Jul 7, 2022
[Read--> This contains some spoilers, I'll talk on character development specifics and some key moments of the show. If you seek to enjoy this show without knowledge read the first four lines below and skip to the ">" symbol behind text]
First of all, this show could perfectly be defined by the word "generic".
It's a fantasy fiction, with a really generic narrative and no much more. Even at some points mid season I was thinking on dropping it.
But man, the 4 final episodes were so good. I'll explain.
One of the worst things of this show was the presumably lack of direction. Students go from place to
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place doing some traveling, confronting bad guy etc you know, the basic.
The episode where they confronted Zero was almost my breaking point. Like, "yeah we are frends now, it was a prank" hell no.
But then, boom, good character development.
The bad guy from earlier comes back as an ally beacuse reasons. They show why he's like that in like 20 secs or so and they threw him under some really serious problems to save some childs or whatever.
He discovers he's a person with emotions and has a breakdown, beautiful.
Outside jokes, that moment was so well done, it even caught me by surprise how good that character was done. And that's not all, the MC also becomes a real character (how). I love one thing, I'll explain.
So this MC has a very lame, bad and ass generic backstory (my mother died so I lose emotions yada yada), let that sink in, you cannot change the lame out of the guy. So how do you fix it? Just put a backstory to the backstory (this is actually real).
The backstory; 1º chapter.
Mother died I'm sad now.
The backstory; 2º chapter.
"My father destroyed half a world, had a child just for conveniance and when mother found out she run for our safety. I was created to be an infinite mana generator, and so a great quantity of witches hunt us down."
It's honestly astonishing how someone could pull that off, a backstory of a backstory. We are close to StarWars levels here.
But yeah, long rant ended there.
>May I initiate another.
The animation is mid to say the best (it has some bad frames, generally isn't smooth and obviously there is CGI, and not good CGI). Is really not worth to watch this for the spectacle.
Art style wise? Exactly the same. I refuse to elaborate just to repeat myself.
The characters initially were really bad, an absolute dissapointment, but they kinda grow. Just like in real life!
The soundtrack is decent and does is work. This may be a mild critique, but it's really forgettable. It lives in the "blends well but I don't remember any" limbo.
For those who skipped, the story is bad at the beginning, dull and boring at the middle and kinda good at the end. It is like a rollercoaster that no one trully wants to go, but is still fun.
But well, even with all those obvious faults that this anime has I still enjoyed it quite a bit.
And besides that idk if there is something more worth of mention.
As a point I'll say that this is an spinoff from grimoire of Zero (or smth like that I couldn't care).
It really doesn't matter, this does stand out for himself, I didn't even know it was a spin-off 'till I finished it.
I don't think I'll recommend this to someone, but do what you must.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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