You’re losing me very rapidly.
Impressions:
More questions need to be asked about the weird dude kidnapping prepubescient girls to his compound in the remote wilderness. I feel that the answer to those are far more important than the banal minutiae of how magic works and the sociopolitical history of the region. Seriously, here. After two episodes, Little Witch Academia had covered three times as many characters, ten times as much magic, and fought both a giant rooster and a tentacle monster. Here? Two episodes in, we learn that in order to start real learning, first we need to pass some tests and get proper certification. Fantastic. Can’t wait to start reading the EULA by episode six.
I’m just plain bored. I want to see characters interacting, learning, growing, developing, making mistakes, adventuring, encountering new situations, having experiences. Not watching a powerpoint slide, cooped up in some werido’s shack where they spout frivolous banalities like “don’t you think nice things are nice?” It introduces three characters, but none of them actually do anything. They just state what their schtick is; dopey, mopey, and grumpy, and then fade right back into the background to make way for more minutia that I could not care less about. It’s magic. We both know you’re not going to follow your own rules, and as we established in the first episode, they don’t make any sense to start with. Take the premise and do something with it.
