A new Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha anime is in the works
The Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance has unveiled a broadcast window of 2026, as well as its first key visual and special video.
The special video:
The key visual:
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance details
No cast has been announced so far, but the staff are:
- Director: Takayuki Hamana
- Character design/Chief animation director: Issei Arakaki
- Character Planning: Shuichi Kawakami
- Animation production: Seven Arcs
A visual story revolving around the first key visual was also unveiled:
The visual, in a machine translation, reads:
"At the Kanto Bayside Ruins"
The world was once on the brink of destruction due to a problem with vermin, but people have survived and are beginning to return to their former lives. Alongside her studies, she works as a vermin hunter.
Young people like her have no knowledge of the peaceful past. But even though there are dangers, she does not go hungry every day, and she cherishes her current life, which allows her to think about the future.
The only precious thing she has left is to protect and raise her one and only younger sister.
The Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha multimedia franchise encompasses five anime television series, four theatrical films, multiple manga and drama CD adaptations and sequels, among many other types of merchandise.
The franchise began with its first anime iteration in 2004, which began as a spin-off of the eroge Triangle Heart series.
The series follows the 9-year old elementary student Nanoha Takamichi, who is swept into a conflict between extra-dimensional powers vying for control over magical artifacts discovered on Earth. Due to her involvement, it is revealed that Nanoha herself possesses tremendous power.
