Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Cover of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha DVD vol 2 featuring Nanoha Takamachi and Fate Testarossa
魔法少女リリカルなのは (Mahō Shōjo Ririkaru Nanoha)
Genre	Action, magical girl[1]
Created by	Ivory Masaki Tsuzuki
Anime television series
Directed by	Akiyuki Shinbo
Produced by	Akio Mishima
Written by	Masaki Tsuzuki
Music by	Hiroaki Sano
Studio	Seven Arcs
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media
Original network	Gifu Broadcasting System, TV Saitama, Mie TV, TVO, CTC, TVK
Original run	October 1, 2004 – December 24, 2004
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Sequels
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (2005) Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (2007) Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid (2015)
Manga
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st − The Comics
Written by	Masaki Tsuzuki
Illustrated by	Kōji Hasegawa
Published by	Gakken
Magazine	Megami Magazine
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	July 30, 2009 – December 27, 2010
Volumes	2
Anime film
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st
Directed by	Atsushi Nakayama[a] Keizou Kusakawa
Produced by	Akio Mishima Tatsuya Tanaka Hiroyuki Shimizu
Written by	Masaki Tsuzuki
Music by	Hiroaki Sano
Studio	Seven Arcs
Released	January 23, 2010
Runtime	130 minutes
Manga
ORIGINAL CHRONICLE Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The 1st
Written by	Masaki Tsuzuki
Illustrated by	Yukari Higa
Published by	Kadokawa Comics A
Magazine	Nyantype
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	November 30, 2013 – May 30, 2016
Volumes	7
Anime film
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection
Directed by	Takayuki Hamana
Produced by	Tomohiro Arai
Written by	Masaki Tsuzuki
Music by	Misa Chūjō
Studio	Seven Arcs Pictures
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media
Released	July 22, 2017
Runtime	107 minutes
Anime film
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation
Directed by	Takayuki Hamana
Produced by	Tomohiro Arai
Written by	Masaki Tsuzuki
Music by	Misa Chūjō
Studio	Seven Arcs Pictures
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media
Released	October 19, 2018 (2018-10-19)
Runtime	111 minutes
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (魔法少女リリカルなのは, Mahō Shōjo Ririkaru Nanoha) is a Japanese anime television series directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, with screenplay written by Masaki Tsuzuki and produced by Seven Arcs. It forms part of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series. The Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations broadcast 13 episodes between October and December 2004. The series is a spin-off of the Triangle Heart series and its story follows a girl named Nanoha Takamachi who decides to help a young mage named Yūno to recover a set of 21 artifacts named the "Jewel Seeds".

Masaki Tsuzuki adapted the series into a novel, which Megami Bunko published in August 2005. King Records has adapted several soundtracks and drama CDs from the series. A sequel to the anime series titled Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's produced by Seven Arcs premiered in Japan in October 2005, broadcast on Chiba TV. A film adaptation of the anime series, also by Seven Arcs, was released in theaters on January 23, 2010,^[2] accompanied by a manga series which was serialized in Megami Magazine between November 2009 and March 2011.

Geneon Entertainment licensed the anime series for English-language dubbed release in North America at Anime Expo 2007 (June 29 to July 2). Due to Geneon switching distribution labels between September 2007 and July 2008, Funimation distributed the series (in a single DVD compilation-volume boxset) approximately one and a half years after the announcement of the licensing. Many production credits for the English-language dubbed release were missing. The anime is now licensed by Discotek Media.

Moderately well received by Japanese-language viewers, all DVD volumes peaked at 70 to 22 and below on the Oricon Animation DVD ranking and remained on the chart for at least two weeks.

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