Little Witch Academia (TV)

"A believing heart is your magic!"—these were the words that Atsuko "Akko" Kagari's idol, the renowned witch Shiny Chariot, said to her during a magic performance years ago. Since then, Akko has lived by these words and aspired to be a witch just like Shiny Chariot, one that can make people smile. Hence, even her non-magical background does not stop her from enrolling in Luna Nova Magical Academy.

However, when an excited Akko finally sets off to her new school, the trip there is anything but smooth. After her perilous journey, she befriends the shy Lotte Yansson and the sarcastic Sucy Manbavaran. To her utmost delight, she also discovers Chariot's wand, the Shiny Rod, which she takes as her own. Unfortunately, her time at Luna Nova will prove to be more challenging than Akko could ever believe. She absolutely refuses to stay inferior to the rest of her peers, especially to her self-proclaimed rival, the beautiful and gifted Diana Cavendish, so she relies on her determination to compensate for her reckless behavior and ineptitude in magic.

In a time when wizardry is on the decline, Little Witch Academia follows the magical escapades of Akko and her friends as they learn the true meaning of being a witch.

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Kagari, Atsuko Main

Han, Megumi Japanese

Manbavaran, Sucy Main

Murase, Michiyo Japanese

Cavendish, Diana Main

Hikasa, Youko 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

Hanbridge, Andrew Supporting

Kanemoto, Ryousuke Japanese

Meridies, Croix Supporting

Takeuchi, Junko Japanese

Takei, Katsuhiro Producer

Tsutsumi, Naoko Producer

Usa, Yoshiki Producer

Suzuki, Kimitaka Producer

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Jan 20, 2025

butchlink42

Recommended

cannot understand how some people still say the OVAs were better in story and this is coming from someone who was there watching the OVAs from the very beginning. maybe i'm just incredibly biased though because chariot/croix changed my life at 14...

myanimelist is forcing me to write more so this can be published even though i positively suck at writing out thoughts in specific guidelines so if you were a fan of a Certain Wizard Franchise made by a transphobic racist hack as a child that was let down later in life as the realities of said franchise and the views of its author grew ... clearer in view over time, you should watch this. it's in no way perfect but the joy and whimsy felt while watching is truly unmatched still.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 18, 2024

Synesthrosia

Mixed Feelings

Cheesy, wholesome, and generally enjoyable. There are some weak points such as a large amount of plot progression revolving around Akko making new short-sighted and poorly thought out decisions very frequently, and a couple jokes not really landing or relying on secondhand embarrassment, but if you make the choice to buy in to the premise and the characters, this series will definitely give you some emotions. The climactic moments and new achievements don't always feel thoroughly earned by Akko, but at the end of the day it's still aimed at kids and still has some very strong scenes of you don't mind feeling a little ... silly for enjoying it. The animation in these moments is stellar, and they really went all out on making the magic feel, well, magical. These moments are what keep you invested in Akko's character and fill you with the astonishment and passion that define her. This may be a difficult watch if you have a strong cringe response, but if you get invested then it's a better show than you'd expect.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 16, 2025

Markyc_Drak

Not Recommended

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Disclaimer: The following review/analysis is geared towards those who have finished watching the anime and OVA (short film), and therefore will contain spoilers.

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This anime and setting is absolutely horrible and immoral. I'll say it again, the "little witch academia" anime is the worst anime in the history of mankind. I thought the worst anime in the world was "guyver". But it turns out, there's a person who made an anime that's much more bad and immoral than "guyver" - the author of the OVA and the "little witch academia" anime.

I don't even know where to begin. I don't know what the author of the "little ... witch academia" setting worked on for three years, after releasing the disgusting OVA (the first anime movie) based on the "little witch academia" setting - no "error work" was done. But, in the "little witch academia" anime, compared to the first "academia" OVA, there are more angles from below Akko, with Akko's short miniskirt and Akko's crotch between her legs, which is thankfully in shadow. It feels like it took at least 1\3 of the anime budget to draw out Akko's miniskirt and her space below. And by the way, Akko is the only witch apprentice who wears a very short miniskirt. The author of "academia", instead of coming up with a good and interesting main character, is brazenly speculating on aggressive fanservice. It's repulsive and dishonest.

How did the "academia" setting even get a "G", "+0", "child, family" age rating if Akko looks like a girl of easy virtue and acts like a complete hypocrite, psychopath, and sadist! The "academia" setting should be given an age rating of +16 for at least all parts of the "little witch academia" setting - the anime, the manga, the ranobe and all the OVAs! That would be fair at the very least!

The entire first season of "little witch academia" - which is basically the same first OVA where Akko brutally kills the Ancient Dragon (Magic-Eating Dragon), only this OVA is stretched out over 25 episodes - the finale of the "academia" anime is the same as the OVA where a super-dragon dies, with two super-dragons - one in 24 episodes and then another in episode 25. And both of these monsters die as brutally as the Ancient Dragon in the OVA "academia" finale - the monsters essentially swallow Akko's super-arrow, which burns the monsters from the inside out, causing the nearly invincible dragons to inflate into huge balloons and burst, dying in horrible agony... It's very brutal.

Moreover, some of the angles and mini-episodes, in the final "fight" against the Dragon-Rocket, from episode 25, are literally taken from the final "fight", and in fact, the brutal killing of a completely helpless and not scary Ancient Dragon from the OVA. About the disgusting drawing in 24-25 series of the anime "academia" and do not want to talk - Dragon-Rocket from 25 series and rod super-dragon Croix from 24 series, are drawn in the same way as the Ancient Dragon from the OVA - shoddily, crookedly, with a clear violation of anatomy and breaking the limbs of the unfortunate monsters - the author of the setting brazenly speculates on the emotions of the viewer and does everything possible so that the viewer was not sorry for the monsters-opponents of Akko.

The anime "little witch academia" (Just like the first OVA) begins with a "very funny" scene - killing an innocent monster. On the orders of the witch Shiny Chariot, a giant black and red monster appeared at the finale of Shiny's magic show. On Shiny's orders, the monster "ate" the illusions of the white butterflies. The monster didn't even attack Shiny or threaten anyone! But Shiny shot the innocent monster with a magic arrow, which the monster swallowed. Shiny's super arrow burned the monster from the inside out, causing the monster to inflate into a huge ball and burst, dying in horrifying agony. White illusion butterflies flew out of the monster's bursting belly. Is this how sadistic Shiny and the witches of the witch academy show their goodness to everyone?! Torturing innocent monsters to death?!

Everything about this setting is bad. The main character of the "academia", Akko is the most hypocritical, cruel, and amoral version of "Harry Potter" in the world. There is absolutely nothing good about the "little witch academia" setting and the relevant evidence appears already in the first episode of this anime.

In the first episode of the anime "little witch academia", a witch apprentice, a human named "Susie" tries to kill Akko. A little later, Susie tries to kill Akko and Lotta, another witch apprentice. But Akko still tries to befriend Susie, who, before that, tried to kill Akko twice! And Akko befriends Susie! So there's a "power of friendship" in the "witch academia" setting?

Why doesn't Akko's "power of friendship" work on opposing monsters? Because they're monsters? But that's extremely cruel and hypocritical. Why doesn't Akko try to befriend the monsters that oppose Akko? And Akko's opposing monsters often don't even try to hurt Akko. On the contrary, it is Akko who tortures to death, in fact, innocent monsters-opponents!

Why is Akko a sadist, a maniac, and a hypocrite? Why does Akko want to be friends with people who are openly trying to kill Akko (Example: Susie), but Akko never even tries to be friends with, or at least PREVENT these poor, innocent monsters?! (Because the author of "witch academia" is an untalented and immoral director) Examples: the Ancient Magic Eating Dragon from the first OVA (first anime movie) of "academia" or the dragon Croix from the 24th episode of the "academia" anime - both of these monsters are tortured to death by Akko. Although there was no danger from these two monsters to Akko!

Already from the first series of the anime "little witch academia" stinks disgusting hypocrisy, bloodthirstiness and cruelty: "little witch academia", already in the first series tries to destroy logic, common sense and humanism. Is this the good that the anime industry teaches the viewer? It's not good, it's evil.

And of course, I'll be sure to point out the fact that the "little witch academia", is a bad version of the "Harry Potter" setting. All the ideas of the original, "Harry Potter," are twisted, killed and burned alive in the "little witch academia". Moreover, already in the first episode of the academia there is a Mandrake tree and a Basilisk monster, which Akko doesn't kill only thanks to a miracle (Probably, the budget of the first episode wasn't enough to show how Akko kills these creatures) - Mandrake and Basilisk, in the first episode of "academia", look like a brazen, cruel mockery of "Harry Potter" setting - as if "little witch academia" is trying to convince the viewer that "little witch academia" setting is better than "Harry Potter" setting. But it isn't. There is absolutely nothing good in the "little witch academia" setting, and the witch-apprentices of the academia, including Akko, are absolute hypocrites, scum and sadists, if you think about their actions, and defeat the aggressive fanservice, with the help of which the author of "little witch academia" brazenly and unscrupulously tries to make the viewer undeservedly sympathize with Akko and other witch-apprentices, because Akko has the shortest miniskirt among the witch-apprentices and the "camera" often shows the space between Akko's legs, which, fortunately, is in the shadows - the author of the setting does everything to make the viewer, through manipulation of his lower instincts, undeservedly sympathize with Akko, because Akko has nothing else - neither kindness nor compassion - only hypocrisy, imitation of kindness, meanness, ruthlessness and cruelty.

The supposed threat of "destroying the world" supposedly threatened by the witch Croix is a trivial deception in the story, because her entire "threat", Croix's rod super-dragon was easily destroyed by Akko's single super-arrow. It's just a shame to boast of Akko's invincibility, which is never challenged in any way. Akko is the worst role model ever.

Unlike Croix, all the other witches from the "little witch academia" are extremely dangerous, hundreds of times more dangerous than any monster of the setting. If only because the witches from the academia can, like the evil telepath Yuri from the game "Red Alert 2", change the minds of all the people of the planet - in the last 25th episode of the anime "little witch academia" Akko and the witches of the academia used a spell that supposedly "made all people happy" - in fact, Akko and the witches of the academia's spell destroyed the free will of the entire population of planet Earth, making people all over the world undeservedly fan of the witches from the Little witch academia!

Evil telepath Yuri from "Red Alert 2" gives the witches of the academia a standing ovation - Akko and the witches of the academia are the worthy heirs to the evil telepath Yuri, who sought to seize control of the minds of the people of the world. And in the first season finale of the "academia" anime, the academia witches essentially did what Yuri himself wanted to do in "Red Alert 2" - deprive the people of the entire world of free will and reason...

Is this the good that the anime industry teaches?! Well no, the world doesn't need cruel, amoral and bloodthirsty witch characters and the equally cruel, amoral and bloodthirsty Akko from little witch academia!

And that was the prologue of the review. Now I'll get to the specific points of criticism.

1. The blatant Immorality of the main character Akko (Atsuko).

Akko is an extremely immoral character if you think about what she does. Akko is a sadistic, maniacal, psychotic woman who tortures opposing monsters to death (Example - Ancient Dragon from the OVA) and never spares them. Akko is a talentless, envious, hypocritical, selfish and hyperactive inadequate fool who goes over people's heads and monsters corpses to her selfish dream of becoming the greatest witch in the world, while destroying the fates of hundreds of monsters (who are no threat to her) and dozens of people whose character the author literally breaks over his knee so that these people-characters suddenly, completely unmotivated, become Akko's fans (Example - Diana).

That said, Croix, the "villain" of the first season, also has the same dream as the akko - to become the greatest witch in the world. But for some reason, Croix's dream is passed off as evil by the setting's author, and the same dream of Akko is passed off as good. It's a horrifying hypocrisy.

Croix, unlike akko, didn't even kill the monsters as far as I remember. Even her rod super-dragon that attacked Croix at the end of episode 24, Croix didn't kill it, even though she could have built a bomb into the rod super-dragon's belly beforehand so that the rod super-dragon would burst when it "became uncontrollable". Like those monster-opponents of the akko that the akko kills with the cruelest "inflate and burst monster" fetish, forcing those poor monster-opponents to swallow the akko's super-arrow, which slowly explodes in their belly or other body part and slowly inflates and burns the monster-opponent from the inside out, inflicting unimaginable torment on it. The unfortunate monster then bursts, dying in even more horrific agony. Is this how the aftor of the setting "academia of little witches", shows us the kindness of akko? Even the guyver sho, from the "guyver" setting, did not torture monster opponents HATEFULLY cruel.

2. Totally formulaic, hypocritical and amoral witch characters.

Basically, all the witches of the academia (Except Croix), are evil, cruel, hypocritical sadists who enjoy torturing monsters to death. The witches are constantly lying to each other, cheating, hypocritical, framing, even betraying. Witches are constantly lying to each other, cheating, hypocritical, setting each other up, even betraying each other. Witch students literally kill each other in classes at the witch academia. And the teachers absolutely don't care.

If you think about what the witch-characters from the academia are doing and set aside the intentionally disgustingly sweet attractive appearance of the local witches and witch students (And also aggressive fanservice on the part of the "academia" author to cloud the viewers' minds and make the viewer sympathize only with the witch-characters, except for Croix), it turns out that the witch academia is a breeding ground for psychopathic maniacs, lunatics and sadists. It's the Academia of Evil. Croix is the only adequate witch here, who at the very least hasn't gotten dirty in torturing opposing monsters to death. At least, I don't remember that happening, on her part.

Diana, who could have become, together with Lotte, the voice of reason, time after time stopping Akko, at least from deliberately cruel and unjustified killing of monsters, simply destroyed by the author literally at once and turned into empty, eternal sycophants Akko, who can only admire her disgusting "feats". Akko is more of a super-villain.

The hypocrisy of the "little witch academy" witches is a whole other topic of conversation. to talk about. First of all, it's worth mentioning the fact that the witches at the academy know the language of animals and even dragons, but for some reason, in the OVA, the witches never tried to negotiate with the Ancient Magic Eating Dragon and resolve their conflict with him peacefully.

In the anime plot and the "academy" setting, just like in the OVA, there's still a dungeon with monsters under the Luna Nova Tower. Why why would the supposedly good witches need a monster dungeon? It's a dungeon where the witches at the academy to teach treasure-hunting classes and torture to death the innocent the dungeon's monsters, who are essentially the witches slaves.

In the anime "little witch academia", as well as the OVA, features a magic show by the witch Shiny Chariot. The sadistic Shiny, in the finale of her magic show, MUST brutally kill a monster, who doesn't attack Shiny, but Shiny kills the monster anyway - Shiny shoots it at the slave monster with a magical super-arrow - the monster swallows the super-arrow, the super-arrow burns the monster from the inside out, causing the unfortunate monster to inflate into an into a giant balloon and bursts, dying in horrible agony. That's how the witches at the "little witch academia" show their kindness, even in the final magic show, by torturing the monster to death?! The witches of the the "little witch academia", including Shiny, are vile, ruthless, sadistic hypocrites.

And of course, I am obliged to point out the very obvious hypocrisy of the witches, which has to do with the white dragon Fafnir, from the fifth episode of the "academia" anime. A similar episode with Fafnir was also in the "academia" manga. Fafnir literally ruins, with his appearance, all the fake goodness of the witches of "academia of little witches", which the author of the "academia of witches" setting tries his best to shove down the viewer's throat in order to make the viewer undeservedly fan the witches of the academia.

The "little witch academia" setting is a degraded version of the "Harry Potter" setting, but also a copy of the D&D setting (In the D&D setting - ALL red dragons are always evil "because evil" and white dragons are always good "because good."), only with sadistic witches from the "witches academia".

This is why the white dragon Fafnir, who is essentially the super-villain of the "witch academia" setting, the author of the "witch academia" setting tries to justify it in every way possible. Maybe the white dragon Fafnir is the "academia" author's cameo? Is that why the author passes off the evil white dragon Fafnir as a good character?

Let me remind you, the witches of the academia killed and tortured to death a Red Ancient Dragon-magic eater in the "little witch academia" OVA only because the Dragon wanted to steal and eat a witch stone from the "luna nova" tower. The Ancient Dragon himself did not kill anyone! Ancient Dragon was a prisoner of the witches of the academia, the witches of the academia imprisoned Ancient Dragon when Ancient Dragon was still a baby dragon, just because Ancient Dragon can absorb magic, the witches of the academia only want to absorb magic themselves, and "the rest of us are forbidden" - that's basically what the witches of the academia think. And when the Dragon was able to break out of his imprisonment, the Ancient Dragon only defended himself against the witches, who always attacked the dragon first! The Ancient Dragon didn't deserve to die!

Although the white dragon Fafnir is WAY more dangerous than the Ancient Dragon from the OVA: the dragon Fafnir is an evil, cruel, mean hypocritical dragon who outright threatened to eat the students of the witches academia. Fafnir possesses an army of robots that the witch academia can destroy. Fafnir blackmailed the "little witch academia" with a large sum of money - mythical interest on a contract between the witches academia and Fafnir, which was not in the terms of the contract! Even the LORE of the "academia" setting explicitly states that "According to the legends, Fafnir is known as one of the fiercest dragons." That is, the witches of the witch academia are directly cooperating with the evil white dragon Fafnir, the ultimate evil! And they're taking loans from the evil dragon! And for some reason the witches don't kill the evil dragon Fafnir - even though he is Absolute Evil! There is nothing good in the witches of the academia! Only evil, cruelty, hypocrisy and genocide of innocent monsters.

Another hypocrisy of the witches from the witches academia is shown very clearly in the same fifth episode of the anime "little witch academia", where the white dragon Fafnir appeared - without the witch stone in the tower "luna nova" witches can live and sorcery, although in the LORE of the witches academia is written just the opposite. Somehow, outside of the witches' academia, the witches apprentice witches magic works - it was through magic that the apprentice witches attacked Fafnir's dragon lair, burned alive all the dragons guarding Fafnir's lair, infiltrated Fafnir's lair, and tried to kill Fafnir himself. Too bad the dragon Fafnir, the only one of the dragons of the "little witch academia" setting who deserved to die, was saved from death by the academia's witch directress. The real ending of this fifth episode of the "little witch academia" anime should have been very different - the white dragon Fafnir should have swallowed the Akko super-arrow, inflated into a huge bubble and burst, exploded, burned to death and died in horrific agony - that is, the white dragon Fafnir should have died in the same way that the essentially innocent Ancient Magic Eating Dragon of died in the final OVA of "little witch academia".

All monster opponents of the academia witches, except for the white dragon Fafnir (Because Fafnir is essentially Absolute Evil, with whom the academia witches cooperate), die deliberately brutal deaths and no one mercy them - for the witches of the "academia", almost shouting at every corner that they, witches, humanists and supporters of balance, such ruthlessness is blatant sadism and hypocrisy. Moreover, all of these local witches are deliberately, to the point of disgust, slavishly drawn, which only adds to their hypocrisy and cruelty even more disgusting. And the local witch students literally kill each other in class. Is this the good that the anime industry teaches? Well no, the world doesn't need such evil witch characters that the author of the "academia" setting passes off as good characters. Although these witches are not, in fact, good. My idol is the Ancient Magic Eating Dragon from the "little witch academia" OVA. At least Ancient Dragon honest and humane. And, unlike the witches of the "academia", the Ancient Dragon didn't kill anyone.

3. Amoral central idea of the "little witch academia" setting.

"Believe in magic (superpower) and you'll have it" is an extremely Immoral, cruel and disgusting "idea" that destroys the entire "setting" of the academia. Akko's immense willpower is an extremely repulsive plot construct, precisely because this "willpower" literally allows Akko to get anything he wants just by wishing for it. Akko herself doesn't put any effort into achieving her goal - wished for the most valuable prize in the dungeon lesson from the OVA - and there she is, immediately finding the most powerful magical rod. Dana herself bows at the feet of Akko and "asks her to shipp". Akko wished to kill the invincible Ancient Dragon that consumes magic, who has not even killed anyone and does not deserve to die - and Akko killed him, torturing to death an innocent Ancient monster, creating "by force of will" the most powerful magical super-arrow, from which the Innocent Dragon-eater of magic, having swallowed it, inflated and burst like a balloon! And the Innocent Ancient Dragon died in Horrible agony! Why?! And the akko, along with the author and the other witches, laughed at the Innocent Dragon's horrible death... And so it is with almost all of the monsters that oppose the akko. Except for the hideous white dragon Fafnir, because he's an actual super-villain!

It's just Loathsome, Disgusting, Humiliating, and Immoral - all of akko's problems are solved either by brutal, sadistic killing of poor and often innocent monsters (Like the Ancient Dragon from the OVA) or by physical and psychological abuse of humans (Because akko has super-powers and they don't).

Akko is the worst character in human history. And her place is at the bottom of history and at the top of super villains.

What Akko's character teaches is to solve all your problems by killing (And deliberately sadistic and cruel) and to want a completely undeserved super-power, "Because you are chosen (By whom?)"

Given the amoral qualities of the akko, she was clearly chosen by the entire foursome of evil Chaos gods from "Warhammer 40000". Too bad the author of "academia" didn't think of this plot twist - it would have explained a lot.

4. "Humor" in "little witch academia".

The humor in "little witch academia" is disgusting. It can't even be called humor. How can you even call it humor... But let me get to the point.

The main theme of "humor" in the setting in "little witch academia" is the cruel, sadistic and bloodthirsty deaths of enemy monsters. The witch characters sometimes laugh at the deaths of these monsters, and the director of the setting tries to make the horribly violent deaths of the monsters of the "academia" look like a funny joke, especially the deaths of those monsters that Akko kills. Recall that Akko shoots enemy monsters with a super-arrow that, when it hits any part of the monster's body, burns the enemy monster from the inside out, causing the unfortunate monster to inflate and burst, dying in horrific, unimaginable agony. That's not goodness! This is sadism!

The vast majority of the monsters in the setting that confront Akko don't deserve to die, if only because they're not good enough to be killed. The vast majority of the monsters of the setting that oppose Akko don't deserve to die - if only because those monsters don't even attack Akko, they just stand there and stare at her. Like the same Croix rod super-dragon from episode 24. But Akko kills them anyway, torturing the opposing monsters to death. Who don't stand a chance of surviving Akko's attack.

Another theme of "humor" in "Academia of Little Witches" is the theme of drug addiction - for example, the witch Susie, a psychotic maniac best friend of Akko, essentially cooks up drugs that she herself uses. And apparently Susie gives it to the other student witches to try... That's why they're violent. Moreover, in one of the episodes of the first season, Susie got so high on her drugs that Susie started hallucinating - Susie imagined herself as "Alice in Wonderland". Drug addict Susie and her hallucinations - is that supposed to be funny? As the "plot" of the anime progresses, Susie doesn't try to reform - Susie remains a drug addict and a sadist. That said, Susie is best friends with Akko, the main character of the "academia". Since Akko's best friend is the maniacal drug addict-psychopath Susie, Akko herself is just as amoral, obviously.

The next theme of "humor" in "little witch academia" is that many of the witches in the witch academia, including the teachers, literally humiliate themselves in front of Akko, constantly Akko is forgiven for all of Akko's misdeeds, cheating, and misconduct. Even if Akko is framing other students and violating direct orders from the teachers to stay out of the danger room - Akko will still break all orders because she wants even more superpowers and wants to become the greatest witch in the world. Akko's absolute selfishness and the local witches' attempts to placate Akko in every way possible by reinforcing her selfishness is just disgusting. Akko essentially never gets punished for her actions. No matter what Akko does - the witches at the academia, overwhelmingly, will always be enamored with Akko's actions. It's repulsive, disgusting, and unfair. If the witch academia were a normal school, Akko would be kicked out of it after the third rule violation. But, the setting of "little witch academia" is not about fairness, so the witch-teachers and even the students forgive Akko for all her, in essence, evil deeds - cheating, framing, cheating, breaking the rules, breaking the rules of spellcasting, disobeying the teachers.

A special theme of "humor" in "little witch academia" is Diana's inadequate friendly and then not-so-friendly love for Akko, and completely undeserved. Even Shiny, who was trying to be adequate, is essentially trying to confess her love to Akko. Is that supposed to be funny?! It's just disgusting. The problem isn't just the hints of Shiny and Diana's "shipp" relationship with Akko - the problem is that Akko doesn't deserve this maximum level of bigotry from Diana and Shiny! But when you consider that Akko is the "Chosen One" with the shining rod, well... The situation doesn't get any more appropriate than that.

5. Akko is the "Chosen One".

The plot twist where the main character is the "Chosen One" of a "higher power" is a pretty common trope. But in "little witch academia" this stamp is taken to its maximum absurdity, and it's absolutely not funny! After all, Akko did absolutely nothing to be chosen as the bearer of the most powerful magical and apparently the only reasonable rod in the world of the "academia" - the "shining rod". But, given Akko's low moral character, I doubt that - the "shining rod" is reasonable. After all, in essence, Akko only got the shining rod for wanting to be the strongest witch in the world, in the first series. Why is Akko so lucky?! Don't the other apprentice witches want to become the strongest witches in the world?! What's so idiotic about Akko being "chosen"?

And how does Akko harness the power of the super rod? Torturing monsters to death, cheating on classes and exams, using rod magic to cheat and frame other witch students, disobeying teachers orders with rod magic, and doing whatever she, Akko, wants. And the other witches start to become increasingly undeservedly fanatical about Akko - she's the "chosen one"!

When did the status of "chosen" become the main character's right to do whatever she wants? I will remind that the same Neo from the movie "The Matrix" proved his status of the chosen one for the whole movie. And Akko got her "chosen" status without doing anything to get her "chosen" status! It's Immoral and disgusting - when a main character gets a superpower completely undeserved - because Akko doesn't have even the smallest justification for the fact why she is worthy of the superpower rod. And Akko is not worthy of the superpower.

6. Graphics and editing.

Deliberately garish and overly bright graphics in the moments with witches and deliberately crookedly drawn monster-opponents of witches so that the audience wouldn't feel sorry for them - that's how terrible the graphics in this anime are. It's painful to look at the disgustingly sweetly drawn witches - their perpetual rotten smiles when necessary and not necessary - make you want to turn off the anime. But it's even more painful to look at the opposing monsters in "little witch academia" - the anime, as well as the OVAs and manga, features broken anatomy of the opposing monsters so that the audience, I repeat, does not feel sorry for the monsters. It's hypocritical and cruel, especially because the enemy monsters are often NO threat to the witches (e.g. the black monster in the finale of the Shiny Chariot magic show in the first episode of the anime) and are essentially victims of the witches.

And the jagged editing of the anime episodes only makes the graphics in the anime worse - the editing in some places is so inept that it's unclear what's going on in the episode at all.

Bottom line:

The entire "plot" of the OVA, anime, manga, and ranobe "little witch academia" is a set of primitive stamps, sadism and hypocrisy of the main character Akko, aggressive fanservice, and, of course, giant plot holes the size of a galaxy.

The setting of "little witch academia" is an absolutely AMORAL fanservice thrash that should be ridiculed, cruelly spoofed, humiliated, trampled on, and forgotten like a terrible dream.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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Winter 2017 Simulcast List [Update 1/13]

In this thread, you'll find a comprehensive list of anime acquired for simulcast release during the Winter 2017 season. Anime series licensed for home video rel...read more

Dec 29, 2016 11:23 AM by Snow | Discuss (39 comments)

Winter 2017 Preview

In this thread, you'll find a comprehensive list of Winter 2017 titles with an accompanying promotional video (PV), TV ad (CM), or trailer. This post will be up...read more

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	Poll: Little Witch Academia (TV) Episode 25 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page ) Stark700 - Jun 25, 2017	315 replies	by Spyral_Grayson »» May 8, 5:11 AM
	Poll: Little Witch Academia (TV) Episode 14 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 ) Stark700 - Apr 9, 2017	155 replies	by Kristiwazhere »» Apr 29, 11:59 AM
	Poll: Little Witch Academia (TV) Episode 8 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 ) Stark700 - Feb 26, 2017	163 replies	by Kristiwazhere »» Apr 27, 10:03 AM
	Am i the only one that want a new season? kevin_satron - Jan 22, 2024	35 replies	by botaz »» Apr 24, 1:43 PM
	Poll: Little Witch Academia (TV) Episode 6 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 ) Stark700 - Feb 12, 2017	159 replies	by Loli_Appreciator »» Apr 23, 11:38 AM

In Numbers: The Best Anime of the Decade

What's the #1 anime of the 2010s? Which year was the best? What studio had the most hits? We have the answers to all these questions and more!

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Localization Station: Little Witch Academia

Whether you watch only dubbed, subbed or somewhere in-between, localizing an anime for Western audiences is a fascinating and complicated process. Here's how it was done for Little Witch Academia.

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