Introduction
From a young age, Kurumi Mirai has aspired to become a magician. Driven by her ambition, she has spent her childhood preparing to join the prestigious Rettoran Academy of Magic. Although Kurumi excels in the selection exam, her dream is crushed when she is not chosen for the elite magic class.
Admitted to the standard class at the academy instead, Kurumi soon befriends Maki Kumiiru, her new roommate; and Yuzu Edel, another girl unhappy with her placement. However, to everyone's surprise, their homeroom teacher, Minami Suzuki, promises to teach the class magic anyway. Although skeptical at first, the girls start to believe that this may be their second chance at realizing their dreams and becoming wonderful magicians.
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Audience reviews
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Suroja
As other reviews have already stated, the animation is the only good part about it. The beautiful art style is completely wasted on this painful-to-watch mess. The plot is whatever, we tried to pay attention at first, but it's all over the place, and most of it is completely irrelevant.
Somehow, the worst part though, is the insufferable characters. The main girl just whines the whole time, giving up at the slightest inconvenience despite claiming this is her big dream—and still getting everything handed to her anyway. The other characters drag her through the plot, and they're not much better. Her classmates each have their own "quirky" thing going on, so you’re forced to suffer through some guy’s ear-breaking singing every other episode and none of them are relevant despite the show wan…
Read at the sourceArska551
Oh boy, there's not a lot good to say about this one. The art style is definitely intriguing and stands out from most shows, but that's about it.
In just a few episodes, the show introduces one of the worst character casts I've ever seen. Somehow all of the characters are just outright obnoxious and they wanted to make me drop this show immediately. A great example of this is the character who constantly sings while talking. (I cannot even bother looking up his name) He and a bunch of other side characters genuinely gave me a headache while watching.
And don't even get me started on the plot. Somehow this seemingly light-hearted show ends up convoluting its plot with weird world mechanics. Alongside the characters being annoying and bad, most of the actions the characters did during the…
Read at the sourceGearlessDoc
I will keep this review brief because I want to encourage as many people as possible to watch this anime without diving into lengthy analyses. I stumbled upon this series on a rather questionable anime website, which I won't name for obvious reasons. I was immediately drawn in by its artwork, and after just a few minutes of watching, the first thing that came to mind was 'Little Witch Academia.'
Although this show may not fully do justice to Trigger's masterpiece, still we are in a time where artistic anime(s) have become increasingly rare, it feels like a breath of fresh air. I highly recommend it to anyone who appreciates art, enjoys magic, and especially to those who miss 'Little Witch Academia.'
I am genuinely hopeful that this show will receive a second season. I rated it a 7 becaus…
Read at the sourceFirechick12012
Man, it sucks when I can't enjoy something. It especially sucks when it's something you were looking forward to. The subject of today's review, Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians, or Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onna no Ko no Hanashi, actually has a bit of a story behind it. In 2018, a company called Project Anima held a contest allowing entrants to submit ideas in the form of novels, scripts, manga drafts, illustrations, and so on, and the winners would have their pieces adapted into anime. MahoNare, as I'll be referring to it for the sake of brevity, took the grand prize for the contest's fantasy/another world category, and the anime was set to air in 2021, but for some reason was delayed. Luckily, the show was set to debut in October of 2024. And hey, I'm always down for more cute…
Read at the sourceDangerous_Boy
Starting with the good:
-Watercolor backgrounds really give it a unique visual identity.
-The OP is unskippable, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi still got it
-Prominent doses of Horie Yui
Now, onto the intrinsic factors of it:
This show was sadly dragged down by its main plot. So much was dedicated to the evil lurking beneath our daily lives and the magic to solve it, that what actually was well done in it was lost. Episode 5 was the best episode in the show, worth of being the finale (though the finale did also do it for like 2minutes) even. The ensemble cast of various gimmicks often faces two issues: More characters than the writter can develop and/or more characters than there's screentime to share. Episode 5 showed they actually could write these characters, and use their gimmicks in interestin…
Read at the sourceFrousties
(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 trainin…
Read at the sourceFred2020
Storyline: Good if somewhat predictable.
Pacing: Slow to the point of almost being dropped several times.
Characters: This is a mixed bag. Many of the characters are cliché to the point of being annoying. The main characters are ok but never seem to grow over the 12 episodes.
Art style: Here is where I have issues. The pastel and watercolor motif is cute but creates a blurry effect. I am sure they could have created crisper and sharper images while still holding to that pallet.
Final thoughts: If the target audience was small children, then the art style works but the plot involving possible deaths was too intense. If the target audience was young adults to adult the plot works but the character development is weak.
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