Kenja no Mago: Wise Man's Grandchild

[Munsu]

A powerful wizard and sage comes upon a baby whom he adopts and names Shin. The baby is actually a man from our world reincarnated into the sage's world. The sage raises Shin, separated from the rest of society, and teaches him in the ways of magic. It is only when Shin turns 15 years old and sets out on his own journey that the sage remembers that he forgot to teach Shin the common sense and ways of this particular world. And so, Shin goes the capital of the Alsheid Kingdom to enroll in the capital's magic academy.

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I'm up to date with Kenja no Mago: Wise Man's Grandchild, and not going to try and convince anyone who's not watching to give it a shot because so far I think it's overall a silly series. Just decided to create the thread after watching the final scene of episode 3, it really surprised me and came out of nowhere for a series like this.

I know there's at least someone else watching.

I feel it has the same atmosphere as Kyo Kara Maoh without the shounen-ai antics so far.

[KrayZ33]

I like the spellcasting in this show.

the storytelling and the setup itself is horrible though.

MC being from our world is pointless, in fact the story would've made more sense, and would've been better, if he wasn't.
And characters are still able to make jokes and laugh after beheading a classmate/kid that transformed (unwillingly, he was basically tricked into it) into a demon.

I dislike the author for jumping onto the isekai train just like that, when he could've had an original story within some kind of mythical medieval paralell world.

That "talented magician in training" - "demon hunter" stuff would've been so much better if it were build up in a more serious manner, like that one show a few years ago with the witch in the woods... Maria the Virgin Witch - I believe?

Man, that show had interesting characters.

[David75]

Interresting characters ? who ?
Yup, MC forced to behead Kurt was a surprise.
Domestic Violence too.
I agree with everything else.

[shinta|hikari]

Maria was pretty "interesting" in unadulterated form.

[MFauli]

I watch it. Also it's a wholly generic, rather bad series.

Agreed, the isekai premise is so unneeded. Nothing would change if he didn't come from our world. Reminds me of that other anime where someone was reborn as a silver-haired boy in a fantasy world and started designing mecha for the kingdom. At least there it was the reason for his different mecha designs, because he used to be a gundam fan in the real world.

[KrayZ33]

Interresting characters ? who ?

The mercenary guy that killed his commander, the church dude, that celtic demon/god thingy etc. etc.
But literally everyone was meaningful and interesting enough.
Even the succubus that was used to exhaust military leaders so they won't feel the need to go to war.

That anime was brimming with charm like a disney/ghibli movie.

Quite the opposite of this one, which is so generic and pointless that you can't help but think it's written by some 12 year old. It's some kind of fan fiction... sure, I can watch it... but it has absolutely no worth whatsoever.
It's following a certain checklist, and it's doing that in a rather obvious fashion, as you can already tell by the fact that it's isekai, even though it doesn't add *ANYTHING* at all.

The show Mfauli mentioned -> at least the dude brings technology
Overlord -> at least it's his character - and thus he has some kind of status attached to that - also a game
Slime -> technology
Smartphone -> Smartphone - I believe it was a game?
Oda nobu-smthing -> dude knows how history played out

etc. etc.

this one? Dude is *reborn* as a baby, somehow does retain some kind and some intelligence of his former life, but nothing specific about how to behave in public or something, but hey, he brought laserswords from star wars, ain't that funny.
Yet none of that was by any means necessary because magic exists.
He was trained by two of the strongest mages in that timeline anyway, so obviously he'd be a prodigy if you give him some kind of "natural talent" and it would've been the same outcome - just cut away the first 5-10 minutes and noone would've noticed.

In fact, him not knowing "common sense" would actually be more believable then.


Anyway, it's a show with an OP MC... to a certain degree, I like that, which is why I'll keep watching until it becomes so much of a pain, where I'll simply stop. Or maybe the animation will carry it and get me through

[Kraco]

This is a super generic series. I'll never really understand how the Japanese decide which LN or manga to animate. There would have certainly been more interesting isekai series than this from my point of view.

At least there's a little bit of potential for romance, even if the main girl is lacking personality, I guess going for the perfect girlfriend trope like Asuna from SAO.

[Munsu]

This is a super generic series. I'll never really understand how the Japanese decide which LN or manga to animate. There would have certainly been more interesting isekai series than this from my point of view.

At least there's a little bit of potential for romance, even if the main girl is lacking personality, I guess going for the perfect girlfriend trope like Asuna from SAO.

I hate the love interest.

[shinta|hikari]

Why are so many people watching this..?

[MFauli]

Why are so many people watching this..?

Op guy impressing people (and waifus) with magic spells, kinda ok animation. It's getting boring quickly though, as expected.

[Kraco]

Ep 4



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No body, not dead.

It's kind of funny that if you look at this episode as an example, Sizilien, who ought to be the main girl, actually contributed the least to anything of all the girls who had some kind of a role in the episode.

[KrayZ33]

What do you mean? In my eyes, no one did anything other than MC and the 2 inspectors.

I guess the 2 new members had "some role"... but the rest?

[Kraco]

They seemed to have some ambitions and interests of their own. Sizilien was just looking pretty and reacting to stuff Shin did or what happened around Shin. As if she indeed is nothing but his girlfriend (however unofficial). Nothing big happened in this episode (aside from the demon dude part), so none of them did anything particularly remarkable, but even if it was just knowing about a restaurant and wanting to taste all kinds of dishes there, it's still something they'd do for their own pleasure alone.

I'm obviously judging Sizilien through a bit harsher lens here, but that's given if she's to be the MC's partner. My ideal fictional couple is one where there's some equality, both have their own things going on, and both can kick ass (in some ways, even if it's so that one is a fighter, the other is a hacker).

[MFauli]

Pls stop calling her 'Sizilien' :/

No idea why the subbers are translating her name to German, when the jap. dub clearly calls her 'Shishirii' aka 'Sicily'. Which also sounds much better. Fuck crunchroll, I guess 💁

Episode was ok. The 'no body' made me sigh out aloud. But I love these magic spells where multiple layers are summoned for more power. Always reminds me of Evangelion when they created multiple AT fields for better protection ❤

[neflight86]

At least he finally used some previous life knowledge (multiple invisible types of light waves combined for his spell) to any effect. This is about where I stopped reading the manga, due to a lack of real creativity or tension. I sure hope this story goes somewhere.

[Kraco]

Ep 5


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That's one super ugly and useless looking sword. It shouldn't last 10 minutes in a serious fight, but I guess it will because of magic.

[MFauli]

I still don't get it. Is a hilt THAT expensive?! And he's surrounded bu rich, benevolent people 💁

[KrayZ33]

I still don't get it. Is a hilt THAT expensive?!

Think Attack on Titan.

I believe... or rather I hope... that he'll somehow either carry additional blades around or the blade will at least be in stock somewhere for him to use if it breaks.
Probably a lot easier to produce these than whole swords or something.

But in this show? It isn't... just look how stupidly complex and ugly that junk looks. The hilt is so freaking large too, what a horrible design for a sword and blade, most likely extremely unbalanced too.


What was that retarded opening scene btw.... holy crap...that was unnecessary.

[shinta|hikari]

Couldn't he just enchant the blade to not break? I mean, he enchants the shit out of clothes and rings and whatever, but the blade breaks easily?

[KrayZ33]

he could do a lot of things... he could also simply not use a blade but a wooden stick, because he cuts with magic anyway