The Irregular at Magic High School | Episode 3
GingaDaiuchuu: Ugh, can we not go down this route with the incest and entering-into-harem-territory stuff?
But goddamn it looks so good!
And I really can’t say enough about the music, either. Such a treat.
Buckeye: This episode pretty much explains why Tatsuya did poorly on the exam despite his skills as they don’t test the stuff he’s good at. Anyway, this episode does have some issues here as Miyuki’s prank goes to far, and Erika being mobbed feels all too convenient, but it is nice to see Tatsuya in action already proving himself during his first day on the job. Anyway, I just hope that this show does not get too out of hand with the stuff that Miyuki just pulled.
27CansOfTuna: Calibration for CAD was done in a rather interesting way with the Tatsuya auto skill scene making the scene worth it in the end. Most of the episode felt like a showcase of various types of magic from the psion control enabled via Loop Cast system to the Oscillation Type Close Combat Sonic Blade of the Kenjutsu club.
Animation studio is doing an excellent job in the effects area with the displays and the modern sci fi simulations of the magic for visual explanations to the various particles and coloring employed when magic activated. Its so minor but so impactful for making everything shine in motion.
Hitsugi Amachi: Could anyone tell me what the story is about? Anyone? I have my doubts, because so far…there isn’t a story. What we have is a Settings Guide to the world of Mahouka, told through a series of vignettes about Tatsuya. One or two episodes of that is fine, but…there’s more? Seriously, if it wasn’t for the production values (good character designs crisply rendered, good animation) this show would have nothing. Because the characters are largely one-dimensional and there is no story.
General Hentai: I look on it as world building, or at least a part thereof. Compare this to Magical Warfare(shudder) and how it didn’t bother to explain a damn thing. You’re correct, however, in that it can only go on for so long. And you’re right we really don’t have a story yet: We have a conflict source, but we still don’t know what’s going down.
I have to disagree with you about the characters, to at least an extent. Our main duo, unfortunately, both are not fully drawn yet, but the characters for Student Council Prez & Disciplinary prez are both shaping up nicely (the pun is there, I’m taking it, but ’twas unintended).
Still, an interesting opening, with a multi-part extended opening episode. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out once we can marathon back through it.
Hitsugi Amachi: Indeed we’ll have to disagree, since I feel that Mayumi and Mari, while I do like them, are fairly stereotypical characters based on commonly-seen types following fairly standard formulas. There’s nothing wrong with a well-executed formula, but in the stale environment that this show is so far, formulaic elements don’t really make it much more interesting.
Jun Kuga: Story?
There is no story. There can never be a story until they inform us about every little detail of the world and just why every character is special first. In doing so, they will take (x) episodes and never mention any of it again until it comes up in a fight to somehow save the earth, that you know will be successful but even still will still be settled with some deux ex machina.
It’s painful to watch.
Not because it’s bad, quite the opposite. It’s because it has the potential to be good.
It’s painful to see an interesting premise get told in a way where the author was seeminly paid for every individual word used in the novelisation. Who does the author think he is, Charles Dickens? I’m sure Dickens would have added harem and incest elements if it were popular in his day to engorge his margins had they been popular in his day too, but screw the little sisters, and screw the harem too. I don’t want to know about them, I just want PLOT!
…and whilst they were nicely appreciated, I don’t consider Erika’s chest to be ‘plot’. They didn’t bounce enough to qualify as ‘plot’.