Takamachi Nanoha is a normal third-grader who feels a little useless and out-of-place with no purpose. Then one day, she saves a ferret, who turns out to be a mage from another planet who came to this planet to search for the jewel seeds. Nanoha agrees to help, but this task gets complicated when another girl arrives to steal them.
Direction
Kusakawa elevates TV melodrama to cinematic opera.
Score
Nana Mizuki's dual performance breaks your heart twice.
Visual Effects
Bureaucratic magical systems rendered in gorgeous particle effects.
Director
Keizo Kusakawa
Yukari Tamura
Nanoha Takamachi (voice)
Nana Mizuki
Fate Testarossa / Alicia Testarossa (voice)
Kaori Mizuhashi
Yuuno Scrya (voice)
Natsuko Kuwatani
Arf (voice)
Rei Igarashi
Precia Testarossa (voice)
Aya Hisakawa
Lindy Harlaown (voice)
Mikako Takahashi
Chrono Harlaown (voice)
Rie Kugimiya
Alisa Bannings (voice)
Ai Shimizu
Suzuka Tsukimura (voice)
Yuki Matsuoka
Amy Limietta (voice)
Keiji Hirai
Alex (voice)
Tetsuya Kakihara
Randy (voice)
Masumi Asano
Linith (voice)
Sayaka Kinoshita
Makihara Clinic Director
Yukie Maeda
Teacher (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This movie retroactively canonized the 'Nanoha/Fate' ship that dominated 2000s yuri fandom, with director commentary deliberately amping their romantic tension.
The entire film is technically an in-universe propaganda movie produced by the Time-Space Administrative Bureau, explaining its glossier tone compared to the raw TV series.
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