Audience reviews
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Ciaran_Zagami
I mean,
it looks good.
Like really good.
But the characters are flat and annoying, the plot barren, the world is derivative and uninspired
I managed to stay awake through it all, somehow. But thats not really praise. It feels like a pilot for an actual show (which it basically is) but if this pilot was shown to me I can't honestly say I'd green light it.
Sure there is quite a few cute scenes and the characters clearly have some decent dynamics worked out, maybe the comedy is lost in translation.
Then again everyone else likes it so maybe I'm just a weird outlier? I really don't have a lot to say.
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After finishing the Little Witch Academia ( TV ) version. I felt happy, joyous, and grateful. However, something was missing..The feeling of "real" closure. When I finished the TV version, I did not watch the other two because I thought that it was pretty much the same and it'd be a waste of time. But I was wrong. After finishing the two movies, I finally feel fulfilled as if the heavy thoughts of guilt from not actually finishing all the anime has to offer inside my mind have been lifted.
If you watch this after the TV show then you'll probably think that its very good like me right now despite the fact that its not as good as the TV show itself. Still. This series is fucking amazing and I enjoy every single moment of it.
If you want to watch Little Witch Academia then you should foll…
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Ah, witchcraft. Under the right hands, such magic can truly shine...
No pun intended.
*SOME SPOILERS FOR LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA*
Remember childhood? That time where any sort of magic can truly take your breath, spray some magic dust onto it, and shove it back into your mouth for you to feel the excitement? Well, this movie/special wants to remind you. Magicians, sorcerers, and witches were often some of the coolest things ever for a kid, aside from dragons, and whatever gaming console and favorite video game they might have. Also, this IS a family friendly feature, so invite the family for a magical adventure, and who knows? You may even find a piece of innocent childhood you once lost, if only for a brief moment. So, did this movie enchant, or did it fall off its broom? Let's find out,…
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I find this review hard to start. It's difficult to come up with a tagline that'll grab attention but also let me have more to say later on.
If it sounds like I don't have much to say, that's because nearly the only thing that comes to my mind is that Little Witch Academia is fun. Good, plain, clean, for the whole family fun. It sure isn't overwhelmingly deep, it doesn't break new ground, nor does it set a new bar for production value. But regardless of this, it still remains one of the best things you can watch.
It isn't too long, only about the length of your average anime episode, and not something you'd think of watching since it's not overwhelmingly popular or necessarily critically acclaimed. It's the last item that you haven't tried on the menu because given the hit or miss qualit…
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Cute and visually pleasing. That's my first impression of this anime.
So, the main character is some fusion of Twilight Sparkle and Sabrina, set in a Harry Potter-esque world (even the Sorcerer's Stone is mentioned). There is also a fair share of action, as well as some comedy. All that packed in 26 minutes.
The other characters are also interesting, especially Sucy. The overall atmosphere is nice.
The story is simple but very effective. It's fast-paced (well, they did have only 26 minutes to tell everything they wanted), almost every scene is important and relevant to the story, and the climax is just epic. If you like this witch-in-training stuff, you might want to check this one out.
Actually, I think the biggest problem is that I'm not a fan of this witch stuff myself, otherwise I…
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A refreshingly innocent and simplistic experience that provides you with fluid visuals and a memorable narrative. However, with a 26 minute runtime, Little Witch Academia is short lived, which in turn causes the characters and main conflict to feel a little underdeveloped. Still, a good short film to watch if you're feeling down.
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In 2013, a Japanese governmental program known as “Young Animator Training Project” raised money to fund four animated short films for release during that year. One of these was Little Witch Academia, a twenty-six minute film from Studio Trigger, then an upstart company founded by former members of Studio Gainax.
The beginning shows a little girl sitting with an audience in front of an outdoor concert stage underneath the starry night sky. What’s everyone gathered here for? To watch a show, and sure enough, a performer appears; a witch known as Shiny Chariot. Her magic dazzles the audience, none more so than the little girl in the audience, who is astonished beyond description. Flash forward several years later, and we now see that girl, Akko, as a student at Luna Nova, a school for teach…
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Definitely a ''watch this'' movie!!!
Witch themed anime are rare and quit welcome from the most of the audience so it really ''does the job''!
It's vrey light without lacking action of ''feels''!
The animation and direction are great and make the movie 10 times more interesting!
It will make your day!
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Little Witch Academia is a standout anime, even though so far there is only one part and it is about 25 minutes long at this stage I would definitely consider this a masterpiece.
Instead of writing an essay about this i'm going to create a list of Positives and Negatives, I know when you're just looking to see if an anime is worth watching you usually don't want to read all that much.
Positives
- A short story which leaves room for expansion yet ties up the major loose ends and sticks to a three act structure incredibly well.
- The characters are all very different from each other, none are stereotypical archetypes and each are likeable in their own way.
- The soundtrack is not something I noticed too much, but it was enough to create the correct atmosphere for the scenario's.
- The ani…
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"Trigger saved anime." This is a phrase the anime community got to read a lot alongside Kill la Kill's airing until a little while. I'd go this far and say that Trigger DID save anime. But it had nothing to do with Kill la Kill. Read here why!
Actually, Little Witch Academia caught me by surprise. I didn't know Studio Trigger had something like that in stock and after I found out about this little gem I almost instantly decided to download it and oh boy was that a fine decision.
Reminder: This review will be spoiler free and I will refrain from going too deep into happenings and just summarize it really, really quickly. We have the main heroine Akko Kagari. As a child she was attending a magic show featuring the witch Shiny Chariot who has become an idol for Akko. Even though she is not…
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Good clean brainless fun. There are much worse ways to spend a half hour. The spunky protagonist yearning to emulate her heroine and show up the arrogant rival naturally succeeds in doing so by the end of the episode, no surprise there. But it does so in a quick-paced clean nifty style: a Western-inflected animation style, with affectionate homages to _Harry Potter_ & Bruegel's Tower of Babel & Disney's _Sleeping Beauty_. Who could be against that?
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An enchanting short series that exploded in popularity for good reason.
As always, my reviews are spoiler free.
Little Witch Academia was created by a small team at Studio Trigger under Japan's Young Animator Training Project. In only 26 minutes, it told a story that was able to captivate an audience large enough to donate over $625,000 to create a sequel.
Story - 7/10
It is very difficult to tell a compelling story in 26 minutes. One could argue against that by saying that there are thousands of single episode arcs that tell a good story. LWA differs from these greatly, however. In these 26 minutes, it is able to introduce a cast of characters, a setting, and a solid plot, whereas most episodes already have the cast and setting established.
LWA's story is simple yet charming; Akko se…
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Fabricating a world in a mere 26 minutes is no easy task, and that task is made even more difficult when you are challenged with adding characters and plot-line to the fabricated world.
While not perfect, Little Witch Academia accomplishes the aforementioned task quite stunningly, and is more than worth the 26 minutes of your time.
The story of Little Witch Academia is definitely not the highlight of the show. You follow a young witch named Akko as she attends Witch Academy to try to become more like her hero, Shining Chariot, a flashy stage magician that most witches look down on. It is relatively simple and could have been very interesting if given time to develop. Due to time constraints, however; the story is not given the necessary time to develop. It does its job of giving the wo…
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Much like the creator of this little gold nugget, I'll be keeping this review short, but sweet.
Aside from Ryo, which I can't seem to find anywhere (if you happen to know a site, a link would be very helpful), I've seen all of the Anime Mirai 2013 films. All 4 are about half-an-hour long, so they're pretty concise with their story. Death Billiards is pretty good, but it feels a bit pretentious, shoving a little philosophical question down your throat but not really making you think that much. Arve Rezzle feels like the pilot to a full series, and as such offers very little closure, but it has some nice ideas, even if those are undermined slightly by some rather half-baked characterisation and poorly executed exposition.
I'm giving my little mini reviews to the other episodes simply to gi…
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How I found out about this anime is a little bit of a funny story... Well not really, a guy posted a gif on funnyjunk of Suushy turning her gaze and I liked the look of the art style so I asked for the source. Anyway, what is LWA? We'll it's a little indie film (well it's called a movie even though it's only about half an hour long) to train people new to the animation job in Japan, and it was good enough that people wanted a series made. Oh, did I mention this shit was made by studio trigger? You know they made some good stuff like Gurran Laggen... Doesn't ring a bell?... Well how about INFERNO MOTHERFUCKING COP! Yeah, that alone is reason to watch this. But enough of speaking of the greatest anime ever created, on the this anime!:
Story 7/10: The story of LWA is a fairly simple one to b…
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"Little Witch Academia" is simply wonderful. It is a short, heart-warming "if you believe in yourself, you can do anything" sort of story. The art style is very creative and original, and the animation is very good and feels lively. The characters are memorable, the designs are memorable, and the music that goes with it is great. The main thing about this that sucks is that, once it's over, it leaves you wanting more! It really deserves to have it's own series, or atleast a full length movie. Overall, it is DEFINITELY worth watching, no matter what genre you mainly focus on, as long as you aren't only into one genre and don't watch anything else(Unless that genre is magical girl or wizards/witches type anime, in which case, this is still your genre).
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Are you sure that was half an hour because that felt like a feature film
The general idea of the story goes by quickly: a childhood memory sparks the protagonist's dreams of becoming a witch, but she's rather clumsy and is falling behind. The characters are all very distinct and likeable. The story, while progressing quickly, draws you in; every scene is significant, and that's what they did right. At the climax of the story I almost teared up because the buildup was done so well, it's exciting, action-packed and funny.
Knowing that it was a 'young animators' project I paid a lot of attention to the animation, and I was extremely satisfied. I would say the animation was very active; the characters are very expressive and the movement is very clean. The colours are great too, especially…
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Young Animator Training Project/Anime Mirai short reviews: Part 10/12
Little Witch Academia has had a bit of underground hype building for it because it’s by the newly formed Studio Trigger, Hiroyuki Imaishi’s studio he formed after he left Gainax. Little Witch Academia really amplifies the Saturday morning cartoon feel their previous works had with its bouncy animation style and cartoony visuals. The plot feeds into this too, being basically an animated version of the early Harry Potter books. This was particularly apparent during the broom flying lesson scene. I did get a laugh from Draco Malfoy being recast as a posh stuck-up ojou-sama because it allowed me to imagine Malfoy doing the ojou-sama laugh where he puts the back of his hand against his chin and goes “ooooohhh hoh hoh hoh hoh…
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Trigger does it again.
Yes, and what I mean by that is is achieving entertainment. Honestly, coming into this series, I didn't expect too much. After all, it involved young amateur anime producers who wishes to get their hands on the experience of making an anime. However, after watching these 26 minutes of awesomeness, I got the feeling that Trigger will pull more exciting stuff out of their hats.
Little Witch Academia details of a single 26 minute episode that is seemingly based off a setting taken place in a form of Magical Academy. The title of the series is what you get - an academy about little witches. The series stars Kagari who plays the role of the main female protagonist. Along with her at the academy are other students. Based on her role, Kagari seems to be a lazy student. Ad…
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I just want to rate this special as a 10 to applaud the young animators on a job well done!
Your story goes like this a typical magical girl has aimed to become like her idol "Chariot" and this connects to the minds of our youth because you know we hold lots of dreams, ambitions, and imagination. So this special takes that and creates the opportunity to take this dream head on. Bits of comedy and adventure with a hint of wonder, i mean its about magical girls ;] The characters are all unique. Including the art, oh man the ART. The scenery if fabulous and as for the character designs...gorgeous. I'd also like to add that the style changes from cartoon-y to normal to detailed in their faces to match the situation such as embarrassment or laughter. The main ones have different facial features…
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