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Jul 27, 2022 5:58 AM
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This episode had its magical feeling with the night class and botany. I think in general, it was a way to showcase how night life is like at that school.

The dance scene was kinda cute too, with Abramelin putting on a display of talent with her cool aura.
Jul 27, 2022 6:12 AM
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Great episode! The girls get to stay up at night! Mell seemed to be having trouble staying awake though xD.
Al's 'Boo' was pretty funny.
Picatrix and Abramelin's dancing was nice to see also dattebayo!
The others also had a go at trying to dance but Mell and Arsnotoria fell quite quickly after Al's biscuit comment...
Wonder when we will get into the darker parts of the series more...

Looking forward to the next episode!
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Jul 27, 2022 6:13 AM
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Another fun and wholesome episode. That dance scene was really cute. :)

I wonder if we are going to see some serious action at some point.

That flower scene was really beautiful and magical.

SerafosJul 27, 2022 7:08 AM
Jul 27, 2022 6:35 AM
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I don't think is a good idea to put a flower that you don't know much about it in your tea, but someone risked their life so we can drink so many types of tea.
Jul 27, 2022 7:11 AM
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So cute those girls all stayed up for their lesson. Well almost all of ‘em. How did Mell fall asleep with her eyes open? Lol. So silly how the girls tried to scare Figre and Lidel and botched it at the last minute haha. The dancing was really cute too. Biscuits, scones, and an apple pie for everyone! Lol.

But, just when I thought it was gonna be a light and breezy episode, the warning appears. Christoffel sure knows his way around a sword. Dude sliced through those soldiers like butter. Limbs flying everywhere! That’s some kind of monastic order he’s part of… I wonder what this zealot is after?

And just like that, we’re back to flowers that glow and blossom under the moon and then drinking said flower in some kind of blue tea. What even is going on here? That last line about them always going to be together makes me think shit might be going down soon. Idk though it’s hard to say with this show.
Jul 27, 2022 7:20 AM
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A night lesson for the Pentagrams with Solow-sensei involving botany, and the deep depths of Ashlam Academy can feel like a ghostly nightmare session instead. Picatrix and Abramelin's dance scene looked low-key majestic, there's that, and when the other girls (Arsnotoria, Mell, Little Al) join in, they create a ruckus, but all's in happy favour.

The night botany class really has that Harry Potter feel, if only enhanced by magic along with the magical feels. For one, Mell doesn't survive well at night, and also, making flower tea can have adverse effects by literally using the entire flower, but since this is fiction, let this be a moment of rest between the 5 girls.

In regards to the darker elements and action, I'd guess they want to show bits and pieces before it converges with Arsnotoria (if implied by the OP), but how it all links up is still on hold, and as I mentioned before, this is a show that loves to take its time showing the slice-of-life elements before the action comes to haunt the main cast.

Until then, this continues to be a slog to watch.
Jul 27, 2022 7:37 AM
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  • tea time: something similar to butterfly pea flower tea
  • new characters: Sophie Antagonista, Nuctemeron, Sophie, Paramil, Karadra, Wolpara, Necromantia, Toton, Liddell, Figuray
  • notes: As the official web site says "We bring you pleasant and lively days of girls", those enemies may not be going to appear in the main story.
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Jul 27, 2022 8:15 AM
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So far I think it's boring but I liked that blue flower part.
Jul 27, 2022 8:19 AM
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Can it be? Are we actually going to see them studying magic?

The answer: Sort of?

I've never seen something about magic come off so boring.
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Jul 27, 2022 8:20 AM
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commonxreaction said:
Can it be? Are we actually going to see them studying magic?

The answer: Sort of?

I've never seen something about magic come off so boring.

Yea I think it's really boring to but everyone else seems to love it.
Jul 27, 2022 9:28 AM

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Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love just watching the girls being cute and living their lives, but at 4 weeks in now I would definitely like to get the darker side story that keeps getting cut into the show fleshed out.

Like who are these guys and who are they fighting??
Jul 27, 2022 2:00 PM

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I don't mind slice of life ro CGDCT, hell it's even my favorite genre of anime. However, it has to have a decent setup at the beginning, which is something this doesn't have. We're already 4 eoisodes in, and I still can't tell where this is going at all. It doesn't help that they are teasnig at darker elements while simultaneously focusing on the everyday lives of the girls, so we ultimately end up having more questions than what we started with.

The last few scenes of the episode screams death flag, so I wonder if things will finally start to pick up next week.

At the least the OP is good




Jul 27, 2022 3:08 PM

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BlichoBoy said:
I don't think is a good idea to put a flower that you don't know much about it in your tea, but someone risked their life so we can drink so many types of tea.


My thoughts exactly. "Hey, here is this nameless sparky flower some random fairy brought us...I know..let's make TEA* lol
Jul 27, 2022 4:17 PM

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Ready for the shoe to drop. Hoping the thing we're getting warned about happens in ep 5 or 6 to give us time for a good problem > resolution narrative
Jul 27, 2022 4:28 PM

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"Warning" you won't trick me this time pile of ashes!

That was a pretty cute late class, some bonding dancing and a lovely flower blooming, this show really makes me miss Endro, I guess it is mostly the cute opening.
KanameYuukiJul 27, 2022 4:32 PM
Jul 27, 2022 5:35 PM
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This is a really strange show, and I'm about out of patience with it. I'm not demanding we need to go full Madoka here or anything, in fact, I think they could make this show entirely compelling even if they just focus on the school life of these girls.

But, we're what, a third of the way through the show now? We should know at least a little about who these girls are, where they come from, why they are at the school, and what they are studying. For a slice of life like this, if there is no comedy, romance, or interpersonal drama to fall back on, there should at least be a bit of compelling world building with some mysteries that are slowly unraveled as the girls go about their lives.

But there's none of that here. The show is taking great pains to ensure exactly zero plot relevant things happen. We spent half an episode simply walking to class in this one, and once we got there, they simply looked at some flowers and left. There was no point to it.

So, yeah, it's a bit cute. But wow is it boring.
Jul 27, 2022 6:47 PM
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Huge lack of sniffs this episode. Very disappointing!
Jul 27, 2022 8:57 PM

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I feel like the flashes of ultraviolence are ruining a perfectly wholesome iyashikei show...I'd prefer they just stop that.
Jul 27, 2022 10:32 PM

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How can this be so boring? Spent the entire episode yawning just like the green-haired girl.
Jul 27, 2022 10:54 PM
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Never knew watching a magical SoL school anime could be so exhausting.

This episode happened to capture my reaction watching this series so far. Yawn, sleepy, barely awake seeking for almost non-existent clue towards the upcoming conflict.

So, maybe in theory, I need to wait for all the villains to be introduced, one by one per episode, then finally the real conflict could begun. And the conflict itself isn't guaranteed to worth all the slogs I have been pass through.

Thank you uh.... green-haired girl for representing my feeling toward this anime.



Jul 28, 2022 1:45 AM
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Why do I feel like everyone but tori is about to disappear, little buster flashback I guess
Jul 28, 2022 2:24 AM

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Lmao what is this show even about?

Been 4 episodes already and there's barely any real info being thrown at us to get any idea about worldbuilding, to get some kind of plot or even wtf is that academia. Not even talking about those edgy knights.

I only enjoy this for cute sum sum suuuuum girl

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Jul 28, 2022 2:32 AM

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On a side note however I really enjoy the OP

I love how they look here




Jul 28, 2022 5:38 AM

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as always, I enjoyed the cgdct parts. Finally got to see some other students in the school. I guess Per the cat is a teacher too. Pica and Abra dance is beautiful.

only thing I'm surprise is they have no problems drinking tea with the flower dipped into it. It's a new plant, could have been poisonous.

looking forward to next week. :)
Jul 28, 2022 10:44 AM
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I really don't get it.
I mean, I'm okay with mixing genres and bla bla, but it's 1/3 of the show already passed and what we have.
5 girls are studying, drinking tea, earing sweets, playing some j-pop, eh, learning magic.
Then every episode we have some guys massacring other guys mercilessly for unknown reasons for 1 minute.
I'm okay with slower buildup but... When will we have any story part connecting this? Apart "you should run away from knights" towards pentagramms? What is even happening there, this show isn't some magical girl academy k-on, at least according to this "warning" parts, duh.
Aug 1, 2022 8:20 AM
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Ixed_Cxffee said:
commonxreaction said:
Can it be? Are we actually going to see them studying magic?

The answer: Sort of?

I've never seen something about magic come off so boring.

Yea I think it's really boring to but everyone else seems to love it.


I think it's just that the people with good taste have already dropped this show...
Aug 1, 2022 8:22 AM
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VanishingKira said:
I'm a big fan of SoL anime, but here it feel like a constant teases with those "Warning" segments is a disservice to the show. Its like the show can't pick a side on what it wants to be. I get it's to build suspense for the eventually change in tone but I'm growing impatience tbh. Either commit fully to SoL or commit to the serious moments, I think currently the show is doing poor trying to do both at the same time.


Agreed. I don't think the creators even know which crowd they want to appeal to, so they try to do everything at once and they fail spectacularly.
Aug 1, 2022 9:25 PM

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Nomor23 said:
Why do I feel like everyone but tori is about to disappear, little buster flashback I guess


I'm not even watching the show (been reading ep discussions instead) since I've been waiting for it to go down a dark path and I'm fucking praying for something like this to happen. my poor madoka magica heart is crying lmao
Aug 10, 2022 2:27 PM

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Not sure what is happening with the cut scene in the middle but I'm completely fine if it just take that part out and make it a CGDCT show.
Aug 11, 2022 3:15 PM
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This episode was cute, I like the night atmosphere especially with the "stars" in the flowers and even in the tea at the end, but they sure all had a great and instructional time :)
Aug 20, 2022 12:46 PM

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(time to catch up.... lol)

Silent_Shadow05 said:

But, just when I thought it was gonna be a light and breezy episode, the warning appears. Christoffel sure knows his way around a sword. Dude sliced through those soldiers like butter. Limbs flying everywhere! That’s some kind of monastic order he’s part of… I wonder what this zealot is after?


I am pretty sure they're going around burning and killing off the Magic World...

They already showed previously that they're burning books and killing people that was protecting the books.

And we were also shown that the magic world is inside a enclosed space.

By that, you can pretty much piece together the Magic World is inside books and the "Church" in the "Outside world" is out to burn and destroy all the magic books, as "magic" is Heresy to Church.
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Sep 29, 2022 11:10 PM

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The tea becomes blue because of the flower and I love that color :)
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