Seasonal Anime Reviews: Winter 2014

Seasonal thoughts: After an extremely stressful start to the new year, especially considering it came from a rather crappy fall season, I was just about ready to welcome winter with open arms. Like hell I was!! This was the most frustrating winter of my life. I don’t know how Elsa from Frozen can say the cold never bothered her. She should hang around the Midwest region during the polar vortex! OK, Winter anime: Just like last winter, the stuff from last year overshadowed the new stuff. The new stuff had some hits and misses, though. Oh, and Sword Art Online still sucks donkeyshit, and there is no changing that. Get pissy at me all you’d like, fanboys. Oh, and Kill la Kill >>>>>>>> Attack on Titan.

NOTE: Once again, there are unfinished reviews here due to shows not yet finished. Please understand. Geez I’ve slacked off, have I?

Magical Warfare // First Impressions

Arthur C. Clarke once said “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” Or something like that. I don’t know. But hey, magic and stuff.

Magical Warfare (Mahou Sensou) is a Madhouse adaptation of Hisashi Suzuki’s light novel. The story follows Takeshi Nanase, an ordinary first-year student with a rather dysfunctional family. One day, he sees a girl named Miu Aiba collapsed near school campus. Miu is a magic-user from another world armed with a magic pistol, and is being pursued by an anti-magic group called Ghost Trailers. Takeshi is accidentally given evasive magic by Miu and drawn into a battle between magicians and Ghost Trailer.

Okay first episode. I like the premise, but there were some things in the first episode that just rubs me the wrong way. Like Miu, for example. I just know she’s gonna be that annoying abusive tsundere cliche I can’t stand. And really, breast expansion as a magical ability?! Whose dumb idea was that?!! Yeah you get the idea. My expectations aren’t too high for this one…