Mahou Sensou

I suppose Mui-Bro works. He's not bad when not brainwashed. Ironically, Gekko would have been a decent character if he had had an actual change of heart.

Mui deserves better than the idiot Takesi, but what ya gonna do?

I wonder if the Mi Bs getting Futaba will mean anything other than she needs rescuing? 50/50 I say.

Should them fighting be turning everyone under the age of like 18 into mages? What is it with this show and introducing interesting stuff and never doing anything with it?

Mui-bro has a girlfriend. And really, that'd be out of the left field.

Yeah, Mui could do better... provided someone better was actually around.

The MiBs were weird. Even when Trailers attack everyone, somehow the Wizard brace manages to still be the biggest assholes around.

Yeah, that's kind of annoying. Trailers could easily achive their goals simply by turning all the children into magicians. But no, that'd actually be clever.

I thought she was his ex-girlfriend. Admittedly, they do seem to hang out all the time. And she does seem kinda cool actually.

Maybe brainwash Gekkou into his infiltrator persona? It was an improvement. Oogami had some moments of non-idiocy at least.

She's his ex? They seemed pretty close tho. And as you said they hang out like all the time.

I support brainwashing Gekkou. Give him better personality.

Preeeeeeetty sure brainwashing children is a major violation of human rights.

Not that that stops the Blizzard Erasers ^note  The name of which, evidently, is only coincidentally quasi-meaningful in English. Since a persecuted character mentioned it in a flashback taking place before English was invented. (Languages are invented, by the way. In science labs. By scientists. Look it up) Who knew?

Or that I care.

Just pointing out that the so called, "Ethical," thing to do would be to give him therapy.

Episode 10. In which time passes.

I guess some newly introduced characters can be badass. Then again, they attacked before they were introduced as powerful, which makes it sort of like an Unspoken Plan Guarantee.

So, she borrowed those clothes. And none of the other nurses have a skirt that short. And she's shorter than just about everyone else.

She really wants her to remain an ex.

They need more lava for a proper villain lair. Otherwise it's pretty good. Gots the ominous cliff right, and lots of spikes.

She seems rather cold and distance, but she's still his mother.

I think the end sequences with Mui and Takeshi felt sort of the script version of reading directly from a script. Saying more what the author wanted them to say than what was natural. While that goes for a lot of the series, the cheesy music here didn't help.

Also, those, "she deserves better," comments are basically just wanting authority over who she can date. I'd rather leave the choice to her than take it from her.

edited 14th Mar '14 8:54:28 AM by AnotherDuck

I lol'd at Mui having the only fanservice nurse outfit, especially when other nurses aren't dressed like that.

To give Takeshi some credit, he didn't immediately rush off when he found a way to save Isoshima. So props on subverting Leeroy Jenkins.

>Trailers want a world with only magicians
>It is easy to turn someone into a magician
>Trailers wage war because what.

Truly a well-thought out setting.

edited 14th Mar '14 10:04:43 PM by fillerdude

Also, the trailers just deactivated the spell that makes it ultra-easy to turn normals into mages. For no clear reason.

Episode 10:

• You sure there weren't any more nurse uniforms, Mui?
• Wonder how Ena felt when Tsuganashi was going through his ice-cold phase.
• Futaba was taken. By men in black. Wizard Brace sure have their priorities straight...
• Congrats, Trailers! Your goal for having a world of magicians got closer to becoming reality. Now they have to remove WB completely before moving on to obviously simple things.
• Reunion and training montage. And Takeshi knows not to pick fights he can't win yet.

Episode 11. In which there's a maze.

An old friend appears. For various definitions of old. Kind of nice to see, really. Good friend.

"I didn't find out." Again with that stupidity?

Okay, that headbutt was awesome.

But as usual, too much telling and not enough showing.

Episode 11:

• Oigami's such a pal. And I would like to high-five ya, Hotaru! You hate Gekkou as much as I do!
• The fights were decent. Ida's second fight with Hotaru made me chuckle. Oh, and nice Blast Gun.

The best part is that it ends next episode. Yeay!

Even other Trailers don't like Gekkou.

Goddamit Takeshi, let your mother finish the exposition!

Yeah, like he though they let him go alone.

So now Ogaimi is trying to stop them from rescuing Kurumi because...?

Oh wait, he's a bro again. That was quick.

The next episode is the last of the season. And there probably won't be second one. Kinda sad. The time constraints killed the adaptation. They should have just properly adopted the story up to until rescuing Mui-bro and left the Gekkou stuff for the second season.

Yeah, I kind of liked how the Trailers were all 'on the one hand, saving you is technically helping the enemy. On the other hand, Gekkou's a raging asshole. I guess we're helping you now.'

New Episode is out:

Nothing to add really.

Yeah that was… not conclusive in the least. And not even in a 'second seaosn plz' way; in a 'let's just cut out the entire last episode and claim the second to last is actually the finale' kind of way.

And it was also kind of terrible and confusing.

Okay, that's barely even a cliffhanger. It just ends.

Was going to snark a bit about the terrible voiceover, disappearing blood, protagonist-centred events, bandages outside clothing, but eh.

Well, at least Kurumi managed to accomplish something.

So yeah, as it's turns out that this anime had such a horrible pacing because some dumbass alloted only like half of the episodes it was originally supposed to have and they had to do last minute recuts.

You know, this is probably the worst thing about all of this: watching this I got the feeling that this could be a very good anime if given the proper treatment. Now it turns out I was right.

For anyone interested check out the manga. Only like five chapter translated so far, but man you can already see how much the anime got screwed over.

It wasn't even a cliffhanger, it just ends...

Wow. That was so bad it's not even fun to mock any more.

Yeah, nothing to say here.

Finale:

• Poor Eterna. Poor Kurumi. Poor...anyone that's within Gekkou's poisonous radius.
• Gekkou, just...die or something. Your excuses are so flat.
• Took ya long enough to realize you're in past, Takeshi. Oh hey, Mahoko poster.
• Man, they were such good companions back in the day. Sigh. You really shouldn't have been pushy, Wizard Brace...*facepalm*
• Gekkou is...!? I don't give a crap about what he is, I just want him dead or something.

So...yeah...a very confusing and bad ending.

It was supposed to have been longer? Gods, not another one...

edited 29th Mar '14 2:42:33 AM by Diamite

Episode 12: In which Gekkou happily crosses the Moral Event Horizon and graduates from whiny, angsty bully to COMPLETE MONSTER.

First appearance, he comes out of the family home, SWORD COVERED IN BLOOD, saying "don't worry, I didn't kill her" and attacks his brother then says "good news, you know that accident, you weren't responsible at all!" Has to be asked THREE TIMES what he did to their mother before admitting that HE TORTURED HER to get her to say what HE WANTED TO HEAR, that is, that she hired a hit man to kill him.

Then he reveals what he did to Twilight/Eterna, and good lord! Considering that Momo said the relationship between the magician and aspect is along the lines of parent and child, Gekkou is effectively torturing a child in front of her parent just to torment him. The look on Eterna's face when Gekkou literally yanks her chain says it all.

The topper, when Takeshi ACTUALLY FIGHTS BACK, and Gekkou realizes that Takeshi has taken several levels in badass, and is actually fighting on even terms, he decides to fake his surrender only to openly MOCK Takeshi for accepting said surrender and... STABS ISOSHIMA whom he was actively HUNTING last episode, and when he realizes Takeshi is rightfully PISSED and isn't going to take his bullshit anymore, he starts crying out the mantra "it's not my fault!" over and over again, and when he sees THAT isn't working, lunges at Takeshi yelling "It's all your fault for stealing everything from me!"

We get a hope spot in seeing Momo, ALIVE, but then what does she do? She snipes both Takeshi and Gekkou, leaving a crater where they were fighting. We then are treated to their mother saying "Gekkou, I'm sorry. I couldn't stop you from becoming Kazuma!" While the present Kazuma heals her, and then holds a crumpled picture of Isoshima talking to Violet "why do you still serve me?"

And it ends with Takeshi waking up, sword broken, IN THE PAST, and after hearing bits of conversations, he realizes Gekkou has a FULL YEAR HEADSTART ingratiating himself with the place before Gekkou sees him, walks up and says "I've been waiting for you."

Good grief. Talk about dragging out the plot, and now I hear that's the final episode?!

Talk about Darkness Induced Apathy, and executive meddling if the story about half the number of episodes alotment and hasty re-cutting is true.