Today I am going to talk about Mahou Sensou, also known under its English title Magical Warfare. It is the story of Nanase Takeshi who was a normal high school student until he meets Miu Aiba and gets mixed up in a war between magicians.
There is a lot of magical stuff getting released lately isn’t it? Unfortunately,
Magical Warfare doesn’t bring anything new to the genre, but let me explain.
At first, it didn’t seem bad. Actually, I even really liked the first episode. I liked the explanation about why magic is kept secret, I liked Takeshi, I liked the first battles. In all honesty, the first episode was really great, it quickly pulled you inside the world and kept you there.
Unfortunately things went downhill from there on.
First, there was the magic school thing. I don’t mind generic stuff, I really don’t, but it needs to be really well done. It wasn’t.
Second, and most important, I didn’t get the story. Seriously, they were trying to do something that could have been great but 12 episodes is way too short and the explanations are too complicated. I won’t even get started on the last episode because that was the weirdest and the less understandable of them all. In short, not only the story was generic but it also was near impossible to understand.
So, were the characters redeeming? Unfortunately not.
Takeshi is just your usual protagonist, he’s as generic as the story he lives in. I can’t even write more about him, I don’t remember him. The only thing I remember about him is that he was voiced by Mamoru Miyano and not even that was enough to redeem him in my eyes.
Aiba Mui was a little more interesting, at least she wanted to save her brother from the very start. But, as with Takeshi, there is not a lot redeeming features to her either. I was bothered by her character design actually, she is way too old to be this small. She was voiced by Toyama Nao, not a bad seiyuu.
Now I think about it, the only thing I really liked about
Mahou Sensou were the seiyuu. Not only did it have Miyano Mamoru as the lead, it also had Okamoto Nobuhiko, Daisuke Namikawa (who I missed greatly and now has the pleasure of hearing in
Haikyuu) and Kazuya Nakai, as an Imayoshi look-alike who ended up my sole reason to keep on watching. I am that much of a fangirl.
In the end, don’t watch this. You’ll regret it if you do. I sure do.
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Kuuki
Here is Kuuki, French 20-something anime-baka speaking. I watch too many things, read too much, eat too much and work too much. I'm writing Go for Broke and sometimes more for the Organization. Nice to meet you!
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