Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation

During a rash attempt to save her father and her dying home planet of Eltria, Kyrie Florian is betrayed by her childhood friend, Iris. Furthermore, the power Kyrie has gathered from Nanoha Takamachi and the other Earth protectors cannot be used to help her father.

Iris casts the despairing Kyrie aside, having acquired what she desired to exact revenge on Yuri Eberwein, a powerful being who lies dormant on Earth. Left to pick up the pieces, Nanoha and her allies must confront the troublesome Iris to uncover the truth and stop the conflict between her and Yuri.

However, amidst the raging battles, a much more dangerous threat lingers in the shadows. No matter the obstacle, Nanoha remains diligent and does not hesitate to help those in need with her magic.

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Testarossa, Fate Main

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Takamachi, Nanoha Main

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Yagami, Hayate Main

Ueda, Kana Japanese

Florian, Kyrie Main

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Iris Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Florian, Amitie Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Vita Supporting

Sanada, Asami Japanese

Signum Supporting

Shimizu, Kaori Japanese

Reinforce II Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Scrya, Yuuno Supporting

Mizuhashi, Kaori Japanese

Hatanaka, Yuusuke Producer

Hamana, Takayuki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Kameyama, Toshiki Sound Director

Tsukushi, Daisuke Episode Director

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Mar 26, 2022

lamaraptor

Recommended

One thing I've noticed about Nanoha is how much of the conflict is steeped in stupid communications breakdowns and misunderstandings. It's like one of those high school drama shows only instead of being made a social outcast you get blasted into infinity by huge magical cannons. Honestly I hate misunderstanding storytelling because it's lazy and it doesn't redeem your villain to just have them being manipulated the whole time. It tries to remove accountability from them and place it on an even bigger badder guy, so they can have a cheap redemption arc that doesn't require them to really undergo any introspection or development.

I know ... this is a kid's show, I know I shouldn't expect much in the way of narrative structure from a magical girl anime, and maybe I'm just burnt out watching too much Nanoha as of late. It's everything about the genre done so by the numbers that it feels procedurally generated at times, like an AI was given a hundred magical girl scripts to learn and this is what it spat out. I might have been more generous to this movie if it wasn't such a rehash of every other plot line Nanoha has done so far. I give it a 7/10 for trying

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 25, 2024

Kirumin

Mixed Feelings

reminder: this review is for both reflection(movie 3) and detonation(movie 4)

first the setting is chaos in here its like fastasy+science fiction+old era+new era+plantery so anything goes in here and basically it turn into like marvel multiverse so i can't help but laugh at this cause you know the real or main theme of this franchise was always been magic then this movie series was blend mainly to science fiction lol, now watching this its like it turn into alien invasion crap SO mahou shoujo element was basically erased in here, i know magic+technology was the main factor of MSLN but this is worst level kind ... its like the setting itself becomes a traveler or wanderer,

BUT WAIT!!! everything i said until this part i know its bad but this is actually good, cause their mahou shoujo element in nanoha series was giving them roadblock on making ideas, i mean mahou shoujo was all about mediocre magical powers, girls, girls friendship, yuri, less boys, mainly all just children and purposed only for kids to watch or etc.., bet the creators notice that so mahou shoujo was change into heroes instead so that gave them potential to create an even more better ideas and at the same time bet they were influence by their series StrikerS ideas,

if you still dont get how bad mediocre it is then try playing gacha games and get every girls every time they release new girls

now for the story: reflection was same plain mediocre but detonation was good (stiill has mediocre but only small), seriously i was surprise by this its like they change the scriptwriter,

same with the storytelling and plot, it starting to get good in detonation ngl its kinda worldbuilding scale actually so its hella good when compared to previous movies

but bruh the climax was weird nanoha was mostly doing it when she's not doing much aside from doing his ultimate magic its like they did it for comeback to tell us shes still important lol

honestly if they stick to mahou shoujo element everything will be mediocre but now they change it and the result was super good (in my own opinion ofc and compared to their prevous movies and series), cause Senki Zesshou Symphogear was like too every seasons it was common but at least better mediocre than MSLN

i rate it 9 actually cause i like their detonation's storytelling, plot twist, tension and most of all iris attitude and her new outfit (like seriously she was sexy ngl it was woman vibe) you guys might not agree with me cause you might say its low standard and yea it is (except iris ok) but also i compared it to previous movie and series so its a fact its their best one yet they created,

mixed feelings recommendation since MSLN fans might not like this cause mahou shoujo element got erased but it was still good in fact its even better

also BRUHHHHH IF ONLY!! if only Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid was like this, focusing more on einhald story that series would be hella good too T_T , sorry still can't get over on why they waste such a potential series most of all i like einhald too T_T

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 18, 2023

Animelover875

Not Recommended

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Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation is the last entry in Lyrical Nanoha at the time of this review. This review will encompass both movies, and may contain spoilers for the first movie, Reflection, as well as Detonation itself.

As the part two of two full-length movies serving as the ultimate Lyrical Nanoha experience, Detonation had particularly big shoes to fill. Not only because of the setup the first movie gave it, so that it could stand on its own feet, although this was very much part of it. The other aspect is that the first movie, in my personal experience, did not smooth over so well, and we ... were left with a number of ambiguous elements, which could obviously greatly hinder the message the series is trying to tell. So, did this happen here? Well...the answer is half yes. Without giving away too much, the first movie initially set up Kyrie in an odd role plot-wise, where she somewhat floated aimlessly in the cast, neither defined as antagonist or protagonist, yet too big to fill the role of a secondary character. Iris had similar issues, as she hung in the background to be a major threat, yet she didn't really have that big a role in itself in the first movie. So, Iris lent herself to being more of a side character.

Here, however, the script is flipped: Iris comes into her own as an antagonist of sorts, and succeeds Kyrie as the secondary antagonist for the film. However, she's in an awkward position of being under the shadow of Phill, aka "The Director". He either didn't appear in the first movie or had a miniscule appearance, so it comes off as a bit of a surprise that he was never mentioned before, nor was any of this foreshadowed. The same can be said of Iris' backstory: as much sense as it makes on paper, it simply doesn't translate well when it wasn't foreshadowed even in the slightest before. This all comes crashing down as it conflicts with Amitie, who becomes a third wheel in storytelling, as well as Granz, who is important for all of two scenes.

The reason this is such a big deal is because Granz, the Florians' father, was Kyrie's entire motivation to save their world. Other than that, Yuri also works well. For a change, her character development was set up quite nicely and her backstory checks out with her history with Iris, another aspect of the movie that came out nice. Her relationship with the king and his (her..?) servants was a little less obvious, but it made sense once it was established. Despite his flaws, Phill works well as an antagonist: cold, cunning, manipulative to all the other seemingly-antagonists, and ruthless. He even has a hilarious death.

Unfortunately, a few great characters aren't enough to save the movie: Yuri and Iris' scenes are a great start and Phill is genuinely creepy, as are the Iris clones. However, in my opinion, it just feels like the movie is too disorganized to create a real impact. It feels like the first half wasn't set up nearly well enough, and the second suffered for it. It's a real shame: I was really looking forward to these. 4/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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