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For „just“ a commercial, this short anime is noticeably high effort. As a long time player of MtG, this put a smile on my face. Stylized as a music video, Kamigawa: Kagayakeru Sekai aims to tell a story with the running time it has, rather to just present a product, and it works quite nice. If not for the screen at the end telling you “Available Everywhere”, this would absolutely pass as just a regular music video or a trailer for a longer work rather than an ad. The script and the video editing work greatly with the music to create an emotional experience, managing to convey the characters and their feels without any dialogue. The visuals are also a treat – the aesthetics of Neon Kamigawa (which for those who aren’t familiar with Magic: the Gathering is fantasy cyberpunk set in fiction…
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