[3]Story: So the story is pretty simple. The setting is a future world where we have espers, highly evolved science, magicians, guys with random powers no one knows shit about, well you get the deal. So our main guy is Touma, a complete noob (ya, really.). He has been haunted by misfortune since he was born, and he is unable to use magic or esper abilitys. What he do have though, is a random power no one knows shit about. Cool eh? Apparently his right hand possess the power to break any esper ability, spell and what not. the downside is that Touma himself can’t use magic or anything like that. Anyway, he meets this girl called index who apparently memorizes everything she sees, and she has memorized a whole book with spells in it. So a shit load of stuff happens, Touma meets some weird people, kick some ass, and then kicks some more ass. Then we go to the next arc. I should add that this show is so heavily divided into arcs that every arc could be a new season. This can be a good thing in some cases, but here it is not. Anyway, so the first arc was about his saving Index life bla bla. the next arc is about Misaka, a side character. Guess what the arc after that is about? Ye, Misaka. This show could really be called “Toaru majutsu no Misaka”. She’s one of those side characters that really steal the show. So the story gets a pretty low score, basically because it makes to heavy use of arcs and don’t bind them togheter. The main female character, which the show is even named after, is basically forgotten. Bad.
[7]Art: The art was good, animations were good. I have nothing to complain about. I should add that im no art expert whatsoever, so this is a score that don’t influence the final score as much as other things.
[4]Sound: OP was fine, ED was meh. This doesn’t really matter in the rating of the show, but its fun mentioning!. Anyway, the music used in the show isn’t really something we haven’t heard before, but ye, it wasn’t that good. Its like, you don’t notice there even is a soundtrack, its just there because without it, it would sound weird!
The voice acting was like the soundtrack, just a little better. I liked Misakas voice though..
[5]Characters: for me one of the most important aspects of a show is the characters. The characters in this show was really hard to like, except for Misaka. She atleast, have some development. The other characters were all kinda meh. It seems some people likes Index, and ye ok, she wasn’t all that bad BUT. She has like 0 screen time. Zero. I atleast didn’t like her, no development, to little screen time. As for the main character, he is hard to like imo. Its not that he got to little screen time, its just that he’s very unoriginal, boring, full of fail and somehow, liked by all the other characters. He’s sort of like the main character in school days, just that he doesn’t fuck everything that comes in his way.
[5]Enjoyment: well, If you have read the whole thing here above, you probably know what you’r about to read now. Ye, I didn’t like the show that much. Sure it got its sunny moments sometimes, it got me chuckle a time or two, but it just doesn’t make up for the fact that the show is fail. Fail fail fail. Im going to go ahead and give the show a 5. The show is still airing (seen 20 episodes right now), and if the ending somehow is very, very good then the score may be raised to a 6. But as it seems now, the show isn’t heading that way. If you want to turn off your brain and just watch something, watch this, and think of it like “toaru majutsu no Misaka”. You could skip the first arc for all what it matters.
Thank you for reading !
