| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's | |
 Cover from volume 1 of theMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's DVD release | |
| 魔法少女リリカルなのはA's [エース] (Mahō Shōjo Ririkaru Nanoha Ēsu) | |
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| Genre | Magical girl |
| Created by | Masaki Tsuzuki |
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| Manga | |
| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's THE COMICS | |
| Written by | Masaki Tsuzuki |
| Illustrated by | Kōji Hasegawa |
| Published by | Gakken |
| Magazine | Megami Magazine |
| Original run | July 31, 2005 –January 13, 2006 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Keizō Kusakawa |
| Produced by | Akio Mishima Tatsuya Tanaka |
| Written by | Masaki Tsuzuki |
| Music by | Hiroaki Sano |
| Studio | Seven Arcs |
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| Original network | Chiba TV,Animax |
| Original run | October 1, 2005 – December 25, 2005 |
| Episodes | 13(List of episodes) |
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| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces | |
| Developer | WitchCraft |
| Publisher | Namco Bandai |
| Genre | Fighting game |
| Platform | PlayStation Portable |
| Released | January 21, 2010 |
| Video game | |
| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny | |
| Developer | WitchCraft |
| Publisher | Namco Bandai |
| Genre | Fighting game |
| Platform | PlayStation Portable |
| Released | December 22, 2011 |
| Anime film | |
| Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's | |
| Directed by | Keizou Kusakawa |
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| Written by | Masaki Tsuzuki |
| Music by | Misa Chūjō |
| Studio | Seven Arcs |
| Released | July 14, 2012 (2012-07-14) |
| Runtime | 150 minutes |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (魔法少女リリカルなのは エース,Mahō Shōjo Ririkaru Nanoha Ēsu) ("A's" is pronounced as "Ace") is ananime television series produced bySeven Arcs. It is the second anime in theMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, following theprevious series. The series aired in Japan between October 1, 2005, and December 25, 2005, and was licensed in North America byGeneon. A film adaptation,Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's, was released in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2012.[1][2] The series has also spawned a manga accompaniment and twovideo game adaptations for thePlayStation Portable. It was succeeded byMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS in 2007.
Six months following the events ofthe previous series,Nanoha Takamachi andFate Testarossa have been exchanging video mails to tell each other of their situations on Earth and in the Time-Space Administration Bureau respectively. However, on the night Fate returns, Nanoha and her friends come into conflict with the Belkan Knights,Signum,Vita, Zafira, and Shamal, who are tasked with filling the pages of the Book of Darkness to protect their master, a wheelchair-using girl namedHayate Yagami. It is up to Nanoha, Fate and the Time-Space Administration Bureau to solve the mystery of the Book of Darkness, the Belkan Knights and their master.
Amanga adaptation of the story was serialized inGakken'sMegami Magazine between August 2005 and January 2006 issues and was released in a single volume on February 18, 2006.[3] The adaptation features many scenes not explored in the anime series.
Seven Arcs produced a thirteen-episode anime series, directed byKeizō Kusakawa and written by Masaki Tsuzuki. Broadcast onChiba TV,TV Saitama, andTV Kanagawa, it premiered on October 1, 2005, and aired weekly until its conclusion on December 24, 2005.[4] The music for the series was produced by Hiroaki Sano. The series features two pieces oftheme music. "Eternal Blaze", performed byNana Mizuki, is the opening theme. "Spiritual Garden", performed byYukari Tamura, is the ending theme. In Japan, the series was released across sixRegion 2DVD compilation volumes between January 25, 2006, and June 21, 2006.[5][6]
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's was later licensed byGeneon for English-language dubbed release in theUnited States andCanada.Funimation distributed the dubbed series across aRegion 1 DVD boxset.
A theatrical film adaptation, titledMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd, was produced by Seven Arcs, following on from the 2010 adaptation ofthe first series,Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st,[1] and was released in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2012.[7] The film was released onBlu-ray Disc and DVD on March 22, 2013, and features an English subtitle track.[8]
A series of threedrama CDs have been released byKing Records between November 23, 2005, and March 8, 2006, entitledMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Sound Stage 01~03.[9][10] The CDs take place during and after the anime series. Each release charted on theOricon album charts, and the highest ranking album was theMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Sound Stage 03, which peak ranked at 52nd and remained on the chart for 2 weeks.[11]
Theoriginal soundtrack was released across six CDs entitledMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Original Soundtrack Plus Vol.1~6 that were released alongside theDVD volumes that compiled the series' episodes containing 57 tracks in total. Acompilation album entitledMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Vocal Best Collection was released exclusively atComiket 70 in August 2006, compiling many of the pieces of music used during the drama CDs.[12]King Records released threemaxi singles for the series. "Eternal Blaze" was released on October 19, 2005.[13] "Spiritual Garden" was released on October 26, 2005.[14] "Super Generation" was released on January 18, 2006, that contained the track "Brave Phoenix", which was used as an insert to episode twelve of anime series.[15]
Namco Bandai Games released a game adaptation, entitledMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces, on January 21, 2010, forPlayStation Portable.[16] It is a 3Dfighting game with nine playable characters with multiple stories based on theA's storyline. A second game,Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny, was released on December 22, 2011, and features additional characters from theViVid andForce manga series.[17]
As of August 5, the film had a box office gross of US$4,950,633.[18] Its total gross was more than¥500 million.[19]
