Anti-Magic Academy #05 — Now To Whore You Out Like Prostitutes

November 4th, 2015

 

LN adaptations are having a hard time with consistency this season.

Impressions:

Well, on one hand, it's an episode about the character who has been nothing but an obnoxious sore thumb on the entire show so far. On the other hand, at least it seems to have more or less wrapped itself up with the standard friendship power speech, Random Blond Childhood Friend With The Shiny Earrings Whose Mere Presence Causes Panic Attacks But Was Otherwise Present In the Episode For Slightly Less Time Than The Existential Masturbating notwithstanding. Nothing happened, but at least it only took about twenty minutes instead of 40 to 120 to an entire goddamned series. She went through the standard non-progression progression of sudden bout of insecurity, go home with protagonist, masturbation in the bath, hilariously be caught naked with him resulting in him being slapped, unrelated fanservice ending to laugh track. It didn't add anything to her character. It didn't add anything to anybody else's characters. It didn't advance the plot. The fanservice was not titilating or worthy of note in any way. There was no eye candy to eye lick at. There's something to say for not doing anything horrifyingly bad, but at least that would've shown a little ambition in some kind of misguided way instead of tepid twenty minutes of porridge.

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Paulo27 says:
    November 5, 2015 at 5:12 am

    Lol @ 3rd line of screenshots from the bottom.

  • Germanguy says:
    November 5, 2015 at 12:00 pm

    The only Problem i have with this Show is, that i already think i know the Master Villain, that is pulling the strings from the Shadow, since Episode 03..

    So.. i can not really enjoy this to the fullest, knowing it is all futile

  • The Phantom says:
    November 5, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    The personalities of these characters are pretty much gone at this point, where is the angry red haired girl or the could-not-give-a-damn witch, was not purple hair supposed to be evil and scheming?

    The only consistent ones are white coat and blondie… because they had no personality to begin with!

  • backshelf says:
    November 6, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    [Apologies if I’m repeating myself; I think I’ve started this post a couple of times, but can’t find where I’ve actually posted it.]

    “go home with protagonist, masturbation in the bath, hilariously be caught naked with him resulting in him being slapped, unrelated fanservice ending to laugh track.”

    This is why I’m watching Valkyrie Drive. Nothing like this happens. When the girls get naked, it’s not by accident, they mean it. When they rub each others boobs, they mean it. When they hump each others legs, they mean it.

    And by “mean it”, I mean “do it to defend themselves and their liberty”.

    The differences between doing this and doing it for fun or for love, as well as the attendant emotional consequences, are becoming clearer with each episode.

    It’s not cheap fan service; it’s the real deal. There’s some amazingly powerful and subtle stuff going on.

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    I’m particularly irritated with the female lead getting “caught naked with [the male lead] resulting in him being slapped” trope. And then having to watch him get embarrassed over the whole thing, instead of turning the girl over his knee and reminding her of whose fault it actually was.

    Nothing like this, not even remotely, happens in Valkyrie. The closest thing I can think of is when one girl gropes another girl’s boob because they get caught in a fight, and of course she starts cranking her weapon up–but is painfully embarrassed when she realizes the girl has no idea what’s going on and doesn’t know why she’s being groped.

    Then there’s a “Wedding” that will make you weep. And make you clench your fists in rage when you consider it against things like Obergefell.

    It’s not at all funny. It hurts to watch, and hurts worse to rewatch once you understand exactly what’s happening.

  • backshelf says:
    November 6, 2015 at 12:56 pm

    I mean “hurts to watch” in the way good drama always does. The hurt is no more gratuitous than the fan service.

    It may well not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s not cheap.