Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria

When humanity was oppressed by mysterious foes, five exceptional mages known as the Heavenly Invaders joined forces to defeat them. In fear that these formidable enemies would return, the five most powerful mages, known as the Magia Vander, built a magical dome and a tower to contain them. Since then, the five strongest mages of every generation are tasked with monitoring the dome from the top of the Wizard's Tower.

Inspired by this story, childhood friends Will Sefort and Elfaria Albis Serfort promised each other that they would climb to the top of the Wizard's Tower. However, now a sixth-year student at Regarden Magic Academy, Will's future looks bleak. Although Elfaria managed to join the ranks of the Magia Vander five years prior thanks to her unparalleled magical power, Will has no magical abilities whatsoever, attracting the ire of teachers and students alike.

However, blessed with an exceptional physique, Will is able to slay monsters in the labyrinth and prevail against skilled magicians with the only aid of his sword and a few magical items. Determined to climb the Wizard's Tower at all cost, Will is determined to not let anyone or anything prevent him from keeping the promise he made to Elfaria.

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Serfort, Elfaria Albis Main

Sekine, Akira Japanese

Serfort, Will Main

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Loire, Colette Supporting

Amano, Satomi Japanese

Owenzaus, Lihanna Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Kiki Supporting

Inase, Aoi Japanese

Nauman, Rosti Supporting

Ulster, Sion Supporting

Mizunaka, Masaaki Japanese

Reinbolt, Zeo Torzeus Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Norgram, Workner Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Lindor, Wignall Supporting

Kawanishi, Kengo Japanese

Minegishi, Isao Producer

Yamato, Masae Producer

Sudou, Koutarou Producer

Morinaga, Chieko Producer

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Oct 14, 2024

PlainCloud

Recommended

I’m going to back this short and sweet. Show it basic BUT isn’t annoying. It’s a normal Shoen being HARD CARRIED by how good the animation team. If it was so pleasing to just turn off your brain and watch, I would have drop but due to the points I shared before you can just watch without much issue.

But if it was just a basic anime, it wouldn’t have had such a high rating and that because episode 9-12 has to be one of the best anime come back story I have every seen. If you have watch danmachi, from season 1-4, you might ... understand what I’m coming from. This show was developed so much lore, depth, and actual steaks for the characters to losing in the last 3 episodes makes everything before it worth it.

If you can watch the fast half of the show with no problem, and think the story is kinda boring, just please wait till episode 10, you’ll he anxiously waiting for season 2. If your the job that can’t watch more than 5 episodes, then your perfectly fine to skip this one. It’s good but it isn’t a anime you recommend to some who is still trying to get into anime. It more of a “do you have free time” between actual God like anime’s.

Ep 1-9= 5/10
Ep 9+ = 9/10
Overall 7/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 5, 2024

luxray978

Mixed Feelings

Wistoria Wand and Sword

Wistoria Wand and Sword is an okay spin on the magical school format which introduces some interesting and gorgeous animation but falls short of living up to it. Particularly the nature of how plot information is conveyed through constant repetition drags down the show a large amount. Depictions of women are unfortunate despite designs I would class as okay. For these reasons I would class it as a 6/10, above average but nothing special.

To start with probably the best thing about Wistoria the animation at play here is stellar. The spellcasting effectively uses really nice and complex shading to give a great ... feel as well as lots of time and attention being given to objects created. The Elven wood summoning and fire magic are particular standouts to me but smaller things like Julius’ ice flowers also came out great. On the physical side the fight choreography for Will’s movement is extremely dynamic and like the elusive samurai which is also airing this season immensely aids in selling his character. The one notable sour spot is the backgrounds, especially in the final arc where the messy flesh texture is in my opinion poorly done and distracting. However throughout the show there are various points where the contrast between the amazing character art and relatively cheap backgrounds becomes distracting.

The character design is simple with fire mages having red hair, ice mages having blue hair and so on. It is very effective in blocking out the characters. This is aided significantly by the fun design used for the caped uniforms which I enjoyed watching flap around with the aforementioned very good animation budget. Female designs in particular benefit a lot from this largely avoiding male gazey big breasted low cut tops with the exception of elfie whose facial design I quite like but the rest of which I find very unfortunate.

Continuing with female agency in the show is very poor with every major female character of will’s age group present ending up living a life defined in relation to Will. Colette is never seen spending her time thinking about anything else with the same true for “Ms Perfect” Lihanna” Even the all powerful Magia Vender Elfie is seen clutching a pillow of will in the ED and frequent cuts to her all consist of her thinking about him. To cut them some slack on this it appears to be a general writing fault as this broadly applies to every character in the series however I don’t think this makes it much better. It would’ve helped the world building a lot if we were exposed to someone who didn’t spend all their time thinking about Will after first interaction.

Continuing from the characters, I found the writing for most of them to be oversimplified and a bit uninteresting. Characters are classed into an archetype and with 1 notable rapid exception never evolve or deviate from that. Sion probably has the best written development but the way they play him still gets very grating when you can see exactly what’s going on.

Possibly contributing to this was the series inability to not step on it’s own toes by repeating information. Using an example from the character writing the elf wignall’s backstory is first implied in a way that conveyed all necessary information to the audience. However it was then felt necessary to repeat that information multiple times dragging out the scene and making it feel shallow. This is an issue that extends to pretty much everything be it showing someone attacking wings and dealing no damage, having them say that only to cut to will in his head saying “I read in a book those wings don’t take damage”. Another example is when an important person shows up in the final episode and the group’s reactions clearly convey their opinions on him; however it is once again felt necessary to give a narration of the information. Both of these massively slow down the scene and remove the interest giving to the audience by having to piece together the already pretty spoonfed shown information.

The world building is so:so, it’s not a complete copy of fantasy tropes but it still finds itself pretty simple. The credits system is interesting but finds itself in a weird position as it becomes clear that the author intends to use it as a power scaling system. The magic system is nothing special and finds itself in the common midpoint between a clicky and defined system and my personal preference for the vague and awe inspiring undefined nature of the cosmos. The use of dwarves is pretty simple but I found it to be an effective way to convey the unfair and cruel state of the dominant society

As I said in the opener though I am critical of it I don’t hate Wistoria wand and sword, if it was some disgusting slop I would’ve dropped it at episode 4. It’s something that is firmly okay and I’m sure someone who has watched far less than me might even find it very enjoyable. But as it stands it’s got enough problems to chip away and it’s foundations and bring it down to a 6.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 30, 2024

RudeRedis

Not Recommended

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Right off the bat:
Animation – 10/10 (guys, just teach me how to use Maya like that, damn...)
Music – 6/10 (well, it's not bad)
Story – 2/10 (very typical but if that was the case I would've given it a 4 or 5; however, in this case it pretends to be super serious and becomes pure cringe)
Overall – 5/10

Ok, so the MC, Will. Will, will Will will Will Will's will? Anyway... Kind of like the guy from Mashle but at least he has a positive IQ. But in exchange for his positive IQ he's a crybaby, and yet the strongest student physically. How does that work? Don't ... even ask me, jeez. So he can defeat a freaking SS-rank monster (speaking in the MMO terminology) but can't give a good beating to some of his "friends" so that they stop fucking around with him. Why? Oh, that's because he's K__I__N__D. His heart is bigger that your M... Actually, no, nothing can compete with that, you're right.

The teachers at the academy are annoying af, but that's kind of realistic, I guess, at least for me, because in my country you can only be on good terms with your university teachers if you bribe them (or if you're female – do some "pillow job", so to speak). Thefore, respect for realism.

Every student around Will just seems to pay too much attention to him – if he's as useless as you claim, then why don't you just leave him alone? All his so-called "friends" are also very stereotypical: there's a guy who's all high-and-mighty because he thinks he's cool, there's another guy who's a hothead and always wants to fight with the MC (oh, god, that's why I don't like Shounen, bruh), then there's are girl who is in love with the MC and nobody knows why, let alone explains it somehow. And, finally there's his roommate who is indeed a REAL MAN, and together they could do some REAL MEN'S STUFF, but unfortunately the MC seems to be into girls. Oh, wowsers, zomg teh drama.

When I was watching it, I was skipping some parts because I was like: "Yeah, I know where this is going. Ok, skip, skip..."

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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	Poll: Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria Episode 12 Discussion ( 1 2 3 ) Stark700 - Sep 29	120 replies	by Komlan_6 »» Yesterday, 3:07 PM
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