The Ancient Magus' Bride - Reviews

Twilight – The Anime

When I refer to this as Twilight: The Anime, I don’t mean it literally. While this is a supernatural story, there is thankfully no love triangle between the heroine and a vampire and werewolf. There is, however, a shody plot that incorporates every supernatural story cliché and fan fiction trope imaginal. It’s as if all the delusions that Rikka Takanashi in Chuunibyou or Zaimokuza in MTRC SNAFU spout, you know, the parts that are meant to be the comic relief, were made into the plot to a serious anime. And much like Twilight, it is unjustifiably popular.

Chise is a Mary Sue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue) version of Natsume Takashi, which is too bad because there is initially a lot of possibility with the Chise character. Ellias is the far too seriously written Nyanko-sensei. I’d like to give you examples to support my position, but they would be spoilers and I don't believe in putting spoilers in reviews. And this show, while ultimately a waste of time, does have some merits.

The animation is very well done. While the characters might be two dimensional (both literally and figuratively) the character designs themself are good. The sound is good even if the music is a little maudlin for my taste. And there are several funny unintentional comedy moments, mostly stemming from the lack of understanding of Western names and customs by the Japanese creators. I don’t understand setting a story in England unless you were very familiar with English names, places, and cultural norms. But it is good for the occasional laugh.

I really liked the story, although I wouldn't be recommend it to someone who loves constant action or adventure. I find the characters very refreshing since there aren't a lot of animes with marriage and romantic feelings if the other isn't human (no form of a human). The anime brought a lot of touching feelings up, I don't know how to describe it, but it just made me want to watch the anime till the end. 

So for people, who love romantic, yet magical and adventure anime, like howl's howling castle, I would totally recommend this one! ( Although howl's howling castle is better than this one) 

Soo...I was really excited for this. And I hope I'm not alone with my review. I was pretty upset with it overall. It was so hyped and praised. But the story was so slow and there was little character development besides for Chise, which was obvious from the start. Slow story, boring concept. That's really it. 

I've been waiting a year for this anime!! I've read that the Manga is amazing. I plan to read that as well. This is trully a beatiful anime and the story is beatiful. I love it!

This was the Anime that made me LOVEEE Fantasyyy