Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku Episode 12 Discussion

If anyone would ask me what this series was about, no idea. I got lost way to early to enjoy this show, if that is even possible.

They did a fantastic job with the finale, the direction and animation budget was definitely saved for this, and as much as I wish for more so peoples’ first impression of mhyk would be less. like This, I’ve been realizing that there IS a lot of care and conscious effort put into every (ok…most) scenes, and this ep shone beautifully as a result! Totally get that it’s a series that’ll fall flat for people new to the franchise, but my enjoyment is all that matters at this point. Seeing a lot of the scenes I was looking forward to finally animated, and them actually using the animated medium to enhance these scenes (ie: panther heath, nicholas’s transformation), like the stage did an incredible job but actually getting to see how grotesque and large Nicholas-bird looked in the animated adaptation was a different kind of experience for sure. The more varied angles, background shots, and directing for this ep definitely made the world feel more…alive and grand, the flying animation was improved SO much here, I am the happiest person ever. Everything that I wanted (more of the wizards actually using their spells too!!) from previous eps was provided!!!

Not to say this wasn’t rushed. This was INSANELY RUSHED…………like ALL of the last few chapters were packed into ONE episode like that’s. really not the way to adapt a finale esp with how slow they made ep 1 but too bad, my enjoyment cannot be diminished, for me specifically the payoff here was worth it, we got enough anime-original-direction-type scenes (heath transformation sequence, owen struggling to drag Cerberus back into his suitcase, western wizards’ dramatic stand against the umbra volans), dawn breaking and Oz getting his magic back at that moment, so much more show don’t tell kinda of feeling that you can only really capture in adaptation form!!!! I was disappointed in the Shylock eating Murr shard scene for a small moment bc it cut out ALL of Chloe’s lines until I realized it was basically the best way they could’ve done it quickly with Chloe’s :O expression so I take back my disappointment I am satisfied.

I’d like to think all the limitations was budget, an attempt at trying to make mahoani new-fans-friendly, and that they are definitely planning a second cour because of that ;;; totally not delusional at all….MS1 is basically a prologue after all, and there is SO much more stuff to cover but nevertheless, I’m thrilled to see everyone animated like. We only had that tiny teaser video for how many years??!! So a full half-cour is something I’ve really been taking for granted for the past twelve weeks, thank you mahoani I am sorry for doubting you……….

@yitsuin Honestly I think that if the anime had lasted longer mahoyaku would not have been criticized this much because it would have been less rushed, the lore would have been better explained and Akira would not have been so "irrevelant"

Now that we’ve reached the end, I’m just gonna say I had no idea what was going on the entire time. Every episode had a different plot, but not even in an episodic way because nothing was wrapped up at the end of the episode, they just moved on to something else. It’s not even something that a second season could fix because quite frankly, you couldn’t convince me to watch another season after this abomination of a first season.

@nisruyu I FEEL THIS IN MY BONES...........solidarity in the comments section of pain 😔💪 seeing all your comments each week always makes me so happy it's like finding treasure while wading through the sea....... I'd have loved 24 eps or at the very least an extra episode or two to flesh out the stuff we got in this one! </3

and ikr, Akira has a pretty defined personality for a jsmk game mc so it hurts to see them cut a bunch of stuff out/reducing her inner thoughts to flashcards and everyone being like. wow she's so boring >:[ she's doing her best with the screentime haha....

but nevertheless, still holding onto the hope for s2......whether 1.5 anni or MS2!!!!!! 😭😭

@sarybelle There was no different plot in each episode and there was always a link with the following episodes (for example in episode 7 I think Rutile explains the importance of words to his brother and Riquet in relationships and it makes sense since the words of the wizards are what allowed Akira to believe them) but the problem is that it is poorly explained :/