The Water Magician

-Hello, uh, can I get a water magician anime? -here, do you want anything else? -good, but who is Abel? Is he also a water magician? -no. -Is he some kind of servant? They get on adventures, have fun? -no, he is friend of him. Nevertheless, he is irrelevant to the water magician, and he has arcs which does not even relate to water magician. And, let me give you a heads up since you are interested in other people than water magician, you will also get anybody who is the friend of water magician in your screen and sometimes if you're lucky enough maybe, water magician. And he willcompletely obliterate everything. We also made him to look like he is the main character but we won't show him enough. So you will get frustrated. That was the complete synopsis of Water Magician anime. The animation quality won't even saves because it degrades as the episodes flow. And since there is not anything much to show other than side characters starting from episode 3, there is not much to animate. If this was the trash isekai from the first episode, I wouldn't even indulge in typing this.

It looked ok until they probably replaced writer for last few episodes with some brain dead monkey. Is your only job to protect someone? Stay away few kilometers from that person, that is how bodyguard works it seems. Oh, you see masked men killed on the beach? Nevermind, those young unmasked people taking care about your princess must be bandits, murder them! Huge nobles party at ther mansion? Let's not have any guards at all. Deus ex machina everywhere, chain of absolutely unbeliaveble misunderstandings and the whole episode 11 is just a flashback for a side character? All characters have suddenly IQ 50, just because thatasshole creator was .. I do not know, drunk, smashed, typing random letters? Whoever wrote that ending is totally incompetent arrogant useless fool and should be banned from writing forever. I would rate the beginning 8/10 but last several episodes 2/10.

Typical isekai, someone dies and gets reincarnated and wants to live the peaceful life, and while the MC is not op from the beginning... after like 2 episodes, he's already OP. In short, a disappointment of an anime. Not worth the time at all. To be honest, I don't really have good things to say about this anime, as everything I think about that might be good is still ending up to be a bad aspect of it, so I'll just start saying the negatives (with no order to them, just as they came to me): - the presentation of the story is very choppy, literally, like theyjust keep skipping scenes in an unnatural way. From the first episode you can see that the story is being presented like it's some compilation of random scenes or like it's the events from a journal in which the owner kept forgetting to write in... what should have been a really good part of the story, where the MC is getting used to the life in the new world, learns magic and is training and meeting interesting characters, it turns to barely anything worth mentioning. In fact, it kinda made me furious a bit as I really wanted to see certain parts that were presented like they're starting, but then you just see a skip and bam, the MC already did that thing or learned it, and you don't find out anything... talk about lazy story telling... - dialogue. It feels thrash. Very unnatural. The MC talks so out of place a lot of times and ig the "jokes" he keeps telling are falling flat like crazy... and he doesn't seem to stop doing them... A lot of the conversations in this anime felt very weird to me, like someone trying to imitate humans... - MC. This one is big. This MC is a bad MC, and the presentation didn't help as well because a lot of times even the anime forgot about the MC. He's the type of always optimistic go lucky, that smiles a lot, is very powerful, feels flat like crazy in terms of anything, and acts a bit like an airhead. He's also a bit meek in a lot of situations, and tbh, from how he talks and looks at people, he seems like a psychopath or something, like a combination of default smile and the 1000 yards stare... and oh, yeah, he's also a boring person with no personality whatsoever. He didn't even feel like an MC to me most of the anime. He felt like a side character that would just scoop in, get 2 minutes of exposure, and then off he goes in his own world and does whatever he's doing, because we mostly get only the big ideas about what he's doing and nothing too deep, because God forbid we actually get something deep in this anime instead of only ideas that aren't explored anyway - Art. It's straight up shit. They had budget for the OP and one fight in like episode 4. The rest? Big disappointments all of them. Hype me up for 2-3 episodes where the MC isn't even part of those episodes almost and then deliver a fight of like 2 minutes in which the MC appears? And one that is animated like shit? Very disappointing. And there are other hype fights that would get me like "heck yea", but then the fight starts and I realize they actually didn't save budget for the fight, they just don't have budget for anything anymore... at a certain point, they spammed like 3 or 4 slide shows an episode. You can actually see how static everything is. Props to them for not using CGI ig... - Ideas. So many ideas, and you don't find anything much about them. You would actually see something very important happening, or people talk about something that sounds very important, and then everything is forgotten or ends so abruptly that it's like it never even existed. For example, a character was talking about being able to do healing spells that don't require incantations, and a priest was very surprised to hear that... and then the scene ends... who in the right mind wouldn't continue talking about that and trying to find out more? Or was this just another one of those skips where a lot of progress was done off screen? Idk man, let me see something besides basic generic dialogue option number 65. Or another one is that MC keeps trying to learn alchemy for quite some time... only for us to not find anything about it or his progress... but hey, you can kinda see this pattern from the first episode, so yea, just know that the story telling really sucks and you won't get much... (other examples might involve spoilers) - perfect timings... I really don't like the parts where characters talk about something, and bam, the next scene is that something happening or meeting that someone they were talking about. Show, don't tell... foreshadowing me with 1-2 minutes before it happens does not bring me any pleasure when that event happens, on the contrary... and it also happens quite a lot in this anime... - for how much the "worldbuilding" seems to be insinuated, it surely feels like a damn empty world to me. If you're gonna watch this anime, just try to see how many scenes there's almost nobody in them besides the characters that need to, but the places should have had at least a few more people... also, for a world of magic, there surely are barely a few people that can do something with it - the story had quite a few good aspects to them, and they felt like they were gonna be important, BUT AGAIN THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH THEM. Sera and Ryo are meant for each other, you can clearly see that and feel that from everything the anime shoves in your face. The ED is only with Sera. The OP shows them together. But the anime? The anime forgot about them and barely showed anything with the two of them... a shame... but I'm glad we got in episode 11 half of the episode about some background of a character that was introduced like 1 episode before it, and after that precious time spent on them, that character didn't do anything special for which the background check was worth for... especially because episode 10 ended in a cliffhanger for a big fight, so another L to the presentation... I will stop here, too much time spent on a disappointment... Story: 3 -- Very bad presentation Art: 3 -- They had budget for OP and a fight, and that's it... Music: 8 -- The music wasn't bad. The OP is beautiful. The ED is meh. Characters: 3 -- Bad characters and bad interactions overall. Enjoyment: 3 -- Barely enjoyed a few scenes in this anime... Overall: 4 Right now it has 7.08 from 72.968 votes Ranked #4144 Popularity #1688 Members 152,900 as of 31/10/2025. I cannot recommend this anime to anyone, only to those that want to be disappointed.