Magic User's Club

Going to quickly cover the OVA and TV Series of Magic User's Club in this review. Mahoutsukai Tai is memorable, in both entertaining and appalling ways; it's franchise that had a decent OVA and then duplicated into a GOD AWFUL television series that is among one of the worst that I've ever seen. After all, what is animation if you don't make objects float in the air instead of animating them? • Let's start with the OVA. The first thing that caught my attention in the OVA is amount of love the creators seemed to have poured into it. Though not necessarily good, you can tellthat the creators had an immense passion for their project. • This series seems to do what Project A-Ko did and expanded upon typical archetypes to make them entertaining. We have the pervert with glasses, the klutz, the tomboy, the flamboyantly gay guy, the beautiful flaky girl, and the ojou-sama character. Comedy with stereotypes can work if done right, and I think this OVA is a thumbs-up venture. On the other hand, while the OVA was endearing and lovable, the TV series the complete opposite. Please, if you get into the OVA, don't watch Magic User's Club TV . • The TV series debatably looks worse that some Christian cartoons that were probably funded by a small town church. The animation is ATROCIOUS. There's no point to even having made this sequel, because the new character that the TV series chooses to focus on has no point. Instead of fighting a menacing megalith, like in the previous version, it's just a little transgendered person that likes to mess around with the characters in his free time. • There's a school festival that lasts forever, and random things like Akane shrinking or Sae visiting her family. And none of these episodes are written in a charming or likable way, like the script in the OVA. I had to force myself to sit through this train-wreck of a TV series. It's like they wanted to make a lazy cash grab and decided to make all of the same jokes as the OVA to a nauseating degree with a low budget and questionable character developing moments. • Again, don't watch the TV series, but the OVA is fun. Watch that. Overall, I give Mahoutsukai Tai OVA a 5/10 and the TV series a deserved 1/10 because it was abominable!

First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile. ------ Both OVA and TV review ----- ✦Story Very classic magic school Anime. Witches, spells, oldschool stereotypes and the whole general feel is pretty oldschool. I did like the style, but it probably has aged really bad for my taste. Anyhow, I felt that OVA story was more intriguing whilst TV series became oddly very dull. It did add in sense of mystery and some quirks, but the whole way how it was built was simply boring. As episodes passed, the more and more I started fast-forwarding. It simply felt lifeless towatch. ✦Art & Sound Art/animation was good enough. As for sound, I did notice quite some soundtracks and OP/ED was also quite nice. ✦Character I felt that characters had nice stereotypes and their interaction was most of the time quite entertaining. But as time passed, I got really worn out by their whole character. Sawanoguchi was really cute oldschool moeblob. Found her adorable and probably liked her the most. Then we have straight-man act character, a loose model that likes to run around with men. And 2 main guy characters were sort of a pervy comedy duo. Whereas of the characters is comedic perv and other one is bishounen homosexual. So yeah, it made a good comedy material. Considering how of the guys imagines pervy stuff and gets lost in his fantasy world thinking about girls, whilst the homo kinda breaks that fantasy apart in humoric sense. Aside that we have few noticeable side-characters and some classy stereotypes. But aside that characters felt linear and eventually exhausting. But in the end, they were enjoyable enough. ✦Enjoyment & Overall I just cannot explain any better than it probably aged badly for me. It had lot of "classic" elements I really liked, but all together it felt really dull and just simply ash-ilike. But OVA's were surely more enjoyable. So go check out OVA's as they are prequel anyways. And depending how much you like OVA's, expect the series being worse. That will help you as the viewer to decide whenever to bother touching TV series or not. Average says 5.5, but this one I don't feel like praising. Thus 5 overall.