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Vaisaga Posts: 8357 Location: Windsor Ontario |
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Another fair review. The anime definitely did spend too much time on the Nine Schools Competition despite the novels being the same length as Enrollment and Yokohama. They did spend quite a bit of time on explaining the various spells that appeared so that definitely padded things out.
What I appreciate most about it is that the competition set up does allow for other characters to get some time in the spotlight. I've always found the supporting cast more interesting than the Shiba siblings and they got plenty to do here. It's obvious Miyuki has feelings for Tatsuya and any claims otherwise is a lie on her part. Tatsuya only shows signs as caring for her as his sister, though. |
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EighteenSky Posts: 298 Location: Nottingham, England |
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Maybe it's just me but I thought the pacing in this arc was spot on and this was before I read the books. Won't really know again until my copy arrives (come on UP!) and I rewatch it. It went swiftly for me. Also didn't have any problems with understanding anything in the story without reading anything extra.
Maybe I'm too used to really slow burners like the One Piece anime, Log Horizon or Naruto that I find stuff like this well paced, that or I was that absorbed into the world of this series I never noticed (very likely both). The tidbits on Miyuki and Tatsuya were really fascinating as well and only make you want to know more. |
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T.Silver Posts: 26 |
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| Problem with the mahouka anime is that its just an advertisement of the light novel and leaves out all of the depth. If the writers and directors aimed for the anime to be a standalone, then I feel the anime would have been a lot better. | |||
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Cam0 Posts: 1211 |
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Big problem for me was magic. Magic in Mahouka is more interesting and in depth than in most other shows where magic is just throwing fireballs and shooting lighting bolts though I do think that the magic is more complicated than it needs to be. Problem was I couldn't ever really get a full grasp of how magic works in Mahouka. Maybe it was explained in depth at the beginning however I often found the exposition dialogue kind of hard to follow. It tends to get very technical and sometimes includes in-universe terminology. I want to enjoy a show and not feel like I'm listening to a lecture.
Usually I'd just shrug stuff like that off. Like hey it's magic, no need to explain it any further. But with Mahouka I felt like the in depth stuff was part of the appeal of the show and I felt like I was missing out a lot by not fully understanding all of it. |
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Vaisaga Posts: 8357 Location: Windsor Ontario |
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| Well, that's what this is for. | |||
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zztop Posts: 102 |
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The source novels could get very technical, with extremely detailed discussions of how the magitech worked. Commenters say the novel was like "reading a school textbook" at times. The anime was trying to be as faithful to the books as possible by adapting the magitech explanations, but had to shorten it for time constraints. |
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Spotlesseden Posts: 3328 Location: earth |
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Sounds like magicians and magic are just hackers. |
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Vaisaga Posts: 8357 Location: Windsor Ontario |
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| Not too far off. They basically hack into reality and alter it to suit their needs. | |||
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Cam0 Posts: 1211 |
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Yeah at the time I didn't know those existed. They weren't on Crunchyroll so how could I have known? |
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leatherhead333 Posts: 1085 Location: Kansas |
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Honestly I felt like those didn't help at all. Especially later on in the series. They needed to make them longer and tell much more of the techno babble. That way the anime didn't have to come to a halt every time someone did something in order for the audience to get a long winded explanation afterwards. Stuff like that just ruins pacing. This is probably the least interesting school competition I've ever seen. Tatsuya's school was shown basically wrecking everyone. Very rarely were they shown losing. And the only interesting event was of course the last one against Tatsuya and mister red head. Of course there is never ANY tension when Tatsuya is around but at least it was it was fun to watch. Everything else? Pretty boring honestly. I suppose the background info on Tatsuya at least gave us a reason to sort of feel bad for him (since he might not even be human at all). But it's really hard to do that when the anime doesn't really make attempts to make him appear in need for sympathy. I mean some people were afraid of him when he freaked out but that was resolved pretty quickly. |
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