Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku

For those who might be interested in promise of wizard I say go for it! Please give it a chance. I didn't think I was going to like it, but once I saw the pv I was all in. I can't tell you anything about the game since I've never played it before but I can say it's a very magical anime. Yes it's slow in the beginning but it picks up quick! The animation is beautiful and there is humor as well and I promise you it focuses on the wizards. I do wish they could've made it 14 episodes but I think that's ... fine. It gives me hope there'll be a second season.

If you're into magic, wizard, fantasy type anime then promise of wizard is your show. Please, please give a chance!

I originally started watching this because the premise sounded interesting, and it is, for the most part. If you look at this like a serial drama, then I don't think you'll be disappointed. For the most part, the story pacing is not too fast nor is it too slow. One of my biggest issues is that there are slides that pop up with text, and if you're not fast enough, you have to scroll back to find it to read what was said.

Having to pause to read a fast-moving text while I'm watching a show in my non-native language is annoying, and it pulls ... me out of the show that I'm actually kinda enjoying. That is one of my biggest gripes with the way this anime has been produced. Another one is that while there is character and world-building, there is a feeling of missing content.

Like, everyone who reads manga/light novels/web novels/novels that the anime is sourced from knows that there are some things that don't make it to the screen. The issue with this series, in my opinion, is that there are some major holes that are made and nothing has been done to fill the plot hole.

Overall, I will be finishing this anime. It is not my favorite of the season, but of the anime I've watched over the years, and barring the annoyance I feel with the text on screen that flashes by, it's still enjoyable so far. I do like my character and world-building anime, and the semi-lack of definition of certain things has me losing focus on the show.

Promise of Wizard — You won't be making promises with wizards on this one.

It's incredibly baffling that people still think that video games, especially those made with mobile games in mind, mobages, have seen their fair share of idiosyncrasies when their content is translated to the small screen. While you have past successes of CyGames IPs like Princess Connect! Re:Dive and Uma Musume, others can only be seen as an afterthought to promote the game with its minuscule fanbase. And although we have Tasokare Hotel in this regard (which I recommend you watch over this), mobages are limited to just Japan, where Ikemens are out ... in full force (that's one reason why Disney's Twisted Wonderland works as a franchise), and you already knew the writing was on the wall for works like developer-cum-publisher Coly's Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku a.k.a Promise of Wizard, which reeks every bit of a game-to-anime adaptation that has only but limited passion going into it.

The story is as old as the day of the fight against good and evil, and in this case, it's the summoning of a modern person into the world of wizards who've been tasked to fight against evil beleaguering in the form of the Great Calamity a.k.a the moon, which descends a year that causes havoc with its obscene magic. And though the game advertises you, the main character, as the Great Sage to ally with the wizards of the world, I at least appreciate the fact that you can either play your character as a male or a female to help with the game's plot, regardless of what it is, because I've been so awestruck by mobages of similar aspects only being shadowed as a romance visual novel of some sort.

Of course, the anime, needing appeal, chooses its own protagonist in the form of female MC Akira Masaki to converse with the different country wizards that are more or less a showing of the personality and lifestyle that they originate from: 21 wizards from 5 different countries (though you'll only see half of them being the survivable lot from the last Great Calamity). I thank God that this show is not your romance harem where the remainder of the wizards need to appeal to Akira with their Ikemen styles and personality because it honestly doesn't need to be one to begin with.

However, with that said, everything about this show is just a mess. If you've been paying attention, you'll be seeing cards of monologues from the MC's POV, but they glance so fast that you are not given time to understand his/her motives. Furthermore, a big cast of characters like this only begs the tried-and-true question: do we need so many wizards to spoil the broth? None of them are particularly noteworthy (except the arrogant Northern wizards and the strongest wizard, Oz), and sure as hell I will forget them in a cinch.

If LIP×LIP's ED song is any indication that this is a harem of sorts, you'd be right, because it absolutely gives off that regard, no matter how hard you try to ignore it. But I feel sad for Mili, because her OP song here (more than just wasted talent) is just great and does give the show its allure...as an Ikemen-centered anime, for crying out loud.

I guess we already know the derivative when it comes to mobage adaptations like this: when the Ikemen get prominent, it's time to get out and never look back. It's not my bias of looking at (say) Uma Musume's horse girls and giving off the exact same vibe that Ikemens do, but it's just to the point of cringe, with minimal delivery whatsoever.

This is just emotional and psychological trash that you ought to skip, bar none.