review Magical Warfare

This show has to resort to threats to get viewers

Takeshi was a boy who lived in a broken home and longed to get away from where he was. His wish was granted by a girl named Mui who introduced him to the world of magic and enabled to not only use magic of his own but study magic in a magic school in a magic world. As luck would have it his two best friends also gain magic and are able to study alongside him. However this is a dangerous world with two factions of wizards battling and Takeshi could easily get caught up in the conflict.

Not so badass, are you?

Light novels adaptations are pretty much a staple in anime these days and just from looking at it Magical Warfare is clearly one of those shows. Even the main girl feels like she was she is just Shana from Shakugan no Shana just aged a bit and given a gun instead of a sword. This also has the problem a lot of speculative fiction suffers from; front loading a lot of world information in the first few episodes.

This is not to say that this show is entirely without merit. However most of this comes in the form of crazy magic fights that become increasingly common as the show wears on. Also I found the side characters to be a bit more compelling than the group of four main characters but no real stand outs.

However in the end there are only little bits of the show that are good and this overstuffed genre has many sweeter fruits so to speak.

Overall I found Magical Warfare to be a very generic modern fantasy show that can work if you are looking for a brainless action show

Rating the tin Melon bread (Shakugan no Shana) for being the bare minimum of an urban fantasy light novel adaptation