This is
going to be like Dog & Scissors,
isn’t it? Not bad enough to drop, but
nothing amazing.
Episode 2
was devoted to explaining the world.
Basically, what the magical girls fight are Daemonia, which are demons
that humans with darkness in their hearts (or something like that) contract
with. The Daemonia claim to grant a wish
of theirs’, and, in return, after it’s granted, the human/Daemonia combo go on
a killing rampage.
…
Chains,
much?
This is a
good season for Pandora Hearts references,
isn’t it? I swear, that show isn’t just
on my mind, those of you who have seen it will know what I mean when I compare
the baddies in this to Chains. And Pandora Hearts is awesome enough to be
talked about, even if the ending was shit.
Now, our
main character is going to a sort of magical girl school which is absolutely
nothing like Hogwarts. Instead, it’s
basically a regular school that occasionally sends the girls on missions to
some sort of… alternate dimension? Not
sure. Well, anyway, they fight Daemonia
there.
We learn
about that pile of confusing regarding Akari’s cousin. Apparently, they (‘they’ being the folks in
charge of this Daemonia hunting business) erased her from everyone’s memories,
so that no one would go into despair and be ripe pickings for another Daemonia. When Akari hears about this, she isn’t happy
at all.
I always
give a show props for trying to be a bit more dark/serious than expected, as
that helps it distance itself from other magical girl anime coming out this
season (Looking at you, Fate/kaleid liner
and Fantasista Doll). However, being dark/serious doesn’t work as
well if I don’t really care about the characters. Akari despairing about how she killed her
cousin doesn’t hit home when I don’t like her that much yet. She’s not bad, just a touch… bland?
Basically,
my decision is that I’m going to keep watching this, as I enjoy the fight
scenes and this anime’s attempts to be dark.
However, if it starts to bore me, I’ll probably drop it.
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