2023-04-06, 18:04 | Link #25 |
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Rewatched the first season + the OVAs a few weeks ago as a refresher and I definitely needed it. I had forgotten a lot of stuff.
Going by the first episode alone, I can see why this is called the Hogwarts arc. Not that I remember much Harry Potter, was never a big fan. I wonder how important choosing the cat was, I'm pretty sure it was a case of all the answers being correct but I'm thinking it could affect aspects of her life at the college. Chise mentioned being in first year of junior high, I'm guessing it's meant to be magic junior high? I know she quit school early but her classmates look to be around the same age as her. Certainly don't look like 7th graders. It was a good start. I really like Chise and this universe so I'm happy this got another season. I believe the studio changed but I didn't notice any drop in quality.
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2023-04-06, 18:19 | Link #26 | |
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2023-04-06, 18:48 | Link #27 |
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I think the College has its own grade system due to the nature of it being so tied to magic.
And you also have to remember that Chise didn't drop out of her previous school. She was made legally dead in Japan when she sold herself (again, she got really lucky that Elias was the one who picked her up). So its not like they can just pull her previous records.
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2023-04-07, 02:52 | Link #30 |
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Not surprising though. The way anime are structured these days means if it doesn't happen after a year or two but instead five, people just aren't going to remember what happened. Too much anime is shotgunned out every season now.
It's different if you kept up with the entire arc until the manga went on hiatus after they concluded it earlier this year or did a re-watch. But unless you're willing to go through the trouble, the bits that Chise and Elias brought up are all you really need to know for the moment.
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2023-04-13, 09:06 | Link #36 |
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I want to talk about Chise's eyes. I rewatched the entire series in the past few days which helped a lot in providing continuity. After Cartaphilus swaps eyes with Chise, she has two differently-colored eyes, one with his silver-gray coloring and enlarged iris. She stays that way up until the final confrontation where Ruth pulls Chise's eyeball from Cartaphilus's socket, and it falls on the ground. After that, both here eyes are identically colored, and they continue to be in this series. So are we to assume that during the magical repair work needed to fix Chise's midsection they also re-inserted her original eye? If so, then what are we to make of the school nurse talking about how she still had Cartaphilus's eye and memories? I rewatched this whole sequence and saw no explanations for any of this. Also what happened to Cartaphilus's eye?
Wit set a high standard; this show is often incredibly beautiful to watch. The entire scene where Chise transforms into a phoenix was extraordinary. Also I missed the bit about the dragon curse. (When you watch a series in just a few sessions, you can miss things.) I need to go back and rewatch that section again.
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2023-04-13, 10:32 | Link #37 | |
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Elias is back in his female human form and striking quite the figure around the college .
Good to know that Chise can pull off a solid princess carry with a cute girl! Even if she and said girl realize how embarrassing it is. I'd love to see her carry Elias more though . It's nice to see Chise trying to help this girl with her anxiety and nervousness (she's a proper medicine lady!), although I feel like there's way more going on with Philomela. Especially when Veronica talks to her . Alice is back with a haircut and Will-O'-the-Wisp! Though he's not about to compare himself to a Familiar as easy as Ruth, but it's nice to see Alice and Chise together again and Alice pushing Chise to get over her anxiety about going to school . Reina Ueda as Veronica! Though something about her feels suspicious to me. She's very beautiful and comes off quite polite and well-mannered, but that smooth and refined smile feels like it might be a mask for something . How many shows is Kosuke Toriumi in this season? And he's playing Narcisse, a teacher who will give you an epic and involved speech about the wonders of sorcery...before telling you you're just going to learn Latin that day. Bit anticlimactic . That green-haired kid looks like he's about to have a nervous breakdown . I guess Elias had some practice with Chise to be able to play a proper mage teacher for her class, although he still puts Chise and Alice on the spot to demonstrate for the class. It must be weird going to class with your groom and have everybody think he's a cool beauty female professor. I'm almost a little bummed Elias gave the game away at the end . "Hello, beautiful person" smooth Rian, smooth! She even called him handsome, though that's the first time I've seen a girl turn an attractive guy down because he smells of rust . So, yeah, good rule of thumb...if a Neighbor doesn't want anything to do with you, don't antagonize them . Well, I guess Elias only has, like, three people he needs to teach who actually had the aptitude to be Mages. And Beatrice who seems to admire his real form. Though it seems like Rian wants to learn from Chise even though he failed . Something shady going on at the college? What a surprise . Next week: Stella! And Joseph ! Quote:
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2023-04-13, 13:21 | Link #38 | |
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2023-04-13, 15:13 | Link #39 |
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I rewatched that entire sequence carefully yesterday, including freeze frames of Chise's face, and was left confused. At the point where she was wearing the veil her left eye seemed neither its normal color nor his. Rather it seemed a mix of the two. (I have some mild red/green colorblindness so I may not see details that others do.)
So what was the point of showing Ruth ripping out Chise's eye and throwing it on the floor? I thought that implied it was available for some sort of surgical reinsertion after the battle. Maybe manga readers got a more detailed explanation of events. There seem to be a few continuity details missing in the anime adaptation. Even just a minute's worth of explanation in the final episode of season one would have helped a lot.
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2023-04-13, 15:36 | Link #40 | |
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That's when she chatted with the Curse and got the details.
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