Warau Arsnotoria Sun!

Sniff, sniff. What's that I smell? Mediocrity? Boringness? From a mobage adaptation that only exists to sell its IP in Japan and not the West? Hmm, smells about right of a rotten egg.

The motive of mobage adaptations is to sell its narrative to fans, but this poses a big problem. 99% of the time, the mobages are region-locked so people elsewhere will not get to enjoy what it has to offer, but often at times this is counter-intuitive that the adverse effect is stronger than all the marketing effort has to offer. And in this season, the only mobage adaptation this season that's in the ... form of Nitroplus and Good Smile Company's Warau Arsnotoria is at best, a sleeper-fest.

Right from the get-go, only one thing will strike similar to just about any anime fan, and you need not look far than the characters themselves, designed by the one and only Shinichiro Ootsuka, the original character designer and illustrator of one of the most celebrated source materials of all time: Re:Zero. The closest to this will be in the form of 1 of the main 5 girls, which are called Pentagrams in the Little Witch Academia-like premise in the magical academic city of Ashram, with Mell being pretty much a carbon copy of Petra, even down to the plus-shaped eye corneas.

In the interest of time, this is just your standard stereotypical CGDCT, Slice-of-Life fare about girls living out their school lives imbued in magic and fun, one that shows a lot of the light-hearted side of the mobage and shows only a sliver of the dark segments. However, this is exactly the modus operandi of how mobage adaptations work, and honestly, I'm glad that we aren't seeing much "The Animation" shows due to the fact that it isn't worth marketing to the rest of the world which will indefinitely not make any profit for the original creators at all. It just isn't a viable work from a business standpoint, and this is the reality pertaining to the miniscule popularity of the established IP that must be greenlit to think of more avenues to draw in audience which would bring about sales. Sorry, ain't gonna happen with this one.

I really wanted to love the Pentagram group of girls with the sniffing Arsnotoria "Tori" having the signature cowlick, the playful "Little Al"-berta, "Pica"trix and Mell, along with the mature feeling "Abra"melin. But the antics, as well as the plot dragging towards the final stretch is the straw that broke the camel's back for me, though you may feel the same or otherwise. The only thing that's worth that love is the very happy-go-lucky sounding OP (which involves the 5 girls), which is a pleasant surprise and a really good one at that. The same unfortunately isn't true for the ED, which is actually BAND-MAID's guitarist/vocalist Miku Kobato and her Cluppo solo project providing very rich sounding vocals, that try as it might to please it only serves as like fluttering feathers in the sky.

At the end of the day, it is what it is: a mobage adaptation, and it's an instant turn-off unless you're just barely acquainted with the source game to know what to expect. Just pass it up, this show ain't worth your time, only when it deserves your nap time to sleep in absolute comfort.

It should be illegal for a crappy game adaptation to have such good animation and visuals.

I guess I don't have anything else to say. This show is boring. Outside of the beautiful visuals, backgrounds, scenery, and fluid movement is basically nothing. It's generic CGDCT stuff with some small edgy stuff that doesn't seem to really impact the actual storyline. What a waste of production.

I wish I could say more, but what can I say about four generic girls in a generic magic academy doing generic girl stuff? I guess if I really had to give an impression on the characters, Little Alberta reminds ... me of Rikka from Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! if she actually had powers, and then there's like, the generic energetic girl that acts on her desires and is probably the closest thing towards being a boke and creating any semblance of anything interesting happening. Finally, we have the aristocratic blond girl archetype that obviously ends everything with -wa (わ), but apparently isn't that stuck-up or high and mighty, so she barely has a personality. Then we have the star student that might as well not exist, along with the sniff girl.

There's some sort of magic stuff happening, but it might as well not exist for the lack of detail that the show provides. As expected of a game adaptation, there's little to no engagement or attempt at creating a good story or characters.

Here is my review of this anime in 2022!

Story (4)
The story is about a girl who is in the academy that has magical power. They have to fight insects that sometimes can enter the academy. On the other hand, there is another story that fills the world with war. I don't really understand the story but maybe you can understand it. So watch it and tell me what's going on :)


Art (6)
The art for this anime is quite good and not bad. But I prefer a lot of animation rather than just a static image with no movement. If only they have a lot of ... animation, It will make the score more bigger than this...

Sound (7)
All the sounds that they used are suitable and adjusted to the animation.

Character (6)
The main and supporter character is quite memorable. But they need to focus on the main story rather than making 2 stories that confuse the watcher since there are a lot of names...

Enjoyment (4)
It's quite not enjoyable to watch this movie in 2022.

Overall (5)
I don't recommend it but some of slice of life fan may love it.

*It's been a long time that I didn't review a bad anime. This one is quite bad in my opinion...

This show is terrible. The plot moves at a snail's pace, the animation is cute in the beginning but over time you'll notice it is quite stiff, and there is not script, only cute girls eating scones. It was fun for the first episode, got dull by the second, and the following 10 were a hell of waiting for things to improve.
Interleaved are random action scenes by an inquisition that do not pay off at all. I am not sure there is going to be a sequel but I am not watching it.
Don't waste your time with this, go watch Lucky star instead.
Also I ... loved Puri:Kone and thought this was gonna be the same vibes, but it wasn't.

to those who think that the Sun shines out of this Notorius Arse... (sorry lol)
good for you.

quite astonishingly and not-all-too surprising; it is Boring.
and that could just be fine, really. but this anime does not manage to do more than that.

plot and sub-plot (or whatever that was) are at complete disconnect with each other.
It makes no sense whatsoever, does not manage to create suspense, isn't properly resolved.

I wouldn't care to know that there even was a game to begin with when I'm just watching,
but that seems to be required for inferring the meaning of the sub-plot, or could it ... possibly be bad writing? hmm.


Animation and voicing/singing are all good.

Sound/music shows are okay. Opening theme starts off fine and is sensibly upbeat, which is nice.
Subjectively, I did not find this op theme in particular appealing, almost too hectic, not pleasant. oh well.
Ending theme is good.

Obviously, this anime is borrowing stuff as might be expected. It scarcely adds something new to it that actually makes sense.
cannot recommend for that reason, but if you just want to mindlessly watch a (slice of life) teatime simulation that is not all too magical and where you can easily forget about all the earlier episodes (IMO), with just some wonky 'adventure' per episode, it could be passable. Still something like little witch academia is much much better.


--I guess this is my first anime review on this site:)

Those who are expecting some cool magic animations and fight scenes are not allowed in this anime please go back to your shows do not come here it because i am fully dissappointed of this anime after watching a long waiting to till the end but find nothing here ,

it is smell really boring, it breaks of our curiosity, all expectations were burst in this anime ,this story didn't have an ending and not even have a explainable version please don't expect anything from this anime ,it just anime adaptation that's all i not even sense a story of that smiling in all episodes that ... girl is simply smell the snacks and tea in all episodes ,even the pentagrams classes didn't show to our eyes but this anime is come under action genre anyone give me explanation please?

my overall rating : 6

dont anger at me it because my ranking system is complicated ,whether i am tell it is an boring anime i am not even ready to give 6 star but i am appreciate the company who has already know that the fan although hate it to see they still telecasting to the end.thats all