Awesome Music / Lyrical Nanoha

aka: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha makes excellent use of award-winning singer and Fate's voice actress Nana Mizuki, having her belt out the Hot-Blooded Theme Music Power-Up that accompanies each season's big battle. See: "Take A Shot", "BRAVE PHOENIX", and "Pray".
• In the climactic battle of The Movie, we have "Don't be long". The second movie's final battle gives us another with "Sacred Force".
• For the theme song of the first movie, we get "PHANTOM MINDS" while we get "BRIGHT STREAM" as the theme for the second movie.
• The opening theme songs for seasons one ("innocent starter"), two ("ETERNAL BLAZE") and three ("SECRET AMBITION" and "MASSIVE WONDERS") are awesome as well. None of them are played during a Moment of Awesome, but that's likely because they don't need to be.
• "Haruka Sora no Kanata Made", from A's. It translates as Into the Distant Sky. It's used for two powerful moments: When Nanoha introduces Vita to Divine Buster Extension, and when she walks out of the inferno.
• And "Snow Rain"!
  • "Snow Rain ~Ver. Holy night~" from The Movie sounds just as epic as the original.
  • The Unison Trilogy single gave us three more versions of Snow Rain! The first is "Snow Rain ~Ver.Blessing~", the second is "Snow Rain ~Ver.Eins~", and the third one is "Snow Rain ~Ver.Zwei~".

• "Sono Namida mo, Kanashimi mo ~Tsudoe, Hoshi no Kagayaki Ver. StS~" for the Heartwarming Moment between Nanoha and Vivio and the unveiling of Blaster-3 Starlight Breaker.
• "Raising Heart, Set Up! (The Magical Orchestra)", the StrikerS redoing of the already quite awesome "Raising Heart, Set Up!", Nanoha's Season 1 transformation music.
  • The MOVIE 1st's remix of "Raising Heart Set Up!" is another sweet variation of Nanoha's transformation music.
  • The MOVIE 2nd A's gave Nanoha a new transformation theme called "Exelion Set Up!". Needless to say, it more than lives up to the original theme.
• Nanoha's second transformation theme, "Afureru Power, Muteki no Yuuki", is perfect for younger-Nanoha's high-energy style.
• Both Hayate and the Wolkenritter get their own themes: "Haruka Naru Ishi (Meister des Nachthimmels)" and "Shiden Rekka Shippuu Jinrai" respectively.
  • The MOVIE 2nd A's also gave Hayate her very own transformation theme, "Shukufuku no Kaze".
• "My Friend" from StrikerS Sound Stage X. Heartwarming Music, people.
• "Shooting Action" from StrikerS seems to be reserved for when it's the recruits' time to shine, and really does do the job nicely.
• "Yuuki no Imi" from StrikerS, which plays during Subaru's best moment. It translates to "(The) Meaning of Courage", which makes this a Shout-Out and blatant lampshade hanging that Subaru is GaoGaiGar in Moe form.

• Bad news: The Movie's version of Fate-chan's theme, "Blitz of Gold", is tragically shorter than the other known versions. Good news: The awesomeness is far more concentrated as a result.
  • Thankfully, we have Fate's original transformation theme, "Kin no Senkou" and its StrikerS version, "Kin no Senkou (ver Impulse)"
  • Just like Nanoha, Fate got a brand spanking new theme in the 2nd movie called "Lightning Assault" and damn is it awesome!
• The Forwards' transformation music can be pretty cool, too. For some reason, Caro's "Ryuuki no Shoushi" (Summoner of Dragons) can be highly addictive. There's also Teana's Theme "Ryuusei no Shashu", Subaru's Theme "Kou no Sousha", and lastly, Erio's Theme "Wakaki Yari Kishi".
• The ending theme of Season 1, "Little Wish ~lyrical step~". It comes back in the ending of the first movie when Nanoha and Fate exchange their hair ribbons as "Little Wish ~lyrical step~ Instrumental & Strings MIX"
• The ending theme of Season 2, "Spiritual Garden".
• The ending themes of Season 3, "Hoshizora no Spica" and "Beautiful Amulet".
• "Unkai wo Nukete" (Emerge from the Sea of Clouds). Plays as Nanoha charges up Starlight Breaker while badly injured in A's.
• The Battle of Aces instrumental arrange of "ETERNAL BLAZE"—the opening theme for A's.
• In the MOVIE 2nd A's, "Dear My Sister Dear My Memory" plays during the scene in which Fate and Alicia have their last heartwarming/tragic conversation in the dream world of the Book of Darkness.
• "Sky Dancing" was used for the short but oh-so awesome Nanoha vs. Vita/Fate vs. Signum rematch in the MOVIE 2nd A's.
• The Vivid anime gives a few gems in the form of transformation themes; Vivio's transformation theme has a bright, cheerful, 'soaring' feel to it, whereas the more serious Einhart gets a theme with brass and electric guitars. Furthermore, at the start of Episode 6, when everyone transforms together for the big mock-battle, the accompanying theme wouldn't be out of place in some of the later Pretty Cure series ^note  those soundtracked by Yasuharu Takanashi, at least.
• From A's Portable: Gears of Destiny: Thoma Avenir's theme. Also from GOD, Einhart Stratos's theme.
• "Brand New Days", released in the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Song Complete Box [2019], is the so far only duet of Nanoha Takamachi (CV. Yukari Tamura) and Fate T. Harlaown (CV. Nana Mizuki) where they sing to each other, even reinserting in the lyrics their iconic "Namae wo Yonde".

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