Audience reviews
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Supersonic_Pain
The madlads at Trigger have done it again.
Carrying on the spirit of the trailblazers at Gainax, they have taken their magic touch and put it towards the magical girl genre with a likable protagonist with a can-do defiant attitude squaring up against a prideful yet ultimately virtuous untouchable class president. The animation is beautiful and the sound fits the scenes like a glove. The fanservice surprisingly-
Oh, wait wait, sorry, this is my script for Kill la Kill.
Let's try this again.
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What a piece of shit. Prior to this, in addition to the good Trigger shows I had seen, I saw Darling in the Franxx and was pretty disappointed, even if it had a heart and something to say and things I liked about the show beyond Trigger's animation.
This? This genuinely has nothing beyond the a…
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Disclaimer: The following review/analysis is geared towards those who have finished watching the anime and OVA (short film), and therefore will contain spoilers.
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This anime and setting is absolutely horrible and immoral. I'll say it again, the "little witch academia" anime is the worst anime in the history of mankind. I thought the worst anime in the world was "guyver". But it turns out, there's a person who made an anime that's much more bad and immoral than "guyver" - the author of the OVA and the "little witch academia" anime.
I don't know what the author of the "little witch academia" setting worked on for three years, after releasing the disgusting OVA (the first anime movie) based on the "little witch academia" setting - no "error work" was done. But, in the "little witch acad…
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Do people watch this and choose to like it?
The main character Atsuko is super annoying, completely useless, and downright disrespectful to everyone. She manages to ruin everyone's day and still be mad at them when they get angry at her. I have no idea why someone would make the MC this unlikable. in the end, I just ended up rooting for Diana. The story is very predictable but sometimes manages to go above and beyond to make the story even more pointless and annoying. Characters are badly written, and most of them have no soul. Don't waste your time on this. But if you decide to watch it then do a drinking game and take shots every time when the MC says "Just like Chariot”.
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The most slept on anime of all time. I seriously cannot understand hard pressed people about this series. Yes it may lack I'm strength in it's plot yes it may be predictable but have you ever had so much fun and sparkle in your eye just as if you were a child again watching an anime? It is an incredibly fun anime to watch without thinking too much, the animation is (as always) absolutely amazing. Maybe if all you watch is seinen or all you care about is how full life is, you won't find this to be your favorite. Absolutely appalling that this is even below 8. I will defend this series ever since the movies.
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Little Witch Academia
This anime sets a great example for all the others, showing how with an almost unlimited concept, it still manages to waste all its potential and simply create subpar results. On the outside, Little Witch Academia looks like a promising work. Animations, drawing style, colorful depictions you could almost think "This is going to be THIS anime!" but no, it's just a bluff.
Through this concept you had a limitless reserve of creative actions that could have been accomplished, there are no limitations here. Everything can be as irrational and bizarre as you want. And yet they decided that this anime is simply a witch version of Sailor Moon or Wedding Peach. With this I can practically explain how bad the dialogue has been, it's practically been an oversized play.
Amo…
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So it was a couple of months into quarantine, and the boredom was finally starting to get to me. And for the longest time I've wanted to get into anime, but never had enough time or energy to sit down and get into a show. That however changed may of this year when I finally decided to take my true first steps into the medium. I'm mentioning all this now because if I come across as bias in this review then I apologize in advanced, as this show means a lot to me, and has helped me through copping with this year. That being said I still plan on being as unbiased and objective as possible when reviewing lwa.
I felt the story was great for what the show set out to do. Season 1 is very simple yet also extremely charming. As it has Akko and co living there school lives and dealing with the chal…
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Okay. I'm not going to go so far as to call this anime bad but... Actually never mind it sucks.
So Little Witch Academia is just bad. Aside from two or three people who caught my eye the characters suck. The storyline is pretty boring. The protagonist is the most annoying protagonist of any anime I have seen by far (worse than Shinji from Neon gay and that's saying something) and I don't know why they even bothered making this anime in the first place.
Okay let's start with some positive things about this anime.
Everything else sucks. The story is stupid and feels kind of like a Harry Potter ripoff lol. I can never take this anime seriously. The protagonist is obnoxious and stupid. The emotional moments fall flat or are painfully cringy to the point that I wouldn't even call them emotio…
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Once in a while, changing the pace is important so as to not get tired of the same thing again and again. Imagine eating the same type of food for the rest of your life. That would be horrendous! In any case, my point is, after watching an immense amount of romance anime. I've begun to develop the feeling of tiresome towards it. So I had no choice but to gather up my will and try something other than romance. Which is, Little Witch Academia. An anime that I thought was simply one of the ridiculous anime where cute girls do cute things. Shockingly, I was wrong. I was so wrong. OK, I might be correct with the cute girls. But that's about it in a nutshell. This anime shattered my feelings of tiresome and boredness in a mere instant with just one episode. I did not expect this anime to surpass…
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[7.5/10]
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A testament to the episodic format, Little Witch Academia is, at least in the first half, closer to a Saturday-morning cartoon from the west than it is any anime that I've seen. It made me nostalgic. Nostalgic to moments, years ago, which I hardly even remember. The lazy, early mornings, having a hand resting on my shoulder slowly pushing me awake. My eyes fluttering open and the sight of a loved one telling me to get my breakfast. Running down the stairs and being greeted by a bowl of cereal and my favorite cartoon.
Put frankly, the first thirteen or so episodes of Little Witch Academia were exactly as wonderful as "The Enchanted Parade." This first half was the most wholesome…
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Hey folks, this will be a review for Little Witch Academia. This show is not to my taste, or more specifically what it turned into wasn't. This show has some fandom behind it and I'm not a part of it, I haven't read the manga, or even watched the other movies. Everything I'm writing here will cover just this show.
The show for the first five or so episodes has a slice of life type of story. A normal person joins a prestigious school of witchcraft, and she is unable to do magic herself. Her idol is a woman named Shiny Chariot who is an unpopular witch in the magical world who suddenly disappeared. Her goal is to meet and be like Shiny Chariot. This of course is hard because of many things, but namely she cant do magic.
After these initial episodes however the story becomes very similar t…
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Sigh....here we go. It has been a long time since I watched a show this good. Studio Trigger does it again with another Little Witch Academia! This time it's different compared to a show like Kill la Kill. Instead of an emotional impactful ending like Kill la Kill. We were given a more heartwarming feel good ending. Now, let's breakdown how this show was able to differ itself from Kill la Kill.
Story: Our story tells the tale of one human Atsuko "Akko" Kagari with the drive and passion to become a great witch like her hero Shiny Chariot. Along the way she makes friends with two other young witches in Lotte and Sucy. The story first party takes an episodic approach as a way to introduce to the world of LWA, specifically Luna Nova Academy and the city it is not far from. I felt this was a…
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Disclaimer: the following review/analysis is oriented towards those who finished the series, and as such, there will be spoilers.
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Little Witch Academia is Yoh Yoshinari's precious child, who is one of the most important and iconic animators this industry has. It's at the same time, a love letter to it, with clear intent, wanting to be a message of hope to everyone looking to be part of it eventually. Unfortunately, he is an animator, not a writer (though he most likely wasn't alone in this), and said intentions are not backed up by the execution of the piece once examined under the cold eye of the monocle-wearing critic who thinks too highly of themself despite of their own contradiction-riddled writing, yet far…
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Warning: There may be some spoilers here, I tried to clear all of them out of the way so there shouldn't be any. However, I don't know what one would or would not consider as a spoiler in corner cases.
Little Witch Academia is a show that wanted to have its cake and eat it too. It tried to do so much from Western Animation tropes and fluffy episodic episodes to a serious plot with the ramifications of the magic world up in the air. However that attempt to do so much is it's downfall as it ends up failing at each thing it tried. While the art and animation were great as to be expected from Trigger, the actual writing under it was subpar and had a lot of problems. The biggest of which is: What is Little Witch Academia trying to do?
It starts off as an episodic show which very little that c…
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A believing heart is your magic – with Little Witch Academia, Trigger furnishes something so enchantingly brilliant in its simplicity and heartfelt resonance, executes every detail with the utmost bliss, and ultimatley drowns the viewer in a recurring feeling of wonder; unto the conclusion that a believing heart can amount to nothing more and nothing less than that certain thing we all hope for but can't quite materialize.
I realized I was in for a treat as the first episode ended and I was already wholeheartedly immersed in the characters and lore, which is a fleetingly rare way to feel one episode into such an admittedly accessible and light-hearted series. I realized this anime was something special during the final scene of the third episode, as Akko looked on as a Shooting Star took…
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Little Witch Academia is a story about a girl, Akko, who dreams to be the greatest witch, inspired by her idol, Shiny Chariot. In order to accomplish her dreams, she enrols in Luna Nova, an wizard academy to where her idol went and one of the most prestigios.
Story: Trigger follows its Kill la Kill formula with a first part that's mostly episodic, rarely moving the plot forwards, and with a basic objective the MC has to follow. KlK, nonetheless, executed it better. LWA tried to build around its characters with some very successful episodes and other somewhat boring, "fillerish". However, when the second part kicks in, it does with full force and it payoffs greatly.
Art and sound: Trigger does what it does best, with some breathtaking backgrounds and a great soundtrack. The way it plays h…
Read at the sourceHybrid_Rainbow29
1966: Mitseteru Yokoyama, inspired by the Japanese popularity of the US sitcom ‘Bewitched’, created a little Anime called ‘Sally the Witch’ about a young girl from a magical kingdom who came to earth and used her magic to help with the troubles of the world. This now sadly obscure title would go on to be highly influential in leading to the creation of the ‘Cute Witch’ genre, which would go on to be a subgenre for a much larger genre, the ‘Magical Girl’ genre.
1969: ‘Secrets of Akko-chan’ would expand upon the Magical Girl genre by introducing elements such as shapeshifting, and instead of involving a girl born with magic, involving an ordinary, relatable human character who attains such abilities.
1970: Osamu Tezuka’s ‘Marvellous Melmo’ further expanded the realms of the genre, intending…
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"Just you watch! I'm gonna become an amazing witch one day and make the whole world gasp in surprise!"
Akko Kagari Little Witch Academia (TV) 2017 (Episode 5)
Out of all anime that came out in winter 2017, Little Witch Academia (TV) caught my interest and it's the only show from that season that had to potential to great not counting squeals.
I have previously seen the short movies for Little Witch Academia and I really liked a lot. However, I won't be mentioning or comparing the TVs with the short movies because I want to review the TV series by its own identity.
Now after all that is show worth watching or it's just an another lame seasonal anime.
Hellow everyone this is Shawn aka PhantomKurata and I will be reviewing Little Witch Academia (TV) and with that out the way let's begin.…
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Watching Little Witch Academia is like looking back into a portal to my youth. A time when Cartoon Network ruled the world! While I was born at the tail end of the nineties, and thus didn't experience what many people consider to be the golden age for the network, I did grow up watching re-runs of many of the shows that established the network and what made it so infamous during the early 2000s. Shows like Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory and a plethora of others quickly became my favourite cartoons, and I still love them to this day, looking back on each with found feelings of nostalgia. Little Witch Academia evokes these similar feelings in me of nostalgia, and it's a sort of feeling that I honestly find hard to properly articulate since it is so raw and personal. T…
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Before I being, let me say this. I am very grateful to Tattun the producer, for visiting 4chan during the time LWA aired. Many fans, myself included, had the opportunity to ask him a bunch of questions, and learn a few interesting things about the story and characters. So in the unlikely chance you’re reading this, Thank you buddy!
Little Witch Academia’ (depending on viewers’ opinion) can be summed up as either “a charming, adventurous title; full of unique characters, interesting storylines, and filled with fun & entertainment.” On the other hand, it can be summed up as a disappointing, overly self-referential, lackluster title; full of too many western references, terrible pacing, filler, shoehorned, and plain one-dimensional characters.
Inside the magical, heartwarming tale of Littl…
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A magical world in Little Witch Academia is one I can describe as imaginatively beautiful. Beauty is expressed there not just by world fiction but by the context of its creativity. I don’t mean just the world either but the show itself is filled with characters, themes, and storytelling that make you want to go back and watch it all over again.
Little Witch Academia is perhaps unique with the fact that it’s an adaptation of a successful film. The first film originated in 2012 as part of the Young Animator Training Project and spawned a sequel titled Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade. Now, we have a full TV series based on the franchise that all began from the creativity of those animators. Watching Little Witch Academia is pretty simple with an open mind especially if you’re a…
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