Story - 3
I gave it a three. Honestly it should be a 1 but I didn't want to put everything I had a problem with as a 1 so I didn't. The story is very slow and features tons of exposition about the magic featured in the world. These were huge problems for me but I could overlook them. The real problem I had with the story were the themes. Discrimination is a big one in the episodes I watched but, I didn't really understand why it was a problem. The show opens by saying that even getting in to the school is extremely prestigious and gives us a scenario in which the better students or blooms treat the "bad" students or weeds pretty terribly. That doesn't make sense, if we go by the introduction in the very first episode every student there is better than the average person, even the weeds. There are other horrible messages this show puts forth and, it also tries to politically indoctrinate it's viewers by shoving meritocracy and capitalism in their faces everywhere but, I don't really want to write a book about how horrible the themes of this show are so, I'll move on.
Art - 6
This is probably the only thing that this show does well. The magic looks cool and the school uniforms are unique compared to other high school shows. How the characters looks apart from the uniforms is pretty standard though.
Sound - 4
Honestly, I don't remember the soundtrack being good or bad. I gave it a four because it seemed like the appropriate rank for neither adding or detracting from the show, which is all I can say about it.
Characters - 1
Characters are the weakest point for this show. Yes, the main characters are OP... we've all seen it before and, we even have another show from this season that featured OP characters (NGNL), why is this show's OP main characters worse than all of the rest of them? That's because Tatsuya isn't interested in having meaningful interactions with any other character in the show (besides his sister, I guess) and, Miyuki is only interested in her brother. See the problem? Why even have other characters? I don't know, because it's a school and, it would be weird if they supposedly went to a school and, were the only people there. As you can guess all other characters really aren't important and are only there to show you how much better than everyone else the two MCs are. I could stand them if they were your standard OP main characters but, they aren't. Miyuki is an annoying character whose only point in the episodes I've seen is to fawn over her brother so there isn't really much to talk about besides the fact she's annoying. Tatsuya on the other hand is a truly awful character. What really made me hate him completely was his speech about the equality "terrorists" in episode 4 (maybe 3, i don't remember). Basically, he says that equality is a farce and, the only people who wish for it are the people who didn't try hard enough to succeed. That message coming from Tatsuya, who is born with power and ability that far surpasses everyone else in the entire world completely disgusted me. Miyuki and Tatsuya explain that magician deserve their higher economic standing because of the "hard work" they put in to develop their talents which is a complete joke because you have to be born with an affinity for magic. Essentially these characters are just terrible people who justify the power given to them by their family by saying that it was their hard work that got them to where they are while dismissing everyone else by saying "You just didn't try hard enough."
Enjoyment - 1
If you couldn't tell, I detest this show and, did not enjoy it. Usually, I can see why someone might enjoy something but this... I just can't see anything redeeming about this show.
Overall - 1
A terrible story with terrible themes, standard art, a sound track that does nothing for the show, and awful characters add up to a horrible experience.
