Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesJapanese: 魔法少女リリカルなのは The MOVIE 1st English: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st More titles InformationType: Movie Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jan 23, 2010 Producers: Aniplex Licensors: None found, add some Studios: Seven Arcs Source: Original Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi Theme: Mahou Shoujo Duration: 2 hr. 10 min. Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity StatisticsScore: 7.861 (scored by 15,881 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #8952 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #4109 Members: 32,216 Favorites: 193 Available AtResources |
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May 15, 2010 Archaeon Recommended For a long time I avoided the mahou shoujo genre of anime like the plague, until a friend recommended the series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. After that, my perception of "magical girls" changed completely, and for the first time I realised the potential of the genre. Nanoha was like no other anime of its type, combining shounen action with a rather dark storyline, all packaged in a "cute" anime (complete with small fluffy sidekick). It's unfortunate then, that the stereotypical mahou shoujo anime still reigns supreme. The rather strangely titled Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st (simply calling it Nanoha: The Movie would have sufficed as ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 20, 2010 Heaven-Phoenix Recommended Having just came back from watching Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st at a movie theater and feeling very inspired, I felt like writing a review for it. First off, as any Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha fan can tell by the title alone, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st is basically a recap of the first season. Things like reused elements to keep the whole feel of the series coherent, summarized version of the story to stay on track with the original, and on occasions seemingly reused portions from the original series... all of these are to be expected I guess. I'm pretty sure ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 27, 2010 ckx Recommended As a big fan of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha since its beginning, I have been anticipating this movie for a very, very long time. It did not let me down in any department. It's a recap of season 1 - so of course, many plot details are lost. However, this movie was clearly designed for a target audience of people who enjoy Nanoha but want to see it in high definition with updated animation. For that, it succeeds greatly. As such, I would not recommend watching this movie in place of the anime. Instead, it should be treated as ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 7, 2014 Bear1211 Mixed Feelings "Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha" is one of the more true to form Magical Girl works that I've personally seen (the only other one being Madoka Magica), and personally I wasn't all that impressed. That being said Nanoha still manages to deliver on some level despite its quirks. Story: 6 Execution wise the story could of panned out slightly better. Bogged down with pacing issues, and a few mechanical problems with the plot. These mechanical issues pertain to mainly: Nanoha herself (more on that later), some lack luster dialogue, and the powers of the girls. The overall tale lost impact due to some less than stellar writing, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 27, 2012 ihateeveryone Recommended "Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st" is, as stated in the synposis, a re-telling of all the major events that took place in the series, "Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha." While this movie does indeed cover all you really need to know about the overall story and plot, it's highly recommended that you've at least seen season one of Lyrical Nanoha before viewing this movie - mostly since the series touches on a larger variety of characters and gets you more familiar with the entire cast. For the movie itself, I won't be reviewing it as a comparison to the series but as a standalone, ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 7, 2010 fatetesterossa Recommended I REALLY enjoyed this movie! It is basically an alternate retelling of the first season. Its hard to not give things away, but ostly rthe sounds were remixes of the first season score, which is why i gave it only an 8. And mkost of the events were those I had already seen (although much of the pacing flaws were repaired) so I gave it a 9. Besides that, everything is a 10! For those who have never heard of Nanoha before, go and watch this movie instead of the first season, and then watch the second! This was truly an excellent film, but it ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 10, 2012 deepbluejeer Recommended befriend (v.) - to inflict grievous bodily harm in the process of proving the validity of your beliefs If there was one word to sum up "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the MOVIE: 1st", it would be that. "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie: 1st" (which will hereon be referred to as Nanoha: The Movie) is a remake of the first season of the Lyrical Nanoha franchise, featuring Nanoha as a magical girl who causes massive property damage in the process of befriending her adversaries, and a rival magical girl, Fate. Both of them are after the twenty-one dangerous artifacts known as "Jewel Seeds". Let's sum up what ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 10, 2010 Archon_Wing Recommended The movie is a retelling of the first season for the Nanoha TV series. For those that don't know about Nanoha, the story is about the young protagonist, Nanoha Takamachi who comes across a magical device and must hunt for magical treasures before the bad guys get to them. However, this seemingly shallow and typical story hides its true nature which contains very well defined character interactions, relationships, and giant beam cannons. Story: The story is far more coherent than its tv series part. It has essentially been streamlined and the boring filler parts have been excised. The story quickly establishes a focus on ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 14, 2011 mrghost_00 Recommended I've actually completed BOTH the original anime series and this, but I've decided to review this first because this movie is how I was introduced to the Lyrical Nanoha anime franchise. STORY: Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 30, 2011 xm0123 Recommended If any of you have been around the anime block for the last six or so years, you've probably heard of a franchise called Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. This is a series of anime tv shows, movies, manga, audio CDs, video games, and other stuff about a girl who gains a magical relic and uses it to fight bad guys. Yeah, I know, that sounds exactly like the premise for Sailor Moon or Cardcaptor Sakura, but what set Nanoha apart from other magical girl series was: 1) the "Magic" is really more like highly advanced technology from other planets. 2) There's a greater emphasis on ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 28, 2013 PGit Recommended Nanoha is a bit of a strange franchise, it took the typically girly magical girl and injected into it a dose of gundam style action and a much grittier story than common for this kind of series. The result was something of a mixed bag, the early episodes were almost indistinguishable from many other mahou shoujo's. As it went on though the story improved and it turned into something that while no masterpiece could certainly hold its own. So how does this movie version compare? Quite well. With a much shorter length the story has been compressed and streamlined down cutting out much of the early ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 25, 2016 bluerain41 Recommended Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st. The movie is great in all level. As a fan of Mahou Shojo, this story, is just outstanding. The movie takes a different approach from the series and changes in outfit: like Nanoha have more robotic arms instead of all cloth; the fighting scene have more flying than the original series, and it's also widescreen to fit our modern monitors; along with different audio improvements; and different story transition. However, having said all of that, story is the same as the original series. I tend to enjoy the original series a bit more as how the author depicted ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 12, 2023 Animelover875 Recommended Lyrical Nanoha Movie - The 1st is an excellent movie that acts as an all-purposes recap/reboot for the first season of the eponymous anime. In my experience, rebooting a TV series or season can be a mixed bag: sometimes it can suffer from lack of originality or feel like it's simply re-hashing the plot. Sometimes, it gets worse than this even and can feel like pure pandering or simply trying to cash in on the franchise in a quick and lucrative way. While not necessarily a bad thing in itself, these can be detractors from the enjoyment of the movie. It is with much joy then, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 8, 2020 ktulu007 Recommended It's no secret at this point that I'm a big fan of the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha franchise, except for Triangle Heart but that barely counts as connected to the rest. And since Nanoha and Fate are one of my favourite anime couples, it seems like an ideal time to look at one of the films. We'll start with the oddly named Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st. Story: The film basically gives an abridged account of the first Nanoha series. As such, I'm not going to worry about giving spoilers since I've already reviewed multiple series of Vivid and anyone who's read my reviews regularly ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 2, 2013 platinumSKIES Recommended To be perfectly honest, I never really gave the Nanoha series much of a look at. So I decided to rectify that by watching the first of the three movies. Well, color me intrigued show. Story (8/10): From what I've heard, this is pretty much a recap of the whole first 13 episodes, with some bits cut out. It worked fairly well, to be honest. I think that the whole 'collect the Jewel Seed' plot was just rushed out as quick as possible so that they could get to the better parts of the story, but that's fine since the rest of the movie was paced ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 4, 2022 lamaraptor Recommended Perhaps I'm just a sucker for high quality animation and the big budget production value that animated films have over their weekly counterparts, but I somehow found myself thoroughly enjoying this way more than I did the first season of the show. Maybe it's just that I've spent enough time with these characters at this point that I was more emotionally invested in their struggles. The story is exactly the same, so if you've already seen the first season of the show there's nothing new to be had there. I still think it's worth watching anyway. For anyone completely new to the series I think this ... Read more Open Gift Report |
