History YMMV / MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs

* EvilIsSexy: Reinforce, for a given value of "evil". Also, the last boss has breasts for no apparent reason other than this.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Under no circumstance should you bring up [[spoiler:whether or not Graham was justified in his actions.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: During the commentary of ''The Movie 2nd A's'', Caro has some dialogues with (adult) Chrono. This is of course hilarious if you think about that Creator/MikakoTakahashi plays both, Caro and the young Chrono. This is a funny [[AvertedTrope aversion]] of TalkingToHerself.

* GrowingTheBeard: For the entire franchise as a whole. While the original show certainly had a lot of memorable moments, the series was still coming into it's own and had a lot of teething problems; ''A's'' is considered the point that the Nanoha franchise truly hit it's stride with the series mixing in the best of both worlds from it's MagicalGirl beginnings to its SuperRobot / SpaceOpera roots, keeping the majority of the supporting cast from the first season around as well as introducing new favorites, and all this atop the season's intriguing GreyAndGreyMorality. The season was so well received that every entry in the franchise from this point forward [[ToughActToFollow has had to follow in its shadow]].

* HilariousInHindsight: During the commentary of ''The Movie 2nd A's'', Caro has a some dialogues with (adult) Chrono. This is of course hilarious if you think about that Creator/MikakoTakahashi plays both, Caro and the young Chrono. This is a funny [[AvertedTrope aversion]] of TalkingToHerself.

* GrowingTheBeard: For the entire franchise as a whole. While the original show certainly had a lot of memorable moments, the series was still coming into it's own and had a lot of teething problems; ''A's'' is considered the point that the Nanoha franchise truly hit it's stride with the series mixing in the best of both worlds from it's MagicalGirl beginnings to its SuperRobot / SpaceOpera roots, keeping the majority of the supporting cast from the first season around as well as introducing new favorites, and all this atop the season'ss intriguing GreyAndGreyMorality. The season was so well received that every entry in the franchise from this point forward [[ToughActToFollow has had to follow in its shadow]].

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Nanoha did eventually learn the why Reinforce [[spoiler: was willing to perform a HeroicSacrifice for Hayate's sake]] when she met Vivio.

* GrowingTheBeard: For the entire franchise as a whole, while the original show certainly had a lot of memorable moments the series was still coming into it's own and had a lot of teething problems. ''A's'' is considered the point that the Nanoha franchise truly hit it's stride with the series mixing in the best of both worlds from it's MagicalGirl beginnings to its SuperRobot / SpaceOpera roots, keeping the majority of the supporting cast from the first season around as well as introducing new favourites and the seasons intriguing GreyAndGreyMorality. The season is so well received that every entry in the franchise from this point forward [[ToughActToFollow has had to follow in this seasons shadow]].

* ToughActToFollow: {{Inverted}} as this season is widely considered to take all the good aspects of the first season and [[EvenBetterSequel improved upon them significantly]]. Instead ''A's'' serves as this for the entire franchise itself as every season post this one is [[ContestedSequel often debated]] upon whether or not it lives up to the originals potential or if it falls flat.

* MostWonderfulSound: The cartridge loading sound.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Regardless of the fandoms feelings on the overall quality of the film the one thing that is universally agreed upon is that the visuals look amazing and help elevate the action scenes far beyond what the original anime could produce.

* LoveItOrHateIt: The movie suffers from this greatly.
** Either you loved it for the visuals, Fate's development and Fate and Nanoha's friendship, or you hated the movie due to bland music and fight sequences, Yuuno basically being written out of the movie, Lindy and Chrono never getting any closure to what happened with the Book of Darkness as well as the fact that the Wolkenritter held onto both the IdiotBall and the ConflictBall just to make the plot work.
** About the only things universally praised by all fans in the movie was the cleaned up visuals, fight against the Darkness of the Yami no Sho and Reinforce's device being cool. However, the first action sequence is also universally disliked by fans, good luck getting them to agree on the why of that, however.

* TheWoobie: All the antagonists to some degree.

* BrokenBase: Under no circumstance should you bring up [[spoiler:whether or not Graham was justified in his actions.]]

* GrowingTheBeard: For the entire franchise as a whole, while the original show certainly had a lot of memorable moments the series was still coming into it's own and had a lot of teething problems. ''A's'' is considered the point that the Nanoha franchise truly hit it's stride with the series mixing in the best of both worlds from it's MagicalGirl beginnings to its SuperRobot / SpaceOpera roots, keeping the majority of the characters from the first season around as well as introducing new favourites and the intriguing GreyAndGreyMorality of the ''antagonists''. The season is so well received that every entry in the franchise from this point forward [[ToughActToFollow has had to follow in this seasons shadow]].

* GrowingTheBeard

* BaseBreaker: Under no circumstance should you bring up [[spoiler:whether or not Graham was justified in his actions.]]

* EpilepticTrees: In the manga Suzuka beats Fate at dodgeball [[BadassNormal by catching a ball thrown with Super Strength and knocking Fate out of the sky with her return throw]], in the anime both her and Alyssa appear inside a barrier that was supposed to keep {{muggles}} out. People familiar with ''TriangleHeart3'' might remember Suzuka's sister Shinobu was a vampire there. Suzuka herself didn't exist. ''Hmmm...''

** Kyouya and Miyuki are shown to be expert swordsmen in ''TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever''. One of the enemies their sister is fighting in ''A's'' is a sword master. Despite the obvious opportunity for a duel between Signum and either non-magical Takamachi sibling, the most significant event featuring those two in that season is Miyuki ribbing Kyouya about his love life.