Night Wizard

""For the request that I will ask you now please reply 'Okay' or 'Yes'"
---Anzelotte

In reality the only valid answer is NO!!! This was painful to watch. Do yourself a favor, RUN!! don't walk away from this anime.

I divide anime into storytelling and presentation. Presentation being the visual artwork, the music, and voice acting. The presentation for night wizard was meh at best. The art is on the crude and poorly done side. Generic character design and low detail backgrounds and literally nothing special. The music is uninteresting. The only saving grace is the voice acting which is well done, especially Renji who ... really hits the right notes.

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In the second episode the anime falls off a cliff and never picks itself back up. The characters start out bad, and by 2nd episode they are just completely awful. I don't think I have ever seen such badly done characters. I think they were going for comedy but watching this made my skin crawl.

Start with the MC Renji. Masochistic doesn't begin to describe him. He takes so much crap from the other characters in ways that just aren't funny. Angelotte his "boss ?" literally destroys his life, right to the point where she has him demoted a year in high school (aka repeating a grade he had already passed). His "Childhood Friend" (with friends like that how needs enemas). Literally forces him to live on the balcony of Elis's apartment who they are both guarding. Watching what happens to him isn't funny but painful

Kureha, oh man if you have a friend like this get a better one. Hell a bucket of icks would be better. She is constantly blackmailing Renji with a secret. All I have to say with what she pulls it must be that he's a serial child abuser or worse.

Anzelotte, just destroys the show. Every time you hear her catchphrase you just want to say no, not going to do it, you can't make me, etc etc etc. She is just plain grating, and spares no trouble making Renjii miserable

Elis is the only non detestable character, she isn't particularly sympathetic though.

The story thankfully isn't nearly as bad but it's pretty average. It's a hunt the items deal with the big boss at the end type of plot and really nothing of great interest. By the end of the first episode you have a pretty good idea of what is going to happen, and by the middle of the second episode you should be able to take the premise and do a better job of plotting it out than they did.

This show is something that can't be described in simple terms like bad, appalling, horrible, or shouldn't have been made; the word art is the only one that accurately puts night wizard into words. Between the horribly cliched plot and terribly forgettable characters and that chimney gun that's also a rocket I can only come to the conclusion that a true artist attempting to create the most terrible garbage around thought up this idea and couldn't resist in much the same way as sheryl nome said in macross frontier that singers, pilots, and actors can't help but do what they love, a cancerous artist can't ... help but make shit.

The most confounding part of this whole series which also happens to be my favorite is the LEGENDARY HAWAWA! I mean what is this why haven't I heard it before and why do I love it so much. It's kind of like the poi from kantai cole only better and more kawaii but if no one has ever come up with Hawawa before, then who but a fucking genius could have come up with something so amazing. I can't help but feel this show is a beautiful masterpiece never have I laughed so hard at something that seemingly shouldn't be comedic in any way that LEGENDARY scene the chimney gun rocket scene; where akari rides in on a chimney gun.... rocket. I died laughing, the atmosphere the music the girl nonchalantly flying in on a gun. Anyways this show is shit but its a masterpiece among shit truly something to behold or not who really cares anyways.

<3 Rara Mu true best waifu