The following list introduces the characters of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha universe.
Vita or VITA may refer to:
Animal rights center "Vita" (from Latin: vita - «life") - the Russian public charity, is a type of organizations "for animal rights". Organization "Vita" is representatives of ethical vegetarianism and veganism.
Vita is a town and comune in inland south-western Sicily, Italy, administratively part of the province of Trapani. It is the smallest municipality area of the province of Trapani at about 8.88 square kilometres (3.43 sq mi). It is also characterized by the second highest elevation in the province, after Erice.
The town was founded in the early 17th century, under the Spaniards, by a noble from Calatafimi, Vito Sicomo. The birth of the township was then ratified by King Philip III of Spain on March 11, 1607.
In 1860, the town gave its full support to the Mille led by Giuseppe Garibaldi. In the early 20th century, the city reached its highest population, with c. 6,000 inhabitants. More recently, its inhabitants have slowly left the town in order to move towards Northern Italy and foreign countries, with possibly its largest emigrant community located in Toronto. Vita was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 1968, and rebuilt in a new urban zone, close to the old one.
The derivation of the name is uncertain: it is possibly associated to the founder's name, but might either be of Arab origin (there is a town named Vita in Algeria too), or even somehow associated to the same Italian word which means life.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (魔法少女リリカルなのは, Mahō Shōjo Ririkaru Nanoha) is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses four anime television series, two theatrical adaptations, multiple manga and Drama CD adaptations and sequels, as well as model figures and plastic models. It began in 2004 with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, an alternate universe spin-off of the Triangle Heart series, and is on-going to date.
The series is named after its protagonist Nanoha Takamachi. At the beginning of the series, Nanoha is a 9-year old schoolgirl in modern-day Japan, who is swept into a conflict between extra-dimensional factions vying for control over magical artifacts they discovered on Earth. Nanoha herself is revealed to be tremendously powerful in the extra-dimensional techno-magic and in later installments, leaves Earth altogether to pursue a magical career. In the chronologically latest franchise entry, Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, she is 25.