I really can't stand this anime. The story is dreadful, so many question marks about the story. The characters are all boring and seem to be one-dimensonal, they stick too rigidly to their personality quirks, they lack the flexibility of any human being, which makes them seem forced and artificial. In other words, way too simple.
What I can't stand the most is the protagonist. She's a prime example of an overdone ADHD character and I'm using that knowing perfectly well what it signifies. She has the attention span of a goldfish and the hyperactivity and silliness or plain stupidity of a husky. She runs around doing stupid crap 24/7, putting her life at risk, thanking people who almost get her killed, screwing simple things up by acting like a spoiled toddler, just in the first few episodes we're treated to things like her not researching how to get to school, almost getting them killed by not throwing away some salty food, jumping in front of something akin to a magic bullet instead of talking, running around trying to cast spells loudly with no idea how to, making a huge joke of herself over and over again, just not learning from being burned, screaming her lungs out repeating herself when the broom spell doesn't work instead of listening to the teacher's advice and so on. She's nothing but a walking joke.
Do people REALLY find loudmouth super hyper fools to be funny? Is it because she's a girl so it's supposed to appeal to people who like the cute girls doing cute things stuff? Thing is, those animes work because there is no danger, there is no need to care about anything and no getting shamed either and even then they're usually not this hyper or stupid... Screaming and running around doing stupid crap is funny, right? If that's the level we're going for, comedy suddenly became real damn simple. I'm not actually asking her to be very smart or calm/collected, just want her to not act like a nutcase with questionable brain status and a body on hard drugs. Hell, this would've been more bearable if only they focused on some things instead of trying to cover a lot. How about not making the world dangerous and bring into play issues like borderline bullying and class/status conflicts. I mean, if you want to make an airheaded character like this, at least make the scenario/world setting fit her so that it doesn't come across as plain annoying.
The art isn't even particularly good, it feels like they wanted to go for a good visual experience with lots of cool visual effects but ended up half-assing it due to budget and time constraints so everything just looks rushed.
It's really a question mark to me why people like this. Perhaps it would be fairly enjoyable if the protagonist could be a happy go lucky girl that, while fairly hyper, happy and outgoing, actually thinks with her brain as well and doesn't repeatedly and actively make a fool of herself. A character that can stop herself from acting on impulse 24/7 like some kind of a f*king animal. Even your typical beast would act more wise and intelligent than her, at least they wouldn't actively jump into a blazing fire that couldn't be more obvious.
So, yeah, this might be a wet dream kind of anime for kids and younger teens might also enjoy it immensely, but I really wonder about loving it as an adult who values story and characters to at least some extent.
