The Irregular at Magic High School (light novel)
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wrenchbread said: millie10468 said: First of all, I love that gif :) It's perfect. Anyway, since you haven't read the novels, I don't know how far I should go to try and make my point but just in case you don't mind being mildly spoiled, here's a question; This can be easily explained. Tatsuya simply has bigger fish to fry. He can't be arsed to deal with smalltime shit when he's got infinite energy to create. The school's apparent problems are child's play compared to the goal he set for himself. That's why he acted the way he did. He's a big picture kinda guy I guess. But I addressed this point quite a while ago, though not here on MAL: Bio said: The final straw for Ryan was the destruction of Hiroshima with the atomic bomb. In his eyes, the bomb was the ultimate corruption of his ideals -- science and determination harnessed for destruction, creating a weapon that gave the "parasites" the ability to destroy anything that they could not seize. |
millie10468 said: Humanity is gonna be fucked in the Mahoukaverse as long as mages remain as military assets. I don't see their world ever getting a happy ending. I honestly would've liked it if Mahouka went deep with the theme that magic is a curse upon the world or that magic shouldn't be wielded for any government or ideology. |
wrenchbread said: millie10468 said: Humanity is gonna be fucked in the Mahoukaverse as long as mages remain as military assets. I don't see their world ever getting a happy ending. I honestly would've liked it if Mahouka went deep with the theme that magic is a curse upon the world or that magic shouldn't be wielded for any government or ideology. That's the truth. That magic is a curse and should be exterminated is the manifesto of hardcore anti-magic groups like Blanche. Where the author plans to go with that is unknown, though it would be good if he goes the route you suggest. |
millie10468 said: That's the truth. That magic is a curse and should be exterminated is the manifesto of hardcore anti-magic groups like Blanche. Where the author plans to go with that is unknown, though it would be good if he goes the route you suggest. Well, it's nice we're able to agree on one thing. |
wrenchbread said: millie10468 said: That's the truth. That magic is a curse and should be exterminated is the manifesto of hardcore anti-magic groups like Blanche. Where the author plans to go with that is unknown, though it would be good if he goes the route you suggest. Well, it's nice we're able to agree on one thing. Yeah, I think it's the first time it's happened. For what it's worth, I can feel you trying very hard to like the series so I can see why you would be disappointed when it doesn't go the way you envisioned. |
millie10468 said: Yeah, I think it's the first time it's happened. For what it's worth, I can feel you trying very hard to like the series so I can see why you would be disappointed when it doesn't go the way you envisioned. |
Sourire said: I remember during the first arc when LNs readers were saying how better the next arc would be.. lol. Well, I certainly see why. If we look at it from reading perspective there is much more going on, there are new and interesting characters and there is another bit of world building. Now, if we look from anime perspective, there is...well, what we have. As anime, this show gets on my nerves really fast. If this was VN (since I am too lazy to read LN) I would read hundreds of hours of this with pleasure since Mahouka World seems complex, fubar when it comes to mages having control, downright oppressive to some etc. Mahouka has all the things necessary to be great, it's just that anime doesn't take any of those and just focuses on everyone glorifying Tatsuya while giving halfhearted explanations to everything else. I believe LN is great, I do. It's just that no one can convince me the show is not horrible. |
nina4life said: Well, I certainly see why. If we look at it from reading perspective there is much more going on, there are new and interesting characters and there is another bit of world building. Now, if we look from anime perspective, there is...well, what we have. As anime, this show gets on my nerves really fast. If this was VN (since I am too lazy to read LN) I would read hundreds of hours of this with pleasure since Mahouka World seems complex, fubar when it comes to mages having control, downright oppressive to some etc. Mahouka has all the things necessary to be great, it's just that anime doesn't take any of those and just focuses on everyone glorifying Tatsuya while giving halfhearted explanations to everything else. I believe LN is great, I do. It's just that no one can convince me the show is not horrible. Speaking of worldbuilding in VNs... have some Muv-Luv Unlimited. Probably one of the few instances where exposition is engaging and adds flavor (especially since we have our world to compare it to). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbEKMU3Hio |
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wrenchbread said: snip Read long time ago :) I can sit down and read VNs for hours upon hours, but reading actual books? Too lazy. I read dozens of VNs and that is why I said I see the appeal in Mahouka. I think it's the medium that's destroying it. |
millie10468 said: I ain't touching 'em on principle, so I use spoilers to gauge whether or not I should commit based on the most recent volumes. Most of my knowledge is from the anime supplanted with comparisons to the novels. nina4life said: Read long time ago :) I can sit down and read VNs for hours upon hours, but reading actual books? Too lazy. I read dozens of VNs and that is why I said I see the appeal in Mahouka. I think it's the medium that's destroying it. I think it's just the execution. Most LNs read in that sort of dry manner. There's a difference between something like SAO/Mahouka and actual novels like Hyouka/Shinsekai Yori. And it's been 2 years since I finished MLA. I still get feels just thinking about the journey. Even the OST triggers memories [and tears]. |
wrenchbreadJul 7, 2014 12:14 AM
| Is this show good yet? |
urbanoid said: 1. Japan is allied with the US in the Mahoukaverse, though there aren't any US bases in Okinawa any more. 2. Developed countries didn't suffer from food shortages, technology solved the problems, only the poor ones did. Japan relies heavily on food imports. They would've lost the war if people just denied them shipments. |
SolviteSekai said: Is this show good yet? At least this episode was decent, the next one we will enter the "Tatsuya will stomp everyone" stage, or in short you can just call it battle. |
| Tatsuya is going to participate? Hahaha, good luck to everyone else. The opposing team should forfeit asap! |
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| Why in the hell were the participants of the Mirage Bat/whatever the fuck that game's called wearing those magical girl cosplays? I sure hope there's a male equivalent of this stupid event, and that the boys get to wear ridiculous mahou shounen outfits as well. Of course Tatsuya would easily talk down his female senpais who dare ask him politely to participate in the last game, and of course super manly broad-shouldered Jûmonji would be the one to talk some sense into him. Man, the way this show loves to degrade his female characters is so in-your-face, it's not even funny anymore. SolviteSekai said: Is this show good yet? To quote Emnay: "shows like this never get better". |
SapewlothJul 7, 2014 4:33 AM
| Proud founder of The Official Anti-Ging Freecss Fan Club Join now! Kellhus said: GuusWayne said: there is a limit to the suspension of disbelief And it's the fan that did it. Not the smoking porn reading rubik cube genius rape ape with a magic boat. |
urbanoid said: Oh, and the author is definitely NOT racist: 4. Does this shows going to have antagonists? If yes are they from one of the two countries you mention there at spoiler number 4? |
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion. http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30 It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist. |
SolviteSekai said: Is this show good yet? It's a huge circle-jerk around overpowered MCs so you should love it :3 |
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| Some interesting discussions few pages back, I enjoyed reading that to some points. Anyway, nice episode. Not sure about the new OP and ED, but the OP sequences basically confirmed that Yokohama arc will be in this season, like most people already predicted. Poor Shizuku, you just can't beat Miyuki..... The Monolith Code should be in the next episode, can't wait to see how it's going to be animated. |
| Oh and I forgot to add: it's already been said over and over but the way the keeps pushing Tatsuya in the front to solve everyone and their mom's problems is really, really annoying. Did I mention that the Mirage Bat event is extremely insulting, already ? Keetriver said: Finally the men get their moment to shine. I'm kinda hoping Tatsuya to lose in some way though. By "men", you mean Tatsuya right? Because the show made it pretty clear the only reason we get to see a males event is because Tatsu participates. |
| Proud founder of The Official Anti-Ging Freecss Fan Club Join now! Kellhus said: GuusWayne said: there is a limit to the suspension of disbelief And it's the fan that did it. Not the smoking porn reading rubik cube genius rape ape with a magic boat. |
urbanoid said: Oh, and the author is definitely NOT racist: Well, he technically ain’t racist, but he sure loves to verbally fellate his homeland. Chauvinist most likely. urbanoid said: Japan is, to a large extent, self-sufficient when it comes to food production, in 1990 it was 67%. Plus you can't deny shipments to Japan when they have the US on their side. In Mahoukaverse: From the look of it, the US-Japan Security Treaty no longer holds. When my country is having food riots the last thing I’m gonna worry about is helping allies. I’d rather keep the food for own my citizens. And I’m not sure what they mean by advanced technology. Did they have GMOs that can withstand harsh, cold weather? Climate controlled food production facilities a la’ Hyper Oats from Psycho-Pass? Realistically, all countries should be crippled because the food chain. HomeAlone said: Tatsuya participating does not mean the others will not shine. They get to shine because Tatsuya is participating with them. |
wrenchbreadJul 7, 2014 9:50 AM
| Thread Cleaned of a random troll attempt. Haven't watched this, so all I see is a bunch of mumbo jumbo political plumbo. I did notice the decline in score for some reason. Hopefully it's not cause of this :/ |
forgiuse said: That's just disturbing and wrong... and i'm a incest fan! Subtle be damned ! Oh, this ep there wasn't a info dump huh? The op and ed are nice, except for the shot above... oh god |
FragOutFire said: Why am I a Berserk fan? All I ever experience is pain. We are in the eclipse and Miura has sacrificed us |
| nice episode Tatsuya finally agree to compete in Monolith Code. can't wait to see her action :) The new ED song was great. |
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| My god, I swear I couldn't care less about the tournament. I thought the show would pick up with the Crimson Prince's entrance, but nothing's happened so far. CAN PLEASE SOMETHING HAPPEN ALREADY KTHX |
fanshii said: My god, I swear I couldn't care less about the tournament. I thought the show would pick up with the Crimson Prince's entrance, but nothing's happened so far. CAN PLEASE SOMETHING HAPPEN ALREADY KTHX Something else than praising Tatsuya in all kinds of ways? You must be joking! |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
Nidhoeggr said: fanshii said: My god, I swear I couldn't care less about the tournament. I thought the show would pick up with the Crimson Prince's entrance, but nothing's happened so far. CAN PLEASE SOMETHING HAPPEN ALREADY KTHX Something else than praising Tatsuya in all kinds of ways? You must be joking! Bro, just 6 more episodes and i swear the good part starts. |
| well, new OP and ED have many naked scenes and very incest meh, there's so many girls around tatsuya, but why his sister? everybody talks about Yokohama arc, but i know nothing :( so Tatsuya is battling for monolith code huh, and with his gangs. I like Mikihiko, actually. maybe he's my favorite character among this anime. still a bit confused about the magic lectures. but i just watched it anyway. so Taurus Silver is Shiba Tatsuya? to be honest I forgot who is Taurus Silver and what did he do, and i'm lazy to watch it again... 4/5 |
| ♪ Do re mi fa pupupu, waa~~ ♪ |
| Nothing happened this episode. Absolutely nothing. Another match after we've seen so many other pillars break matches already. Look, honestly, I love plot development, and I really appreciate a good story that the studio spends time over. Problem is, this isn't a good enough story that's WORTH spending time over, and they do not compensate at all with awesome battles and stuff. Tatsuya fighting the Crimson Prince will be cool. But it could have happened FOUR EPISODES AGO and I would have had the same reaction. I just can't get myself to care at all about this school competition. Also the way that A-chan realised Tatsuya was Taurus Silver... that was very bluntly executed. She has this revelation out of the blue. It's not dramatic. There's been no build up to it, or grand mystery. Just "Taurus Silver is totally MLG but Tatsuya is way MLG OHMY they must be the same." No matter how mad Tatsuya's skillz are, it doesn't mean he's freakin' Taurus Silver (even though he actually is). Does A-chan really think it's impossible for someone to simply just be good at engineering? It just seems so implausible that she would come to that certain conclusion... Oh well, I'll keep slogging through this series. At least the graphics are nice. |
HomeAlone said: SolviteSekai said: Bro, just 6 more episodes and i swear the good part starts. The good part starts this week. Quit promising stuff you have no way of guaranteeing. |
millie10468 said: Quit promising stuff you have no way of guaranteeing. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have been hearing "it gets better in x episodes" ever since the show was released. Is it EVER gonna get better? Lol. |
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Kalypze said: millie10468 said: Quit promising stuff you have no way of guaranteeing. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have been hearing "it gets better in x episodes" ever since the show was released. Is it EVER gonna get better? Lol. Personally, it got a lot better for me in this arc, especially by this same point in the novels but I'm of the opinion that if nothing so far has made you curious, then it's probably not your cup of tea and it would be in your best interest to just stop watching. HomeAlone said: millie10468 said: Quit promising stuff you have no way of guaranteeing. It changes nothing readers promised it so much already that it's become a joke. Hint: Look at the post above mine. Haters gonna hate anyway. I know that but you can't deny that what LN readers were promising isn't exactly what was given. It seems much prudent to just let them say what they want to say without engaging in any dialogue that has the potential to be used against the fans in the end. |
OpalMidgeJul 8, 2014 9:42 AM
| You guys should've learned something from the whole SAO debacle 2 years ago. They said the exact things: "it's gonna get better soon!" Better to let other people decide and ignore the rest. |
wrenchbread said: I was blind during that time and liked SAO, though it was around ep 14 (hey, like the ep Mahouka is in) that I started to dislike it. I still think the 1st half was okay. But yeah, I didn't learn anything out of that because I didn't hate it enough back then ;PYou guys should've learned something from the whole SAO debacle 2 years ago. They said the exact things: "it's gonna get better soon!" Better to let other people decide and ignore the rest. @Millie: I did drop it after this week's ep. I only stuck up with it for so long because I was hoping something would happen, but I gave up. I fail to see why this is so overhyped. At the very least SAO and SnK had lots of tense moments and overly dramatic dialogues, whereas this is just... a snooze fest. |
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| Oh yes Tatsuya is joining the competition !! |
| finally! let's see some actual combat. The rest of the competition was pretty boring and seemed to drag on way to long. btw, if I wanted to start reading the LN from this point, where would I start? |
appidoJul 9, 2014 11:45 AM
wrenchbread said: urbanoid said: Oh, and the author is definitely NOT racist: Well, he technically ain’t racist, but he sure loves to verbally fellate his homeland. Chauvinist most likely. urbanoid said: Japan is, to a large extent, self-sufficient when it comes to food production, in 1990 it was 67%. Plus you can't deny shipments to Japan when they have the US on their side. In Mahoukaverse: From the look of it, the US-Japan Security Treaty no longer holds. When my country is having food riots the last thing I’m gonna worry about is helping allies. I’d rather keep the food for own my citizens. And I’m not sure what they mean by advanced technology. Did they have GMOs that can withstand harsh, cold weather? Climate controlled food production facilities a la’ Hyper Oats from Psycho-Pass? Realistically, all countries should be crippled because the food chain. HomeAlone said: Tatsuya participating does not mean the others will not shine. They get to shine because Tatsuya is participating with them. |
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion. http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30 It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist. |
| Feels like something interestng might actually happen within the next episode or two, what with us seeing that table of schemers trying to fuck up 1st highs plans, and now Tatsuya actually being forced to go against these two bad-asses which may actually give our lord Jesus Gary Stew some difficulty. The background of those two dudes seems very interesting, the crimson prince seemingly having actual combat experience using this magic system which is cool. And we learn a little bit more about the Mahouka world history through that very short little flasback thingy of his. But I do agree with some other posters though, it has dragged out too many episodes that seem to have little to no purpose for whatever reason. Even if we do get to some real good stuff in an episode or 2, that still means we had to wait over 1/2 of an anime series to get to that which is inexcusable. EDIT: That opening seems to be hinting that we will get some good stuff at some point if that's not just stylzed shit that won't happen in the actual anime. I saw them fighting a mecha looking thing too, that looks cool |
midnightbladeJul 10, 2014 10:10 PM
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| The incest was strong with the new OP and ED emegerd. They're nice, but I like the first OP more. The upbeat tune of Rising Hope gives me some 'yeah yeah alright oh yeah' vibes XD It's funny that even after 14 episodes, every time they suddenly explain a spell or something I'll go "Wait wait wait wait stahp i don't understand" /replays scene The feels when Shizuku lost. Miyuki's too powerful, I know. /pats As much as everyone says "It's finally Tatsuya's time to own the spotlight" or anything along those lines, I'm excited to see Mikihiko in the front lines. That guy has some self-esteem issues. (To be honest I think he's my favorite character here and I don't know why. Relatable, maybe?) Of course there's also Leon, too. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to the Monolith Code contest against Suzaku er, Masaki and George. This battle will be tough. The last few pages are all talking about a Yokohama Arc or something. . . Ugh, makes me want to read the LNs. |
Otamegane0988Jul 11, 2014 3:28 AM
| Not a bad episode, looks like we will be seeing some badassery coming soon. |
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