Blue Reflection Ray

Individual pieces of human emotion usually take form as flowers known as "Fragments." The select few who possess strong enough Fragments can become "Reflectors," beings who equip specialized rings that allow them to connect their thoughts, memories, and emotions to those whose feelings waver. There are two types of Reflectors—those who wear blue rings to protect those falling into depravity by preserving their Fragments, and those who wear red rings to prevent negative emotions by stealing the Fragments of those who begin to develop severe woe.

Despite wanting to socialize with people around her, transfer student Ruka Hanari's shy and introverted personality always gets in her way. In a chance encounter, however, she bumps into a woman who happens to drop a blue ring as she hurries away. Unable to return it, Ruka brings it back with her to her dorm. There, she meets the outgoing Hiori Hirahara, who also has a blue ring. They find themselves in several conflicts against red Reflectors, slowly realizing the true power of the rings that they hold.

Now striving to become Reflectors themselves, Ruka and Hiori must learn to work together and become stronger so that they can save not only the people around them, but also themselves from the emotions that hold them back.

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Hanari, Ruka Main

Chisuga, Haruka Japanese

Hirahara, Hiori Main

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Hirahara, Mio Main

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Komagawa, Uta Supporting

Tanabe, Rui Japanese

Yamada, Nina Supporting

Tamaki, Nina Japanese

Tanabe, Momo Supporting

Takakura, Yuka Japanese

Shirakaba, Miyako Supporting

Oowada, Hitomi Japanese

Mizusaki, Shino Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Saiki, Yuri Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Tachibana, Ryoka Supporting

Hirayama, Yurika Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Okada, Kouji Producer

Takashino, Shuuichi Producer

Yoshida, Risako Director

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Sep 29, 2024

GabisDB

Recommended

"Another Good Unknown Anime"

Blue Reflection Ray is your tipic underrated anime that no one gives nothing and ends up being the best thing you've ever watched, although it takes a while to have that perception; It is divided in two halfs, two arcs and two different qualities.


The first half is what shows the most problems. The beginning is not one of those exciting ones, the characters are undistinguible by generic design without carisma like their personalites, a standard storytelling in the "Magic Girls" genre with all the "friendship power", "teamwork" and the old "Good and Evil" chiches being far of interesting, well, except for the ... drama. The drama is the first good reason to stay, it's intriguing, even with all the unnecessary parts to fill the episode, specially the girls interactions, when the antagonists show up, things take a good turn. Shino, this misterious character and her antagonistic team is by fact a important part of giving a little impression on the essence of the series conflicts. Conflits, that term is the biggiest problem on the start, the fights and the action scenes are a immeasurable atrocity, there are no consequences and no difference in which side wins or loses, and the dialogues, my god, how bad are the dialogues that could make you want to bury you head on the ground by how cringe it is, and it stays like that for a good period, if it wasn't for the "villains", nothing else would made you keeping watching for what comes beyond

The second half is the first half with all the problems fixed and given meaning. The anime accomplished the achievement of doing something half of all animes out there couldn't do, give every feeling deepness and authenticity. The proportion and weight in every emotion, every line of dialogue, every interaction, elevate the complexity and the inifinity of what a feeling could be, everything and everyone's respected and not changed for the sake of the plot, it breaks the fine line between that "Good and Evil" thing, protagonism and antagonism distances themselfs of what's right and wrong, transform every individual, their motives, ways of dealing and how they interpret their own lifes in something unique, reflected in a grand and deserved finale. Congratulations to the creators for the good work and efficiency in taking the flaws and giving it meaning and deepness even to the most generic thing there.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Dec 28, 2022

Shadoxas

Mixed Feelings

To the review above, Ik how u feel but ngl I actually kinda enjoyed watching it. I think it was a fine show, sure I understand the mc may be bland and that she’s a walking plot device but who cares. There are people who still care about things even if to others they do not like. I liked the story, the characters, and the plot. It was interesting and tbh I liked it way more then anything madoka magika has to offer. Madoka magika compared to assault Lily or Blue reflection ray is not that great, tbh I think madoka magika is prob one ... of the worst kind to have been made and Ik that’s something many and you may not like hearing, but to each their own opinion. Either way I’m going to stand by and say I liked this anime adaptation of the game. You can hate or dislike me all you want, but again that ain’t gonna stop me from liking this or any other shows. We can agree to disagree.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 24, 2021

AprilDruid

Not Recommended

This has to be one of the worst series I've watched in a good while. I'd have dropped it, but I thought "It'll improve!", in fact the first handful of episodes were pretty good, visually it stood out from other magical girl shows and it seemed like this would be a hit. It just falls into mediocrity however, leaving you to not care about the plot or characters ultimately.


I'll give them credit where it's clearly due. They try to present an emotionally mature story, but they fail to that, rather this "emotionally mature story" is just boring. Evil Magical Girls is a trope ... not done very often and I had so hoped this would have been interesting, but instead it just leads me to wonder how anyone thought this series needed to happen.


Animation wise it looks like they cheaped out after the first handful of episodes. What started as an interesting look at the genre I enjoy so much, has ended becoming one of the worst looking shows of the season I feel. Maybe I need to have played the games to know what's going on, maybe I just need to pay more attention, but one thing is certain, this is just boring.


If you're wondering "Is this worth my time?" it's not, it's incredibly skippable and you would be better off doing such. Go watch Precure or something, if you want magical girl, or the new season of Magia Record, at least you won't wind up disappointed by what you watched.


Upon viewing the finale, I've asked myself "Why did I watch this awful series?" And I don't know. The animation didn't hold up, it looked sloppy at many points. The characters themselves had no real motivations, they were just there to have depressing things happen. There's no payoff, there's no villain, it's just all sadness. Maybe the game is better, but I don't even know if this has anything to do with the game. It ultimately doesn't matter, as if this is what's meant to represent the game, I'll avoid it at all costs.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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