Introduction
Due to his father's disappearance, Itsuki Iba has to take over the family business: a magician dispatch service. Their family employs countless magicians and other supernatural beings in order to send them out to help those who need magical assistance. As a leader, Itsuki now has to be tough, commanding, and reliable, but there's one problem, he's a coward. Also, in order to run a successful business, he must connect with his employees, which is more difficult than it seems due to his personality. But not only does he have to deal with his own employees, he also has to deal with those who threaten the family business.
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Audience reviews
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Recynon
So I just watched a harem in which two of the girls just end up marrying each other in the end. See Legend of Korra? You weren't original there either.
Jokes aside, it's a decent supernatural/magical adventure series. The harem and fanservice elements are light, and for that matter, the character work is light as well as the series chooses to focus on the intricacies of its magic systems instead. That's right, magic systemS, plural. The series mixes various magic systems from different cultures and the intricacies behind each of these magic systems make for some mystery in most of the episodes as the crew figures out what is going on. That is to say, despite the ubiquity of magical worlds in fiction, the level of detail the worldbuilding went into makes this world stand out. As a bonus,…
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Rental Magica is a hard series to review and rate because, for the most part, it's a good series, but one beset by baffling creative decisions that may or may not affect your enjoyment of the series. It hits differently for different people, so it's hard to give it an unqualified recommendation in light of that, but it's not so deeply flawed that its various issues are going to be universally hated either.
The series is at its strongest when it decides to just be a straightforward action story. The action is well-animated (if you can find a version with decent video quality in 2022), the monsters are well-designed and the battles have a good sense of natural progression, where they deal with larger and larger threats over time, using their experience from previous fights to overcome them.…
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Reason for watching: Thought it had a good premise for occult themed story lines, base on its synopsis.
TL;DR: I thought wrong. The story is shallow and messy, with weak animation for its battle scenes, and the characters are as flat as a deflated balloon.
Story
The story is so incoherent. That's the only way I can describe it. I have come across animes with messy, borderline incoherent story-telling. But this is on another level, not only is the story-telling rocky, the concept on a whole is not even clear. The episodes were originally aired in a non-linear pattern, where the First episode is the Sixth in chronological order. And whichever way you choose to watch it, whether is using the chronological episode numbers, or the broadcasted jumbled pattern, both ways don't make the show any…
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This anime takes a lot of risks by relying so heavily on exposition. It has such a rich index of lore and backstory that it ends up having to explain so many aspects in such a short time that it doesn't really do a great job of explaining them all. For example, one of my biggest questions was "does the number of legions a Solomon demon rules an indicator of how strong it is?" Or even "what's the difference between Glam Sight and Glam Sight +" (you know what I mean in EP 23.) The design on the magics and especially the Solomon demons is PHENOMENAL, it felt all very real and easy to lower your veil of disbelief. The depth of the creative lore of this story really managed to impress me and I cannot emphasize just how much this pays off Narrative-wise.
Tldr: Great worldbuilding, phenomenal a…
Read at the sourceRedd396
Now this anime is a very interesting one. I have a lot to say about this anime and I'm having a hard time deciding where to begin.
Well it seems only fitting to start at the one thing that makes this anime stand out for me above all animes in its category, the magic. Generally anime magic is much like, well anything else animes use, as powerful and versatile as the writers want it to be. However this anime has the best magic in any anime I've ever seen. The magic just seems so real, the way they use it the way they talk about it, even just how each magic seems to have its own set of rules and limitations. Now in you may be thinking that the magic in this can't compare to the magic in say Fairy Tail. However, while it certainly does have a significantly larger stock of both magic and magic…
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I liked this anime, it had elements of magic in it (a lot of them actually) but you understood what everyone’s function was and what their tools were. Mainly a comedy, but with light romance, Rental Magica uses witches, priests, demons, sprits and ghosts in really dark situations.
Itsuki is the main character and as such he’s everything you love in your hero. He’s not as skilled as the other characters but he’s cute, kind hearted, accepts others who are different, hardworking, and has no idea that he’s in the middle of a harem. Lol. I didn’t like how the first 7 episodes seemed out of order I wondered if maybe where I was watching them if they were. Some of the episodes would have made much more sense if placed elsewhere in the series. After around episode 10 it seemed as if the story beca…
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it's a cool magic anime.yeah and i loved it really.there is romance,magic,action,comedy
The plot centers around the magician dispatch service and Mage's Society: Astral. The main protagonist of the story is Astral's second President: Itsuki Iba, who, while being young and inexperienced ironically isn't even a Mage. Central to the story are Astral's many adventures with magical spirits and creatures, competing with rival company Goetia, rogue members, taboos and the Dark Magician's Society: Ophion, all while trying to complete enough jobs to pay the bills and fill The Association's quota and evade abolition. Each story arc is written as an incident in which the Astral members and their associates are involved.
story: cool 10
art: cool 10
sound: so so 9
character: great
enjoyment: 10
over…
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Rental Magica is a bit of an odd anime. It's mainly a series of one shot episodes relating the exploits of Iba Itsuki, the 2nd president of Astral, and his various employees as they combat evil spirits, demons, rogue mages, magical pollution, etc.
What makes the show a bit odd is the fact that it initially can't decide if it wants to be a combat anime, or a highschool romance, a purely supernatural thriller, or a comedy. It literally has a bit of all those genres. Because of this, many people may be put off watching the show after a few episodes. Bear with it though, as it does get progressively better.
The story in itself, as explained already, is mainly a series of one shot episodes. There is, however, an underlying story which is hinted at throughout most of the series, and becomes c…
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