Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku (TV)

Story 6/10

There's a magical school. Students have to be a club member. And students have to fight using their powers. This school has a new student. Her name is Ichinomiya Eruna. This story tells us her school adventures.

I like this anime. It's a seasonal anime and it could be called fun for the summer. It's not overly good but everyone can love that. Enjoyable, fun and adventure.

I picked up the show for the turbolesbian MC and I never regretted that for a second. If you're wondering whether you should watch it, try the first episode. If you're enjoying Eruna, watch it. Otherwise, drop it. The show was really bad in several aspects - animation, rushed storytelling, Eruna's power not being perverted in any way, pretty weak writing in several places, using the cousin to associate MC with some het vibes, no matter how weak they are - but it's still one of the shows I have enjoyed watching the most. In general, not just this season. That's why enjoyment 10/10 and ... since enjoyment is what truly matters, overall 10/10

Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku, is an anime that I wouldn't personally watch if I found it after it has already aired.
Its story(8/10) is very unique and original so you can choose to watch it if you want something new!
The Art(6/10) wasn't what the one I like in anime as it's more like Amnesia and less than SAO which I like.
The Sound(5/10) is one of the worst of the anime's features, or to state it better, it isn't very well taken care of...But the voice acting is very good!
The development of the characters(8/10) is very interesting and the are the ones who make the twists and turns ... of the anime.
Apart from the fact that is a rather slow pacing anime, with kind of boring first episodes, it is worth for someone to watch it for its last episodes which are great!

Y’know, school is fun. You have friends to talk to, activities to take part with and other stuff that seem ‘fun’ to enjoy. But having watched Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku (Mikagura School Suite), their definition of ‘fun’ has gone a lot wackier. By entering the school, you would probably go nuts with whatever activities they have. This Vocaloid project is based on a light novel.

Eruna spends her life at home playing games, and has yet to decide on which high school to attend. Her decision finally came about when her cousin Shigure gave her a pamphlet for Mikagura Academy, where she catches her attention on a ... photo of Seisa in it. When she attends to the academy, she finds out that it only has cultural clubs, and a battle system which club members with special powers fight one another as representatives.

The story pretty much goes how the characters take action, in that case it revolves around Eruna more. There is no clear goal of what she wants to do in the academy, since she is more of a character who goes with the flow. Nevertheless, the story is quite easy to follow as she gets to know more about the academy, and meet and interact with other students. Hence, there is no need to understand the story at a much deeper context, such as the battle system or the super powers. What is so great about the story is the comedy. Each episode never fail to make me giggle like an idiot at some scenes, so it did a good job of making me enjoy the anime. There is also this sub-plot about Seisa’s past which is a bit more emotional, and it tends to show more in the latter part of the anime. I do not have any problem with the sub-plot, although I wish that it can be explained better. I also hoped that there is something much more exciting than just battle on every episode, and aside from character interactions and mysterious to unfold, I still wish for more. In summary, an easy-to-follow comedic piece of work that needs a bit more surprise.

The cast has a variety of club members and each of them has a typical anime personality on their own. Having Eruna as the main focal character of this anime, it spills lots of fun to everyone, whether to the other characters or even the viewers. Do not worry, she is not 100% that way. Sometimes she shows her concern or thoughts to whoever she gives them to, and unless she is having thoughts of yuri fantasies to Seisa, or being dumb, she goes on what she wants to do with lots of determination. For the other cast, some of the characters have a backstory which appears in the anime once in a while. It depends on how it is being told or how the characters related to them is going to follow up, and neither of them is boring to hear. Especially for Seisa, her backstory forms as the context of the sub-plot I mentioned earlier. Character development is minimal, but it still works out fine for all the characters.

For me, the artworks, such as the sceneries and the character designs, are simple. I do not think the staff has ever crossed over the line which they lazily draw out the whole episode. Sometimes there are drawings of background characters that are not even coloured, but I am not annoyed by them still. However, it is cool that the palette gives off a nice bright colourful feel. In battle scenes, the animation is decent enough - not very spectacular. It is nice that there are different types of super powers these students can use them to fight off with one another, giving a variety of battle fights. I wonder if that is a budget problem, or maybe Dogakobo used more money for their other anime. Either way, it does not really matter.

This anime definitely shines bright on the opening and ending songs, which are sung by respective voice actresses. Houkago Kakumei is something I can grove for hours on loop, as its energetic pump-up music get the excitement going every time an episode airs. The individual ending songs are covered from its Vocaloid songs, and in comparison to both the anime and Vocaloid versions, I say that the quality pushed up way higher in the anime version, although the Vocaloid version is still good to hear. Overall, the three have different genres that fit the style of the characters, and they are great. My favourite is definitely Esoragoto Spiral. Finally, the main ending song is less catchy but still nice to listen to when you are feeling happy. Sadly, the soundtrack is not that memorable. If I can recall on my head, I probably think that the battle music is good and fitting. The voice acting is absolutely well-done. I give my appreciation to Eruna’s voice actress, Kimura Juri, who also voiced Miyamori Aoi from Shirobako, for giving her best efforts in voicing the wonderful Eruna-chan the viewers adore. I also appreciate the others for giving their best efforts too.

I did not really expect that a lot of people would enjoy this anime. But again, Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku is another anime which fell under the radar from other popular anime this season. I cannot blame the other audience, but I must say that they should give this anime a watch too. Personally, it is enjoyable because of the comedy and the characters that make the story good to watch. Maybe it is one of the few unique anime this year, since the story and Eruna are somewhat original to me.

The following is based on my own opinions, you are free to disagree with my review. Also this might contain spoilers, but not really.

Let’s start with the overall art in this show. The animation in Mikagura Gakuen kumikyoku wasn’t too shabby. In the first few episodes I noticed right away how there wasn’t put all that much effort into it. However nothing about that bothered me. But later on this show, when the fighting scene started to happen, I sort of started liking it. It’s obviously different animation, but it caught my eye and looked interesting to me. But the composition wasn’t so good. Same ... goes for transition and scenery. Some of the objects or people in the background were drawn badly and most of the time the characters were composed in a way that there wasn’t a lot of scenery to draw, which made the dialogues a bit boring to watch.

Another point that I liked in the art was the use of colour. Mostly bright colours where used, but it wasn’t too up in your face at all. Even in the opening and ending themes, it was completely acceptable. It gave an extra touch to the refreshing atmosphere the anime already had with the storyline. That said, it blended in well. And it was nice to see how every character matched their own colour.

As for the character design, they were all good looking, as in being attractive. First off, I would say that it’d make their designs good. But thinking twice about it, made me realise that it’s actually just an lack in originality per character. It is just the same design, with different eye colour, hair, clothes and height. Which is a totally different story is their design in the light novel.

Looking more into Eruna, she’s almost the perfect protagonist. As in she gets along with everyone easily and helps them grow in the story. And it’s nice to see how she resembles the main hero in a tv show in their world, which every character used to watch. Because Eruna IS a super hero, in the way she acts. She energetic and true to herself. She’s not quick to give up on anything, and most of all she’s the source of the comedy in this show. At the same time Eruna is also the only character that you could actually call good in this anime.

There are some annoyances around the fact that there are a lot of characters in this show. But that didn’t bother me at all. Firstly, because it fits Eruna’s character all too well. She’s the type to befriend half of the school. Secondly, every character got there good share of screening time. Despite the enormous amount of then, none of them were too left out of the show. But as I said before Eruna is the only character you could actually call good. While watching the anime, you can see how there’s put some thought into character development, since they’re really trying to give some characters a good background story and motives of what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. But the backgrounds didn’t get to me. And some of the motives where just too unclear. The urge to develop a character well was so big, that their development was too rushed. The change in nature was so out of the blue that it felt incredibly forced.

But as for the relations between characters, I am always a big fan of nice friendships. They all became good friends really fast and maybe a bit rushed. But in this aspect too, it is only natural for a character like Eruna to befriend others so easily.

The storyline is a bit more complicated than usual. This is not the first time or last time you’ll see a magical high school, with the protagonist being new to the magic. Here too, there is put some thought into it how to make it into a good story. But the thing that bothers me the most is how this could’ve been a nice story if they put some more effort into it and left out a bit comedy. Not to say that the comedy is the source of this anime’s success. But what I’m trying to say is that the comedy and serious storyline weren’t getting along too well. I would’ve liked to either see this story grow, or focus solely on comedy. And I would mostly root for the comedy. But right now every time the serious storyline got somewhat progress, it was forcefully broken down or put aside to make way for focusing on comedy.

The overall sound was pretty average too. But what stood out the most was probably the voice acting. Not only did the voices match, but they did a great job in fight scenes or other situations. However the soundtrack wasn’t all that good, since it didn’t stood out at all or did it give an extra sensation to the happenings. And the OP and ED theme weren’t that fantastic either. Though the beginning of the opening was a bit catchy and is the only thing I can remember of it. But the themes stood out more in composition than in music itself.

Now despite all the negative things I just said, I still had a really fun time while watching this anime. Even though they had a golden opportunity, they wasted it a bit with throwing too much comedy at us. But we recovered quickly and made the comedy our favourite aspect of this anime.

More anime ending with the season winding down i have another review here of mikagura gakuen kumikyouku (mikagura school suite) this review will be my overall thoughts and what i expected and what i got but in short i liked the series alot.

Story- The synopsis is exists but a freshman girl who dreams of a great school life of cute things enters a private boarding school within the school there are clubs which students represent the higher tier the club the better things you receive along with club battles each student within any club has a unique power the story basically is how will the ... main character get into a club that suits her personlity and also who will she recruit if she gets is able to find or create a club.

Art- I was kind of on the edge about the art in this particular anime although it is really colorful and had some good animations for particular club fights the art wasnt as slick or pretty as i wanted it to be but the main problem is during some fight scenes it looks like the art style of those certain scenes lack when comparing it to the other scenes that dont involve fighting but because it was colorful and had the main characters and club members look really unique compared to the other students in the school who were just plain i give it props it was decent.

Sound- The music throughout the show never really stuck out to me but the opening was really catchy and i thought the ending was pretty decent as well but overall the ost in the show did not stick out but the characters voices suited each character and the noises and sounds during the fight scenes or just dramatic scenes fit great so overall sound as a whole isnt bad.

Character- Really funny- funny - shy - scarred. I love the character roster throughtout the show the mc Eruna is absolutely cheerful adorable and funny the rest of the characters also are pretty funny throughout the show when they are featured. You get a really shy split personality character who you might not like at first but she grows after showing her true personality which is cute and shy overall likeable and a shy/scarred girl whos past makes her a person who doesnt want to start new friendships with others and overall her character is super distant but by the end of the anime you will enjoy her although she honestly is not a major role even though she is an important part of the story.

Enjoyment- Easilly an 8/10 for me just because of the wacky somewhat unpredicatble and funny moments and scenes throughout the anime and that awesome fight scene during the last episode just awesome short but awesome. I was not expecting anything when watching this because i wasnt planning to watch it but i went ahead and did and i really enjoyed what it had to offer.

Overall - 8/10

Yet again another series with an interesting plot!

The story follows Ichinomiya Eruna; a normal girl who has an abnormal love for beautiful girls; normal right?
Well her life changes as she enrolls into Mikagura Gakuen to meet Mikagura Seisa; the grand daughter of the principal
The school has a very unique system in which the club that wins battles against other clubs will obtain points and popularity; more points means a greater school life.

The plot simply follows Eruna and her friends
Although it follows Eruna's main goal which is to be together with Seisa, it still explains the backstories of the characters around Eruna.

As you can see just ... by seeing what the main character is like you can tell this anime is a straight-up comedy series; I mean come on, she is obsessed with beautiful girls and the main reason for her enrollment to Mikagura Gakuen was to meet Seisa...see?

But as you can see from the plot you can somewhat tell what kind of storyline the series is going for; the typical main character enrolls into a school, starts at the bottom and slowly reaches the top because of her unique talent.
Pretty simple right?
Yet these kind of simple plot lines are always captivating, is it not?

Anyway going back to the series; "It is interesting" would not be enough to show how great this series is. There are just no words to explain how great it is.
Although I wished the series was longer cause it ended very quickly...
Some may disagree because I mean people all have different taste in things.
But none the less I enjoyed watching this series and I hope whoever is reading this review will also enjoy the series if they watch it.

Yuri and comedy go hand in hand like ice cream and chocolate. And given the lack of these types of anime, Mikagura is a breath of welcome fresh air upon a familiar genre, that is the school-for-kids-with-magic-powers-that-fight-each-other setting.

The best thing about this anime is the comedy which is absolutely hilarious and bonkers so if you watch a few episodes and aren't feeling the humour, then you should probably sit this one out (and not leave a negative review as comedy is subjective and different for everyone).

One thing I will add is that this anime is probably written by someone with ADHD (which is perfect because ... I have ADHD too). As such, the anime tends to move quite fast, contains a lot of random funny dialogue (as we tend to have short attention span), and a mostly chaotic storyline. This is especially evident in Eruna's (the MC) personality with her having an extremely short attention span, getting lost in her delusions/video games often, impulsiveness, and her penchant to do/say the most outrageous things (especially in the middle of someone yapping on about something/giving an explanation e.g., whenever the mascot talks). For non-ADHD people, this will most likely rub off wrong which is probably a reason why this anime has such negative reviews, but for us ADHD folks, this anime is superb.

This anime, surprisingly, looked boring when I first read its description on the anime site that I frequent, but I decided to give it a chance. I'm glad that I did, cause this anime was...well, a funny anime that is guarenteed to make you smile.
Story: 7
The story is probably one of the lower part the anime, as the story itself isn't really anything new. The protaganist goes to a school where people have superpowers, you seen at least a few of these kind of animes already. What makes it stand out though is the comedy behind the story, which stems from our heroine herself.

Art: 7
The ... art is basic, to put it bluntly. The creators didn't waste any effort in drawing what they were supposed to, but they cut corners where the could, like the background characters, whom they only drew in white. Budget saving at its finest.

Sound: 8
The sound was average, like the art, however there were nice opening and closing songs, also as well as a few different ending animations, that had different songs, so at least the budget cuts were used for something else.

Character: 9
The characters were one of the better parts of the anime, and I say that fully knowing the fact that there are a few cliches in there, however, there a majority of other characters who were fun to watch, like the protaganist, the art club, and the quiet maid who would always rekt the protaganist. The protaganist herself, is a yuri pervy girl, which leads to awkward, yet funny situations that will have you laughing.

Enjoyment: 10
I personally enjoyed this anime a whole lot, due to the comedy it brings along with it to lighten the mood, not that it gets to dark anyway. While the cliche plot is tiring, the energetic vibe that the protaganist brings along with it is uplifting.

well the girl who out of the blew finds herself at a magic school, looking for food and board by challenging a magic showdown.

this is a somewhat excellent show with odds and ends of fantastic style of magic and graphics of excellency, the main actress has a cute thoughts toward girls may have drop the show a bit, but overall it gives you a sensation you want more to watch..hope a second season happens, well good for creators for a show of magical whimsiness

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~Alright so Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku, a series based off the ever popular NND song series is your basic average magical school plot where cultural clubs fight against one other to get benefits such as a better clubroom and etc.
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I know some people find this anime mediocre but i honestly didn't find any part of it that mediocre. In fact, i enjoyed the characters and personally i feel if the story was executed in a different way than a usual magical school plot, then this anime may come out differently and appeal to ... others

~At the end of the day i loved the different characters in the anime. From the reckless Eruna to the
scary-faced yet kind Kyouma, they all made the anime as enjoyable as it could
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this is what i feel about the anime of course people have different thoughts on it <3

This anime would've been amazing if they executed it properly. But if sort of felt like they were trying to deal with two many things at once.

First off, in the difference in strength in the heroine (Eruna) between the first episode and the last episodes was just impossible. The timeframe given for her to evolve her power beyond absurd is just impossible. From what I can tell, she transferred into the school and this was episode one. And then she becomes this strong in episode twelve when it was just the midterms? But there were no Christmas breaks or summer breaks so it must mean ... the first midterms she has come across. And she asked s certain person what was coming up since everyone else seemed to know. This would mean that she has no idea of what she is about to have to do. And yet she still somehow found the time to become this powerful? Powerful enough to battle on par with the top dog of the school? That's just insane.

Second, I gave the character score a seven. But it could've been ten. They completely rushed the character development of Eruna and Seisa and Akama. To this day, I still have no idea whether Akama got over his past or not and is he still acting or not. And also, there were also plenty of great characters like Otone and "Enoyan" and Minatogawa. But they got very little screen time overall. The only reason they would appear was to drive the plot forward. We did not see them develop as a person at all. I would've given the anime a character score of 10 if they did not squish the series into 12 episodes and instead extended it into 24 episodes and actually added the finishing touches. But instead, they decided to rush the anime and leave everything half-done. Very disappointing. And Otone's character was introduced late even though she was kind of important to the anime. And her development came when everything else was being revealed.


I wouldn't recommend this anime but I would have to say that it was enjoyable. It was executed way too poorly to be called a good anime.

There are only two things wrong with this show: The first is it either has too much yuri in the beginning or not enough yuri in the end, depending on your tastes. The other things is that it only has 12 episodes.

The story and the art styles are definitely the best thing about this series. Every scene has a purpose in the greater plot, and the fight scenes especially are stunningly beautiful, if not highly detailed. That being said, the sounds of the show and the music in general are somewhat forgettable, though there are certain moments that the music makes.

The characters in the show ... have clear progression, and all of them have their part. Even when certain characters have predictable arcs, they are executed perfectly. The only thing keeping the characters to a 9 instead of a 10 is that the ending, and the character arcs that go with it, seemed a bit rushed and would have benefited from a 13th episode in the season.

Overall, I came into this anime with it being listed in the genre "Cute Girls Do Each Other" and expected it to be soft core porn with a plot. I was absolutely wrong, but in the best way.

Overview: Think of a battle royale in a school full of really cute magical kids, and you have the big points of this Anime. The art/animation is really great for the genre it's pure eyecandy. The music is enjoyable and well matched to the material. The stories leading to the individual battles are all pretty good, even if they require giant amounts of suspension of disbelief. The same goes for the schools setup and function.


I give points to the anime for having a proper ending for the season, that doesn't leave you feeling cheated. I also give it points for not endlessly using cheap tricks ... to delay plot points. The story it does have is well paced and unfolds in an enjoyable fashion.

In shot it is what it is, which is light fun that will likely leave you smiling.

I'm going to be honest up-front. If I'm looking at this critically, "Mikagura School Suite" is, with all affection, a total mess. It's tone fluctuates wildly, even within scenes sometimes, the pacing is everywhere, especially in the last few episodes, and the plot is somehow at once very simplistic and a little bit convoluted. It's probably half the length it needed to be, because it races through its story so fast that a lot of the many genuinely interesting concepts and thematic ideas within it just don't get the time to breath.

And yet, I find myself unable to give it any lower than I have, ... even if it partially deserves it. This show, looking from a perspective somewhere approaching objective, doesn't deserve a 7/10. But I have to anyway, because despite all of the messiness, I had such an incredibly fun time watching this show. Genuinely, I can think of maybe one show in the last year that has given me the same feeling of pure 'this is so much fun' excitement (the fantastic "Sk8 the Infinity", which is admittedly better).

The characters are big and over the top, especially the protagonist, Eruna, a massive ball of hyperactive energy, and I loved all of them; they're often not complicated, even if there are potentially some hidden depths to them that we can see, but everyone has to much personality that I just loved seeing them interact. The relationships between the characters are often simple, in this really fun way where, for the most part, everyone just kinda gets on really well (specific shout out to the show's Drama Club, who I would genuinely watch a whole show of). It's not complicated, there are maybe three character dynamics that have real depth to them, but it's so much fun.

And the battles that the show often revolves around make this even clearer. It's clear where the budget has gone, because the fights are big, and over the top, and very much the best animated part of the show, often devolving into slightly rougher animation that reminds me of the fun style you get from studios like TRIGGER. And all of these fights (as well as the aforementioned rushed, wild story) culminate in a climactic showdown that is probably the most ridiculous, explosive, over the top, 'none of this makes sense and I Do Not Care' climactic fight to a show that I've seen since I saw "Gurren Lagaan", and that is very much a compliment.

If you're looking for a tight story, with complex, well-planned out emotions, look elsewhere. This show, for all of the fun ideas that could be really interesting to explore in isolation, is not going to give you that. But if you're looking for a fun time, and don't mind switching off your brain for a bit? Honestly, I really, genuinely, would recommend giving this show a try. It's so, so much fun.