The Mikako’s Room: 20th Anniversary Special livestream event announced a new Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) television anime on Sunday, titled Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Exceeds: Gun Blaze Vengeance. This marks the first anime in the franchise in six years since Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation premiered in 2018.
Original creator Masaki Tsuzuki and illustrator Shuuichi Kawakami will begin serializing a manga adaptation of the new anime in Suiyoubi no Sirius in 2025. The event also unveiled a teaser visual for the new manga (pictured right).
Scriptwriter Masaki Tsuzuki launched the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha franchise with the 2004 television anime, spinning off of his Triangle Heart visual novel.The second and third anime series—Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS—aired in 2005 and 2007, respectively.
Seven Arcs produced two anime films compiling the first two anime series in 2010 and 2012. The sequel anime films—Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation—opened in Japan in July 2017 and October 2018, featuring an original story.
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, the fourth anime series adapting the manga of the same title, was produced by A-1 Pictures in Spring 2015. ViVid Strike!, a spin-off anime by Tsuzuki, premiered in Fall 2016.
Tsuzuki published a light novel adaptation of the first anime series in 2005, featuring artworks by illustrator Kouji Hasegawa and animator Yasuhiro Okuda. Tsuzuki and Hasegawa also serialized a collection of short stories for the second and third anime series from 2005–2007.
Manga artist Yukari Higa launched Mahou Senki Lyrical Nanoha Force (Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force), the latest manga in the franchise’s primary continuity, in Kadokawa’s now-defunct NyanType magazine in 2009. The manga has been on an indefinite hiatus since September 2013. The sixth and latest volume shipped in February that year.
Announcement
Official site: https://www.nanoha.com/
20th Anniversary official site: https://king-cr.jp/nanoha/20th/
Official X: @lyricalnanoha_
Source: Oricon News, Press Release
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Exceeds: Gun Blaze Vengeance on MAL
