Mizu Zokusei no Mahoutsukai

After getting caught up in an accident, Ryou Mihara is reincarnated in the world of Phi as a water magician. Waking up in a remote forest, he sets out to achieve his ideal slow life by living off monsters and refining his magic. Unbeknownst to Ryou, in his second life he has gained the hidden trait "Eternal Youth."

One day, Ryou stumbles across a shipwrecked adventurer named Abel. As Abel requests Ryou to accompany him to the town of Lune, they embark on a journey through mountains infested with monsters. Upon arriving at the town and registering as an adventurer, Ryou's powerful water magic and equipment are unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. Although his prowess piques the interest of many, Ryou is eager to begin his own adventure and hone his magic even further!

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Mihara, Ryou Main

Murase, Ayumu Japanese

Abel Main

Ura, Kazuki Japanese

Sera Supporting

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Alburquerque, Leonore Urraca Supporting

Koichi, Makoto Japanese

Lewin Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Rihya Supporting

Ishihara, Kaori Japanese

Lyn Supporting

Matsumoto, Sara Japanese

Amon Supporting

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Bornemisza, Conrad Stein Supporting

Tada, Keita Japanese

Jurgen Supporting

Zouza, Shoumaru Japanese

Takahashi, Kanako Producer

Higashi, Mao Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

Nakazawa, Nobuya Producer

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Sep 25, 2025

Zalistar7

Recommended

If you liked Frieren, you'll probably like this.

I don't write reviews often, but the number of negative reviews was staggering when this was (in my opinion) a fantastic watch. Most of the negative reviews I came across mostly argued about the pacing or how they thought the animation quality wasn't good enough. I think we've just been spoiled with instant gratification high budget trash. Not that I dislike that either though.

I loved the pacing. This was more of a relaxed chilled out kind of show where you get to enjoy exploring through the world with the character. Primarily character driven ... it seems to spend more time on Ryo interacting with people than it does on showing off his OPness. But it leaves enough in to get excited whenever he's about to get into it.

Ryo's character is particularly enjoyable. He states in the first episode that he wants to live a relaxed life, and he shows that throughout the rest of the series. He's not particularly bothered by things and he likes learning more about the world and everything in it. Constantly enjoying himself rather than running around stressing about everything all the time. And it's shown in a way that made me feel like I was enjoying it with him.

Lastly I really loved the opening and closing songs. Listening to them at the beginning and end of each episode really got me in the right mood for what I was about to watch. Lastly lastly (sorry) I'm super interested in the world and there's a ton of questions I want answered. I'm desperately hoping this gets a second season.

Overall I give this an 8/10 my only disappointment was that there's not more to watch right now.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 25, 2025

Rickcir

Mixed Feelings

The first episodes were amazing. The animation was fantastic and the episodes were captivating. Fast-forward to the final episodes, and the animation was pretty much a powerpoint presentation, flat and laughably bad. "Epic" battles were a total joke with terrible animation, pathetic sound effects and a joke of a plot. It's like they blew 70% of the budget on the first three episodes, then spent progressively less on each episode until the end. No joke - the thing gets that bad towards the end. Will there be a season 2? Who cares. The First few episodes were a 9. The final few were a solid ... 2.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 25, 2025

KANLen09

Not Recommended

The Water Magician — Yessiree, please feature anything and everything...except your MC, who is supposed to be THE star of the series/show.

In the ever-so-illusive AniManga industry, we're learning as much as we can every season. As many as there are works of stories that have promising stories to tell and of worlds and their world-building and actually pass off as being mediocre to average to good, the scale really matters if the audience (that's us) is really bought into how everything is being mashed together and done, either for the sake of it or for the establishment of vast worlds that continue to pique our ... curiosities. And in this stacked summer season, at least in the Isekai/fantasy segment, there exists a bunch of them, from the likes of mangaka Yuji Iwahara's Clevatess (which presents arguably one of the best all-rounder aspects) to decent/good ones like novelist Fefu Kazuno's Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru. Sekai Seifuku a.k.a. Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin.

However, like many seasonal shows gone by, there's bound to be a stinker show from the rest, and I have to say that novelist Tadashi Kubo's Mizuzokusei no Mahoutsukai a.k.a. The Water Magician, is one such show where, not only did it look damn promising from the very start, it proceeded instead...to play whack-a-mole with both its readers and now anime-onlies with an overall structure so bizarre and out-of-place that it has everyone questioning an exact or similar thought: What the hell do we make of this anime and this series in general?

As typical Isekai reincarnation stories go, Mizuzokusei no Mahoutsukai is nothing special, showcasing its MC, Ryo, who "died and rose again" in another world, being blessed with water magic and eternal youth to pass off his days to do whatever he wants as he pleases, meet people, and experience a whole new life in the land of Phi. At first, it feels just like a typical reincarnation setting of identifying with your new self, knowing what the good and bad things are given to you to make sure that the god or goddess has bestowed a meaningful life in the afterlife. Then the fact of meeting strangers and making new friends comes off as being natural, as is Ryo with Abel, learning that he is someone important to the town and its people where he came from. That by itself is fine, having the MC on display wandering around for his never-ceasing journey.

Except...for the first time, we got absolutely bamboozled by having side characters claim much of the screen time instead of the MC? Who thinks of such storytelling rhythms like this that only exist in the realms of Tadashi Kubo? That is who. Sure, the number of people that Ryo meets during his young lifetime aren't many, but they are the chosen few who share their time with him and even work together at times to make their situations better. Take the gang of Nils, Eto, and Amon, for example: beginner adventurers, they are ones that assist and help Ryo in any way they can, but the fact that they take centre stage as opposed to the MC himself just feels strange enough. Why have they BECOME the MCs rather than the aforementioned Water Magician himself? Shouldn't the series be prioritizing him rather than making the side characters carry his MC role? This is certainly a rhetoric very few have experimented with, and clearly have not succeeded with, which speaks volumes about the dissonance of how the series is written from the very start.

The elephant in the room would have to be the overall production itself. I mean, Typhoon Graphics is not a studio that you associate quality with, being at best a 3rd-rate studio, and its collab partnership with a rather unknown studio by the name of Wonderland sure doesn't invoke any confidence that the anime will be produced at least decently. And why do I say, "elephant in the room"? It's that debut (episode) director Hideyuki Satake and his staff team, as small as I can assume, were all pushing hard against the deadlines to complete the anime on time, having already suffered one delay too many to even make it out past the animation cutting floor. And yes, while it painted a very nice production and outlook for the 3-episode rule, it's thereafter that the gloves come off of its rather subpar animation.

Even the OST is just there, and it's just not noticeable. Both Meiyo Densetsu's OP and Misaki's ED would've been decent and better served on other shows just like this one, but for what it is, I certainly have to fault that the music, somehow, just doesn't vibe the same way as the anime does.

I'd like to think that Mizuzokusei no Mahoutsukai a.k.a. The Water Magician, could've really been a decent, potential-filled series that knows what it wants to be and stuck its roots on a familiarity level that most casual anime-onlies will be able to watch and get into its mood. However, its un-familiarity with the source material just bludgeoning the hell out of the tried-and-true formula that exists with every Isekai/fantasy story, reincarnation and/or otherwise, that is either good or bad, gives the series a truly bad rap for going the experimental route that never seems to have a notion to return back to its main characteristics.

Ryo, I apologize on your behalf for being in the wrong series that doesn't place you as the emphasis. But then again, karma bites back hard, which ensures the near-forgottenness in a series that SHOULD be focused on you instead of the others.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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