Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil

So, first impressions says its Pheonix Wright crossed with Final Fantasy and CSI, and I love it.

I thought it was a magical Ace Attorney. Also, it would've been so cool if it had an opening narration like Law and Order. Also this.

edited 13th Jan '14 12:21:11 AM by Diamite

For some reason I'm imagining Saul Goodman in a Wizard's hat.

I thought it was a magical Ace Attorney. Also, it would've been so cool if it had an opening narration like Law and Order. Also this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-8lDYrvTILc

In the criminal justice system magical based offensives are consider especially heinous.

And it seems like that redheaded lady cops is our resident would be magekiller;hope she gets her's soon.

I loved the setting and the animation, and I already want the OST. Thankfully, this time around we don't have to wait for Christmas for everything to come out.

I have mixed feelings about this show. The premise has lots of potential, and the animation is nice, but the character designs are atrocious, and the first episode was all over the place in terms of pacing and narrative focus.

It could go both ways depending on what's happens next.

Norio Wakamoto is a frog.

This show's a keeper.

Episode 2.

I have a hard time actually pointing out what I don't like about this show, but I don't like it much. I like the art-style and intro, but there just seems to be nothing backing it up.

This feels like a "good idea", "bad execution" type thing. The sad part is. It's not even bad enough to be entertaining. The sorta half law-drama/half mecha-summoning action thing doesn't work unfortunately. They go through all this book-law stuff in the court scenes and then....just ignore all that for the action scenes where they are pretty clearly breaking/ignoring all the laws they were dealing with before. It basically gives you a world that doesn't make any sense and doesn't work.

Anyway, that is my best attempt to explain why this doesn't work.

edited 19th Jan '14 7:46:55 PM by kiukiuclk

I just don't like any of the characters

Hmm... The pacing should slow down a bit, I think. But Norio Wakamoto is in this show! Everything's gonna work out, right?

...

...No?

Same. Their designs don't help much at all.

Yeah I'm probably gonna drop the show too. It just seems rather half-baked.

I'll stick around and see where this goes. I liked Umetsu's Kite Liberator, so I wanna see how the prejudice against people with magic would work out.

And I'll admit that the No Face gang looked awesome.

Episode 2: The case was stupid in the first place so I didn't really expect it to be better than the first episode. And it wasn't! Another cool premise lost to messy execution.

The thing is, it's not really bad per se. The show simply doesn't have narrative focus. It fails to develop any of its elements, so what you get is a boring magic action show and shallow law procedural clumsily nailed together.

That pretty much sums up the show,except i must disagree on the boring part.

This show is going to be decent perhaps even truly good...but it will be held back it's thematic inconsistency. The show can't decide whether it wants to be cutesy-utesy girly/teenyboper fun times or dark occult law/police procedural with an over tone of racial tension. That said I still think that the show is enjoyable.

My wild mass guesses!

1. We will see an outright Mage/Wud rebellion against the Mudane Authorities or the beginnings of one;And The butterfly law firm will be caught in the middle.

2. Quinn Erari will find out that she or a relative/close-friend/Love-Interest is a Mage, and have to rethink her Mage Killer attitude.

edited 20th Jan '14 7:39:55 AM by Fomar

I'm still watching but I think the problem with the show iss it doesn't know what it wants to focus on.

Is it a lawyer type show or is it a mecha action show.

edited 20th Jan '14 8:28:35 AM by Thorn14

Its not just that, its that it's dull at both of them.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/WizardBarristers

I did a character page. I'll work on it tomorrow since I was able to confirm the seiyus of a few more characters in the first two episodes.

This show is probably the biggest disappointment of the season. Not the worst show mind you, but the one that felt short of it's potential the most.

Too indecisive.

Given that only two episodes have screened so far and it was essentially a two parter, I'm going to give it a chance. Intros tend to try and squeeze everything in so I'm willing to give it a few more episodes and see how it rolls when things settle down.

So I'm the only one who likes the mix between mecha and phoenix wright so far?

I'm watching it 'cause of the discrimination on wizards by the public, especially to Cecil, reminds me of some RL stuff that I'm aware of in Japan.

I like the concept, but it's nowhere close to Phoenix Wright quality and the mecha battles are merely serviceable.