My personal tradition of watching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s dubbed on Thanksgiving (preceded by season one on the same day or the day before) started mainly as a fluke, since it happened to be on Thanksgiving of 2016 I first decided to dive in and watch Nanoha. By the time I contemplated making it a tradition a few weeks later I’d kinda forgotten that A’s actually takes place at Christmas time, making it a more logical tradition for a month later. I think the movie remake left the Christmas part out of it which further affected how I remembered the story over the course of 2017.
But it does still fit because of how we tend to traditionally view the Christmas season as starting with Thanksgiving, hence Santa at the end of the Macy's Parade.
Things didn’t go quite according to plan for 2018, since it turned out to not be so easy to get myself into the right mindset for watching Nanoha when I’d a little before gotten into A Certain Magical Index and it’s spin off. There is a lot of natural overlap between the appeal of these two shows, but Nanoha’s overall tone is a bit more mellow so jumping back and forth between them isn’t easy.
If I had to call any Anime the perfect Holiday Season Anime, it’d be Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s. It’s about family and like all great Magical Girl shows it’s highly optimistic in-spite of the darkness present. It really is the perfect melodrama.
I'm not a big fan of the strictest definition of a Christmas movie, I'm more a fan of movies that happen to take place at Christmas time, where in theory it didn't need to be, but being Christmas still adds to the film thematically and emotionally. Batman Returns is my favorite example of such a film, Die Hard is okay, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe kind of counts as one of these (the weird thing is the centerpiece of that story is actually about Easter), I still haven't seen any Shane Black Christmas films.
Basically Batman Returns is my favorite Christmas movie, and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's is the Batman Returns of Anime in terms of how it relates to Christmas.
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