After a decade spent fighting monsters in the Shadow Labyrinth—a growing dark cloud of magic that threatens to engulf the world and destroy all life—mage Desir Herrman and his five companions finally face their last foe: the dragon of destruction Boromir Napolitan. Although the group of heroes manages to slay this formidable opponent, the tremendous amount of mana stored within the dragon's body is released in an unstoppable explosion that annihilates the rest of the world.
However, instead of dying, Desir is sent back 10 years into the past with complete memories of events to come. He enrolls at Hebrion Academy, determined to put an end to the classist prejudice plaguing the magical world that will ultimately lead to the demise of humanity. Unfortunately, his struggle begins early on during the entrance exams; although he is ranked first of his group, Desir is assigned to the Beta Class, the default class for commoners.
Now, Desir's next objective is to rally someone to his cause that he could not save in his previous life: the wind mage Romantica Eru. Then, Desir will have to show his worth to the Alpha Class with his newly formed party if he wants to ultimately save as many lives as possible.
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Zxmbie37
This is a disappointing adaptation, so much so that I felt inclined to write my first review. The animation is clunky, there’s endless dead time and still frames, with several key details altered or completely discarded from the source material. I genuinely struggle to find anything redeemable from an adaptation perspective. The fact that they skimmed over 10 chapters of plot and world building in a 30 second montage at the end of the last episode was especially painful. The only reason I don’t rate it lower is due to the source material. If this was my first encounter with the series, I probably would’ve dropped it bythe first or second episode.
Read the manhwa instead, and forget this adaptation exists.
Shinkuo
Have you ever thought to yourself "Hey, this manga would be great as an anime! Why hasn't it been done yet?" That was me with this show--- about 5 years ago when I first started reading the Manhwa. After completing it I can safely say it absolutely FLOPPED and did not live up to expectation like with Attack on Titan or Mushoku Tensei. But looking back on it, the signs were there and realistically even with better animation or editing this was about the level of quality to be expected. I will put it here if you don't want to read the following ramblings: This is showis not very good, is kinda boring, but provides a bit of entertainment if you like Isekai, Fantasy Academy stuff.
I can't comment on the Manhwa since I only read maybe a hundred chapters years ago and honestly don't remember much about it, but I think that in and of itself says something.
Minor Spoilers, if you couldn't figure it out from the title, the main character of the story is Desir, a magician, who goes back in time to save his friends(?) and his magic and his use of it is abnormal, special even one could say. Now, as it sounds this should be a fairly standard I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Isekai fantasy story that feels like an Isekai because of the aforementioned premise, but there were a few points to it that make it, or would have made it, a more interesting story.
First, the protagonist isn't overpowered, sorta. Much like many other stories from Korean authors, Desir isn't overpowered because of some God-Given Gift or power but rather his own intelligent use of his abilities, skills, and knowledge.
Second, he is returning to save people who had died rather than for some self-serving purpose. Instantly makes him a more likeable and supportable character whom has their own autonomy.
Third, a harem. You know it. I know it. We watch these shows because it tickles that little funny part of our monkey brains for a nice dopamine hit. However, this show spices it up by making it a more pseudo-harem feel. Like in his eyes he loves them, as his kids, and not as romantic partners so it doesn't feel weird and makes it more wholesome while having fairly legitimate reasons for them to interact the way they do.
Now putting that all together you get a show just as interesting as you reading me list out all of the interesting things about the show. It's bland, tasteless, but also exactly what you came for while knowing it may or may not have something fun or exciting to read.
Did that blow your mind?
Don't worry, I only noticed after I had written out that entire dissertation and realized it truly encapsulated what the show felt like.
If this review bored the crap out of you, there's your answer. I personally slept through 2 episodes before I noticed and ended up having to rewatch them only because where I woke up at seemed interesting and I had hopes it would eventually get better. It did not.
However, If you found this review piqued your interest in the show or found it mildly informative, then you may like the show. It had its fun points and may scratch that fantasy itch
Flacion
What would you do if you failed to save the world? What if you had one more chance? What would you do differently? That is what this story is trying to tell, the story of a second chance. A Returner's Magic Should Be Special is about how Desir failed to save the world and now gets a second chance, by traveling back to the start of his time in a magical academy. We then follow him trying to change what happened originally, to hopefully change the outcome of the world's possible end. The plot is very much about the growth of characters and to start building upknowledge and power, so they can stand together. Through this do you see how Desir hopes to have people more prepared and change the mistakes that originally happened. Which is done through some interesting arcs that help show the world at the academy and a glimpse of how the wider world works.
The characters in itself are based on stereotypes that are seen before, but none of them is done in a really extreme or frustrating way. You explore Desir’s past throughout the season and start to understand why he is making specific choices, so you don't see him evolve that much, but instead learns more about him and his past. The other characters you see grow, overcome obstacles and have a steady progression forward.
This is also a show that sticks very close to the original fantasy vibe, where magic is not explained by levels, but instead is purely based on skill and abilities.
The show also has a specific style of animation that puts much focus on colors, which can especially be seen in the characters' hair, since they have some interesting color schemes.
Overall, is this a good fantasy anime that has a nice plot and some stereotypical roles done right, so i would definitely recommend giving this a watch.
Kaydansnk
This is underrated so I chose to overrate it. As per-usual, those who read the source material are heavily influencing the negative reviews 🙄 and consequently hurting the author and their prospective fan base. No better way to say “I really enjoyed your book” than by hitting them straight in the wallet amiright? Moving on. There are not even an eighth as many “returnee” anime’s as there are mangas/manhwa etc and it’s a crying shame, I hope this statement ages like milk in the future 😌 So that aside, this anime was great. The characters were all distinctive, and art was well drawn and captivatingand the story was cohesive. Anime is not known for its subtlety, but this one hit the subtle in the spots where it was needed and the “in your face” when it wasn’t.
It is compared to Irregular at Magic High often and I think that’s very fair. It’s like if someone took tIaMHS and made it less stupid and more coherent. The issue of discrimination is handled much more sensibly. In Irregular the discrimination issue boiled down to [i]it makes me feel bad[/i] before being shoved under the rug. In this it was taken more seriously and from an angle of “look how much talent we are wasting”. The problem is overarching and the very future depends on maximizing everyone’s potential. So that’s one aspect I really liked.
I also love the way the main character is portrayed. He seems to have it all together and took his time travel in stride, but with little slip-ups you can see how much he isn’t actually okay (without the anime spending needless screen time monologuing.. as if watchers are so dumb they need things spelled out) so I guess what I’m saying is I enjoyed that the creators are trusting the audience.
I dearly hope this gets enough season renewals that we are able to watch it do it’s conclusion.
jackreacher1992
The story did have some potential considering the manwha already has a built in fanbase. However, the studio did it so half-heartedly that a story that deserves 7 or 8 out of 10 becomes a 2 really and averages out at 4 or 5. The characters feel forced, the MC's determination feels half-assed, but the biggest drawback is the animation. It's not that it's the worst, it's just weirdly slow and clunky, like worse than mid 2000s video game, same with dialogue- it felt like something written and acted by AI. It walks such a weird line of rushed or skipped plot but super slowdialogue and animation. Like when you're watching a video buffer but it's not buffering actually. Yet it skips all the elements that might have made me care about the side characters or their motivations or something along those lines.
My recommendation- READ THE MANWHA if you're interested.
ArchangelEST
Returner's Magic is a show that's a mix of fairly common fantasy tropes that manages to put together a sufficiently interesting story and characters, along with passable production values. Animation / Art / General Visuals - 7/10 ----------------------------------------------- There's nothing wrong with the show per se, but it doesn't really impress in any way either. Everything is pretty standard for a moderate budget adaptation. Sound / Music / Voice Acting - 7/10------------------------------------------
The show has some cool battle themes, but ultimately nothing overly noteworthy.
Story - 7/10
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While full of common fantasy tropes, the story is fairly interesting. A young man who studied magic and adventured for 10 years with countless friends and colleagues, gets sent back in time when a catastrophic event destroys the world.
With his knowledge of the future, and some extra skills at his disposal, he will attempt to rewrite the events that lead to the catastrophe and save the world, along with all his friends and allies.
And pretty much the entire runtime of the show, he will attempt to do just that. Recruit his friends and allies, and help them train to become stronger than they were in the previous timeline, in the hopes that it will be enough this time.
The story doesn't much innovate, but it's more interesting than most.
Characters - 7/10
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The cast doesn't receive a whole lot of attention. A lot of their personalities and motivations, and personal history are left unexplored save for a few short flash-backs.
Still, the protagonist is quite well done. Having come back with knowledge of the future, he is more composed, confident and capable than his age would assume. Having such an adult like teenager be the main character in what's essentially a school training arc anime in Season 1, helps to do away with a lot of the common cringe tropes like the main character feeling like they're not strong enough, being all depressed, no knowing how to make friends, or not knowing how to talk to girls and whatnot. This is not a problem in this show, which is nice.
Other characters are fairly nice as well, if a tad annoying at times.
Nothing too remarkable however. A pretty standard cast for a teenage school anime.
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Total - 7/10
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Returner's magic is not particularly impressing, but it doesn't really drop the ball anywhere either. The visuals are fine, sound and music fine, story fine, characters fine. It's fine across the board.
You could do a lot worse than watching this magic school focused, time travel themed, fantasy story.
RowinHaddick
As someone who watches and enjoys silly but fun action and fantasy, I hoped this would at least be that. However, this show committed 2 sins that I cannot tolerate: (1) It Bored The Hell out of me and (2) It confused me to no end. While usually I might write a review detailing the traditional aspects of a show and their qualities, everything in general was so mediocre that I didn't want to explain why everything was at best a 5/10. Instead, I will cover two things in this review, how it committed the aforementioned 2 sins. (1) Boredom - No Stakes, Bad Action, NoWay To Measure Strength.
- When something has no stakes in it, you tend to start to ask yourself why you should care about what is happening. This was the case here. The first couple of episodes is as the synopsis says and then it drags on and on with no real sense of danger. The characters can't die in the school and we are never really given any idea as to why it would be so bad if the protagonists don't get transferred to class A. I mean, they're already training and getting stronger, our MC already knows everything cause he's from the future, and we already know that the characters that were in class B end uo being some of the strongest in the future. So really why should one care about anything that happens this season? And why would I get excited about something I don't care about?
- The Action in this show did something unforgivable. It reminded me of the Last Airbender Movie and of the power scaling of Boruto. First I'll explain why it reminded me of the Last Airbender Movie. Several times we hear a character become impressed my the power and speed of magic being used but then when we actually see the magic it looks so incredibly lame. Powerful wind spells don't even leave a mark on a regular wooden wall, ice projectiles look dull and as harmless as a hard snowball, and both flames and stones that are moving so slow any normal person would be able to dodge them. And there in lies the connection. The spells and fighting are like the scene in The Last Airbender movie where the rocks fly at 2mph. It's very boring. As far as why it reminded me of the power scaling in Boruto, that mostly comes down to how inconsistent the characters are. You have a character do what appears to be a freaking light split blits in one scene, outrun and deflect spells in the other, and then get hit by a regular punch or be held up by characters who at any point of the story should have honestly been considered fodder. I am not joking when I say we have people moving like the flash and losing to a fight against someone who's best feat is throwing a sword and subsequently catching it.
- This last aspect of boredom is very simple and ties in to the second category. We literally have no way of knowing what is supposed to be impressive or how anything works. Spells or moves that are reacted with shock and awe look the same as others that are met with phrases such as "something of that level would never work on me." Because of that you have to wait until the show tells you something is cool before you can think it's cool. Mind you, we have no idea why it's cool since we don't know how anything works.
(2) Confusion - Why? How?
-The two questions I found myself asking more and more as the episodes went by at what seemed to be a slower and slower pace. Like I previously said we don't know anything about how magic or fighting skills work and so nothing that's done ever feels satisfying. We see people training and supposedly getting stronger but we don't know how they got stronger. There's some mentions of magic circle tiers or something but that just makes it more confusing because said information seems to contradict the idea that some characters can become strong. Whenever that very contradiction is questioned we almost intentionally don't get a response. "You have way less magic than me and the little magic you have is of much less objective quality than mine so why are you able to not only cast more than me but cast more powerful spells than me?" Response: 🙂. Yeah, that's not satisfying, that's not funny, it just gives off a sense of laziness and a way to have the plot keep advancing. The magic system wasn't the only thing that is confusing, however. The choices of several characters is also very confusing, especially those of oir protagonists. I'm talking serveral times where we end up learning that the plan all along was to almost purposefully lose or give the enemy an advantage but ultimately win because the MC is just better. This is especially the case IN THE FINAL BATTLE WHERE THEY WAITED FOR SOME RANDOM ARTIFACT MACGUFFIN (we we know nothing about) TO LITERALLY BE POCKITED BY THE VILLAINS BEFORE INTERVENING. *Sigh* sorry about that, but god the last two episodes were so stupid.
Overall, when you get a show where literally nothing is explained, you're never given a reason to care, and you can't even unplug your brain and look at the fun action (because there is no fun action) you're left feeling two things: bored and confused.
I honestly don't know why I didn't drop this but I had more fun writing this review than actually watching the show.
CatFish21sm
The series is good. I really enjoyed the Manwha, it was something different. Thought the anime adaptation skips throgh four archs in one season. I have mixed feelings about that. The archs that were skipped over had a lot of character building in them that was almost completely skipped over in the anime. On the other end, they did cover all of the important stuff that needed to be covered and I'm not sure if everybody would want to stick arround for two or three seasons of character development. So this very quick run through of the first part of the series was probably necessaryif they want to continue with this anime in the future. Personaly though I think that the final 3 episodes should have been the first six episodes in the next season.
All of that said I would overall recommend this anime, if nothing else the story is something different from the norm. It doesn't tend to follow the typical anime script and it does tell the story decently well, enough that someone new to the series should be able to understand it. There are some very important things that are skipped over, but I assume they will be retconed in the next season if there is one. Poribably in the first episode from the looks of it, that shouldn't really mess with the story too much either, it wasn't necessarily important events but more important worldbuilding stuff that should be easy to review in one episode while also catching up on other stuff. I assume that's the reason they did that.
Avroraa
The anime stays true to the manhwa, faithfully adapting each scene without rushing or cutting corners. While this loyalty is appreciated, it becomes a double-edged sword. The animated series could benefit from injecting its own creativity, especially in the battle scenes. The manhwa excels in showcasing stunning battles through illustrations, but the anime feels somewhat lackluster in comparison. A bit more original animation could enhance the overall viewing experience. Nevertheless, the story and pacing remain solid, leaving only the animation as a minor disappointment for those craving a bit more flair in the action sequences. Oh right, the opening songs are bangers, though!
akitaattribute
The writing is a 6 or a 7. At times it's eh, at times you say "This is better writing than shows like SAO". It's just inconsistent. The animation is also wildly inconsistent. Sometimes it's decent. Sometimes you see a door blown up behind a "magic barrier" 4 scenes before that actually happens. Quality control on this show was not up to par. The characters are fairly likeable. The constant throwbacks to episode one are an annoying trope of isekai anime that I could do without. Just imply it. Stop constantly flashbacking and ghosting inyour "past self" for no other purpose than to remind the audience that you lived a past life.
The show has a good direction though. I'd watch a second season.
Benx2019
I think this is my new benchmark for average. It's not awful, but an average anime isn't really worth your time. The animation is cheap. Lot's of cg, none of which looks particularly good. The none cg action scenes are fine, but pretty average. The detail is pretty average overall, but occasionally the character detail is pretty decent. The story has a good premise, and fair world building, but the overall execution leave something to be desired. Pacing is fairly good most of the time, a couple of episodes drag, but overall it's fine. Voice acting is average town, slightly grating, not a ton ofemotion, but some. So not good at all, but average for dubs :). I actually liked a fair number of the tracks in the ost, and the ED is quite good. The op is kind of generic, but fine. Overall this is the bare minimum to create a watchable anime. Not good, not terrible, but still not really worth your time. 5.20/10 Dubbed
MoonlitShade
This show felt like a strange mix between World Trigger and Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei / The Irregular at Magic High School. It was a fun enough watch, but nothing particular special or stand-out was in it. (Not a spoiler, this is covered in episode 1:) The "going back in time to prevent a terrible future" time-loop part of the story is uncommon but not anything original. Overall it's slightly above mid in my opinion, and I enjoyed it enough. However the entire show felt very rushed and suffers from bad pacing. Not sure if the source material also moves the plot as fast orif it is an anime only issue, but if the show had been better paced it would have felt much better.
I will keep an eye out for a second season for sure, though.
uniqueindividual
Maybe because I have been wading through a lot of anime mediocrity and trash lately, but this anime felt refreshing how it doesn't force feed you exposition. I even like that in the first episode there were flashbacks to people I don't know with no explanation except the main character grimaced in remorse and sorrow while having said flashbacks. I knew these people were important to him and gone. A good case of showing and not telling that stays true through most of the anime. After fighting a long war, the protagonist is sent back to high school. This is the fantasy magic high schoolwhere they learn no basic skills except how to fight and the filthy commoners barely even get that. Protagonist now wants to use this opportunity to minimize the horrors of war by training his friends that do no know they are friends, using said friends to say "fuck you, classicism", and tab bit of diverting terrorist schemes.
We know nothing of the protagonist aside from "commoner", so there is a bit of Mary Sue energy. I am fine with this because there no kirito harem and love is not a focus. We don't need to know about protagonist because we understand the world around him by following him. Like in a video game where the map gets revealed as you venture to new spaces.
The side characters and antagonists are fleshed out and feel like complex characters. Except that one noble teacher that is the personification of classicism, but he comes and goes. I personally like that the children are not objectified as sexy symbols.
The fight scenes are pretty good. Sometimes you see some feet getting clipped into the floor and other animation errors, but I don't think that is a huge issue.
Note that this anime ends in a setup for the next arc. Kind of like it is telling us to push for another season or read the source material. I liked it because now I can go do that. But don't like reading manga, then better not start the anime until it gets more seasons.
rossjg
Kikansha no Mahou wa Tokubetsu desu (KnMwTd for short) is strong contender for my underrated anime for this season. The story is nothing we haven't seen before and the music is ok. What KnMwTd excels at compared to other similar titles is the pacing. Studio Arvo Animation has taken there time to build the world and introduce the characters whilst keeping the viewer interested. The animation quality is decent. The first fight in episode 1's monster had CGI so I was expecting that the rest of the season. However, I did not notice any obvious CGI the rest of the season (with some casting spellsthere must have been but the CGI worked). The fight scenes animations are all quite good compared to other anime in the genre. Although the characters personalities are not unique, you still become invested in there story. The main gripe that people are having is that in 3 minutes of the last episode they covered what should have been 4 episodes of next season. That may have brought the MAL score down. This should have a MAL rating of 7.5-7.8. It is a quality action/adventure/school anime that doesn't rush with decent animation. I'm looking forward to season 2. I recommend KnMwTd.
Orimu-
Im very disappointed with this adaptation. It skipped a lot of scenes, interactions between the characters that builds up their relationships and turned a lot of things into slideshows (Promised Neverland S2 style). They fit around 53 chapters in 12 episodes. Its so disappointing because it lacked substance making scenes less impactful. The animation also didn't help. I loved Arvo's adaptation of "Bokutachi wa benkyou ga dekinai!" but it seems that they don't excel in combat animation. I gave the anime a 6/10 just because Im happy that this got the attention of the anime industry and got animated. If the anime is your introductionto the series and loved it, i'd say its fine. But you're missing out on a lot of stuff.
Greedyhammer
Hi, I watched the show, and in all the episodes, the voice acting was great, but please don't add too many cut scenes; it will make the show bad. For example, the powerful fire mage in episode 8 vs. Azest got past him in order to fight Desir and his team. That fire mage guy is really neat, and I like the character. You could at least show us what happened between Azest and the fire mage guy, Gabrial. Also in episode 12, please don't cut off the chess match between Desir and Zod Exarion. How Desir would defeat defeat Zod Exarion in thechess match, especially since Zod is talented. Too many cut scenes like those are bad for the show. Please get better.
VTkrrishblaze
Really just a mid anime is the best way to describe it. Just a good show to watch in the background while gaming or doing errands, has in interesting variation of a popular story trope, but really just falls short in capturing the viewers interest in its entirety. You never feel like rooting for anyone, and while some character dynamics interest you, namely the girl from alpha class with our MC (i'm forgetting character names and I just finished the show LOL), their dynamic is the most intruiging part of the show, everything else is just really stale. Overall not bad, but not great so justmid.
God_with_a_Plot
From reading a manga to this, you can expect some content to be cut out and added because it's a different media and needs to be adjusted. But for an "anime" (anima-tion), there's a surprisingly little amount of smooth aniomation. Most of the time you'll get fixed png's with small differences or a crappy 1 second 3d animation that loops back and forth. Added to that, it seems they invented a rule for their work where "You can only animate 1 action in a frame". A handshake is first one hand, then the other, then the shake, then cut to next scene. That all takes30 seconds. It's not an anime, it's a presentation, a slow one that only has one thing going for it. The special effects, the little lights, magic circles and "rubble", probably all thanks to 3d animation.
I think time is to blame and the effeciency. The art is up to standards, so I it is a matter of growth for later projects. So I'd give it a 4/10 for good art but bad actual anmation.
Now the sounds, effects and especially the voice acting are really well done. You do get the feelings of the characters even if they have shabby lines or poor animation as reference. For the music I'd say it's good, but sometimes not well placed in the moment (probably due to poor animation and tempo). Sound gets 7/10 (mostly the voice acting).
Now for the story itself, it is already slow (animation's fault) and a bit out of tempo (again, animation), but be it due to the writer or drawer, it can't clearly tell how advanced the technology of the world is. Even if they tell it clearly, it seams they have electromagnetic trains and medieval housing at the same time. 5/10.
Now some extra things to say.
Romantica is super cute, atleast the animators did that well, especially the VA Suzushiro Sayumi. Good job.
The art (frames) itself is real nice, shadows are good and everything is coloured really well.
ShaykeMeUp
There were quite a few things I liked about it, but on the whole it sort of felt like a mess. Things that were fun/good: rainbow hair pram is a super cute and fun character azest is hot However - the plot in general is very basic and follows the same tropes weve seen a million times without really adding anything fresh. The main girl is annoying, and the logic of the MC / general reasonings doesnt make any sense. Were never given a reason why the MC is OP, nor are we given anything about the background of the world to justify the over the top "commoners suck"prejudice that is being fought against the whole time. There also seems to be alot of going back and forth on the "rules" of everything like the tournament and so on. There was a bit of satisfaction in terms of seeing the how the characters get stronger and seeing how they get through situations, but neither of those was done well enough to weigh it out.
Overall I thought it was weak and shallow/tropey with some good characters that made it watchable to the end, not sure if its worth the time it takes to watch, but it feels like the second season would be better than the first since all the good characters are finally coming together.
