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The following is based on my own opinions, you are free to disagree with my review. Also this might contain spoilers, but not really.

Let’s start with the overall art in this show. The animation in Mikagura Gakuen kumikyoku wasn’t too shabby. In the first few episodes I noticed right away how there wasn’t put all that much effort into it. However nothing about that bothered me. But later on this show, when the fighting scene started to happen, I sort of started liking it. It’s obviously different animation, but it caught my eye and looked interesting to me. But the composition wasn’t so good. Same ... goes for transition and scenery. Some of the objects or people in the background were drawn badly and most of the time the characters were composed in a way that there wasn’t a lot of scenery to draw, which made the dialogues a bit boring to watch.

Another point that I liked in the art was the use of colour. Mostly bright colours where used, but it wasn’t too up in your face at all. Even in the opening and ending themes, it was completely acceptable. It gave an extra touch to the refreshing atmosphere the anime already had with the storyline. That said, it blended in well. And it was nice to see how every character matched their own colour.

As for the character design, they were all good looking, as in being attractive. First off, I would say that it’d make their designs good. But thinking twice about it, made me realise that it’s actually just an lack in originality per character. It is just the same design, with different eye colour, hair, clothes and height. Which is a totally different story is their design in the light novel.

Looking more into Eruna, she’s almost the perfect protagonist. As in she gets along with everyone easily and helps them grow in the story. And it’s nice to see how she resembles the main hero in a tv show in their world, which every character used to watch. Because Eruna IS a super hero, in the way she acts. She energetic and true to herself. She’s not quick to give up on anything, and most of all she’s the source of the comedy in this show. At the same time Eruna is also the only character that you could actually call good in this anime.

There are some annoyances around the fact that there are a lot of characters in this show. But that didn’t bother me at all. Firstly, because it fits Eruna’s character all too well. She’s the type to befriend half of the school. Secondly, every character got there good share of screening time. Despite the enormous amount of then, none of them were too left out of the show. But as I said before Eruna is the only character you could actually call good. While watching the anime, you can see how there’s put some thought into character development, since they’re really trying to give some characters a good background story and motives of what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. But the backgrounds didn’t get to me. And some of the motives where just too unclear. The urge to develop a character well was so big, that their development was too rushed. The change in nature was so out of the blue that it felt incredibly forced.

But as for the relations between characters, I am always a big fan of nice friendships. They all became good friends really fast and maybe a bit rushed. But in this aspect too, it is only natural for a character like Eruna to befriend others so easily.

The storyline is a bit more complicated than usual. This is not the first time or last time you’ll see a magical high school, with the protagonist being new to the magic. Here too, there is put some thought into it how to make it into a good story. But the thing that bothers me the most is how this could’ve been a nice story if they put some more effort into it and left out a bit comedy. Not to say that the comedy is the source of this anime’s success. But what I’m trying to say is that the comedy and serious storyline weren’t getting along too well. I would’ve liked to either see this story grow, or focus solely on comedy. And I would mostly root for the comedy. But right now every time the serious storyline got somewhat progress, it was forcefully broken down or put aside to make way for focusing on comedy.

The overall sound was pretty average too. But what stood out the most was probably the voice acting. Not only did the voices match, but they did a great job in fight scenes or other situations. However the soundtrack wasn’t all that good, since it didn’t stood out at all or did it give an extra sensation to the happenings. And the OP and ED theme weren’t that fantastic either. Though the beginning of the opening was a bit catchy and is the only thing I can remember of it. But the themes stood out more in composition than in music itself.

Now despite all the negative things I just said, I still had a really fun time while watching this anime. Even though they had a golden opportunity, they wasted it a bit with throwing too much comedy at us. But we recovered quickly and made the comedy our favourite aspect of this anime.