The Irregular at Magic High School (light novel)
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| Okay episode for me. Having read the novel, this episode was weird to watch. Some events were rearranged and they skipped pretty much every info dump. It doesn't bother me much but for someone who hasn't read the novel or manga they may find it confusing. Not a great way to start in my opinion. Hoping Madhouse doesn't fuck this up. |
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JivingLotus said: The animation and music are top notch. It's the character's I'm worried about though, especially the imouto, she might turn very irritating. exactly! miyuki has a niisan complex and its annoying from the very beginning ^^ it will take me a few episodes to get used to some of the characters but i am liking everything else sofar.yeh the characters are very stereotypical but i think i can look past that. there was tons of exposition this episode. maybe too much for just 1 episode. 4/5 will follow this. |
| Anyone noticed in the opening explanation, when the map is shown, dunno if it's on all translations, Spain, France & GB are tagged as "East EU", while Germany, Poland & Scandinavian countries are tagged as "West EU". I couldn't help but giggle a bit at that... Anyway, seems too much of a brother complex to me, hopefully I'm wrong. Interesting premise at least. |
| If there was a drinking game for every time the word "onii-sama" was uttered.... |
| So it's begun |
entTaff said: It was a OK episode for me... I kinda expected more. This episode left me a bit disappointed.. There is obviously something more going on which sparks my interest to keep watching. Does anyone else finds the male-protagonist sister a bit... annoying? I'm big fan of her and yes i admit she's kinda annoying lol. But at least she's beautiful and not a violent tsundere. |
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| The first episode was a lot better than I expected. Love the main character type. I think the brother-sister complex thing is pretty funny haha. Animation, OP, and OST are all great. Really looking forward to more :) |
| Great animation making for some nice looking action and spells. The world and its mechanics seem interesting. MC seems unique enough being a non-practical fighter and all. The sister with her blushing and "onii-sama" complex is rather cliche and kind of annoying. The whole set up of the school being evenly divided into upper class and lower class got on my nerves since it obviously it just going to result in that generic trope of upper class being popular, arrogant, snobby while the lower class get bullied and are a band of misfits. As far as super hyped anime in recent years go it doesn't seem particularly new or notable to me. 3/5 |
| That was a good introductory episode and hope it will get better as the story develop further Proceed with caution Great opening by LiSA btw |
| WTF is with this incest obsession??? It needs to stop and then never resurface again. This could be the best anime in the world but it will automatically lose 1 point for having incest. Also, are they the same age? Cause if they are they have to be twins lol you cant be pregnant with 2 babies and have them be born a few months from each other |
| SO MUCH HATE ALREADY http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DGGcdZ4KYbA/T5FeDLPuJJI/AAAAAAAACKo/2ofTef2oC0w/s640/good-good-let-the-jimmies-rustle-through-you.png AND THEY'E STILL GONNA BE HERE EVERY WEEK TILL THE END LIKE SAO AND SNK, "SIGH" http://images4.fanpop.com/image/answers/1835000/1835568_1312411114154.24res_500_278.jpg |
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entTaff said: wallflowr said: WTF is with this incest obsession??? It needs to stop and then never resurface again. This could be the best anime in the world but it will automatically lose 1 point for having incest. Also, are they the same age? Cause if they are they have to be twins lol you cant be pregnant with 2 babies and have them be born a few months from each other I didn't see any incest, care to shed some light? Apparently a sister caring for her brother is considered incest these days. |
entTaff said: You got a point there... This will be a first show I'm going to watch with sister having bro complex :D I just hope it's not excessive throughout the series. I think I can handle "onii-sama" uttered several times per episode :) Yeah don't worry about incest. Not try to spoil anything, but Miyuki's love for her brother is familial love not romantic. Haters and Trolls will try to convert everyone here so they will believe the incest accusation towards this show lol |
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| the ONIISAMAs were really annoying. the art and ost are great but there's nothing so far that has been outstanding. the characters are annoying too especially miyuki. i haven't read the light novels so the beginning was somewhat confusing and it was hard to understand how the story's universe works. hopefully, it'll get better and they'll explain more things |
entTaff said: wallflowr said: WTF is with this incest obsession??? It needs to stop and then never resurface again. This could be the best anime in the world but it will automatically lose 1 point for having incest. Also, are they the same age? Cause if they are they have to be twins lol you cant be pregnant with 2 babies and have them be born a few months from each other I didn't see any incest, care to shed some light? It's more the brother complex / sister complex. First episode made it pretty clear who's more affective. I don't know any Dengeki Bunko published novel where siblings do anything, except Oreimo's kiss But it's not like the anime staff has any freedom, although a mag ad said there would an emphasis on action rather than romance. And hearing Ayase's onii-samas are music to my ears. |
JoksPacifistApr 5, 2014 6:19 PM
| OK, I was bored and didn't want go to sleep so I went and rewatched the episode. Main characters sister spoke her first words at 1m4s, her last words at 20m26s. During that time she said word "Onniisama" exactly 25 times. Damn, guess I'll be hearing that word a lot xD |
| Leo x Erika!!! |
| "There's no shame in falling down... true shame is to not stand up again!" "Aah? Of course I won't miss!" "My blood tastes like Iron." "Run through the tape in life! Never give up! Run through the tape!" |
| Not bad, not too good either. Interesting set up but very mediocore, I was expecting more seeing the hype/expectations form the LN readers. Ah well, I suppose it's a fair start considering it's 26 episodes long. I'm curious what the deal with the big brother is, why is he a 2nd cour student when he's obviously a top notch magician, possibly stronger/better than his (honour) sister? Hmm yeah I'm interested :) |
| So far the introduction has led me to think that the series has potential be to very good. |
| Didnt think it was possible but I like this even more now. XD |
SodaPop65 said: I made an account just for the sake of clearing up some misconceptions/bad first impressions that that people have towards this show. (Long time lurker, but I feel strongly enough about this to actually post) The LN has one of my favorite stories out of any fiction I've read. It's not an incest, or harem, or immature what have you. The women are modest, and in the LNs they even explain about the revolution in modesty in modern times. It's an extremely detailed world. The LN gets better as you go along due to the clearer picture you get of the world and characters as you go. There really isn't wasted space in the LNs, every page is used to describe a person, place, event, or development in an interesting way. No, there's no beach episode. Yes, people and relationships change constantly, just as they would in real life. No, there is no evil, cackling "bwahahaha I'm eeeeevil" guy, there's no women in sexy jumpsuits out to attack the MC, or any of that crap. I realize that the first episode of the anime can give off an unfavorable impression, but for someone like me that has already read the LNs and was worried about how they'd be translated into anime, I was AMAZED. I was DROOLING about how well it was done. How often are LNs done well enough to make you excited for the future? YES the first episode was slow. YES Miyuki can get mildly annoying with her attachment to Tatsuya. YES this seems like a slice of life + magic + harem at first glance. It's not, It's really, really, really not for so many different reasons that I can't explain without ruining major plot points or secrets. The first arc is good, and the last battle in the first arc will hopefully make you fall in love with the series, as limited as the battle is. The second arc should start to swing you into the tempo of the LN, and the 3rd arc, ohhhhh lord the 3rd arc. The Yokohama Disturbance (3rd arc) is going to be my favorite episodes of anime ever. The badass level shall fly up and beyond 9000. It's hard to comprehend just how amazing and well-written the characters are until the 3rd arc. I realize that this may just sound like me fanboy-ing, and it partially is. I love the LNs. But it's also me begging for people to keep watching this for awhile and let themselves recognize what an amazing world this author has to offer, I'd hate for this anime to start off poorly. Also, the ANN reviews. Holy shit. I'm almost (No, scratch that, I am) angry that people have the nerve to give a show a 1 based off the first episode. It wasn't even a bad episode, was it? From people that didn't read the LN I've heard generally favorable reviews, except for some worries about harem and incest (which really, really, you don't need to worry about). 1/5 is a score reserved for the trash of the trash, I don't understand how the hell ANN could give it a 1/5 so easily. TL,DR: Nobody LOVED the first part of the LNs. It's slow. I am amazed at how good the anime did with the lackluster early chapters. There should be a few more slow (But interesting, and increasingly entertaining) episodes until the show gets in full swing, so please don't go running around giving the show a bad name until it has time to tell a story. Interesting. If this becomes as good as you say it will be, then I will be extremely happy. You don't often find stories as good as you're hyping this up to be. I'll continue to watch because your comment sparked some interest in me towards this show. But for now, I have no expectations of it until it proves worthy of my interest. |
| "There's no shame in falling down... true shame is to not stand up again!" "Aah? Of course I won't miss!" "My blood tastes like Iron." "Run through the tape in life! Never give up! Run through the tape!" |
| What a snooze fest of an episode. What a boring episode. Holy crap. I hope it gets better later on (better since it's a 2 cour series). Even shittier shows had better episode 1's than this. |
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This is a story about: [...] a defective elder brother [...] a perfect, flawless younger sister nailed it#br00tal #dropped |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| Meh! |
| The action sequences are spot-on! Im definitely excited for this show. Now hopefully --and source readers please feel free to tell me-- we can go through the whole show without any incest. |
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| Okay so few years ago i read some of the early chapters of the manga i didn't find it boring just very lackluster and for some reason i never got back to it though i faintly remember everything that happened in the first episode,not sure how faithful this was to the LN. i liked even if it felt a little slow MC is kinda chill like i remembered him the setting seems promising enough and seeing this as this is a 2 cour i can tell the later parts will be most likely better action and ost( LISA Yay!) are solid too only thing i don't get is why this was hyped like crazy or the fan seemed more vocal about it than jojo lol but who knows maybe the hype will be justified in the future. |
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| So I'm really trying to like this because the setting seems kinda cool and it got a lot of hype coming with it, but this episode was like 30% worldbuilding and 70% pandering or build-up for possible future pandering. Literally the first non-narrative lines of the show were the sister fawning over her onii-san and how can she ever repay him and the theme is present throughout the whole episode. Also the first 6 minutes or so introduced about 3-4 potential harem members and in the second half they introduced one measly male side character and even more females. I'm still kinda intrigued by the setting and the MC could be interesting too, if not for all the potential fanservice and imouto pandering. But I won't drop it, I'll at least observe for a couple of more episodes. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I guess I should take a look at those specials if they really were info dumps. I'm kinda interested in learning more about the lore and other stuff. Well moving on I enjoyed the episode so I'll just see where this takes me since I haven't a clue where this is truly going yet. Sent with Mal Updater |
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| Wow this looks like a promising series, awesome voice actors/actresses. Opening and closing themes by LiSA and Elisa. Good first episode. Super formal brocon sister lol. Cool looking fight scenes and magic. Animation is pretty good too. Looking forward to the next episode |
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Nidhoeggr said: ANN, saving anime one preview at a time.At least ANN knows what's up. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| This fits into my expectations so no problem yet. Tatsuya being too over powered since the beginning is always a game breaker lol. Amazing op, animation and art style. Still have great (Not really but some mildly-good) expectations for this. |
| i loved the OST! Plus, the animation was great :P I loved the fights too, really intense and detailed Lets how things end up beetween weed and blooms Btw Shiba Miyuki (Imouto) is such a cutie =W= |
| Mr. badass in Tatsuya Shiba has finally arrived. Damn nice episode. Yakumo and Tatsuya fighting. That was awesome. Nicely done. LOL Yakumo "That is moe!" XD Erika and Leo fighting from the get go xD OSTs were awesome as. Dat OP. So awesome as well. There's a lack of infodumping though.. (At least there's Tatsuya's monologues..) Dem incest misunderstandings begin, nao. Damn it, already can't wait for the next episode. |
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SodaPop65 said: This is not a harem. There is no incest. It's like the author was going to write a harem and slowly but surely gave everyone a true personality, background, and intentions, and then relationships started to form naturally. You know how Hunter x Hunter deconstructs shonen? It's like Mahouka deconstructs Harem. Only there isn't a harem. Not trying to complain too much or even say something I wouldn't know, but one of the reasons why people think there is incest is because of this (look for Mahouka and read it's synopsis): http://i7.minus.com/iwBU0arPwNMWj.png Also, considering the standards of the medium and the first episode, the thought of this having a harem is not really far-fetched. Again, not saying that what you wrote was false, just that it's a reasonable impression that anime-only viewers would have. Also, the male main charaters besides Tatsuya are awesome. I mean, it's hard to top Tatsuya since he really is a truly unique MC, but they're awesome in their own ways. You notice how there are a few girl MCs and a few guy MCs? Yea. Not a harem. 2+2=4. (Nothing confirmed, just shipping, but shippers gonna ship) Having an even gender distribution of MCs doesn't not make it harem, though. I'll wait and see, hope the show is as good as you say :P |
SodaPop65 said: Make no mistake, I'm almost entirely serious. My sentiments are genuine; the troll-esque delivery was an added bonus. And no, I don't think that I "know everything." I think that I know how I feel about the dreadful, and then some, first ten-ish minutes of the first episode of this show. And that is all I wished to express (I am but a modest art critic).At least have the decency to only leave it at 1 troll post, instead of making repeat appearances. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
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