#magical girl lyrical nanoha shipping

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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Shipping: Nanoha Takamachi x Fate Testarossa | NanoFate!

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The Anime Binge-Watcher's Queer Anime Ship Tournament!

The first round rages on! Will it be the iconic battle wives or the cozy dragon wives? Cast your votes now!

All Round 1 Match-Ups

Rules and Full Bracket

[doyoulikethisanimeship]

Fate Testarossa Harlaown/Takamachi Nanoha (Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha)

Important: Please do not vote if you don't know the characters.

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

reason, spoiler warning:

The ultimate enemies to childhood friends to lovers ship. Fate is introduced as the evil magical girl who is rivals with Nanoha to find the mcguffin, but it's slowly revealed that Fate is actually being abused by her mother, and at the climax of the first season Nanoha kills her mother and becomes her first friend.

Multiple seasons take place over multiple years, and when we see them as adults they share a bed and live together, plus Nanoha adopts a child and she calls both of them mama.

[archivalofsins]

I don't ship things in milgram but I do gotta just pay some respect to myself real quick for having amazing fucking taste and impulse control.

Me in high school mid watching the Ben 10 and Generator Rex crossover. They had these fuckers wear the others iconic jackets. Why the fuck did they do this? Is it what I think it is- Climax let's merge our powers by me literally going inside you alien stuff nothing else. It's just alien stuff this is to save the world. These writers knew what this would cause there's no fucking way they didn't.

Awkward that I'm pretty sure Ben is in a relationship when this happens, but alright. Nanoha and Fate from Magical Girl Lyrical, they gave each other ribbons.

Just look at how those ribbons are highlighted. Years from now they should get married adopt a daughter and live in a suburban home together. And then they did!

Because that was the right fucking course of action! It was the only option.

Orihime my older brother gave me these haiclips I thought they were childish at the time. I was pretty bratty and ungrateful but they mean everything to me now. If anything happened to them I don't know what I'd do.

Still wearing them when she's an adult with kids of her own,

Meanwhile in the ocgram Vance gave me this bracelet I take very good care of it and it's important to me. Me yeah that's the shit articles of clothing to denote bonds and affection YESSS-

Let me use your jacket to keep me warm-

Q.23 Is there anything you’d like to have sent to you there?

Yuno: A blanket!

LET'S GOOOO YEAH THAT'S THE SHIT

Gotta be one of my favorite tropes right there. This extends to Mu giving people articles of clothing as well.

God, if that ain't the way to say I love you, I always want you to have a piece of me/me to have a piece of you by my side. Then I don't know what is.

[askweisswolf]

Fanfic Writer Questions

Thank you for the tag @foibles-fables!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

19!

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

Currently at 89,257.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Oh man, uh. I think it would be better to say what fandoms I don’t write for at this stage, it’s still crazy to me to think it’ll be twenty years this year that I started writing fanfic. Currently I’d say Baldur’s Gate 3 has me by the throat, with a little bit of the DCAU (specifically, Justice League/Unlimited) and the occasional dash of Fallen Hero and Dragon Age that I post to Discord servers. I’ve also got a few Mass Effect short pieces floating around. I really need to post to my AO3 more.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I’m going to mess with this one a bit and go off of my top five finished fics by fandom and stick to the ones I wrote solo, that way it’s a bit of a mix. I apologize in advance since a lot of these are years old at this point, but it definitely goes back to what I said before about writing in multiple fandoms, ha.

Rest for the Weary (Frozen) Flare (SPOP) The Same Big Sky (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) Skin Deep (Dragon Age: Origins) At The Door (Baldur's Gate 3) 5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to! I’m not always the best at it but I genuinely appreciate everyone who takes the time to comment on one of my fics, it means the world to me and I always love hearing everyone’s feedback and thoughts, it makes me so excited for my own writing.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

If we’re going purely by just what’s on AO3… hm. For stuff that’s a bit older, easily The Silence Is Your Answer (Fire Emblem: Three Houses). For something I wrote more recently, Few Finer Torments (Baldur’s Gate 3) because I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about Shadowheart in Act 2 specifically.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

… Most of them. Oh my God I’m mainly a fluff writer, like I knew this about myself but to actually realize it so starkly is something else. Of my most recent stuff I’d probably say A Little Slice (Justice League Unlimited) has possibly the softest ending I’ve written in awhile.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Thankfully not.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Not often but I do sometimes! All of it so far has been for f/f ships, mostly with a lot more focus on like… the thinking and the feeling aspect of it and not so much the physical aspect, if that makes sense? I just like using sex as a way to explore the characters, when I’m in the mood to write it.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Oh, man, okay. I have written a few crossovers over the years, but my favorite is still one I co-wrote with a friend of mine for the Beast’s Lair fan forum back in the day that was just a complete off the walls one-shot crack crossover with Fate/Stay Night, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and I think we had a dash of Highschool of the Dead right at the end. It was insane, we wrote it on a Skype call in a matter of hours.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I know, thankfully.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have not! When I was more active on FIMFiction.net though I did have a few people who did live readings of my fics, those were always neat.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes! I’ve co-written with him a lot before, but Pen Pals (Frozen) was co-written with Moczo. Just a heads up that I think he has it set that you can only read it if you’re logged in, if you want to check it out.

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

… I don’t think I can only pick one, man. I really don’t. If I have to, my brain always comes back to Shayera/John or Raven/Terra.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I feel like I owe everyone who started reading my The 100 fic or my Black Widow fic an apology at this point.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, emotional payoff, character study (I guess?). I have one friend who told me I write very good Catholic guilt.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Sex and fight scenes are the absolute bane of my existence, for as much as I enjoy the character potential of the former in particular. I’m also slow as hell, I’ve been working on this one Shayera/John fic now for like a year trying to finish it before I post it and ugh.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

If it fit the context of the fic I would, yes! I’d double check it with someone else who knows the language first, though.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Like, ever? Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers to my old Fanfiction.net account when I was 13. I had a bunch of old stuff saved to floppy discs that I never posted, though.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

This changes on a nigh daily basis, but currently I’m having an absolute blast with my The Beast Whisperer series focusing on my Tav who romances Shadowheart, so I’ll leave the link for it here.

Going to gently tag @optiwashere, @kittlesandbugs, @antigonick, @miabicicletta if you guys want to participate, no pressure! And of course anyone who sees this is free to respond as well.

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I'm marcus! 🇨🇱 / 🇺🇸. I write and do art. I any/all, bi.

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In no particular order, my favorite characters are; Leo Valdez, Bart allen, Ruggie Bucchi, Jaime Reyes, Tavros Nitram, Prompto Argentum, Nanoha Takamachi, Eva Nine, Link, Riju, Gamzee Makara,

Stuff you may or may not find me talking about, certainly hmu if you wanna chat about this!

Anime/Manga I Like: Evangelion, Gunbuster, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, honestly most magical girl animes, Bubblegum crisis, Megazone 23, Gundam, just … sci-fi and magical girls. I feel like that sums it up. NieR: Automata, Devils Candy, girls in panzer.

Comics: Bone, some marvel comics, but ones like filament, Newsprints and Endgame! Stuff by Nathan Hale and Shen Hicks tbh, Bryan Lee O’Malley also. Gotham Academy, Blue beetle, Superboy, Impulse. Jem and the Holograms.

Books: The Search For WondLa, Lunar Chronicles, The Murderbot Diaries, More Than This, Dinotopia, Percy Jackson, 

A few of my ships include: Nanofate, Valgrace, Promptis, Hellbeetle, Damijon, Boostle, Gamtav, Vrisrezi, Kawoshin, Asumari, and others. 

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BYF/BMF

People who like the same characters I do, people who are into similar fandoms and such, tbh, my standards are low, I just wanna meet cool people! 

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people who start shit for no reason, bigots, ppl who hate on ships and characters for no reason. I want my internet experience to be fun and ppl who are overflowing with negativity don't have a place here. I’m down with joking mean, but actual bullying is a no-no.

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My Tags for art and such are down on this post! But im not always 100% consistent with using them, i try!

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[dreiser7]

Just finished rewatching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Season 1 & 2 of the anime tv series and the movies Reflection/Detonation.

I feel like after watching it I need to (finish watching everything released of course) but also rewatch/watch more magical girl anime. There are certain things I move away from but always love and shows with magical girls are one of them.

But Nanoha! One of my absolute favs. Some thoughts.

Raising Heart is the most insane intelligent device. This thing doesn't give a fuck. Anytime anything major goes down the first reaction is: I must win at all cost. What I have in mind might kill me? Fuck you. Nothing kills me. I'm Raising Heart. I don't ever get destroyed. Do the crazy ass thing Nanoha.

Nanoha is surprisingly angsty and emo. I forgot how many problems she hides beneath that sunny exterior. Detonation legit goes into Nanoha chatting with her younger self about how she doesn't love herself. And that even if she doesn't she should try to remember other people do and value herself more.

These children don't act like children. They're middle aged in their mindset. I wish I had my shit this together in elementary/middle school. What the hell.

Fate is the best girl. Always. Stay soft forever, Fate.

Hayate remains my favorite. Reflection/Detonation made me happy with some Hayate focus, but I didn't much appreciate what happened to/around her. Also, for as much fucked up shit that she's gone through I think she's the most well-adjusted. It would honestly make me happy if I could ship Hayate with someone in the future series but legit nada... I can't think of anyone who fits. They should just bring back Reinforce somehow.

This anime has the best action sequences. I love their system of magic, how it's mixed with sci-fi. The world they built is interesting and really in depth with the details they put in. I love it.

Nanoha is incapable of meeting an antagonistic girl that attacks her without thinking: how do I save her? How do I become her friend? Running around like Captain Save A Ho. That's all she cares about. Saving ladies. I can respect it.

Going to rewatch Strikers and Vivid then watch Vivid Strike! sometime soon. Maybe I'll write Hayate fanfic. She deserves it. Even if only two people will read it. lol.

Honestly this series though. Top tier. At some point it would be nice if they made the very obvious subtext but is it really subtext if they bath together, sleep in same bed, and raise a child together couple of Fate and Nanoha an acknowledged canon thing.

Because the fandom knows. Everyone who watches knows.

[phantomstatistician]

Saturday Status Update

REQUESTS: CLOSED

The wait time for a request is: 65 working days

Upcoming charts (if the sample size is large enough):

RWBY - Crossovers

Ranma 1/2 - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Danganronpa V3 - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - Nanoha Takamachi  

Lovecraft Country - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Women's Murder Club - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

That ‘70s Show - 10 most popular ships (AO3), 10 most popular characters (AO3)

True Blood - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Team Fortress 2 - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Hetalia - England

Friends - 10 most popular tags (AO3)

Harry Potter - Lilly Potter, Dorcas Meadowes  

Game of Thrones - Aegon II Targaryen

Recess - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Kirby - 10 most popular ships excluding Smash (AO3)

Final Fantasy 10 - Jecht

Super Smash Brothers - crossovers excluding SSB fandoms

Fake Dating tag - 10 most popular fandoms (AO3)

Super Mario - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Steven Universe - Lapis Lazuli

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure - Jolyne Cujoh

Good Omens - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Demon Slayer - Zenitsu Agatsuma, Tomioka Giyu

Berserk - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Naruto - Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame

Jujutsu Kaisen - Satoru Gojo

OT3 tag - 10 most popular ships (AO3), 10 most popular fandoms (AO3)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - 10 most popular ships (AO3), 10 most popular ships (AO3) by rating

Spooky Month - 10 most popular ships (AO3), 10 most popular ships (AO3) excluding X readers and crossover pairings (including Boyfriend/Girlfriend)

Kingdom Hearts - 10 most popular tags (AO3), Crossovers

Degrassi - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

The Silmarillion - Maedhros

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - 10 most popular ships (AO3), 10 most popular tags (AO3)

Heartstopper - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

The Villains of Valley View - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Barbie (2023) - 10 most popular ships (AO3), 10 most popular tags (AO3)

Star Wars: Ahsoka - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - Teruteru Hanamura

Arcane - Mel Medarda

Fire Emblem - Nowi

Jujutsu Kaisen - Utahime lori

Ben 10 - Ben Tennyson

A Good Girl's Guide For Murder - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

The Fallout (2021) - 10 most popular ships (AO3), Crossovers

Digimon - Daisuke\Davis

Project SEKAI - Mafuyu Asahina

Monster High - 10 most popular characters (AO3)

ReBoot (1994 – 2001) - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Pacific Rim (2013) - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Lab Rats - Bree, Chase

Lab Rats Elite Force - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Victorious - 10 most popular ships (AO3)

Have a more elaborate request?  Or want to jump the queue?  Or you want to support me as a content creator?  Buy me a Kofi!

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What is meant by 45 years is that Gundam as a franchise is 45 years old. It has also had a gay shipping fanbase for just as long. One that literally saved the show from death, similar to Spock/Kirk and Star Trek. These shippers helped birth the BL fan communities and culture as it is known today.

In terms of impact and influence, Gundam is very similar to Star Wars. The first series literally reshaped mecha as a genre, helping give rise to a style of mecha known as "real robot". Gundam has also inspired things outside of mecha anime, such as magical girl anime and, of course, BL. And as I stated that is the first series. There are many Gundam series over a variety of timelines, many of them influential juggernauts in their own right. Beyond the shows Gundam is also a series of games, comics and novels. It is also one of the most profitable toy brands in the world via plastic model kits called gunpla. Said toys are so ubiquitous that if you see plastic model kits in an anime, chances are you'll see one or two inspired by Gundam.

Also fun fact, The Witch From Mercury, the series sulemio is from, helped boost sales of said toys to an unprecedented degree. The kits sold out very fast with the the Gundam Aerial, the mech that Suletta pilots, being sold out everywhere for a very long while and in a fashion extreme enough that it was reported in news articles. When models of Suletta and Miorine came out they sold out before I could manage to order a set. I had to go and search in a variety of local stores, one of which being an hour out of the way, before I could grab them. Others were no so lucky.

As for the ship itself, The Witch From Mercury trended basically constantly while it was airing, as stated. The sulemio ship tags did as well. Someone in the notes has shared evidence that it was in the top three tags in Japanese twitter all throughout. Sulemio is also a rather historically important ship. Suletta Mercury is the first girl to head a Gundam series. And while there have been queer Gundam characters in the past, she is also the first Gundam protagonist to be in a queer relationship. One that notably ended in a canonical marriage. This show aired while Japan has been going through a strong push towards gay marriage in a primetime slot. It was a very public and well known series. One designed to try and get new people into Gundam, a goal it succeeded in. For at least some of that new base, the sapphic romance was the major reason for getting into Gundam as a whole.

I've seen people compare sulemio's importance as somewhat akin to that of korrasami. It is an important stepping stone that will lead to doors being opened wider. One that is part of a 45 year long history.

From where I am standing as a fan of primarily Japanese media and of sapphic media and as someone who participates in that fandom, including on tumblr, sulemio is the clear standout choice. My roots have never included Destiel, as even before the show ended and even during the heyday of superwholock I did not follow people who cared about it. I was so unaware of things that I honestly thought Destiel was the name of a character and a character from a show I did not know the name of. I actually didn't know it was a ship until I had seen a video essay about queerbaiting.

My heritage is instead things like Revolutionary Girl Utena, Sailor Moon, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha and, yes, Gundam. Japanese media has been what I've engaged with since I've participated in fandom. Hell, my earliest memories are of watching Japanese cartoons and playing Japanese video games. And the moment I learned that there were stories from there that involved women who love other women? I was hooked. That's where I've stayed and when I came to tumblr that's where I ended up. I saw nothing but sulemio for months. I still see it crop up. Before it I saw years upon years of edeleth yuri. I still see that too. Now I am inundated by an endless stream of farcille. With that background in mind, of course I'd vote for sulemio. Yuri raised me and sulemio is a very big step in yuri history.

Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - FINALS

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

[moonlightreal]

The Lyrical Nanoha post

Today on “what to watch while waiting for season nine,” here’s my post on Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, one of my favorite magical girl series.

So what’s marvelous in Lyrical Nanoha? The worldbuilding. There’s so much stuff in this show! Magical girls, magical girls in sports, magical girls in organized strike teams, magical girls in the government. Magic jewels, magic staffs, magic guns, magic plushies, magic rollerblades, upgrade devices (that look like tiny cute anime girls) magic circles, shapeshifters, cyborgs (that also look like cute anime girls) ancient weapons (that look like cute anime girls too) reincarnation, cloning, dimension ships, different worlds, ancient empires, and dragons.

I love that the devices talk and change shape. The visuals are wonderful. The transformation sequences are great and the attacks are cool. The stories are heartfelt and all the characters are fun, even if there are sometimes too many to keep straight. And Nanoha is one of the few magical girl series that has a whole magical world that the girls visit and eventually move to permanently.

Some parts of all-things-lyrical are available streaming on Prime but other parts are unlicensed so you can sail the seven seas guilt-free. There’s a site called “nyaa” where I have in the past gotten my hands on unlicensed anime. You can read the manga here, but the manga has 1)fanservice, including of underage characters, which the anime does not have and 2)a lot of characters who kind of all look the same which makes it less fun to read than some.

The series is also special because it shifts genre as the franchise goes on, starting as a traditional magical girl story, turning into a kind of technomagical war story, then unexpectedly morphing into a sports anime.

And, ooh look, I can link all the openings.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Your standard magical girl plot. Young Nanoha meets a magical ferret who gives her a transformation device because he needs her help to collect “jewel seeds” that can turn things into monsters. The ferret is actually a boy, an archaeologist who was transporting the magical items when an accident stranded him on earth. But a mysterious blonde girl with magic of her own is trying to get the jewel seeds too! Nanoha sees sadness in her rival’s eyes and resolves to save her, even as authorities from the magic dimension come to help get the situation under control.

And here begins the strange theme of the series: our heroines make friends by defeating them, in combat! It’s really very odd.

Nanoha A’s

Nanoha and Fate make a new friend, a wheelchair user named Hayate. Little do they know their new friend has magic of her own. Hayate’s health is deteriorating and her three magical guardians are desperate to save her at any cost. Nanoha and Fate can only help them by… defeating them in combat!

Nanoha Strikers

The third series is 26 episodes and jumps ahead to when the girls are in their twenties. They’ve moved to the magic dimension of Midchilda where they work for the government as professional magical girls responding to disasters. They’ve also become teachers. Nanoha’s two proteges Subaru and Tiana and Fate’s two proteges Erio and Caro learn to use their magical items and soon the whole gang is faced with an emergency! A villain has created a bunch of minions, who need to be befriended by defeating them in combat. He’s also created a clone of an ancient queen in the form of a little girl and, more than just befriending her, Nanoha adopts her.

StrikerS is a good series, it has loads of worldbuilding, new characters, epic battles, all kinds of good stuff. But having your magical girls be adult professionals who have military ranks is a big change from schoolgirls on Earth so it may weird your magical girl vibe.

Nanoha Vivid

Changes the vibe again. Now it’s a sports anime! With no enemies attacking, Nanoha and Fate’s daughter Vivio only needs to use her magic to compete in transformed martial arts. Vivio is the clone of an ancient queen, and she meets a cool emotionless girl who is the reincarnation of a friend of that queen and is driven by her ancestral memories to become the strongest fighter. She needs befriending through defeat! I do quite like that aspect: Einhart turns up driven by her past life memories to become the strongest and gets told quite matter-of-factly to join a gym and channel her mystical urges productively!

Vivid is a sports anime with transformation sequences. (in which the little girls become adults and body parts inflate like balloons.) The world of Midchilda seems less magical than it did in StrikerS; Vivio and her friends train at a gym that’s pretty much like a gym in our world and Vivio’s magic item doesn’t talk or change shape. The anime of Vivid also comes after some audio dramas and animates a small part of a manga, so the anime has a bunch of characters that are just there with no explanation of who they are, and it doesn’t end at the end. The manga is very long and is more about putting the characters in a series of cute costumes than actually having a story. I mean there is a story but boy do they spend a lot of time in swimsuits and Chinese dresses and maid outfits and more swimsuits...

Vivid Strike

Nanoha has moved on from her own series. The new heroine is a girl named Fuuka who has become estranged from her friend Rinne after Rinne experienced bullying and became a cold and closed-off person. How can Fuuka break through her friend’s shell and restore their relationship? Maybe her new friend Vivio can help!

Vivid Strike is a spinoff story that stars Fuuka with Vivio and her friends as side characters. The anime is a complete story arc and it’s a good show. But Midchilda has become even less magical; it now has normal non-flying cars and Fuuka gets in a fight with some gangstas. I’m pretty sure the government we saw in StrikerS wouldn’t let there be gangstas in the city!

[fuckyeahcrossoverships]

Genjuro Kazanari x Lindy Harlaown

Relationship Type: Romantic

Submitted by Anonymous

[evemoedesu]

EVE Online shipgirls July pack: Devoter, Monitor, Cerberus, Erebus and Thanatos

[zero-aurion]

Fourth set, this time it’s Yuuno Scrya and Sayaka Miki

[torororose]

I cant believe it's been 15 years Happy anniversary Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha!!!