Introduction
Matoi Sumeragi wishes for nothing more than to lead a normal life away from the spotlight. She is quite satisfied alternating between school and her part-time job at her best friend Yuma Kusanagi's family shrine. But this routine life is permanently disturbed when a Night—an evil extra-dimensional entity—attacks the shrine. Matoi is able to drive it off after unwittingly calling upon the powers of a god, the natural enemies of the Nights.
Matoi and Yuma are soon joined by Claris Tonitolus, an experienced exorcist from the Vatican, and agent Haruka Luciela, who works for the secretive Night defense organization IATO. Despite not knowing the perpetrator behind these attacks nor their motive, Matoi must come to master this newfound power in order to protect both the people around her and the once normal life she holds so dear.
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Audience reviews
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ismichi
In order to avoid spoilers, I'll sum things up instead:
The story allowed room for so much simple, generic mahou shojo goodness. What did the series decide to do? Ignore at least half of the things it set up to be done. Which left both loopholes and a lack of theme to prevail. Instead making it super complicated with no resolve to be had.
Like, I could've gotten behind this series. But every time something was set up, my disappointment was rising -- time was running out and nothing seemed to be getting resolved SO MUCH AS TOUCHED AGAIN.
I wasn't even expecting it to be something super serious or "groundbreaking", etc. I just wanted something simple and cute. But I was met with half-attempted storytelling, and got angry instead.
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One Underated Anime with simplicity and good story!
Shoushin Shoujou Matoi Probably one Anime that Majority of people didn't watch because it's aired on wrong season About Mahou Shojou ( Where Ikusei Keikaku was Aired so everyone attention will straight to that anime )
Story : ( 9/10)
the story is rather simple, it's about sumeragi matoi , a very ordinary middle school girl one day get attacked by creature called night and suddenly transformed to Exorcist girl from amulet that hands down from her missing mother as granted the power from the god . so her extraordinary day begin as she keep her everyday life and exorcist girl in balance.
so what deal with this story? it's simple, they kept it straight foward without make their viewer shake on various tragedy like madoka and ikusei keikaku…
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The anime has a flew cliches here and there, but overall, the anime is good. The story follows the same cliches like "Friendship saves the day" and such. However, it did make me uncomfortable on the first few episodes due to fan-service. The other cliches are quite fitting for the story.
The art actually caught my eye, which kept me watching throughout the whole series, which not many can do.
Sound on the other hand, was quite good. The voice actors did a good job. 'Plause to them!
Character development is awfully shocking. Not in the bad way, but in the good way. Every character was able to adapt fast, if not, changed a ton from where they began.
Saying that, the anime is good.
Read at the sourceSilyon
What does living an ordinary life mean to you?
How much of it would you be willing to give up for the sake of protecting it?
Soushin Shoujo Matoi is here to bring us answers to these questions from the perspective of a middle school girl who, as most magical do, accidentaly gets magic powers and is forced to save the world.
And with that one sentence I have pretty much summed up the story of Matoi. Story is not the forte nor is it the focus in the anime. It much more serves as the backdrop and device to keep the characters busy rather than actually being the point of interest. And I can't say I was bothered too much by this fact. Everything else in the anime, especially the characters and overall atmosphere of the anime, manages to keep it an interesting watch.
Before I go ahead and talk…
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Unlike many magical girl anime, Matoi The Sacred Slayer didn't include magical girls. Instead, it featured exorcist girls- girls that could harness the power of different gods to fight demons.
The beginning of the show felt like it was having an identity crisis. It's almost like the writers tried to include every element they could, and fell flat on their faces. Firstly, it jumped into things way too quickly. I honestly had no idea what was going on. This is normal for many first episodes, but there were a lot of other elements included that distracted me. The first episode tried to include a lot of comedy (hence the fan service), and it didn't work. The fan service was thrown in the audience's face, which took away from the show and was distracting, as I said. After the first few comedi…
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Soushin Shoujo Matoi
For my rating system I did not use the 1-10 scale. I used the 1-5 "The Little Man" Scale. For more information check out my profile.
Story: (2)
Let's start of with the weakest part of the show, which is the story. In general it is a basic light-hearted magic girl story. The main character just one day stumbles into this world of exorcism and needs to learn everything about it before fighting evil.(sound familiar ?)
In each episode they face new monsters to save themself or others, but rather than having a clear set end goal the show is more about the character interactions, their backstory or what they wish for. That is why I would argue that the show is rather character-driven.
One of the biggest problems that the show, in terms of story has is that in the early…
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DISCLAIMER: Had to re-upload because of fallacies in my opening statement.
Matoi the Sacred Slayer is an under-viewed show but don't let that stop you from watching it if you are a fan of the magical girl genre.
An area that I find MtSS to be particular lacking is the plot/story department which is what this show struggles with to a large extent. I can’t confirm whether it wants to be an episodic show with an overarching storyline or that it undergoes the linear format which is not the case through retrospection. It all takes off with shrine maiden Sumeragi Matoi being shocked with the fact that she has managed to awaken her latent magical abilities. This act of transforming in to a magical girl is called a Divine Union, which is the process of undergoing a physical connection with a su…
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Soushin Shoujo Matoi is a magical girls genre anime that follows a rather ordinary girl as she inadvertently summons the powers of a god that gives her the power to become a magical girl whose purpose is to exorcise evil spirits. While certainly sounding like a average magical girls anime which was my initial thought as well the anime actually has a deeper lesson which is that of friendship that can overcome the hardest of hardships and that if your wish for something is strong enough they may very well come true.
Soushin Shoujo Matoi follows the lives of Matoi Sumeragi a rather ordinary 14 year old that just moved into the area to live with her father. Matoi is also a trainee shrine maiden that works at the local shrine. One day Matoi and her best friend Yuma inadvertently summon a god…
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"Being ordinary's is the best!" - Matoi Sumeragi
Matoi just wanted to have a normal life...however this is a magical girl anime, so she becomes an magical girl who exorcises demons.....Oops.
Soushin Shoujo Matoi in the early episodes falls under the "Demons of the Week" a la traditional magical girl anime fair and simultaneously giving character development to our 3 main magical girls of Matoi Sumeragi voiced by Ayaka Suwa, Claris Tonitolus voiced by Hisako Kanemoto and Yuma Kusanagi voiced by Naomi Oozora. Soushin Shoujo Matoi does have a bigger picture outside from all this as well and it does kinda make Matoi herself a somewhat messiah character HOWEVER bringing in Matoi's family and friendships can be used as a compromise.
Let's talk about the magical exorcist main girls with Claris…
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I know you're looking at the studio right now and thinking "Hmm White Fox? I bet this is also going to be dark like Steins;Gate or Re:Zero". I'll get right to the point but this is NOT a magical girl show with a dark atmosphere. This is just a regular magical girl show. However, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy this show.
[Story]: (6.5/10)
The story of "Soushin Shojou Matoi" (or Matoi The Sacred Slayed in English) isn't anything special like Madoka Magica or Yuki Yuna is a Hero. It's basically about a normal middle school girl named "Matoi" who wants to live a simple, ordinary life. Due to a sudden turn of events, she suddenly became a magical gir-...woops, my bad....I mean, an exorcist girl whose job is to exorcise the demons known as "The Nights". She and other exorcist girls teams up…
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