Wistoria's Wand and Sword
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| I really like everything about the adaptation . They did an excellent job . Personally I noticed two things that bothered me : 1. They softened Will's face even more in the anime even it wasn't needed to the point that I couldn't spot who was the Will and who was the female student (aka they took the femboy route). Also they made Will's glasses even bigger in some scenes to thhe point that they made him look silly to say it nicely . |
| Must say I much preffered the premise and world building of Danmachi. Lots of similarities in the setting and the structure though. This one got the benefit of crazy good animation and art so it'll probably do better. |
FarabeufAug 2, 4:37 AM
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| As scambolireviews put it, every scene looks as glorious as a genshin impact promo- and damn he is right. The animation is gorgeous; not so much the art style which is nothing noteworthy, but the fluid motion to any and all movements is just so gratifying to watch. Everyone can and are agreeing that from a production standpoint, this show is delivering. At least for this first episode, might be a case of the detective is already dead where they clickbait us with surreal animation in the first episode and the rest just falls flat on its face. But so far am not seeing anything of the sort, and the next couple episodes which are currently out seem to have been received in similar manner. Now looks-wise, of course it's kind of a marvel. Everything else, however... eh..... It's generic as f*ck. We got the guy who can't use magic in a world where magic is the be-all end-all, but turns out is actually quite strong regardless, for reasons currently unknown. We've got the childhood friend who the main character has somewhat grown apart from as they, usually a she, have grown far past him in terms of capability and sits near or at the top of the power rankings of their world (idk actually how common this is, but I just recently finished Kaiju No. 8, so it must be common, since everything in that show is pretty generic asf too). We of course got the generic city/town with the multiple layers of walls, we got the generic bullies who hate main character just because he's different, and some more minor things that don't matter too much but you get the point. It really is nothing special, but again the animation is just so freaking good that it feels like a waste to pass this up even though the story and characters are as mundane as we've seen a hundred times before. Unless maybe there's a reason for it being as so....? Not going to hold out hope for too long, but I'm going to bet that maybe they wanted to get all said generic stuff out of the way in the first episode. Check off the boxes, get it over with, gather a large audience with an easy-to-understand-and-consume first episode that also looks amazing, and then move on from there with the story they really want to tell. Maybe from here, we will no longer completely follow the cookie-cutter formula and instead tell a story that's genuinely captivating. Who knows; like generic bully might still be generic bully from here on out, but he got his life saved in the very first episode, so for sure we can count on him at least not being totally the same as before. Stuff with the teacher will also progress as he witnesses Will's power through that convenient orb. It does make you groan a little to see a character behave in the manner as "no, MAGIC should be the strongest thing in the world, GRRRR", like with no open-mindedness whatsoever, they legit are just a bot. But hey at least we can assume that things will indeed happen... just no telling how predictable things are going to be. How predictable will the predictability be? Maybe less talk and more watching. Probably will have a good grasp on things by watching the next episode. For now though, for the first episode at least, it's your typical borderline boring 'underdog' anime set in a magical fantasy land which would have probably been an instant drop if not for the superb visuals. That said, kudos to the animation department, because they are currently what's keeping this worthy enough to keep watching. |
  NYANPASU  whiskey tango foxtrot |
| this is good bro, pretty good in my opinion |
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| Oh, this looks kinda cool, I'm glad I gave it a shot. |
 Never ending plan to watch list... |
| Guy's don't have any respect, dude is only one with a cat! My guess is that one teacher got an exemption for the familiar to be around him for monitoring purposes. Sounds like some scumbag society with scumbag students and teacher. This society is doomed to fall if they put 100% stats into magic and magic alone (luckily school system appears to value a little more than that as why this guys a student). Having someone intelligent in magic in itself is very valuable as can train/lead others. Not only that, but having another class, warrior, is extremely beneficial to their survival. Those two childhood friends must be busted together. Nice the other honors student is a good person. |
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| I came for Colette, stayed for amazing animation, because I fkng love wizzards, and because the 1st thing I got to see was a professor bullying the shit out of his student lmao And yes, Collete is best girl omg she is the cutest thing ever 😍 |
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~ Btw, cry about it.  |
| Feels shallow for now, i hope it gets better |
| One of the current series I started watching on a whim on YT. LOL Looks like Mash...magic-less MC with physical prowess potential and trying to be top on a well-defined magical and societal order, and hierarchy. |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| HOLY FU– definitely one of the best episode 1 I've ever seen. The world setting is pretty classic, but it feels like it's been a while since I became hyped and excited for a Magic Academy anime right from the very first episode, the pacing of the story was very great and ofcourse the animation was insane. And seems like this has the same author of Danmachi (actually my final trigger to finally watch it lol), and I can see some similarities. The walled city with a tower in the middle, dungeon floors, a beautiful lady atop the tower watching over the MC, "Minotaur fight" and ofcourse an MC that is pretty extraordinary. I hate how there's already 2 heroines from the start and now its hard to ship gdi Overall I like the premise, fantasy magic academy anime is so fucking back. Time to binge everything. |
AleksuSep 23, 10:58 PM
the hell is this...  another 3 episodes drop! |
| Great animation. |
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| Eh, that's a really good start actually, reminds me of Mashle's story where the world is ruled by magic but the MC is unable to use it however he is so physically strong that he can perform better than with magical powers... that's nice, and he already defeated a powerful monster in the dungeon, the animation is really good, it's 1st episode though so I hope it will be consistent, also I like the main goal to climb and become a Magia Vander to join the girl he made a promise with during his childhood, promising 1st episode! |
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| There's some stellar combat animation in here... so it's a real shame everything else was already done head-and-shoulders better in Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry (which also has stellar combat animation). Just zero believability to be found in the character behavior and plot setup. |
| what in the Black Clover is this brah |
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