The arcs don’t have enough time to simmer before the next one immediately follows, and more characters bloat the cast. To make matters worse is the effect on the pacing and character interactions this non-urgency has. In episode 11, one of its members even cutely panics when questioned. Suppose you could argue the Wings of Magius fills the villain role, essentially a magical girl Illuminati, but they function more as a recurrent obstacle than an active villainous force, with new members being introduced left and right, a confusing morality position and no real intricate planning.
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This causes the series as a whole to effectively have a non-plot: with no active villain, clear solution or ticking clock.
Heck, we don’t even get to know what her relationship to Ui WAS like in order to flesh her out some. In all this time, there is zero progression on Iroha’s goal to find her sister, which keeps her as a one-note character who has nothing else to define her or drive her drama: a puppet to tour through various disconnected plots without anything interesting learnt about her in the slightest. Not showing by example, telling how the magical girl system works. Episode 11 is purely an excuse to bring characters to a location, while Episode 12 explains the magical girl system of the series. During this time, over 10 other supposedly significant characters are introduced claiming to have a reason for existing and not getting to do anything beyond stating exposition.
Episodes 8 to about halfway through Episode 10 do the same for another character who becomes irrelevant immediately following. Episodes 6-7 focus on yet another character’s conflict to create and resolve. Episodes 4-5 introduce another character in a place that seems relevant but is quickly forgotten after. See, Episodes 2-3 start and resolve the conflict of two characters. Top this off with an overabundance of character designs, likely present to convince players of the gatcha game to grind for them, and you have a series with only the thinnest connective tissue. Rather than having a central drive that every element works towards, the series instead focuses on several smaller stories that are both underdeveloped and have little to no lasting payoff. The show has a severe issue with understanding what deserves attention. This leads to Magia Record’s greatest sin as its own plot: focus. Strong start, but rather than go any further with Kuroe, she is quickly removed from the series to spend the next two episodes on a hastily rushed conflict between two new characters the audience is given no time to care about. It also introduces a girl named Kuroe, seemingly a friend of Iroha’s who already made her wish to become a magical girl, but the circumstances didn’t last. As a magical girl fighting mysterious creatures, she’s trying to find her sister named Ui: supposedly the reason why she became a magical girl in the first place, but whom no one else remembers. The first episode seems to establish the plot focus about this girl named Iroha Tamaki, who happens to have Madoka’s color palette. Rather than be allowed to freely express like its main series counterpart, it winds up feeling substance-less, focus-less and ironically, far closer to a traditional Magic Girl series.īecause of the nature of this show, I’ll judge the series by two angles, one as its own story, and one as a companion to the Madoka franchise it proclaims itself a side story of:
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Despite the admirable effort from the artists and Yūki Kajira, Magia Record’s characters and plot structure are held back very far, likely by how a TV series must accept its mobile game design mentality. For the sake of providing business revenue, these work fine, however scummy they are, but what happens when transferring that mentality to a non-interactive medium where quick story is the most important?
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very specific factors emblematic of their origin, and of those adaptations, an increasingly common source of anime recently are gatcha games: free to play games tailored to get people to dump money to gamble for character growth and collection.
Light Novel adaptations tend to feature basic protagonists bereft of the thought focused complexity their written works offer. When anime are produced based on ongoing manga, one can exact lingering focus on iconic shots and a tendency to go on and on as long as it takes. Original anime (like the original Madoka series) are practically guaranteed to have a beginning, middle and end, but when based on a source, there’s certain elements that become byproduct by the source’s nature. An underappreciated factor when looking at any individual anime series is the nature of its source material, provided it has one.
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