KIKANSHA NO MAHOU WA TOKUBETSU DESU

DESCRIPTION

CAST

MANGA ActionGwihwanjaui Mabeobeun Teukbyeolhaeya Hamnida
ANIME ActionKikansha no Mahou wa Tokubetsu desu 2nd Season

REVIEWS

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  oliveirafre

  55/100
  A rather disappointing 1 to 1 adaptation of the web comic...

  What a weird show.... Seriously, it refuses to adhere to things such as "logic" or "common sense", containing some baffling decisions, such as having its worse looking episode be its first and making its final episode end with a fucking slideshow. Seriously, what the hell.
  The best way I can describe this anime is "disappointing". It's not a bad story, the voice actors aren't bad, the animation (generally) isn't all that terrible, but its an extremely poor adaptation.

  Let's first talk about the art. So many aspects of it look so weird, for instance, it looks like someone poured gasoline in everyone's hair", sometimes everyone just freezes for a bit while we wait for someone to just finish talking, the 3D looks absolutely terrible, it constantly reuses stuff, it often looks jank, the colors often seem off, the lip syncing is off sometimes, etc., it's not bad looking, but it has so many small little things that constantly pick away at its overall quality that it just left me with an overall negative impression. The sound design has a similar problem with it's just generally unpolished, which left me thinking of it as amateurish. Sometimes it's perfectly fine, however, other times its bafflingly out of sync with the action on screen (there were some scene where I was seriously wondering how they let sound work this bad pass), uses sounds that just feel completely off or uses repetitive sound effects (including a few stock ones that felt really out of place). Again, same story with the voice acting, it generally isn't bad at all (actually, it's probably the most consistent part of the show), however, there are a few instances where it sounds stiff or off.
  The story ends up being a 1 to 1 recreation of A Returner's Magic Should Be Special's, so while it's not bad, it ruins its source material by making the pacing so much more terrible than the original. Everything is left in, including stuff that clearly doesn't work outside the comic format like there being a pause everything Desir uses magic analysis so we can see his eye light up and the action being cut up by dialogue (nothing is allowed to happen as long as someone is talking, this is true for basically every single scene). These issues make the show feel unbearably slow at times, with some moments feeling as if they twice as long as they really needed to be. Nothing being cut (from a story that was already somewhat slow at times to begin with) does mean the story doesn't feel rushed and characters get properly developed, yes, however, it's really not worth it when it means the end result ends up being this slow. Words cannot do justice to how mind numbing some scenes are, I couldn't believe the fact no one brought up, at any point throughout the process of making this show, how slow some of the scenes were.

  Mid 5. All things considered, it's not terrible, like the title of this review says, it's disappointing, but it's not terrible thanks to the base it uses. If you should take 1 thing away from this review it's this : don't watch this. Just read the web comic instead.

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  SyCry

  65/100
  An okay time-sink, but nothing special otherwise. IMO, a solid story is buried under quite a few poor design decisions.

  Not bad, but not a top anime either. I enjoyed the comic as it had a good amount of plot development, whereas the anime feels rushed. The presentation in this adaptation is passable, but I still question some of the director's decisions with the scene setup. Overall a decent thing to watch in the background, but if you want to pay attention, I would recommend something else.

  The story begins in media reis with a decent action scene. The animations are sufficient and it sets up the plot in the first episode in a decent way. The whole regression premise has been done a million times over, but I do like the fact that they gave the MC some human emotions with how he reacts to going back in time. Scene setup doesn't feel as empty as many other animes but you can tell where they simply use backdrops, but filled backdrops are still better than empty backdrops 100%

  I do have some scruples with the flow of the story, where I feel some inconsequential scenes are given way too much screen time and certain plot developments are skimmed over or even ignored compared to the source material. Trying not to get into spoilers, but the source material goes more in depth into the preparations for the MC's party progression into the next class, but it feels like it was left as a footnote here. One of the supporting characters qualities are emphasized in passing conversation, but whereas in the source material the MC helps them build this skill up as a keystone ability for the group, here it isn't even mentioned.

  I feel like better organization of the events would have greatly benefitted the show. The show doesn't suffer excessively from it, but what could have been a solid 8/10 becomes a 6/10 here as it feels like the adaptation just doesn't care about what's important. For example, in episode 6, it takes the MC party 3.5 minutes to go through a gate, that's about 16% of the episode to go through a door! 3 minutes that could have instead been used to emphasize a climactic action scene or further develop the cast of characters.

  Now not everything is doom and gloom. The cast of characters does feel varied and villains are given a bit of backstory to keep them from completely feeling like folding screens in the background meant to push up the MC. Additionally, the animation quality of the show is pretty decent. You can tell where they used CGI in the action scenes but it blends in pretty well creating a decently entertaining experience.

  Unfortunately, I feel like what could have been a great or even just a solid anime, simply became: meh. It's not bad, but not great. I don't feel like I wasted my time, but I don't feel like I got my time's worth either.

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