Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records

[MFauli]

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Sistina attends a magical academy to hone her skills in the magical arts, hoping to solve the mystery of the enigmatic Sky Castle. After the retirement of her favorite teacher, the replacement, Glen, turns out to be a tardy, lazy, and seemingly incompetent bastard of an instructor. How is it that Glen was hand-picked by the best magician in the academy?!

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I kinda loved this first ep, lol. Imagine Subaru from ReZero growing up in the same fantasy world, becoming a teacher. That´s this anime´s main character The world also looks like it could be the same from ReZero.

The chemistry between the lazy teacher and his pupils, especially Sistina, is great. How he constantly provokes her, haha.

Only complaint: The outfit of the female pupils is ridiculous. Come one.

[Kraco]

Not having watched Rezero, I have no idea what Subaru is like, but this gave me slight Konosuba vibes as far as the teacher goes; he likes to avoid work, talks mightily, but things go comically bad for him. Of course that's pretty much the only similarity, but it was enough for the first ep, which was quite funny. However, I'm quite unsure if this can keep going like this. If something happens and the dude turns out to be a capable one, since he was hired by that super powerful witch obviously for some reason, then is the comedy all over and this will be a dime a dozen show?

[MFauli]

Not having watched Rezero ...

What is wroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong with you?!

Complete thread derail!

[David75]

I'll have to wait for ep 2 to understand what they want to do with this show....

[neflight86]

From what I read, we haven't even gotten past to plot synopses yet, because of course the protagonist is imba in some way, shape, or form that has yet to be revealed.

[Ryllharu]

Only complaint: The outfit of the female pupils is ridiculous. Come one.

I had the same problem. They are completely fucking ridiculous. Allegedly, there is some reason for their stupidly skimpy outfits covered somewhere in the novels, but the anime didn't cover it.

I doubt any explanation will cover it.

edit:
Ugh. It is even dumber than I thought.

Certainly, the uniform and robe that Sistina and the rest usually wore had temperature and humidity control magic enveloping their bodiesー the black magic [Air Conditioning] was made as a permanent status effect: it would warm them in the winter and cool them in the summer. It was a very convenient item. Unlike men, women are recommended to be lightly dressed during their initial stage of mastering magic in order to develop a high affinity with the natural mana of the world. The uniform was their strongest ally.
 However, the students practically process magic materials by hand during alchemical experimentation and operate instruments. It was a class where they handle catalysts and reagents. Their clothes might be terribly stained depending on the contents of the experiment. There are cases in which the smell of the chemical sticks to the clothes at the end of the experiment.
 That is why all the girls in Sistina’s class goes to this changing room. They are now in the middle of putting on a hooded robe for experimentation.

It's just straight-up perv manufactured rationale for fan-service purposes.

[Kraco]

I recall paying attention to it in the beginning of the ep, but quickly forgot all about it. After so much anime and manga, ignoring such things is half-autonomous.

[MFauli]

I mean, I can enjoy the anime regardless. BUT: This one thing means I will NEVER recommend this anime to anybody who´s not also hardcore-anime fan. Just dumb.

[KrayZ33]

It's pretty funny tbh. Not sure if this can keep up long enough though.

[MFauli]

episode 2 is out
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Ok, I guess I misjudged this anime on the basis of its first episode. I looked up the exact genre on MAL, and indeed, "comedy" is not part of it.

There´s a lot of fun scenes, sure, but episode 2 showed that it´s a serious story after all. Surprisingly serious, actually, consider how rare attempted rape scenes are, and they usually don´t go that far. My dick hated that the bad guy got interrupted by Glenn, but oh well ;P

I loved how the episode really took its time to explain things. The magic lecture by Glenn was superb, I can totally see this being the case within the rules of that fantasy world. Showing those elite students that they´re not that much. Nice.

The villains attacking the school also had a reasonably evil, menacing aura to them. Ofc, Glenn would beat them, but they felt dangerous up until him showing up, taking no bullshit from those students. Aaand they successfully kidnapped the princess, so there´s that.

Personally, I hope this series keeps focusing on the serious parts, while using funny scenes to balance it a bit. And I hope we´ll get some epic battles between Glenn and the stronger enemy mages.

Definitely my personal biggest surprise of the season. I thought it´d be some little distraction, now I´m actively looking forward to it as much as I do for Shingeki and Hero. :>

[Kraco]

Yeah, I expected this show starting to slowly go downhill, either running out of comedy or becoming too run of the mill when the story gets serious. This second ep did surprise me positively. First of all, the reason why Glenn was so unmotivated and looked down on magic is actually super solid: He saw little value in the stiff, formulaic magic spells the students spent their time memorising. Secondly, this ep proved it doesn't need to rely on the comedy to stay interesting.

[shinta|hikari]

Hello Mx0, I missed you.

The attempted rape was too tame, and the girl gave in way too easily. Pathetic. As if begging will stop a murdering rapist from doing the deed. At least keep a shred of your pride. Bite your tongue off and drown in your own blood if it is that mortifying. Bleh.

The comedy was nice though.

So was he a soldier before? An assassin? He knew the imperial martial arts, so I'm leaning towards the former, especially with his clothes during the princess's flashback. I'm guessing he is a special agent, like 007.

[neflight86]

I was sorta disappointed in the reveal. Even though there is no way it could happen in the current anime environment, I was hoping MC would remain mostly useless, and perhaps provide moral or strategic support to his students, but instead we have "cool tough dude will save the day and make all the girlz fall for his strength #884".

Still entertaining, but my expectations have to be re-tuned.

[Kraco]

I was sorta disappointed in the reveal. Even though there is no way it could happen in the current anime environment, I was hoping MC would remain mostly useless, and perhaps provide moral or strategic support to his students, but instead we have "cool tough dude will save the day and make all the girlz fall for his strength #884".

Why exactly would that witch have recommended so adamantly a useless dude for the teacher's position? It was obvious he was highly capable but had some motivational or other such problems.

[neflight86]

Why exactly would that witch have recommended so adamantly a useless dude for the teacher's position? It was obvious he was highly capable but had some motivational or other such problems.

You don't have to be a warrior/soldier/assassin to be able to teach. Specifically, I meant 'useless outside of his defined job role'. I was just hoping for a different setup and character dynamic is all. This isn't bad, I was just unreasonably wanting something different due to the premise matching my expectations for the first episode.

[MFauli]

Gotta agree with Kraco here (omg). It makes sense for Glenn to be a strong, capable mage.

I guess we´re all just disappointed that "that" scene was interrupted too early :P

[Kraco]

That's indeed generally possible, but not in his case. We already saw inside his mind when he told magic is only good for killing and little else. While he was half trolling, or to put it more politely, half only pushing the students to defend their own opinion, it's still more than obvious a person saying such things has lost any youthful illusions a long time ago.

[Ryllharu]

The comedy gold in this eps was Glenn having a Magical Girl sequence as he activated his Trap Card.

As for Sisti being weak and breaking too early, that was the point of the rape-guy's speech. Girls like Sisti who are loud and brash (like anime tsuderes almost always are) are always weak on the inside, and girls who seem weaker-willed, like Rumia, are the ones who are actually as strong internally as the loud ones pretend to be.

I found it very refreshing that the series not only acknowledged the trope, they immediately called it out in only the second episode directly in the dialogue using a minor character. Skipping the bullshit entirely and just admitting the two female leads true personalities.

[KrayZ33]

After ep3. I'm pretty sure the comedy is going to be inconsistent, out of place and just not funny in the future... and the storytelling or story/sceneplay itself is probably made up by a 7 year old or something.

I mean, it doesn't even make fun of itself anymore, it's really 'trying'.
No Konosuba level of making fun of cliché, but actually cliché incarnate.

Dropped if the next episode or two are the same. Funnily enough, the show could've ended here, after 3 episodes, and I'd at least understand why they rushed through all the superhero tropes in a single episode.

[shinta|hikari]

You overestimate 7 year olds.