A Returner's Magic Should be Special
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| Underwhelming finale...it was the final stage of the battle but I couldn't get invested into the stakes of the fight. Azest and Desir had an awkward moment and man, this just goes to show much their relationship has changed since their first encounter. Lol, Season 2 announced. https://twitter.com/returners_magic/status/1738582232594337935 |
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| As expected, Desir thwarts Kraiken though he already knows what's going to happen, but he certainly didn't expect his enemy to turn into a magical beast, which makes him tougher to defeat. The Outer may be infinitely strong as heck, but Desir's inverse spell took quite the time and power to cultivate to unleash a power so great, it rivals his past life. Desir wanting to play chess with the master of the Magical Tower, he knows Zod Exarion as his mage friend from his past life. But what Desir lacks in skill, he makes it up in terms of magic, only if he won the game. The ball, which was supposed to honour Desir and his party, Azest ended up walking out of the Blue Moon party, which isn't a bad idea, as much as a Shadow World appearing in 13 days to ring in the calamity that he hoped to avoid. Regarding his true intentions, Romantica sure has an ego that she wants to beat him, though they all need to grow stronger in preparation for the day to come. With Azest joining Desir's party, they can get going for the Shadow World, which its contents, and Desir's role coming back a second time...will continue in Season 2. This is what I expected of a Korean manhwa/Webtoon: a rather average showing. But I sure was NOT expecting a Season 2 announcement... Oh well...onwards to next season's next-hyped Webtoon adaptation: Solo Leveling... |
KANLen09Dec 23, 2023 11:32 AM
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| The action was okay, Desir won as expected. Azest has joined them and that Desir x Azest stuff at the end was neat, need more of Azest. Was a decent fantasy anime, pretty average in most stuff but still enjoyable and I like Azest so looking forward to more of her. |
MegamiRemDec 25, 2023 6:03 AM
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| Underwhelming episode. Not because of the fight or the animation, but because they skipped over half an arc within 3 minutes. Adjest joining Desir's party officially, Romantica's training and promotion to 3rd magic circle, Pram's swordmanship training with the knight sensei...I would have liked to see these in 3 or 4 episodes instead. ESPECIALLY considering they actually announced S2, those things could have been reserved for that instead of being rushed like the show would not have gotten a sequel... All that was needed for the last 4 minutes was Adjest coming to the team's training session once more and ask Desir to join the party, ending the episode on her being accepted by everyone (albeit with some reluctance from Romantica), instead of this. That said, solid-ish series. If I really have to add an additional complaint it would be that they overly simplified the magic system and Desir's "reverse analysis" of spells. Like the whole explanation of Desir cheating his lower magic circle level by using his experience and knowledge of 10 years fighting along busted powerful people, to compound low tier spells on top of each other to create a pseudo high level magic, was completely skipped. (also, they refer to him often as 'lowest level' magician but this is incorrect as he is 2nd circle so technically second lowest level, also a reminder that Romantica has been a 2nd circle as well for the whole series until the last minutes where after her additional control training (the sphere thing) Desir helps her tune her magic circuits to raise to 3rd circle (the scene with her baring her back), and never mention others' circle level, like Zod being a 6th circle aka technically the highest possible for a human) Hopefully we see more and more adapted considering the WN is completed. I will have to give up seeing anytime soon a complete adaptation in two seasons, but if it keeps being popular and successful who knows we may get s3, s4 and so on. |
FullyChargedDec 23, 2023 11:05 AM
| bruh |
| but who won the chess game (probably desir...) and what was desir's wish if he won? |
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| It was a suprisingly a decent and enjoyable show. Binged the whole season on the finale day and I was pretty much hooked to the story. The characters were a bit generic, but they were funny and interesting. My only gripe from the story is, they shouldnt have limited desir to be the only person remembering the future events. Or atleast they couldve introduced events where the other party members who were introduced, also recollect these memories. Anyways season 2 is definitely welcome. Hope it airs pretty soon. |
| chess moment was awesome, must be crazy to see all your old friends back in a different time. the song playing at the end gave me chills Oooh and accidently falling ontop of him that look in their eyes soooo good. Happy that there'll be another season, definitely watching it for more cuties and coolness. |
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| WTF was that lol... a whole lotta nothing |
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| Not without it's faults, but interested enough for a second season. 5/10. |
| unless i get some good new waifus im probably not gonna watch s2 |
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| I need more episodes!!! |
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| I always new ms blonde badass would join the crew; just for that history has changed. Imagine the outrage: a noble siding with commoners?! You go girl. |
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| Great episode, I just wish I know who won the chess game and what did he get. |
The Future is only one idea away. |
| I liked it more than I thought when I started watching it. 8,5/10 |
| Nice, this series maintained their animation quite well. It was dragging but not seriously a flop. The ending was truly wonderful. From intro to outro. They delivered the story quite well in this episode, and we finally got Azir in their party, I can't wait for her more screen time. Oh no she didn't... 😏  |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| Damn. They really skipped a ton of content at the end. I hope that Season 2 will go over it all before diving into the Shadow World. The anime adaptation was alright. Not bad, but nothing great. If you were intrigued by the story and characters, I'd HIGHLY recommend checking out and reading the Light/Web Novel. They go into so much more detail and the entire story is one heck of a ride. After watching the first episode when it aired, I went ahead and read the entire series TWICE because it was so good. I prefer the light/web novel over the manga version because it covers so many details especially with regards to Desir and his analyses/abilities/reasoning that just can't be captured in anime or manga form. I definitely recommend other fans give it a read. |
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| it's a good thing a second season's already been announced, coz if it wasn't, i'd be disappointed since they left the finale episode as a cliffhanger lol |
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| Good final episode. The soundtrack is very good and they tried their best with the animation. 6/10 |
| “Do what feels right in your heart. You will be criticized either way.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
| OH SHIT That Azest Wall slam and then afterwards she smiles and says "I'll be in your care" HOLY... She WANTS. . Also, hmm... did Desier somehow "limit break" Romantica's wind powers? or something? . And yea... They literally just skipped pass the chess wager.. we have no idea who won... Tho I have a feeling he lost the match on purpose so he has a reason to show Zod how to use unrefined magic stones, since right before he said Zod was one of his best friend and will be the strongest mage, meaning Desier will most likely show him how to use magic stones at anytime so Zod will remain the strongest since no other mage will be able to use the magic stone at anytime. |
| Nothing Written Here But Us Anime Bunnies *boing boing boing* |
Reply to Niels040
but who won the chess game (probably desir...) and what was desir's wish if he won?
| @Niels040 @Zoro1100 Not a spoiler technically, it is not said (not in the immediate future at least) what Desir's wish was going to be, anyway, this was just a set up on Desir's part to reveal to Zod the system to refine those crystals (as Zod has the means to mass produce them and have a benefit for humanity vs the shadow worlds and bad guys), so it's easy to guess Desir knew he was going to lose and wanted to give Zod intel in a way that was less sus than just handing the info without any payment behind it, he knew Zod was passionate about chess (having played with him so much in his "past life") so the game was a perfect opportunity to make a bet that would result in a win win situation :D @amlg I would say you're spot on. Also, about Romantica's "tuning", the scene is basically that. Not just wind, magic circuit in general. The system is explained better in the webtoon (or web novel), the anime didn't really explain much about magic circle levels and such. Which is a little bit of a shame imo. Look it up if you're interested. It's a nice read, if you liked the anime, the webtoon is actually way better so you'll love it :D |
FullyChargedDec 24, 2023 7:42 PM
| bruh |
| Never got over the terrible magic special effects. On top of some pretty bland/bad fight visuals, made many fight scenes unappealing to watch. Hope the next season will improve on these things if I bother. |
| i know since i am reading the manhwa but lets say i dint he started playing chess with the tower master and they dint even show who won so bad omegalol |
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| Talk about whiplash... the first half was basically a shitty battle shonen. That Outer dude with the dumb mask turns into a ridiculous looking green monster guy in th fight with Desir, and it goes full Battle Shounen with the action..them throwing bigger and bigger magic attacks at each other until protagonist overpowers them. What made it so dumb was that it basically undermines the whole plot about the Outers trying to steal the Gem of Regernel or whatever. If the Outer guy is that powerful, why does he need the gem so bad? He says it's unprocessed, so now they've introduced the idea of processes and unprocessed mana crystals.... and the guy has already transformed into a beast that should be strong enough to beat anyone; the only reason he loses is because the opponent had prior knowledge. The second half goes back to Desir, and team getting thanks for saving the school from the attackers etc. Azest is then at some cheesy dance for rich nobles and doesn't feel like mingling with them (well can't blame her, they're a bunch of assholes) so she tells Fatty that she's done with his l33t team and goes to join Desir. But then a curveball- because of how Desir impressed her in the competition and how capable he is, she's in love with him and that wasn't supposed to happen. Well that's a more fun kind of twist for the next season. I feel like it's a stretch to give this a 7, seems kind of high, but I enjoyed this anime enough even though it's kind of uneven and the battle stuff is drawn out too much. There's surprisingly little plot but lots of action, it would be nice if they could put more interesting things in it besides just "Opponent Strong must be stronger" They have another season to figure out how |
| Hopefully the start of S2 will go back to those fast-forward scenes from this episode to be developed and explained more; I'd really like to see that. Interesting enough to keep watching for me. |
| I will be honest and say that the last 2 episodes did make my impression of this anime better. A lot did happen with more work put in to it, I didn't like how much this anime was going in the first place. Would like to see more of it but I have doubt about it my grade for this anime is 6/10 |
| so he knew about this all from the start and his perfect plan to stop it was to have his party try to face him and then he would face him 1v1 after that? really? A 5 year old could tell you that is a terrible plan even if he is stronger than the other guy. We're talking about the guy who a few episodes ago swore he would do everything perfectly after the short kid jumped into a bunch of fake rats for a test, and now he willingly put them in danger against an actual threat, wtf? There's interesting parts of the story and I will probably still watch s2, but the writing leaves much to be desired, even when up against your run of the mill isekai/power fantasy anime |
| so, who's the one spying on Desir fight? who win between Desir chess battle, and what they're talk about? my best guess is, someone between prof brigette, zod exarion, or prof prelude probably the one spying on the battle. and my best guess is, zod exarion win the chess wager, and desir ended up telling his origin from the future so he and zod could come up with the best counter for the next 10 years. am I right though? I don't mind a spoiler. |
| I don´t know about the manwha / original source, but this anime was in general bad. The pace is horrible and there are lots of holes. Episode 11 was specially a joke, including art and animation. I am in a good mood today and because of Azest gonna rate this show 4/10 xD |
TechOtakuJan 9, 5:07 PM
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