Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei

Princess Anisphia "Anis" Wynn Palletia has always dreamed of flying through the sky, even though the people of her kingdom consider it a silly ambition. Also at odds with her goal is the fact that Anis is incapable of using magic despite her noble status. Refusing to give up so easily, she renounces her right to the throne, and focuses on developing "magicology" by combining various resources with knowledge from her previous life on Earth.

Due to Anis' nature, responsibility for the kingdom's future is passed onto her younger brother, Algard. Pushed into a political marriage with Euphyllia Magenta, a girl he hardly knows, Algard rebels by spending more time with a commoner girl than his fiancée. After Euphyllia tries to intervene, Algard publicly calls off their marriage and denounces his ex-fiancée as a bully.

After crashing into the banquet where Algard makes the announcement, Anis rescues Euphyllia on the flying broom she is testing. She decides to make Euphyllia her assistant, which the other girl reluctantly agrees to. Although their partnership appears random at first, Anis has an ulterior motive for wanting Euphyllia's company.

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Wynn Palletia, Anisphia Main

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Magenta, Euphyllia Main

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Claret, Tilty Supporting

Sasahara, Yuu Japanese

Coral, Ilia Supporting

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Cyan, Lainie Supporting

Youmiya, Hina Japanese

von Palletia, Algard Supporting

Sakata, Shougo Japanese

Rene Palletia, Lumielle Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Palletia, Orphans II Supporting

Hamada, Kenji Japanese

Maise Palletia, Sylphine Supporting

Kojima, Sachiko Japanese

Magenta, Grantz Supporting

Tsuboi, Tomohiro Japanese

Kawamoto, Sachi Producer

Nishimae, Shuka Producer

Itou, Shinobu Producer

Iwata, Souichirou Producer

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Mar 22, 2023

Mcsuper

Recommended

In an era riddled with isekai with boring power fantasies, overpowered characters, and poor production, this anime was a gem of its genre, although this show is more disconnected from the isekai aspect, and more on the fantasy aspect. I will admit, when I saw this show announced, I thought it would be yet another generic isekai, but just with yuri. Seeing that Studio Diomedéa at the helm, and with their recent anime such as Futsal Boys, and Domestic Girlfriend, I wrote this one off entirely. I eventually did try it out, and following a premiere that stumbled out of the gates, it improved into ... something quite special, with impressive animation, characters, and thought-provoking themes.

Stories surrounding royalty always fall into the age old trope of in-fighting inside the palace, and a thirst for the throne and power. Instead, our main protagonist, Anisphia “Anis” Wynn Palletia, is one that seemingly does not care for ascending to the throne, despite being in the royal bloodline. One reason why that might be the case is that in a world filled with magic users, at least among royalty, she is incapable of using magic. Instead, she engages in research called “magicology”, using the world’s resources and her knowledge from her previous life. As she seemingly neglects her place in the royal scheme of things, she is seen as a heretic, and therefore, her brother, Algard, assumes the duties of royalty. At the outset, Algard is in a forced political marriage with Euphyllia Magenta, whom he barely knows.

With that, the theme of rebellion is presented for the first time in the show, as Algard spends time with another girl rather than his fiancée, and eventually denounces her in front of a huge crowd, calling off their marriage. This all happens in the first episode, and I’m sure that if you haven’t watched this show yet, you’re thinking to yourself how this is even good. It all seems like contrived drama, doesn’t it?

But then, Anisphia comes in, all carefree, to sweep Euphyllia off her feet, in more ways than one, as she flies away from the terrible scene with her on a broom, and gives her the role of being Anisphia’s assistant, which she agrees to.

Anisphia and Euphyllia have personalities that can be seen as polar opposites. Anisphia is a very happy go lucky girl who has excellent ideals around magic, whereas Euphyllia is struggling to fit into this casual atmosphere where no one is forced to be polite and ladylike, and can just have fun. In a way, the theme of rebellion shows itself yet again, as Euphyllia is rebelling against the very nature of her world, to change herself into finding her own purpose, to do the things that she wants, just like Anisphia. There’s a parallel to another anime, Lycoris Recoil, that I can sort of see here, with Anisphia resembling Chisato and Euphyllia resembling Takina, as the former breaks the latter out of her shell to push her to act and do things that she wants to do, not just following orders, like she’s done her whole life. Their dynamic was wonderful to see throughout the anime, as they go through the toughest of battles and emotions together.

To continue the discussion on rebellion, Algard, as polarizing and divisive as he was, ended up being quite a good character, and a villain who had some depth, and someone who allowed us to sympathize with. The world and its politics aren’t great. Its systems of prioritizing magic for the nobility is corrupt and was fully deserving to be broken down. Algard’s actions during this anime make him look like the villain, but he believed he was doing what needed to be done, which was overthrow the power dynamic in this world. He attempts to use his strength rather than change the policies slowly, and he’ll stop at nothing to achieve this goal. The ends justify the means for him, even if that means people need to be sacrificed to do so. Isekai series struggle with villain writing all the time, and while Algard, as decent of a character he was, he wasn’t exceptionally written in my opinion, but it’s most definitely a step in the right direction.

The side cast also added a lot to the cast as well. Tilty and Ilia were amazing characters who kept the main duo true to themselves, and pushed them towards a better relationship with each other.

Now, to the production side of things, the animation was generally very well done, with the fight scenes being exemplary, and the cinematography being amazing even outside of the fight choreography. The soundtrack was also very overlooked, and complimented the emotional and epic scenes very well. Studio Diomedéa was really punching above their weight here, and I never expected this studio to pull off something quite like this.

The main issue I did see with this show was the pacing, but it’s nothing too egregious, as the story was still generally quite decent overall. It felt a little fast at times, as it doesn’t feel like the world was really fleshed out to its fullest. While there was some world building aspects, it didn’t feel as intriguing as it could have been, in its political world building, or the monarchy in general. That said, the adaptation did what it had to, and I wasn’t disappointed at all.

Overall, this show has been quite a joy to watch, with its exemplary cast, solid animation, soundtrack, and themes. It’s a show I never expected to enjoy this much, and while there were some shortcomings, it was a great experience to watch and a great show to discuss about. The second half was quite polarizing among the anime community, but I came out with quite a positive view of it. I assure you, it’s more than just a plain old yuri anime, there was a lot of heart put into this adaptation, so if there’s anything to take away from this anime season, this would be a good choice to watch. I implore you, do give it a fair chance.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 22, 2023

ZeroMajor12

Mixed Feelings

To summarise how Tenten Kakumei was, it's how the anime managed to subvert my expectations towards its cast of characters and seems to have effort being put into them. It was a pleasant surprise to watch with my original expectations going negative with both of the themes stating 'Isekai' and 'Reincarnation', although such a thing doesn't seem to arise throughout the whole show (it just seems to be there with no apparent reason). There are some minor spoilers, though I put them out of context.

First Pro: There is effort given into writing these characters.
- It doesn't quite reach the top-tier level of characters we so ... adore, but their motives, characteristics, and actions align well with each other that makes you want to root for them, although I barely felt any affection towards any of the cast except the side characters, which led me to feel pleased knowing they actually play a role into the story without being minor or forgotten after being mentioned a few times. Particularly, it was the father of Anisphia and Lainie, who I initially thought were supposed to be two-faced scumbags just so happens to be great people in the end. Trust me, I thought Lainie was going to be a girl that would stab the main heroines in the back who masked herself as a misunderstood commoner-made-noble, but it seems that it never went on that route and I appreciate them for that. Anisphia, the main heroine is trying a bit too hard to be the rash yet charming character we're all supposed to love, but I can't help but feel indifferent about her. She has a strong and clear motivation to try and replicate magic from artificial objects rather than humans with innate power. That's one. Two is her sense of nobility and heroism to others. Three is being sympathetic to Euphillia, who got rejected out of nowhere by the main antagonist, Algard (who got me shaking my head when I heard about his main motives). So why do I not feel anything about Anis, despite these things that should prove to give anyone a liking to her? This goes to show my first issue with the show stems from:

First Con: There is a lack of focus and polish in the plot.
- Here, we have a section on politics and tradition that contradicts the research on Anisphia's doings. What's that? Anisphia is risking her life to fight dragons and mythological beings? What did you say? Now we're at girls' love? It never ends, the anime attempts to be the jack of all trades but never excels at any of them due to the lack of focus put into these segments. When it tried its hand on politics, which is supposed to be one of the main parts of the story, I was shaking my head, it does nothing to indulge in other than what Anis's doing is bad, and what 'the nobles' believe is good. They don't seem to provide solid facts to back up their points and all that's left is hollow, meaningless, and annoying squabbling that offers nothing to the plot. The nobles don't mean anything and were brought up last minute when it realises it's about a princess living in a monarchy.

Second Pro: Production value is great just as expected.
- Diomedea recently has been consistently producing good-looking anime with great character design and background art, it's safe to say that Diomedea didn't miss this one. I don't have much to say other than that it looks gorgeous and polished. At least you don't have to worry about any disappointing visuals that might make you burst into laughter.

Second Con: The way characters talk feels forced and contrived.
- They talk like the other person is unable to comprehend what the other is saying without any emotional subtext. It makes me hard to believe someone is like how the other person describes them when they say it without shame. Even during the emotional moments, I was rolling my eyes away when they, ready to duke it out, decides to talk about how great they are or their original motives right in front of their faces. It's like disrespecting your audience's privilege to think about what is going on and having to explain the joke as it's going on. It was just a minor issue in the 1st half, but as it went on, it started to stick out like a sore thumb, waning my enthusiasm to watch.

Third Pro: The voice acting is top-notch.
- The amount of soul and emotion these voice actresses brought to the characters they play is remarkable. There was not a moment where I was thinking of the actresses and not the characters.

Third Con: It doesn't feel like a fantasy.
- Ok, it just mentions dragons and fairies for a few episodes, and then what? There's barely any major development in other aspects other than monarchies, nobles, and castles. Commoners don't mean anything in this one. Rival kingdoms? Nope, girls fighting over the throne, now that's a good idea. Not meeting with kings or queens of neighbouring kingdoms? Sorry, we need to have the princess meet her friends that support her ideas. For a fantasy story, this barely passes or works as entry-level writing. It's just a story about a princess living happily in her castle, doing whatever nonsense to her liking without taking the effort to recognise other people.

Overall, you should watch this if you're looking for:
- Unofficial romance between the main heroines.
- Dramatical sequences in the second half.
- Hoping for characters that might surprise you.

I don't recommend this if you want:
- Strong character development
- Fantastic lore and meticulous writing
- Genuine dialogue

Hence, that is all and thank you for reading.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 23, 2023

Gregory_Senpai

Not Recommended

Viva the Yuri Revolution!!

Or that’s what I’d say if this series left me feeling excited about it. Sadly I didn’t really enjoy it as a whole.

I enjoyed PARTS of this show, but way, way too much of it was bogged down in seriousness and depression. Why can’t I just have a cute little yuri isekai slice of life series???? I dislike series that can’t pick a tone, and this series definitely had that issue. It started off with the hilarious antics of this bloody, wild princess, who steals away her brother’s fiancé to take for herself. It’s very comedic. I was legitimately laughing at how ... the princess shows up the first time. I need a good laugh these days. Life’s too serious to be serious all the time.

But, the problem comes after this, because all of the important obstacles in the story are TOO big, and TOO serious. Really killed the mood.

The titular ‘reincarnated princess’ is from our world, by the way, which is never really used as much more than a B-side subplot device to give her a reason to come up with various magical inventions that look like stuff from our world. Not that that’s a bad thing, but this series definitely puts me into the frame of mind where I’m questioning what the point of this series being an ‘isekai’ is in the first place. The origin world stuff really doesn’t come up that much whatsoever. Could have been default fantasy without a problem.

This is a problem because on the one hand, we have a ridiculous princess who makes flying brooms and magic swords, and there’s vampires and dragons, etc. and on the other hand we have a very serious plot with characters being worried about rites of succession and having to bear offspring that will carry the royal bloodline. There’s a serious divide here. Ultimately it led to me feeling pretty bad about the series in general.

In the end, this series became one I completed mostly for the sake of not leaving something unfinished, but I couldn’t really bring myself to care very much about it. The visuals were stunning, so it certainly wasn’t a drag to watch, but I don’t think I’ll think about anything aside from it having a cute little yuri couple. I ended up buying the manga after the first episode, and with the dramatic tone shift, I actually felt pretty baited. Not likely to continue to buy volumes of this, or watch a season 2 if they make one.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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