I grew up on the animated series cartoon for years I fell in love with the 60’s television show upon getting older and most of my favorite comics now are Batman stories. I’ve been a new arrival to comic books for the past year, but I’ve always been a loyal fan of the ever-famed Dark Knight. More faeries, more danger, and learning more about the sorcerer whom I predict will be the antagonist. I predict a big reveal about our “magus” – who’s barely aware of what he is anyway – and some substantial personal growth for our main couple. My First Impressions of Ancient Magus Bride are good ones: It’s deceptively cute with lots of whimsy, but with just enough danger and darkness to bring in the shonen crowd. It’s important for any story to remember that there are other important characters besides the love-interests. Furthermore, watching Chise as a person grow thanks to the people around her has been, as of this point, truly captivating. If it isn’t the wise Lindel catching Chise off-guard and proving himself to be quite the smart-ass, then it’s Elias being rather childish with people he claims to like, such as Angelica, and their oddly parental response to him. Besides Chise and Elias having a growing relationship that continues to be adorable, their experiences with other characters are equally compelling and entertaining.
Combine that with the semi-distressed damsel and I can easily see what would draw younger boys to the show.īut what I adore about this show more than anything is how the characters in this show bounce off each other so well. There’s plenty of drama to be had, mind you – and romance aplenty – but it looks like Yamazaki is really good at dressing it up with action and horror. Chise is very much an underdog, on a big fantastical quest to become something remarkable, and there’s a far greater focus on action than drama. But the more I examined the eleven available episodes, the more I realized that the shonen is under the skin. And our main character, Chise, radiates moe so bad it’s no wonder the “emotionless” Elias feels so protective of her so soon. Fairy creatures who get to look cute and adorable fulfill their purpose to be so, unabashedly. It’s quite refreshing, though it sometimes leads to disturbing places.ĭespite all that, I never would have believed this show was a shonen series for all the pretty and downright adorable people and creatures it’s populated with. None of the creatures are inherently good or evil they’re capricious and do what they selfishly want. The first five episodes of this show make it very clear that we are dealing with old-fashioned versions of the Fair Folk, the kind who kidnapped children and shot arrows of rheumatism. However, if you expected that magic to resemble anything Disney has given us about fairies in the last ten years – cute, good, wholesome, all that – then you will find yourself traumatized and crying in a corner. If you come into this series expecting a cute romance story with lots of magic, you’ll find yourself more than satisfied. All the while, a strange spark begins to take shape between Chise and her new husband-to-be, one that may surprise them both.
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She’s in for a wild ride in training to use magic like a true mage, a ride full of tricky fairies, “fertile” fair queens, playful dragons, and so much more. But, unfortunately, it means a good deal of magical creatures are attracted to her, some with foul intent. Chise has always known she was more than a human since she can see all kinds of fairy creatures, but it turns out she’s a specific kind of mage capable of producing magic at a damaging rate. His name is Elias Ainsworth, a non-human mage looking for an apprentice and a future bride.Īnd from then on out, we fall down a vast rabbit hole. But she avoids being the new playtoy of some rich pervert when a strange, non-human figure plops down a big ole’ check. What would you do if you had no family, friends, or anything else to live for? Chise Hatori, fifteen, decides that her only course of action is to willingly sign her life away to a private auction, ready to finally find a perch with the highest bidder. The ongoing series is too short to warrant itself a full review, but first impressions prove the show to be poignant and charming. Ancient Magus Bride, based off the manga of the same name by Kore Yamazaki, looks to prove itself to be a shatterer of expectations and one hell of a ride through romance, magic, and Faerie. It’s time to sit down and finally address the new elephant in the anime room, which has managed to gain a very faithful following in the span of a handful of episodes. It’s also rare to find a female-led shonen series with such a heavy emphasis on, of all things, a fantastical romance.īut that is exactly what we have here today, much to my shock and pleasure. It is very rare for a show to catch me off-guard so.
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