Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou

Life hasn't been fair to Koyomi Morishita. Even though she's in high school, she's so short that everyone assumes she's still in grade school. The boys and girls in her school tease her mercilessly, and she's not exactly graceful either. On the other hand, she's still better off than Yumiko, who has a magician trying to kill her. Or at least Koyomi was until their paths crossed!

Fortunately, salvation arrives in the form of master mage and graduate student Misa Anehara, who agrees to take Koyomi under her wing in learning the new style of magic, which breaks enchantment down into sequences of code. That'll be quite a task, given that so far Koyomi's talent seems to consist of making washbasins randomly fall out of the sky. But if it was easy, it wouldn't be magic, would it?

(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Ichinose, Yumiko Cristina Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Morishita, Koyomi Main

Nonaka, Ai Japanese

Sakazaki, Kaho Main

Kotobuki, Minako Japanese

Anehara, Misa Main

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Jinzai, Tsukumo Supporting

Ousaka, Chikara Japanese

Jini Supporting

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Katamari Supporting

Fujimura, Ayumi Japanese

Kisaragi, Mio Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Kyoushi Supporting

Kitanishi, Junko Japanese

Christobald, Carl Supporting

Okitsu, Kazuyuki Japanese

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Kawase, Kouhei Producer

Satomi, Tetsurou Producer

Takechi, Tsuneo Producer

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Jul 30, 2012

TinyGurl80

Recommended

Modern Magic Made Simple. Just put it in, it is a modern magic that i haven't see it before and this anime is amazing though the first episode is a bit confuse. But it is WORTH WATCHING IT!

plot :

The protagonist, Koyomi Morishita, is a short, clumsy, female high school freshman. She becomes a student of Misa Anehara, a powerful modern magician. Modern magic is accomplished with the aid of computers by writing special programs for them. Since she is only 146 cm (4 ft 9½ in) tall, she is often mistaken for an elementary school student when she is wearing her own clothes. She ... gets lousy grades, is not very athletic and doesn't really have anything about herself to brag about, so she decides to go to a magic school that she saw in a flyer in order to change herself. She has the unusual ability of being able to take any code (spell) and change it into a washbasin summoning code. This ability has gradually been improving.

MAKE SURE WATCH IT!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 2, 2017

sorata861

Mixed Feelings

[This review contains minor spoilers.]
I am glad that I watched this.
I wouldn't recommend this to others.
I have watched this once, subtitled. I have only watched the anime.
I may watch this again.

---- Positives ----

This series interestingly ties together technology and magic.
When dealing with technology and magic, I'm used to series deciding that the two are, for bizarre reasons, at odds with each other, often resulting in battles between users of technology and users of magic. Thankfully, that doesn't happen here. In this series, technology is used to amplify magic. Specifically, computers can be used to collectively cast spells, whereas gathering thousands of human mages to do ... the same thing would be impractical. Also, we see how computers can store spells for later use, making them even more useful for magical purposes. This concept of technology being used to improve on classical magic was interesting and done well.

Morishita keeps the series entertaining.
She has a try-your-best attitude even though she isn't proficient in magic, and her only spell is amusing not only for what it is, but how other characters take it so seriously while Morishita herself doesn't. In key instances, she resolves the current issue in the story with her try-your-best attitude and/or her signature spell. She's a rare instance of an earnest yet amusingly untalented character who is able to still make the series so good.

The series maintains a great pace throughout.
No part of the series is slow. Because the story lost me in a few places, I might actually characterize the pacing as a tad fast.

---- Negatives ----

The characters seem to only ever use sword-summoning spells.
During battles, I only remember ever seeing sword-summoning spells being used. Some of the summoned swords were physical, some were mana-based, but that was the only memorable variant. The series doesn't talk about other spell options suited for battle, so I don't know whether this is literally the only spell they have available to them or if it's just the best choice for most situations.
Opportunity for cancel: No. There should have been explanations on what other spells there are and why they all chose sword-summoning spells.

The story is difficult to understand at times.
I actually like it when series don't spoon-feed its viewers and instead requires them to think about both shown and speculated-to-have-taken-place events. However, this series just lost me in a few spots. It took a moderate amount of imagination to understand the initially-unexplained gimmick of the first few episodes before the series explained itself. Then, toward the end of the series, there's a battle that I couldn't figure out the purpose of. Some things that happen after that point also left me confused.
Opportunity for cancel: No. I think the series could have given different sets of clues to help make certain events easier to follow.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jul 21, 2017

camay1997

Not Recommended

Well I struggle to write this review because I have no strong feelings one way or the other about Yokuwakaru Gendai Maho. It's the most median I've seen in awhile. It's seems like it contains every vicious stereotype about anime in it, but that's what some people love about anime. On one hand it's a cutesy magical girl anime about friendship and fan service. on the negative It's a cutesy magical girl anime about friendship and fan service! So if those are words you abhor in your anime, run, run away now! But if any of those words get your attention; prepare for ... disappointment. The concepts of codes and modern mages is interesting and fun to learn about, but goes unexplored as the characters do not grow nor become more skilled. The story is told pretty much in the beginning and end, leaving the middle pretty much filler. The fan service, pretty much vanishes after the beach episode & the action is sparse and anti-climatic. All that was almost forgivable if it wasn't for the end.
[spoiler]
Everyone lives and has curry for dinner. I didn't expect some dark or depressing or shocking end, but it's how they achieve this ending. Not through the use of codes but Koyomi's friendship. She spends all this time learning about codes and it never pays off.
[/spoiler]
The more episodes you watch the more one will be inclined to finish it. I watched all 12 episodes but after seven I began to question why I was watching it. But if you like this sort of anime then add it to your queue!

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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