The Irregular at Magic High School (light novel)
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Takuan_Soho said: Technici said: A teacher said there are no equivalents to sire or ma'dam in japan. Also, in Japan the use of rank words is far more popular, many times you will not use a proper name with it unless there is the possibility of confusion. Hence "Sensei" for teacher, "Senpai" and "Kohai" for people older or younger than you in the same environment (school or work). The military also uses ranks (of course) instead of names. Kanchou for Captain, Chuu'i for lieutenant (see Sakura Wars). The way Japanese deals with showing deference isn't with words, but rather that words you use with it. So you wouldn't say "yes sir", you would use humble language to those of higher rank. Thanks for the explanation. |
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| Didn't LN readers say this show would get better after the first arc which is meant to be "boring"? I think the show only got worse... The sports are the most boring things I've ever seen. It's just no fun watching our high school completely obliterate others. Seriously? Our council president can get a perfect score, yet the best person from another school can only get 1/3 of that? That's just silly. At least have people put up a fight. At least have our main characters not completely perfect. And to make things worse, even though we're at a sporting competition, there's more fuckin' talking then sports. And even when there are sports, it's only on for a few seconds. And no I'm not gonna drop the show because I don't like it. I'm morbidly curious as to what you LN readers see in this piece of work. It's horrible from what I've seen so far, I just want to see how much worse it can get. |
| The Tournament scene is cool especially Mayumi :D i'm enjoy this episode, it's quite refreshing for me. |
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| Nothing happened this episode, some exposition but mostly useless stuff. Besides maybe 2-3 things related to overall story this was as boring as it gets. In a show with only 25 (for now) episodes, where almost nothing was explained first 10 episodes, to basically have filler episode makes no sense. Yes, I understand it was not filler but it didn't contribute to anything whatsoever. At least 4-5 episodes ago where they talked for 20 minutes and people complained they actually did exposition and tried explaining. I liked that. This episode though... Just a short question. Why are terrorists targeting school competition? Because great families children are here or something that's gonna be mentioned later? If anyone answers with spoiler tag I'll gladly read it since this show is probably going to keep explanations as short as possible in that department. |
| Just like my review, the show still suffers from some of its main problems. However, now i can see how the show is progressing better, especially when i switch perspective to one akin to watching log horizon. Its execution is still not on par with log horizon but its more enjoyable to watch that way. |
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nina4life said: Just a short question. Why are terrorists targeting school competition? Because great families children are here or something that's gonna be mentioned later? If anyone answers with spoiler tag I'll gladly read it since this show is probably going to keep explanations as short as possible in that department. This batch of criminals aren't exactly terrorists. They're more like The show hasn't yet gotten to where it semi focuses on them but their main goal is and that's about it. I highly doubt the anime will skip that explanation since the latter part of the arc depends on it... but I've learned to have very very low expectations about the quality of explanations the anime gives so I hope it somewhat makes sense now. |
| Not much going on this episode. Only thing I was interested in was the military side of things going on with Tatsuya. |
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Takuan_Soho said: millie10468 said: but I've learned to have very very low expectations about the quality of explanations the anime gives so I hope it somewhat makes sense now. That makes no sense, indeed it is even counter sense. |
OpalMidgeJun 16, 2014 12:22 PM
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MagicianX26 said: Venustas said: Putting aside the fact this anime isn't going anywhere: Why are the events separated by male and female? It's primarily a magic competition and none of the events seemed too physically taxing. Now that I think about it they probably just want it as an excuse to show all the cute anime girls as they never showed any of the male events. (Because super cool MC Tatsuya wasn't participating in any of them) Friend, there is a reason. Maybe not in the anime, but in the LN its stated that more as different genders are suited to different magics. Your reasoning is just ridiculous with a capital R. Yeah, not really. He's perfectly right to ask the same question as I did, cause a gender separation that in the context of Mahoukaverse has seemingly no justification should have been cleared up. Also thx for the bit of explanation Aria, even though it was clearly the writer's job to tell us that. |
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| In addition to Aria's explanation, this is actually the first year that the competition has been separated by gender. Previously, the freshmen competed together with the others in the Official Divisionso it wasn't as difficult to win with a commanding lead. This year, however, with the lack of good engineers and the competition separated, the team has to micromanage every single thing in the competition if they want to win with a lead like they did twice before. This is because while the Newcomers are good collectively, they're not as strong individually. Plus even in the Official Division, it's only a few magicians like Mayumi, Katsuto, Mari, Hattori among a very few others who can be guaranteed to win their matches. All this contributes to a pretty tense situation when the boys didn't do as well as expected. Now the Newcomer's Division has to pick up the slack and no one is sure the division is up to it... and that's why they were worried. Without the context, I can see how it would seem like they were nitpicking about a guaranteed win. |
millie10468 said: wrenchbread said: My point is that no one should view the 9SC as a display of power because (1) sports =/= warfare, (2) the magic they choose to show is so watered down and non-representative, (3) it's an echo chamber (read: propaganda) for Japan itself, and (4) promotes classism (since the families has all the nice genes). |
| I kind of have to agree with the sentiment that this episode was astonishingly flat for supposedly being the big tournament and a defining experience for the cast. I mean they talk about how it's Mayumi's swan song as a competitor at this tournament and then she does well and that's it, no reflection or anything to say about it. We don't even see the male side of the competition and then just really briefly see Mari as well and then most of the episode just focuses on Tatsuya meeting with his major from the army except nothing really happens their either. It's not really unfair to say pretty much nothing of significance happens in this episode despite the fact I don't feel that was supposed to be the attention. Really curious to see if next week manages to bring anything else because at this point I'm kind of ready to join the choruses of "Come on already". If nothing significant starts happening soon in this arc I might have to start contemplating dropping it because while it's not a bad show at this rate I'm just not seeing the point of continuing it....just again really bizarre how flat and uninspired it's coming across. I'm not angry or anything, just really puzzled. |
MagicianX26 said: how is his reasoning ridiculous when the anime doesn't mention shit? it just throws things in your face and expects you to deal with it and not ask questions.Venustas said: Putting aside the fact this anime isn't going anywhere: Why are the events separated by male and female? It's primarily a magic competition and none of the events seemed too physically taxing. Now that I think about it they probably just want it as an excuse to show all the cute anime girls as they never showed any of the male events. (Because super cool MC Tatsuya wasn't participating in any of them) Friend, there is a reason. Maybe not in the anime, but in the LN its stated that more as different genders are suited to different magics. Your reasoning is just ridiculous with a capital R. |
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Takuan_Soho said: That I think is the universal sentiment. It's not that I want to hate this show, far from it should be something I like, but everything about the adaption is just plain flat. It's almost as if the adapters, knowing Tatsuya's condition, wanted to make a show that depicts the world as he would see it. So no excitement, no tension, just okay this is happening next this happens, then that. This would explain the flat art style as well (by flat I mean a total lack of shadows which provide depth, we talked about this over on the sensei thread). This episode was the first episode where they really made a big deal about Tatsuya's emotions being off, they did it in the stands, and when the student council president talked with him. When I watched the episode I first thought "why did they wait 11 episodes to do that, they should have done it earlier". I mentioned six episodes or so ago that they should have made the supporting characters more interesting in order to highlight that there was something wrong with Tatsuya, but that they finally pulled it out now made me wonder. Maybe that is the point. They wanted to make that the main theme of the first season. So far from being dull, it is actually building up to something? Impossible? I am beginning to think maybe not. Now of course bad writing is a better explanation than what I proposed, and everyone knows I have been questioning this from near the beginning. But over the past couple of weeks I have been having this growing, nagging feeling that this is being done deliberately. It is just too prevalent on too many levels (art, story, plotting, action), so prevalent that either we are watching one of the worst adaptions in history, or something else. I am rooting for something else. I finally figured out something I can hope for in this show. Deep inside I really want them pull a Spec Ops: The Line-style meta twist. It will automatically redeem the entire anime for me. |
| Man, Saegusa (?) didnt just leave her opponent in the dust, she friggin left her at the starting line! And Tatsuya's personality is really bugging me. Is he actually INCAPABLE of a personality or does he just keep a tight reign on emotions? |
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| About the "gamble" discussion on the previous page: Who in the right mind would bet for First High losing? |
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| Does Tatsuya have feelings or interests for Mayumi? He seems indifferent when around her.I know she's trying to get Tatsuya to notice her. While other girls not so much. Awesome the girls are winning the competition flawlessly!!! Mayyumi <3 Perftect score. Dat ice breaking pillar. Hope to see an opponent who isn't wearing some sort of vizor. Can't wait to see Tatsuya face Masaki. Gonna be awesome!!!!! |
Orix said: About the "gamble" discussion on the previous page: Who in the right mind would bet for First High losing? Actually, noone in there right mind would do it. They have 2 contestants from the Master Clans + Mari, and have dominated the last 2 years in a row. But that is why betting on someone other than 1st High would wield exceptionally better return rates. So if only one could rig the competition... |
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| Which would fail spectacularly because we're talking about Tatsuya here. |
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Asturaetus said: Actually, noone in there right mind would do it. They have 2 contestants from the Master Clans + Mari, and have dominated the last 2 years in a row. But that is why betting on someone other than 1st High would wield exceptionally better return rates. So if only one could rig the competition... Orix said: Which would fail spectacularly because we're talking about Tatsuya here. If that's their goal, they'll need a better plan than using half-assed suicide attack on a bus full of magicians. Make it an accident or not, that's a lame way for a crime syndicate to do something bad. I actually pitied the fool who have to do that suicide attack as ordered, really. |
| Just three non-magical intruders with some firearms trying to assault building full of super duper magicians? Seriously? So Tatsuya & friends will now be fighting someone even more stupid than Blanche? |
No wonder, dragon with no head must be retarded. |
| Tough luck being Mayumi's opponent. I felt that in Speed Ball, they could have at least held the 3 balls in their court and fire them in 3 areas at once though (if possible). Much better than shooting into a brick wall. Overall a slow episode. Things pick up in the , looking forward to that |
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forgiuse said: Asturaetus said: Actually, noone in there right mind would do it. They have 2 contestants from the Master Clans + Mari, and have dominated the last 2 years in a row. But that is why betting on someone other than 1st High would wield exceptionally better return rates. So if only one could rig the competition... Orix said: Which would fail spectacularly because we're talking about Tatsuya here. If that's their goal, they'll need a better plan than using half-assed suicide attack on a bus full of magicians. Make it an accident or not, that's a lame way for a crime syndicate to do something bad. I actually pitied the fool who have to do that suicide attack as ordered, really. As a matter of fact, if Tatsuya wasn't there that suicide attack would've most likely worked. It was only because Tatsuya cancelled their hectic use of magic that they were able to stop the car. Also, thanks for explanation on previous page. This show did a horrible job at explaining stuff and this threads and pms are my main source of informations of why things happen. |
| Finally found the time to watch this episode. I'm not going to make any comments about how they adapted it or whatever. I'm just going to state what I figured out from this episode based purely from the perspective that I have not yet read the LN up to this point: 1.) Mikihiko suffered an accident one year prior which caused him to lose his ability to use his magic to the best of his abilities, pretty much that his magic sequences have been slowed down somehow. This is probably why he's been placed in the Weeds class. Despite this, his abilities are powerful enough to detect and take down three armed infiltrators. For some reason he basically stunned them with lightning, which I find kind of strange because in the last episode he explained to glasses girl and Tatsuya that his medium was water....? 2.) Tatsuya is a part of a military unit. In fact, it's finally been revealed that he is a Strategic Class Magician with an alias of Special Officer Ryuuya Ooguro. We find out that he has three specific abilities which all his military buddies are gushing over (Flash cast, Material Burst and Mist Dispersion in particular). We know that his Military buddies know that he's half of Taurus Silver. I don't know who the tea lady is but she seems pretty hot, and the fact that she can spew out military secrets in that room with the rest of those big-wigs means that she's probably pretty important in the military setup as well (probably the Major's secretary?). We know that all Tatsuya's abilities are OP enough that they would be banned from the games. 3.) We figure that Honoka has a thing for Tatsuya. I'm pleasantly surprised that Miyuki didn't freeze her butt for the frivolous complaint that Tatsuya didn't look her way. Tatsuya himself is acting a bit dense (or he actually is dense, though considering his OP-ness I highly doubt it). His friends have all pretty much accepted that he's a weirdo with little to no emotions and are no longer surprised at his reactions to whatever they say to him anymore. That said, Mayumi has also done quite a bit to attract Tatsuya's attention. That talk about not having a little brother seems a bit forced. I still don't know whether she's teasing him because she's stressed, or whether she genuinely has some romantic interest in him and is enjoying the banter. 4.) Miyuki has a serious case of bro-con. The fact that she took his simple statement the wrong way and got hyped up about it pretty much sealed the deal (though it was probably certified as early as the first episode). Apparently a four star military hotel is still too dangerous for one of the most powerful first year magicians to walk around in. Their lack of confidence in military personnel and facilities is borderline criminal. 5.) Then on to the Nine School's Competition. First we find out that so long as Tatsuya doesn't use his abilities directly on opponents, he can pretty much still play in the NSC. Second we find out that First School has been winning overall for the past two years and are expected to reign supreme once again, with the only competition coming from Third School for some reason. It's unfortunate that we don't really see that in the episode because basically Mayumi, Mari and Kanon are wiping the floor with the competition. Third, we find that a member of the engineer team, Kinoshita apparently has some issues in tweaking the boy's team's CADs, causing them not to win as easily as they should be doing. That said, they're still winning/progressing well, and Hanzo is in the semi-finals for the Battle Board event. We don't actually see any of the boys competition since apparently Tatsuya exclusively tweaks girl's CADs. The other engineer, Izumi also has issues with Tatsuya (Weed prejudice?). Fourth, I really didn't get the Crowd Ball thingy. All I saw were three balls flying at Mayumi and being repelled before they even crossed the net to her side. If anything it reminded me of a batting center practice or something. The other three games are pretty much explanatory, but can someone please explain to me how the Crowd Ball game is suppose to be played? Fifth, First school is pretty much killing the competition. The chart they had showed First School with 170 points, the second placed school with 80 points, third place had 65 points, etc. In fact First school is so OP that, even with the loss in Crowd Ball, it only needs 4 wins out of the last 6 competitions for the senior team to have a buffer for winning the Overall Title? The first year's competition apparently only accounts for half the points of the senior competition. Normally this wouldn't even be relevant to First School. However, because of the senior boys team's mistakes, they still need the first years not to do too badly to win the title overall. Basically the rest of the schools are playing catch-up, and unless Third school completely dominates in the first year matches, I don't really see any way for them to come back and win the thing. 6.) Lastly, Taurus Silver invented a new weaponized integrated CAD (which looks like a short sword), the use of which is currently unknown, but Tatsuya previously stated it is pretty much a toy, and is letting Leo do the honor of testing it out. Hrm... I guess that's pretty much all I got from this episode. Anything I missed out was probably LN only, methinks. Not that I should know beforehand of course.... |
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L-Ryoshi said: Crowd Ball With Izumi, I believe it was more about pride rather than prejudice And with Kinoshita maintaining Hattori's CAD - Hattori had taken a blow to his self-confidence (after the failed suicide attack) and I believe that the user's mental state has to also be considered when messing around with any CAD stuff. (From memory I think this is what was said in the LN) |
SandyBoiJun 18, 2014 4:13 PM
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| The tournament looks exciting |
| One of the most boring tournment I've ever seen in anime. Yeah it sureee feels like a competition alright |
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| all the schools got rekt |
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| Yep, im done with this section. |
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| Talking expositions, blandest mc i've ever seen, crazy brocon - could this series get any worse? Not gonna drop..I want to see where they'll go with this. And don't call me out on bitching on this thread, I'm doing it because i freaking can. And because this anime needs and deserves some insults. Seriously, couldn't they atleast have let one character other than Tatsuya have the spotlight for once? Even SAO was better. |
DeigerJun 21, 2014 7:39 AM
| - My creativity is plummeting. - |
| Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. |
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| A lot happened and explanations coming from Tatsuya and praising Mikihiko was nice Cool tournament with those modern magic The gun tennis looked a bit weird, I liked the pillar break match Mayumi is such a tease with Tatsuya and Miyuki getting all excited around him at his room was a fun watch |
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