Little Witch Academia: Mahoujikake no Parade

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Synonyms: LWA 2, Little Witch Academia 2

Japanese: リトルウィッチアカデミア魔法仕掛けのパレード

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 9, 2015

Producers: Half H.P Studio, Ultra Super Pictures, TOHO animation, Good Smile Company

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Trigger

Source: Original

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Theme: School

Duration: 53 min.

Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 7.75¹ (scored by 96,518 users)

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Ranked: #1149²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1381

Members: 171,149

Favorites: 325

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You can tell witch training is not going swimmingly for the young sorceresses Akko, Lotte, and Sucy—they face expulsion for screwing up one class too many, and their only way out is if they successfully organize their academy's annual parade through a nearby town. But when they stumble upon the momentous discovery that the objective of the parade is to humiliate witches and commemorate their past subjugation, Akko decides it is time for a change: It is time to show the world how fantastic modern witches truly are! However, with the other girls struggling to keep up with Akko's grandiose ambitions, and everything from mischievous boys to slumbering giants getting in their way, maybe pulling it off will require not only all the magical prowess the pupils of Luna Nova Magical Academy can muster, but also a miracle.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kagari, Atsuko

Main

Han, Megumi
Japanese

Cavendish, Diana

Main

Hikasa, Youko
Japanese

Manbavaran, Sucy

Main

Murase, Michiyo
Japanese

Jansson, Lotte

Main

Orikasa, Fumiko
Japanese

O'Neill, Amanda

Supporting

Shida, Arisa
Japanese

Callistis, Ursula

Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko
Japanese

von Braunschbank-Albrechtsberger, Constanze Amalie

Supporting

Murakawa, Rie
Japanese

du Nord, Chariot

Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko
Japanese

Antonenko, Jasminka

Supporting

Ueda, Reina
Japanese

England, Hannah

Supporting

Nakao, Eri
Japanese

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Ootsuka, Masahiko

Producer, Script

Tsutsumi, Naoko

Producer

Usa, Yoshiki

Producer

Yoshinari, You

Director, Storyboard, Character Design, Key Animation, Animation Director, Original Creator

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"Magic Parade" by Yuiko Oohara

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Feb 29, 2024

Drakestalker

Recommended

The Enchanted Parade is a direct sequel to the original Little Witch Academia OVA. In terms of what it has to offer, it’s more of the same – just longer. The animation is still great, but other than being longer, it brings nothing new to the table. From every point of view, the previous OVA was better. The plot was tighter, the pacing was faster, and it felt like the animation was a touch more ambitious.

Unfortunately, the one thing that movie did for me that the OVA did not was absolutely kill Akko's character. Even from the OVA, Akko was portrayed as a self-centered, loud, ... annoying, pushy, insensitive, inconsiderate, incompetent brat. That said, the action was too intense and the pacing too fast in the OVA for any of those nascent traits to really leave an impression. The movie, however, lets you have all the joy of experiencing the whole 9 Circles of Dante's Inferno that is Akko's personality.

Annoying and hot-headed protagonists are nothing new in anime, especially in the shounen genre, but they always have a "But!" – "Yes, they're annoying and hot-headed, but…!" There's always a silver lining, a redeeming quality. Akko has no such thing. The show tries to make it seem like she does, but fuck no, she doesn't. She always shows great determination and what not during the climax of whatever trouble they typically find themselves in, which is all fine and dandy, but the redemptive factor is severely dampened by the fact that whatever the aforementioned trouble is, it's almost invariably her fault. As the Chinese moon base commander said in Independence Day: Resurgence, "You don't get credit for cleaning up your own mess." Except that, as opposed to Liam Hemsworth's character in the film, who was innocent, the line would be completely appropriate in Akko's case.

She didn't just annoy me. She legitimately worsened my mood. I intensely disliked her. I am pretty patient with cartoon tropes and stereotype personalities, tsundere waifus and loud shounen protagonists and what not, but Akko got to me. The animus I had against her was something I hadn't felt towards an anime protagonist in a good long while. I didn't want to see her improve. I didn't want to see her mature. I didn't want to see her succeed. I wanted her to be run over by a truck or something. I wanted to earth to split open and swallow her up. I wanted her gone from my sight. I looked at her with the disdain with which one looks at dogshit on their shoe.

Additionally, Akko has a strident anti-traditionalist streak just for the sake of being against tradition, which genuinely offended my sensibilities. As Donald Kingsbury once said, "Tradition is a set of solutions to which we have forgotten the problems." If you don't know or understand the purpose of a specific tradition, don't dismiss it out of hand. Think of it like Jenga. If you remove one thing, you don't know what else will crumble and where. No, your ancestors weren't all stupid and ignorant and you're not uniquely enlightened. Whenever she has an ideological conflict with a character who is bound by various duties and responsibilities due to their social class, Akko's solution and suggestion is to: "Just do whatever you want!" Some of them, as the descendants of prestigious noble houses or of high-ranking statesmen, tell her that they can't do whatever they want, because there are some things they have to do. Her answer to that is invariably: "But is that what you want to do?" As a girl born in a regular family with no responsibilities or expectations placed on her, she is just incapable of understanding that there are things one must do regardless of what one wants to do, even if those things interfere with what one wants to do. The concept that there are duties and responsibilities greater that one's self, than one's own desires, seems to be alien to her.

In Harry Potter, whenever Draco would mess with Harry, I would think to myself: "That bastard! I can't wait to see him get his comeuppance!" Here, whenever Cute Girl Draco would shit talk Akko, I couldn't help but think: "I mean... she's not wrong, though."

Still, in spite of all of this, The Enchanted Parade is still worth seeing, if for no other reason, then just on the merits of the animation alone.

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Oct 19, 2019

CrusaderElly

Mixed Feelings

Yay more lil' witches!

With proper movie-length, we get more time to introduce the characters, the setting, the plot, and goof around a bit, nice.

It's basically the same as before, with a few new characters, and different antics. There's a little bit of world-building and character development this time around, but nothing outstanding.

I found the main character a bit less likable this time around, but she does get better. Just like before, there's a whole bunch of nonsense that doesn't make a lot of sense, but I suppose it doesn't need to.

I found the quality on animation on this sequel a bit less good than the ...

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Mar 14, 2021

Ciaran_Zagami

Not Recommended

Good visuals, nice music and overall an improvement on the previous OVA.

But the story is derivative and predictable. I had to stop and start watching watching cause I'd seen it all before so many times and I just didn't have the stamina to get through it all in one go.

I think most of my problems trace back to Akko.
She's annoying, an id fueled creature who runs on pure impulse.
With no forethought for her actions, constantly causing problems, outright blind to her friends desires. Yet she constantly tries to guilt and manipulate them with the guile and charisma of a toddler on a sugar ...

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