Trivia / Lyrical Nanoha

• Acting for Two:
  • Arf shares the same dub actress as young Chrono and they do have some conversations together.
  • Nanoha's mother Momoko in the dub shares the same voice as Falin, and has a scene together with her.
  • Nana Mizuki voices Fate, Alicia and Levi, three almost identical looking characters with distinct personalities.
  • Shizuka Itō voices Shario, Otto and Deed.
  • Chiwa Saitō, jarringly enough, voices Subaru, Nove and Quattro.
  • Marina Inoue voices Erio, Cinque and Wendi.
  • Kaori Mizuhashi voices Yuuno, Vivio and Sein.
  • Eriko Kigawa voices Ginga, Uno and Tre. The three have a dialogue in the same scene in StrikerS Sound Stage X.
  • Yukana voices Reinforce Zwei and Lucino. Funnily enough, there is a scene in StrikerS, where they have chat, but the viewer doesn't hear any dialogue.
  • Natsuko Kuwatani voices Arf, Lutecia, Sette and Auris Gaiz.
    • On the other hand, Lutecia lampshades in The Movie 2nd A's audio commentary that she and Arf have really similar voices and then she tries to imitate her voice (teen and child voice), much to Zafira and Fate's surprise. It's even better, if you listen carefully, Lutecia is only close to imitate Arf's voice perfectly, but there are still subtle distinctions.
  • Mai Nakahara voices Teana, Vice's sister Laguna, and Lutecia's mother Megane.
  • Mikako Takahashi voices the young Chrono and Caro.
  • Nozomi Masu voices Alto and Dieci.
  • Kayo Sakata voices Mariel and Schach.
  • Ayako Kawasumi voices Ixpellia and the Mariages.
  • In the PSP games and accompanying drama CDs - the three Aces and their Material counterparts, obviously; and every character who meets their Dark Piece doppelgängers. The latter case includes Fate, Reinforce, Vita, Shamal, Zafira, and Chrono.
  • Gears of Destiny also adds Yuuno and Vivio (Kaori Mizuhashi), Lily-Strosek and Amitie (Haruka Tomatsu). Thoma and Lily also meet their Dark Piece counterparts, though they actually talk with their partners rather than with their enemies.
    • Kana Asumi voices U-D and Asteion. And Isis.
• Banned in China: Lyrical Nanoha is one of over 100 Magical Girl anime that are prohibited from being released in Saudi Arabia.
• Crossdressing Voices:
  • Kaori Mizuhashi voices Yuuno Scrya. Because of his effiminate appearance, he is still voiced by her even as an adult.
  • Mikako Takahashi voices Chrono Harlaown until he grows up to an adult. She still voices him when he's 16 in Reflection and Detonation.
  • Marina Inoue voices Erio Mondial.
  • The Lyrical Parties have a game called "Seiyuu Shuffle". For certain scenes, the roles of the seiyuus will be shuffled, which means that every female seiyuu, who participates in those events, could play a boy or a "male" Device. For example, Chiwa Saitō playing Yuuno, Mai Nakahara playing Bardiche, Kana Ueda and Yukari Tamura playing Chrono. On the other hand, since the franchise have an Improbably Female Cast, the unfortunate one guy Kazuya Ichijō played Fate in Lyrical Party IV.
• Generation Xerox: Like her mother Quint, Subaru has a partner and best friend who is female and voiced by Mai Nakahara.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The first and second seasons were released by Geneon in the U.S., but very shortly afterwards, Geneon USA shut down and the titles immediately fell out of print. They now command at least $100 on eBay, usually more. And neither season has been license rescued as of 2022.
  • As of 2023 and 2024, this has been thankfully averted, as Discotek Media has now gotten the rights to the original 1st and 2nd (A's) TV series that is set to release in 2024 on Blu-Ray. They've also, however, previously licensed/released the third and fouth movies, Reflection, and Detonation.
• No Export for You:
  • The third season, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, has yet to be released in the USA, and/or dubbed.
  • It is the entire franchise that has yet to be released or dubbed in the UAE.
• Sequel Gap: Between Force having been "on hiatus" (and most likely Quietly Canceled) since 2013, the series' main continuity lying dormant since ViVid had wrapped up in 2017, and a dearth of new releases since the 2018 Detonation, the Nanoha franchise has been inactive for a while. While there has been an announcement back in January 2020 (read: just before the pandemic) that some kind of Nanoha content is in the works, nothing about its format or medium was said and no updates were published in the three years since. The most recent form of Nanoha content was Detonation's collaboration with Symphogear XDU (first in mid 2020, with a re-run in early 2023). At this point, it may be accurate to say that Nanoha is on a Series Hiatus — if not Orphaned altogether, given Seven Arcs and Masaki Tsuzuki's new focus on Extreme Hearts.
• Shipper on Set: While the writers have always been tight-lipped on the nature of Nanoha and Fate's relationship, their voice actors Yukari Tamura and Nana Mizuki have stated in interviews that they consider them a romantic couple and portray them that way in later seasons. The fandom have since cited this as the Word of Gay in lieu of other sources.
• Star-Making Role: The series served as this for both Nana Mizuki and Yukari Tamura.
• Unfinished Dub: Only the first two seasons were dubbed. StrikerS wouldn't be licensed until 2016 (a full nine years after it aired), by Amazon UK.
• Word of Gay: Nanoha and Fate according to this interview with the creator of the franchise and their voice actresses, at least in the series' primary continuity. Nana Mizuki ups the ante by creating a schedule of Nanoha and Fate's daily routine and she notes that Nanoha and Fate spend time alone with each other every night from 22:00 to 1:00.

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