Mahoutsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora

Get ready for a second magical journey to the world of Someday's Dreamers, where spellcasting is a profession that requires both the proper training AND a license. It's to get that license and fulfill a promise made to her late father that young Sora Suzuki has made the long journey from her distant home in the countryside town of Biei to the big city of Tokyo. It's a daunting challenge, but she's got a little bit of talent, a charming personality and, most important of all, the promise of an internship! What she ISN'T expecting, though, is how different life in the city will be, especially the people themselves. While she gets along with the confident Asagi, Kuroda and the gentle Hiyori, she's completely confused with the mysterious boy Gouta. And yet, as a result of their internships they keep ending up in the same situations and slowly learning to understand more about each other than they ever imagined possible!

(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Suzuki, Sora Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Midorikawa, Gouta Main

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Asagi, Honomi Supporting

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Kuroda, Kouji Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Yasuko Supporting

Sasao, Miku Japanese

Shiraishi, Saori Supporting

Takano, Urara Japanese

Yamabuki, Hiyori Supporting

Takahashi, Mikako Japanese

Hara, Seiichirou Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Matsuda, Akio Producer

Sugiyama, Noboru Producer

Oonuki, Kazuo Producer

Sudou, Naomi Producer

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Nov 23, 2015

bearvarine

Recommended

Beautiful coming-of-age story with an interesting blend of traditional anime artwork and a kind of rotoscope-blended background scenery. It is impossible to not love the stories' protagonist Sora Suzuki, she is a lovely young girl of 12 or 13 and drawn with amazing expressiveness for an anime. I also really enjoyed the performance of her friend Gouta Midorikawa. It seemed appropriately dramatic and realistic.

For me, the story had some serious flaws that are hard to forgive. One of the main supporting characters in Sora's circle of friends, Asagi Honomi, is constantly harsh and high-and-mighty. She is paired up with Kuroda ... Kouji who obviously likes her, but she never gives him a chance to get close to her. She misses no opportunity to criticize him, yet he still seems to pine after her. I wish the relationship had been allowed to progress to a final conclusion that the viewer could understand. Also, the classroom teacher is always formal and never breaks from this demeanor. Where is her humanity? Why is the assistant instructor so odd? We never get an explanation. Finally, the ending is sad. Very, very sad. Almost pointlessly unnecessarily aggravatingly sad. Why did it have to end this way? Why??? What is it with the Japanese story writers and their preoccupation with train-wreck story endings? I am deducting another point from Story for this alone.

Still I recommend watching the series. It ends too soon, but it is fun while it lasts.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 11, 2021

ren0080

Mixed Feelings

Oh, I thought my rating would go at least 6.6/10. But oh well, it is still a great series.
The story is basic, the setting is like the first season, unique, but the plot itself is pretty cliche. Not that it's bad, but as the first season, it didn't use its unique settings to its power.
Characters are pretty forgettable but at least the main ones are great. I love Sora and Gouta, though I wish they had a bit more interaction. Like, 12 episodes but their interaction isn't even 4 episodes long.

Animation is decent. It's fluid but it isn't consistent enough.
Music is really great. First ... impression, I was disappointed. Season 1 had bangers but then season 2 is like this??? But after a few episodes, I started singing along. And now I can't erase it in my head. It's a banger. OST still the same though, also the timing wasn't well done but it's not bad either.

Enjoyment I had when I watched this, I almost cried in the last few episodes. The comedy is also decent, it hits sometimes and not sometimes. The meat and potatoes here though is the character's emotion. They felt real though albeit forgettable.
Overall, it's a great series. And it's a great standalone too since anyone can watch it even without watching the first season. I had when I watched this, I almost cried in the last few episodes. The comedy is also decent, it hits sometimes and not sometimes. The meat and potatoes here though is the character's emotion. They felt real though albeit forgettable.

Overall, it's a great series. And it's a great standalone too since anyone can watch it even without watching the first season.
(6.4/10)

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 20, 2019

Konjiki_Inazuma

Not Recommended

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It is a new season of Mahoutsukai or Taisetsu na Koto, if you have not seen, I recommend you look at it first to understand my criticism, this season they load everything that built the first (which was not a wonder but was acceptable).
The characters are quite poor because they do not have time to develop or they are always saying the same, the only ones that are half developed are the 2 protagonists, the rest are equal even 5 years later, in the first the characters that appeared used to have some trauma in the past or serious problems that had defined them.

The plot ... does not make sense if you have seen the first one, it changes the whole world and the system.

The sound is the best thing that it has, since it does not sound bad, although the soundtrack is mediocre, at least the songs of the opening and the ending seem pretty good to me.

And we reached the end and what it has made me give a 2, the animation ...

The first had a somewhat mediocre animation, but it was fine, it was a 2D animation with animations of the 3D spells, however ...
I've seen anime with bad animation ... But none with one as bad as this one, that initially made me dizzy and nauseated, use recycled CG funds throughout the anime, if it was a visual novel I would understand it, but this in an anime is horrible, even worse than 3D, but also, they use a horrible animation on the CG, even scenes in the foreground have an animation that seems to be made by someone who has not drawn in his life.

I do not recommend this anime, mainly I saw it whole because I do not like to leave things half-hearted, and it has cost me a lot with the dizziness that gave me the bad animation, before finishing 2 curious facts:

1º Sora's folder is the same as Kobato's and it shows immediately because of how beautiful her voice is.

2º In the anime say a couple of times the phrase that said the protagonist of the first before using a spell.

(YouTube channel Konjiki no Inazuma)

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Es una nueva temporada de Mahoutsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto, si no lo habéis visto, os recomiendo que la miréis primero para entender mi critica, en esta temporada se cargan todo lo que construyó la primera (que tampoco era una maravilla pero era aceptable).

Los personajes son bastante pobres ya que no les dejan tiempo para desarrollarse o siempre están diciendo lo mismo, los únicos que se medio desarrollan son los 2 protagonistas, el resto son iguales incluso 5 años después, en la primera los personajes que aparecían solían tener algún trauma en el pasado o problemas serios que los habían definido.

La trama no tiene sentido si habéis visto la primera, cambia el mundo entero y el sistema.

El sonido es lo mejor que tiene, ya que no se escucha mal, aunque la banda sonora es mediocre, al menos las canciones del opening y el ending me parecen bastante buenas.

Y llegamos al final y a lo que me ha hecho darle un 2, la animación...

La primea tenía una animación algo mediocre, pero estaba bien, era una animación en 2D con animaciones de los conjuros en 3D, sin embargo...
He visto animes con mala animación... Pero ninguno con una tan mala como la de este, que al principio me mareaba y me daban nauseas, usan fondos en CG reciclados durante todo el anime, si fuese una novela visual lo entendería, pero hacer esto en un anime queda horrible, incluso peor que el 3D, pero además, usan una animación horrible encima del CG, hasta escenas en primer plano tienen una animación que parece hecha por alguien que no ha dibujado en su vida.

No recomiendo este anime, principalmente lo vi entero porque no me gusta dejar las cosas a medias, y me ha costado mucho con los mareos que me daban la mala animación, antes de acabar 2 datos curiosos:

1º La dobladora de Sora es la misma que la de Kobato y se nota enseguida por lo bonita que es su voz.

2º En el anime dicen un par de veces la frase que decía la protagonista del primero antes de usar un conjuro.

(Canal de YouTube Konjiki no Inazuma)

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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