Crunchyroll has a series that they streamed back in 2014 that they’re about to lose the streaming rights to with Magica Wars. The show was one of the short-form series that got some decent attention at the time but even with its pedigree never ended up being licensed for home video release. The show, which was available to viewers in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, and Turkey, will disappear at the end of this month.
Check out our reviews of the series.
Produced by Gainax and directed by Ayano Ohnoki, the show brings in character designs from Mariko Kawamoto to highlights the 47 prefectures in human form and pits them against each other.
Magica Wars will run for twenty six episodes when it premieres and they will be four minute episodes.
Plot Concept: “The dragon sleeps under the ground of this land…
It gives an abundant harvest on the land when sleeping, but brings a disaster when it is awake.
In every decade or hundreds of years, the dragon moves its body as if it tosses about unconsciously. The movement becomes the distortion and causes impurity. This “impurity” lavishes an evil on people. And now, there is a huge indication of a distortion. Gods foresaw the greatest harm would happen to Japan, divide own power and give it off as a messenger of God (“Shinshi”) in Japan to gather mediums, or “Magica” who can expel the “impurity”. With the magical weapon the power of Gods, “Magica” will fight to stop evils in Japan.”