
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha is a quite interesting anime. The one moment I was really pleased that I saw it, the other moment I was annoyed as hell because of it. The plot is something like this: the elementary school attender Nanoha, on one day she finds a ferret. The ferret has a jewel on his neck and it appears to be the form of a mage that asks Nanoha to help him out. Nanoha accepts and that’s how she turned into a magic girl. She appears to be really good at it (Gosh, where did I hear this before?) and she decides to help Yuuno (the ferret) out of his problems. His job is to find Jewel Seeds, some magic stone and when it’s activated, its power is huge and it’s even dangerous. Yuuno isn’t that good in magic, so he is really glad for Nanoha to help him out. Of course, we have the bad guys. Fate. The girl that wants to have the Jewel Seeds because her mother asks for them. That mother is one crazy bitch, that’s for sure. I felt really for Fate. Fate almost seems desperate and Nanoha wants to become friends with her. This sounds nice on paper, but in the anime, it’s most of the time failing.
Why? Because Nanoha is overdramatic about everything and everything is recapped as well. It’s just a bit annoying with all those cheesy lines all the time. The friends of Nanoha, that’s even worse! When you think that Nanoha is cheesy, wait ’till you meet those girls. Damn it those two are dramaticly. And Nanoha has a weird defenition of the word friendship. Really, she has. Another problem I have with this anime is that kids from the kindergarten save the world. Bit weird though. They don’t seem like elementary school students at all, but they are! And the power of those ‘wands’ is a bit too strong sometimes. But it’s funny.^_^
Further the character cast is nicely done. Chrono was really funny and Yuuno was even more hilarious sometimes. And Amy, she was great. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha can be good if they don’t take themselve seriously. More anime should do this.
I haven’t checked it yet, but this anime looks like a high budget anime for children that can be too dramaticly for their genre. The art is really nice, the music sucks (don’t EVER listen to the ED, you’ll get a headache) but they all have to learn on their English skills.
In a summary: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha is an anime with a ridicilious long name and it is nice overall, but it’s has a lot of flaws. And Nanoha is just an annoying little brat. Fate is nice. I recommend everyone who is bored and who loves mahou anime. And for the weirdos that are among us.
Ratings: 60/100