Dec 21, 2024
(New review after end of anime)
This anime is a pretty boring letdown. Typical of your 12 episodes original anime. The artstyle is kind of the only interesting thing about it (which yes, is very pretty, but the animation really never goes very far to take advantage of it)
It's not really trying to do anything new or particularly well. The relatively interesting premise is muddled by a huge lack of proper worldbuilding and expansion on the magic system.
Kurumi Mirai was at first a pretty likeable main character, but as the show goes on you can only really see her as an incredibly unmotivated moron. She just,
...
doesn't try at all the entire show, everything is handed to her, and she even has the gall to give up on her magician dream midway through after only a couple mistakes and ZERO training. It takes the literal last episode for her to get over it. Also, she must have amnesia or something because her grandma taught her so much and even when her teacher talks about things she told her, she never, ever connects the dots or get a leg up from advance knowledge. She is incredibly useless and only pushed to do stuff thanks to her rival turned oddly close friend, Yuzu.
Talking about Yuzu, she is a much better protagonist than her, and her staying in denial for most of the story makes more sense than Kurumi's agonizingly weak motivation, even though she doesn't really try very hard either, she's just smarter and more pragmatic.
The story is just some nonsense, multiple mysterious characters hinting at mysterious shit while not doing any single thing until the very end, where they do what the main characters were gonna do anyway. Add to that a pretty uninteresting and abrupt final act, where the anime just completely changes what the story is about to focus on characters that barely even exist and how they are somehow the most relevant parts of the plot. Then the main characters fix everything in the first minute of episode 12, great, thanks for wasting my time ig.
The side cast is also pretty bland in an inoffensive manner, not many highlights and the annoying ones are barely here. The anime makes you think they have depth, but it's an illusion, none of them matter.
The world and magic systems are also incredibly bland. At first, showing magic as a technological tool seemed very interesting, calling "magic arrays" the spells characters could cast, hinting at a potentially really creative system... only to NEVER be elaborated upon. The same goes for the other type of magic.
It's basically the most basic magic system disguised with a thin layer of interesting.
Sadly, a pretty disappointing show that failed at every single point to make me give a shit, it's quite impressive, actually. Even worse animes at least gave me hating it as an entertainment. A shame an artstyle like this got wasted on a big nothing-pie.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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