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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st: Girl meets talking ferret, talking ferret gives girl a magic wand, girl and ferret collect magical thingies and fight whimsical monsters, all for funsies.
And then a rival appears in the form of a dark and troubled magical girl and things get epic very fast.

The Movie 1st is a retelling of the original season and in that regard it's a pretty amazing redo, the story flows very well in movie format, nothing feels left out, all the characters get enough development and it never feels boring or drags out, granted this is in big part because the original story was simple enough, introduce Nanoha, introduce Fate, show her backstory, make sure to shoot things between that, it was simple enough to compress, but nonetheless it's an entertaining and enjoyable tale.

The action is great, Nanoha unlike other magical girl shows has very amazing action, gone are hearts and cute and cuddly attacks, this gals fight with beam spam, lightning, scythes and everything can be genuinely called a weapon, while the mecha influence is more obvious in Strikers, The 1st already has amazing aerial fights and incredible attacks, plus the animation is solid all the way through.

So all in all, it's every bit as enjoyable as the original show was so many years ago, and that's a win in my books.