peace, don't carry a spear!". Zafira points out that it isn't a saying, it's the punchline to a joke.
  • Pre-Insanity Reveal: The Evil Matriarch Precia Testarossa we get to see in the original Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha was driven psychotically (and abusively) insane by the death of her daughter Alicia, which also served as her Start of Darkness. In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, as well as The MOVIE 1st, we are then shown flashbacks of Precia from before that, when she had been an all-round nice and hard-working single mom who doted over her daughter like no tomorrow.
  • Priceless Paperweight: The Book of Darkness is a powerful Artifact of Doom capable of granting world-destroying powers to any mage. When it landed in Hayate's possession, she took good care of it not because she knew what it was, but because it looked really pretty on her bookshelf.
  • Superficial Solution: What quickstarts the plot is the threat of the Book of Darkness, an artifact of ancient Belka that is incredibly dangerous and which will always come back into existence, leading the TSAB into to a recurrent struggle to contain it since that's the only thing they are allowed to by the law. Gil Graham's illegal plan to end the cycle once and for all involves awakening it in a non-administrated world and sealing away its master, Hayate Yagami, so that it cannot reincarnate itself again. Fortunately, the cast is able to put it away for good by sheer firepower and Reinforce's sacrifice.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: About halfway through the season it's revealed that the Wolkenritter are actually semi-autonomous programs. Fate (who was in the middle of her "am I even human?" phase) compares them to herself, which Chrono and Lindy are very quick to deny. As we find out later on in the episode, that is probably the most accurate comparison that could possibly be made since they're almost identical to her back in the first season (completely human despite their artificial nature, driven to help a dying mother figure, and suffering to the point that you just want to give them a hug).
  • Rousseau Was Right: Nobody is outright evil in this story: the heroes are trying to stop the Book of Darkness as it could destroy the Earth, the Wolkenritter, although doing evil acts, are trying to save the life of their innocent master and don't want to kill people, Admiral Gil Graham is trying to save the world even though it would require using Hayate as a sacrifice, and even Reinforce wants to "save" the world by imposing a Lotus-Eater Machine on it. The closest thing to "evil" is the corrupted defense program of the Book of Darkness, which is really more of a mindless machine than anything else.
  • Sacrificial Planet: The Book of Darkness is said to have destroyed countless planets before finding its way to Earth, and so Team Nanoha embarks on a quest to locate and stop it.
  • Shout-Out: To Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War. A's had its own Belkan War that caused the downfall of a mighty empire.
  • So Last Season: 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.
  • Spell My Name With An S: While the credits and whatnot consistently spell it A's, the script and a lot of the supplementary material makes it pretty clear that the "season name" is probably meant to be Ace.note 
  • Start X to Stop X: Gil Graham wants to seal the Book of Darkness to prevent another disaster from happening. In order to do so without activating the said book's reincarnation capability, the plan was to let the Wolkenritter complete the book and activate it, then freeze it along with its master before it goes out of control.
  • Sucking-In Lines: Starlight Breaker, some of Hayate's and Reinforce's spells, and the Arc-En-Ciel.
  • Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted twice. Chrono gets the drop on Shamal as she's telepathically talking to Zafira, but is himself ambushed as he reads her the TSAB's equivalent of Miranda Rights.
  • Tempting Fate
    • In Vita's second fight with the title character, Nanoha fires a cartridge-boosted Projectile Spell spread of twelve, when in the first fight, she used twos or fours at most. Vita responds by deploying Panzer Hidernis to protect herself while saying: "Are you stupid?! There's no way you control all these bullets!" A moment later, the bullets start speeding up, and Vita's Panzer Hidernis begins cracking.
    • In her third encounter with Nanoha, Vita used Eisen Geheul ("Iron Howl", kind of a flashbang/flare) to distract Nanoha while the knight escaped. After flying quite a distance (though still in sight), Vita muses, "OK, this is far enough..." Cue Nanoha charging up Divine Buster. "Is she seriously going to shoot anyway? At this range?!" Yes, Nanoha was and did.
    • 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, 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.
  • Theme Music Power-Up: "BRAVE PHOENIX" for pretty much everyone in the final fight.
  • Time Skip:
  • Tragic Dream: The Wolkenritter only ever had a small wish: to complete the Book of Darkness, cure Hayate, and live out the rest of their time in peace with her. Unknown to them, Hayate was doomed to die (or trapped in ice for eternity), regardless of how hard they struggled to achieve that dream. Their salvation ultimately lay with two particular persons of mass destruction they believed were their enemies.
  • Tragically Misguided Favor: Subverted. The Wolkenritter's plan to save Hayate's life by filling the Book of Darkness would have backfired horribly, killing not only her but the entire planet. It's only thanks to Nanoha and Fate's intervention that tragedy is ultimately averted (for the most part).
  • Treachery Cover Up: 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 merely resigns, only being officially accused of breaking into Bureau systems and interfering with the investigation. Given the movie's Show Within a Show nature, this extends to him being entirely written out of the story.
  • Twisted Christmas: Because nothing says Christmas cheer like a little girl watching her entire adoptive family get murdered.
  • Umbrella of Togetherness: Nanoha and Yuuno share an umbrella when it's snowing. It marked the end of Yuuno's story importance.
  • Villain Opening Scene: In the absolute loosest sense of the term "villain", the season opens with the Book of Darkness activating on Hayate's birthday.
  • Warm Milk Helps You Sleep: Inverted. Hayate offers Signum some warm milk to help her wake up in the beginning of episode 4. It also serves as a rather effective metaphor for the overall feeling of the Yagami household.
  • When the Clock Strikes Twelve: The Book of Darkness activated at midnight on Hayate's 9th birthday.
  • White-and-Grey Morality: In contrast to the Black-and-White Morality of the first season; the antagonists in A's are either Anti-Villains or Well-Intentioned Extremists.
  • The Worf Effect: Nanoha loses to Vita, and Fate is losing against Signum for most of their first fight, to show the power of the new antagonists.


The movie and its supplementaries additionally/alternatively provide examples of:

  • Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the series, Chrono's staff Durandal was created by Gil Graham to fight the Book of Darkness. Due to Graham being Adapted Out, the movie changed it to originally belonging to Clyde. All well and good, were it not for the fact that Clyde died via exploding spaceship while on duty (meaning he would have had his weapon with him), which makes you wonder how in the hell Lindy got a hold of it.
  • Alternate Continuity: Different from the TV series. Also changes a lot more than The Movie 1st did.
  • Big Damn Reunion: Unlike in the show, Nanoha and Fate have a proper reunion before Vita attacks Nanoha, and it's overflowing with romantic undertones.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: Raising Heart and Bardiche borrow each others' catchphrases when preparing to delete Reinforce.
  • Calling Your Attacks: Like the previous commentary cast, this cast really loves calling attacks. There is also the rare opportunity to hear adult!Chrono shouting "Eternal Coffin".
  • Compressed Adaptation: A's had much more to lose than the first season.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • Nanoha, Fate and Arf got defeated by Vita, Signum and Shamal and Zafira, respectively.
    • Nachtwal vs Vita and Zafira, respectively.
  • Death by Adaptation: Not death, but Arf's Linker Core is drained by the Book of Darkness, too, despite her never being a victim in the TV series.
  • Demoted to Extra: Yuuno, Chrono, Arf and Amy are demoted to extra even more than in The Movie 1st. Yuuno appears only in six scenes, in one of them we see only his back for a few seconds, and one of them was in the epilogue's ending song, but he gets no action until the final battle. Arf's battles against Zafira are extremely shortened. Chrono gets no action until the final battle because Graham and the Liese Twins don't appear in the movie. And Amy is sometimes replaced by Mariel.
    • Yuuno' "extra status" has big impact in the first battle against the Wolkenritter. Without his teleportation spell, neither he nor Fate can save Nanoha from Vita. The result: Vita, not Shamal, drains Nanoha's Linker Core; and Fate and Arf's Linker Core as well, despite Fate's Linker Core being drained much later in the TV series, and Arf never became a victim.
    • Even Signum gets less action than in the TV series. Her battle with Fate in the desert is cut out because Fate's Linker Core has already been drained by the Book of Darkness, so it is mixed within the second battle. Their third movie battle is barely shown, because Nanoha vs Vita gets the entire focus during this time, then Nachtwal shows up and kills the Wolkenritter.
  • Framing Device: The majority of the movie is Reinforce Zwei reminiscing about the events that let to her creation, as recounted to her by Hayate and the Wolkenritter.
  • In-Character Commentary: Like the previous movie, there is a commentary which lasts until the credits. This time, the commentary cast is three times bigger than the previous one, having 21 members.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Even without Admiral Gil Graham, events still play out in a very similar manner to the anime.
  • Inconsistent Dub: During the final battle scene of the commentary, the cast (including Fate herself) mistakenly call Fate's Plasma Zanber Breaker "Jet Zanber", which is a completely different attack.
  • Kung-Fu Sonic Boom: The movie uses this to show off the power of the new Catridge System, with the shock wave from the clash between Fate's Bardiche Assault and Signum's Laevatein shattering all the windows of the buildings around them.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: The DVD Commentary totally spoils that Lutecia Alpine and Agito are going to be good girls, despite them being villains in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.
  • Luminescent Blush: Vita in reaction to Nanoha's glomp.
  • Mythology Gag: Many of them are references to StrikerS, some of them are adapted from the A's supplementary manga.
    • Fate's changes her black cape with a white cape during the Grand Finale (Blaze Form), a nod to her mantle which she wears StrikerS onwards (Impulse Form).
    • Vita uses Kometfliegen against Nanoha, despite she demonstrates it in StrikerS for the first time. Though, she does have this attack in the A's' Portable games.
    • When Nanoha and Fate attacks Reinforce from both sides, Fate doesn't use Plasma Smasher, but Trident Smasher, a spell which is introduced in StrikerS. In that season, she and Nanoha attacks Quattro and Dieci from both sides with Trident Smasher and Exelion Buster; so it could be a nod to that scene. But it's not clear whether Nanoha uses Divine Buster Extension (like in A's) or Exelion Buster (like in StrikerS) in the movie, because neither Fate nor Nanoha call their attacks. It's probably the former, because Exelion Buster can only be fired in Exelion Mode or Exceed Mode.
    • When Nanoha activates Raising Heart's Exelion Mode, her Barrier Jacket changes, too, from Sacred Mode to Exelion Mode. This is a nod to her and Raising Heart's Exceed Mode, as her Barrier Jacket changes from Aggressor Mode to Exceed Mode.
    • Nanoha and Fate's Blast Calamity is a combination spell which was only seen in the A's supplementary manga before.
    • The scene where Hayate breaks into tears in Nanoha and Fate's arms didn't appear in the TV series, but in the supplementary manga.
  • Nanoha, Fate and Hayate Are About To Triple Breaker You: The Animate version.
  • Never Trust a Trailer: Lindy vs Signum... yay! Not. Vita interfered. Well, it was seen in the trailer, too, but most assumed Lindy would do something else after that.
  • Retcon: In-universe example - Graham's involvement in the incident is completely cut out from the movie by the TSAB. See Treachery Cover Up from the series above as for why.
  • Show Within a Show: Like the first movie, this is considered an In-universe biopic for the TV series continuity. Some of the changes to the story can be directly tied to this fact.
  • Taking You with Me: As opposed to getting shot down by somebody, Chrono's father blew up the ship with the Book of Darkness.
  • Theme Music Power-Up: "Sacred Force -Extended Mix-" replaces "BRAVE PHOENIX".
  • This Is a Drill: Book of Darkness brings up one. Fate cuts it in half. In the commentary Hayate mentions she hasn't found any opportunity to use it in battle yet and (hopefully) jokingly offers to let Einhart try and take one, after she expresses her amazement for it.
  • Villain Over for Dinner: 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.
  • "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Unlike the six year Time Skip in the anime, this one is only two years later, shortly after the creation of Reinforce Zwei. This was likely because they weren't planning on adapting StrikerS and instead wanted to make an interquel (which would come to pass with Reflection and Detonation).
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: NachtWal appeared after Vita got bound and hit with a Divine Buster, before taking their Linker Cores.

 
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