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REVIEW: The Irregular at Magic High School Movie: The Girl Who Summons the Stars

I'm surprised if the visuals are lacking. I've always felt Kana Ishida's design style just isn't suited for animation. But the fact feels like it says something, considering how they switched studios.

So in short, there's been some progress, but even now the production staff still hasn't figured out the best way to animate Mahouka? Man, script writing is hard.

The TV series was never very strong visually

Thanks for the comment. I don't think Kana Ishida's designs are to blame for any poor animation. She herself is an animator and has had prior experience adapting character designs for anime (for example, she adapted Oreimo's character designs). I also don't think that the switch to another studio was necessarily the reason, as the production retained many of its core staff. Also, please remember that this is my subjective impression of the animation. I'm harder on it because it's a film and I expect films to look better than TV shows, but replicating the look and feel of the TV series may have been the intention of the staff.