Anyway, at the time, I left off at the dead-beginning of episode 10, and didn't get back around to finishing the series until literally 3 days ago, at the time of writing this. The only real reason I finished the show this time around was because of the removal that is about to happen on January 1st from Netflix. In other words, I felt pressured to watch it. And when I DID finally finish it, I came out of it speaking this quote, "Not too bad."
The first episode began by being rather blunt. And this was a consistent pattern I noticed throughout the large majority of the show. More often than not, people like Tatsuya Shiba will be like (and I'm paraphrasing here), "Get to the point, spare me the details." And while, yes, I get that it's the whole point of his character, it just made him and many other characters so very bland for the main protagonists of the show.
The plot revolves around Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba, a brother and sister who both got through their entrance exams for Magic High, but Miyuki, the self-proclaimed "weaker" of the pair, ended up getting a far higher score than her older brother. As such, Tatsuya is put into a category of students called weeds, whereas Miyuki gets to be a bloom, and student rep. Beyond that, however, the ending was subpar, at best. The most emotion I got out of it was the final discussion between Masaki Ichijo and his closest partner, Shinkurou Kichijouji, and even then, I was barely fazed.
Tiny spoiler: Even if Tatsuya was very by-the-books, his inevitable bromance with Masaki Ichijo was actually really interesting to see, especially considering the fact that Masaki had a major crush on Tatsuya's sister. It was also pretty cool seeing Tatsuya being so accepting of the relationship between the three of them. I was initially expecting the two young men to have a blatant hero-villain sort of setup to them, not much unlike that of Vash & Knives in Trigun. I was happy to see I was wrong. Not that it's a bad plot twist, but it would've felt like they stole the plot somewhat from Trigun.
In summary, I felt like this anime was enjoyable, but sooooo bland.
