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Mar 3, 2023
It’s amazing how a show with such an interesting premise could turn out to be so boring. I watched this show because I remember reading the manga and liking it, but now that I think about it, I can’t recall what happened in that manga at all.
Pros:
- The art and animation. There’s a lot of beautiful scenery and background, especially in the latter half of the show, and there is good animation as well, the magic, certain battles, as well as many flying scenes. There is some CGI but I don’t think it detracts from the show at all and is fairly well done.
Mixed:
- Our
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main duo. Takamiya and Kagari do make for a pretty cute pair, the damsel in distress and his knight respectively if you were to simplify it. Plot spoilers aside, you’re set up well to be invested in them, both their relationship as well as who they are individually. I do think the pacing knocks them down a peg unfortunately, as there are a lot of hints to things that go nowhere. Both of their characters suffer too as a result, they honestly just take turns being damsels, but at least Kagari responds with actually doing something about it, while Takamiya just panics and waits for someone else to tell him what to do.
Cons:
- The characters. Theres an awful lot of people to get to know in the span of 12 episodes, so unfortunately basically everyone outside of our main duo is severely underdeveloped. There’s a Team Rocket esque group that the duo deals with through the entire show and only 1 of them is memorable, and I’d argue it’s only because she had a special individual fight scene before the rest show up, there’s nothing I could tell you about the other 4 members of the group that you couldn’t glean from character design, I’m pretty sure only 2 of them show off their magic too. Multiple characters will show up, stick around and act like they’re well established, and then vanish after like, 2 episodes. The school as an entirety sucks too, they’re there to be assholes and that’s about it, there’s few to no consequences for them, nor do they change either.
- Kasumi. Unfortunately they decided to add the trope of incestuous little sister and clueless big brother to this show, as Takamiya’s little sister Kasumi is deeply obsessed with him and wants to get married, but also she doesn’t realize she’s being incestuous, it’s just normal sisterly feelings! Ugh. It’s a shame because she’s got an interesting setup, but they kinda toss it out halfway through and turn her into either a background character or a creep.
- The pacing. The show whiplashes between school shenanigans and witch related conflicts, handwaves plot holes, and doesn’t give enough time for anything to be set up or sink in. Fights are either short or aren’t shown, either Kagari immediately kicks ass or gets her ass kicked, sometimes even offscreen. I ended the season not really having a grasp on anything, and a lot of stuff is left unresolved. It feels like they either knew they weren’t getting another season or they were hoping they would, and you can’t tell which one it was.
- The worldbuilding. You enter the show curious to learn more about the conflict between the Workshop Witches and the Tower Witches, why Takamiya is stuck in the middle of the two, and how the magic system works. The anime doesn’t go past surface level regarding any of those topics, or plops things in with no explanation, resulting in a frustratingly underdeveloped world.
Ultimately I’m not sure how to feel about this show, part of me wants to like it considering that it’s a point of nostalgia, but it’s hard to argue why this show is worth watching. Might be better to check out the manga instead.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 3, 2023
To be honest, I watched this show years ago, before I knew MAL existed, so I can’t remember much of it anymore. What I do remember though, is the overwhelming hatred I have for this show and its main character.
If you’re looking for the most Gary Stu to ever Gary Stu, you’ve found him. Anything you can do he can do better. He can dismantle other people’s magic, created the first ever flying spell when no other person in history could ever figure it out in a matter of minutes, is one of a mysterious duo who makes the strongest magical weapons in the
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entire world, and is a secret top level government soldier capable of taking on entire armies by himself and only himself.
Oh, but he’s also super weak magic wise so that totally balances out! He’s the lowest of the low at school because his magic sucks so much, which means everyone underestimates him and he gets to kick their asses while the boys bow to his great presence and the girls fall in love with him!
He also has no emotions, because he was experimented on to turn him into an unfeeling super soldier to protect his sister. Oh, but he does have one emotion actually: incestuous love for his sister. Those incestuous feelings are also reciprocated btw.
Speaking of his sister, she’s probably a creepy otaku’s wet dream. One of those ice queens that everyone else is also in love with but she only has eyes for her “oniichan” and is willing to hurt anyone who dares to get in their way. She’s a magic prodigy so I guess she’s meant to be his opposite but also she’s weaker than him, because we can’t have anyone competing with our main man.
If I could give this show a 0 I would. Let’s just say the 1 is for the uniforms, because I do think they are really cute, especially the female uniforms.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 3, 2023
Listen, I’m a casual anime watcher and a food video lover. I watched Food Wars for the cooking, and gave zero shits about the plot and fanservice for the most part. If that’s the way you treat food anime, this show is for you. It’s a comfort show of mine, something I put on in the background.
I’d say mild spoilers but like, tbh it’s girls eating ramen, there’s not really anything to spoil.
Pros:
- The ramen. There’s so much of it as expected, but they also delve into the places of origin and preparation methods, nothings off the table, they try chocolate ramen at one point.
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Each character has their own preference and that also influences the story slightly. The stills of the ramen are beautiful too.
Mixed:
- The characters. None of the 4 main girls go through much development nor do you hear much about who they are, which I was fine with, the plot is just girls eating ramen I wasn’t expecting much, but I did see some people were bothered by it, so that’s something to consider if it matters. They all have their own quirks and they play off each other nicely for a bit of comedy.
- The animation. The ramen shots are beautiful but everything else is pretty much lower quality animation, not a lot of movement, random cutaways to legs or other non moving scenes, a good amount of standing/sitting and talking. Again though, it is just girls eating ramen, so I was fine with it.
- The sounds. Do not watch this if you have misophonia, there’s a lot of slurping and chewing sounds, general anime eating noises, etc. The characters sometimes moan a bit too, which I was a little put off by, I know ramen’s tasty but it’s not *that* tasty.
Cons:
- YUU. Koizumi may be the titular character but the the story is mostly told through the POV of Yuu, the girl with the short dark hair. When Koizumi isn’t involved, she’s great! A little ditzy, an excellent cook, sort of a middleman to the other 2 girls. When Koizumi is involved, she immediately nosedives to annoying as hell. She’s got a crush on Koizumi, which would be cute, but she expresses it through inserting herself into Koizumi’s ramen trips despite explicit “no”s, ignoring her boundaries, being jealous when her other 2 friends get closer to Koizumi by treating her like a human being, and then it eventually escalates to stalking and yandere tendencies. Gross. Genuinely the worst part of the show. I came here for ramen, not toxic lesbian relationships.
All in all, despite it being pretty average realistically, and the main character being terrible, the ramen is enough to keep me coming back to this show, and I don’t rewatch shows often. If they just cut out the weird yandere part, it would be an easy 10 for me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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