the irregular at magic high school movie release

It's a terrible, uninspired way to tell a story and as a result the special has no real momentum or driving energy to it. Various events happen that affect Miyuki in various ways, Tatsuya gets to flex, there's a big battle, and Miyuki's arc is brought up to the status quo that will kick start the rest of the series. It would have been better to begin in the past and immerse us in the story, and then timeskip at the end to present day to remind us of how these characters have grown and where they're going. Having present day Miyuki and Tatsuya flying to the island and reminiscing about the past is a terrible way to frame an origin story because it provides a context that disconnects us from what is happening.

Now from a construction standpoint I have two more gripes. franchise is what I'd call a well animated visual novel with action scenes. Miyuki narrates throughout the whole anime and it's used as a means of dropping meaningless exposition and lore dumps and telling us things that really should have been conveyed from the direction and animation instead. I'll get more into that later (spoilers I guess), but now for my surface level problems.Īs usual the show has an over-narration problem. However it fulfils an interesting role in that it is the missing link to understanding who Tatsuya is, how he came to be, and his relationship with Miyuki. This special is par for the course when it comes to the Mahouka franchise - bad

The irregular at magic high school movie release