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 27, 2024

Kamitori

Recommended

tl;dr
"Dahlia in Bloom" is a low-budget anime with average art and animation, though the character's eyes and emotional expressions stand out. The isekai aspect feels unnecessary, as it doesn't impact the plot at all. The world-building and the magic system, particularly the creation of magical tools, are well-executed. The characters are nice but underdeveloped, especially the side characters. The story starts strong but loses momentum after episode six. If you enjoy shows like "Ascendance of a Bookworm," you might like this one.

The review:
This anime has a low budget, and despite that, they managed to create something enjoyable.

The art is a low-mid tier, the eyes of ... the characters are the only part of the art that is really good and noticeable especially how the emotions are shown through their eyes; and also maybe some foods and the background, it's not bad and not good either, it's just in the middle and sometimes lower. The overall animation feels average at best, and I didn't like that they reused some scenes over and over again, like the leaf on the window, but it's not a big deal so I don't really care. The OST is sometimes noticeable, but not so often, so I can't say good things about it.

The setting especially the isekai part feels unnecessary and useless, I don't understand why they make it as Isekai when it doesn't have any influence on the show at all. Dahlia's past life in Japan is mentioned so briefly that it barely influences the story. The world-building, however, is done well. The magic system is shown in interesting ways, especially the creation of magical tools, which is a strong point of the series.

The characters are slightly above average. While they aren’t fully developed, their personalities are distinct enough to understand and feel them a little. However, I felt that they didn't do just to the side characters as some of them play a really big role in Dahlia's life. The show barely touches on their life and personalities while the characters themselves impact Dahlia a lot.

The story begins strong, steadily building intrigue in the first half of the show. Unfortunately, by episode six, the pacing slows down, and the plot feels like it loses momentum. While the show remains interesting, it lacks the same drive that made the earlier episodes entertaining.

Overall, I enjoyed the show, it's interesting and I didn't feel bored by it. However, some people might get bored by what I find enjoyable. The show focuses mostly on the creation of magical tools and is similar to "Bookworm" by the vibes it gives, which is something some people find boring. If you watched "Bookworm" and didn't like it, there is a high chance you will not like this show either.

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

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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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