Madougushi Dahliya wa Utsumukanai

Tragically perishing from overwork, a young Japanese woman is reborn as Dahliya Rossetti, daughter of a newly entitled baron. Her father, Carlo, is a beloved magic artificer, a maker of magical tools. Inspired by him, Dahliya uses her memories from her previous life to create practical inventions and become a magic artificer like Carlo.

A few years later, the now adult Dahliya has made a name for herself and has gotten engaged to her father's apprentice. However, her life takes a turn for the worse when Carlo suddenly passes away and her fiancé leaves her for another woman not long after. Although having to fend for herself, Dahliya is not quite ready to give up on her dream of becoming a master artificer yet. She may be a single woman but, with the help from old and new allies, she is prepared to overcome any obstacle in her way.

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Rossetti, Dahliya Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Scalfarotto, Volfred Main

Tamaru, Atsushi Japanese

Gione, Alfio Supporting

Kondo, Takashi Japanese

Scalfarotto, Guido Supporting

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Goodwin, Randolph Supporting

Ueda, Youji Japanese

Lanza, Griselda Supporting

Toki, Shunichi Japanese

Barty, Drino Supporting

Ura, Kazuki Japanese

Morphe, Dino Supporting

KENN Japanese

Luini, Fortunato Supporting

Hirakawa, Daisuke Japanese

Scarlatti, Augusto Supporting

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Kubo, Yousuke Director

Nagasaki, Yukio Sound Director

Nario, Nagisa Script

Misaki, Nako Theme Song Performance

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Sep 21, 2024

Rickcir

Recommended

It boils down to a slice-of-life anime in a world where magic is real, but is essentially technology. It's used to imbue items with various effects. Wind and fire magic makes a flamethrower or hair dryer. Ice magic makes a cooler. Fire magic makes a boiler. That type of thing. Dahlia is isekaied after dropping at a young age from overwork - it says something about Japanese culture that so many Manga and Anime share this trope. Her pops is a well known "artificer" who has invented numerous magical devices and she's raised by him in a house that's also a workshop and lab, where ... her memories from the previous life are inspiration for new devices.

The eisodes cover several months of her life, her friends, and her building relationships. It's an anime anyone can watch.

The animation is average, the voice acting and music are excellent. 90% of the anime is nothing special, then there will be scenes that are incredible - for a few seconds. Usually cut-scenes with unusual angles, different artistic style and so on - the things that made Anime in general so popular in the first place.

I would recommend it for a relaxing watch. There's not much fighting, and seriously - more time is spent discussing foot fungus than actual battles. The relationships are bizarre - almost everyone has commitment issues. You're not going to have all your questions answered. You're just dropping in for a bit to see what's going on.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 21, 2024

kamelhamel24

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

Just finished the final episode, and I was unfortunately very disappointed. The premise of the show was interesting, the slowly budding romance was natural and sweet, and the drama and business ventures were engaging. But as the episodes continued, the animation quality declined drastically and the plot slammed on the brakes.

Firstly, the animation was never incredible, but it started out decent. However, with each episode, characters looked more off-model than not, and still-shots slowly increased. The last episode was the worst, with more than half of the episode being still-shots of some sort. Absolutely unacceptable quality.
The next drawback was the plot's pacing. The ... first three episodes had good drama (though it was a bit quick in my opinion) but it helped get me hooked. However, once Dahlia's first large hurdle was cleared, there were no other hurdles in the race. I would've preferred if Dahlia built up her business without her father's favors. As of now, it feels like everyone is just helping her because she's so-and-so's daughter and they like her. Watching that isn't very interesting plot-wise. The season had 12 episodes to build to something up, either artifacts-related, business-related, or romance, but it really didn't. I'm sure with another season, this would be solved easily, but with such poor animation, I don't think anyone would want to.
Overall, I really wanted to be immersed in Dahlia's journey, but I'm so distracted by the poor animation quality that I couldn't. If this somehow gets another season, I'll watch it since the show was decent, but let us all pray for a higher animation budget.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 26, 2024

Ursaw

Not Recommended

Cheap, uninspired and excruciatingly boring. It's just poorly animated off-model people sitting and having baby's first attempt at dialogue over and over and over again. I did exhale through my nose one or two times in the first few episodes while heroine was dealing with the divorce proceedings, but it all just kept going downhill from there.

Moving forward from the divorce it's more or less the same scenario repeating every few episodes. Someone says "I've got a problem", Dahliya replies "I've got the solution for it right here, give me a minute to craft it". She slaps together a prototype thing, it becomes immediately ... successful, everybody claps and takes the rest of the work off her hands to do it behind the scenes while she indulges her drinking problem with her not-yet-boyfriend.

It isn't (at least not in any meaningful sense) an anime about her career path as an artificer. The creative process behind the profession is basically "make an outline of a thing from our world and slap a matchy elemental stone/colored slime paste onto it". It also isn't about her business career — each time she needs to handle a business related issue, one of the supporting characters appears, gazes longingly into a window, says "you know, I owe a lot to your father, so I'm gonna deal with this for you, also here's a cookie, share it with your boyfriend", aaaand that's it, she's free to go develop an alcohol addiction.

Oh, so it's mainly a love story? A business lady meets an aristocrat guy, they eat local food, drink local alcohol, chat and learn more about the world? Go on dates to see local attractions? Well... Kind of. Like if you fed thirty bargain bin romance story books to ChatGPT and asked it to make you one of those set in an isekai.
It will spew out something moderately coherent, but since it can't actually understand what it writes, it will forget the prior episode's introduction of ice stones as an existing method of refrigeration and will have characters lose their minds about heroine's next unbelievable magical tool — "the fridge".

Everything about this anime is just a thoughtless amalgamation of fantasy-ish buzzwords slapped together to serve as a backdrop for 12 episodes of compliments heroine will receive from everyone around her about what a genius she is. If the genders were reversed I'd think this is just Elon Mask's isekai self-insert fanfiction.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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