Rental Magica is another series which attempts to be the right-side of the “magic + school chil­dren =” equa­tion. Whether the glut of recent shows with this theme is some kind of fal­lout from the Harry Pot­ter fan­gasm or per­haps just some kind of coin­cid­ence is a ques­tion for the future; what […]

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Dragonaut’s first epis­ode is full of breasts. The second epis­ode is full of dragons. The third epis­ode has breasts and dragons. This is of course entirely unsur­pris­ing given the char­ac­ter designer’s pre­vi­ous works: Love Hina, Gra­vion and recently Witchblade; the sem­inal Stellvia of the Uni­verse seem­ingly an excep­tion to Makoto Uno’s otherwise […]

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The first thing one notices about Night Wiz­ard is the grad­ated hair. The second is that it isn’t as laugh­ably com­ical as its name would sug­gest it to be. Pitch­ing itself as a fantasy romp with school chil­dren, the series’ first three epis­odes focus more on slice of life than sli­cing of […]

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Call­ing Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun stun­ningly unima­gin­at­ive would be a gross under­state­ment. In three epis­odes the series has done noth­ing to endear itself; the only bait it has for its mea­gre hook is the fan-service which given the ropey art-style is per­haps not bait at all. Three epis­odes is enough to see exactly where […]

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Lift­ing off dir­ectly after the first sea­son of Gen­shiken, the OVAs unfor­tu­nately have to the play the middle-child by intro­du­cing two new char­ac­ters and set­tling them into the storyline in evid­ent pre­par­a­tion for the second sea­son. Handed over to the Kujibiki Unbal­ance stu­dio Ajia-do, the OVAs suf­fer from some­times atro­cious anim­a­tion but […]

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