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Originally Posted by ogon_bat
Spice & Wolf was a low magic setting, while in the LN and the manga MaouYuusha is a high magic setting, but the anime is attempting to portrait the world of MaouYuusha as a low magic setting, hence anything relating to it (the hero overwhelming power, high level magic spells, etc.) has been removed altogether.
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You know, the same feeling also struck me the moment Maou didn’t use magic to light the barn and use a lantern instead (episode 2). It’s like this show is trying hard to suppress the fantastical elements in the story and trying to reduce Hero’s shining moments which boils down to this:
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Originally Posted by 4Tran
The problem is that the anime hasn't been able to sell the problems of the Demon world. Without that, all of Hero's adventures boil down to "Hero does some unimportant stuff off-screen". It's a very odd production choice that hurts the show quite a bit.
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If it's the studio's artistic choice to make the anime this way, then I don’t think even bigger budget and more episodes will solve the problem.