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So how did things veer off-track? The plot? The characters? The worldbuilding? The entirety of the abovementioned?
I'll begin with what I loved about Mahoutsukai no Yome. It's lovely. There were scenes that were, for an absence of a superior word, mysterious. The soundtrack is likewise worth listening as well.
Be that as it may, notwithstanding having high creation quality and a mystical world to investigate, Magus Bride crashes and burns thanks to its dull cast and absence of nuance.
The side cast is made out of characters with comparable "tastelessly pleasant" characters with not many exemptions. In the event that you portrayed these characters by character alone, you wouldn't have the option to tell the vast majority of the cast separated.
Our champion, Chise, isn't vastly improved, which is actually a disgrace. The tale about a young lady defeating wretchedness through adoration and investigating an enchanted domain has incredible potential, however this probably damaged young lady winds up trading excessively emotional and cozy histories with each individual she meets. It happens time and again, which, as well as losing its adequacy, additionally makes it hard to accept Chise attempted to interface with individuals before the story.
She likewise establishes an unfortunate first connection. In the principal small bunch of episodes, the main activity she brings is selling herself into subjection. She scarcely even strolls all alone. I get that she's discouraged, however a person should engage, not carry on like a living mass.
When she at last shows interest into some different option from the 400+-year-elderly person kid who got her, she develops seriously intriguing, yet falls into something very similar "tastelessly decent" character as the remainder of the cast.
Elias, our legend, has a character in any event, however it's not one I'm a devotee of. He's a man-youngster who has an enchanted hissy tantrum the second Chise converses with somebody he didn't tell her to. While the show calls him out for a portion of his more possessive way of behaving, it frequently gets glossed over as funny rather than perilous.
The show's reason doesn't help Elias. He begins the story purchasing an underage young lady and calling her his lady of the hour. I get that Elias doesn't exactly grasp the meanings of "lady," yet the mangaka does. That is the association the authors believed the crowd should make.
While I think individuals frequently go overboard to this, since the story appears to be mindful of the hazardous parts of Chise's and Elias' relationship, it removes all the secret from their relationship. It outlines all that they do naturally in a heartfelt light, as opposed to leaving space for secret, wizardry, and translation.
This probably won't have irritated me with the exception of that the whole show does this. Everything is so tastelessly clear it seems like the makers are holding up prompt cards to the crowd saying "cry now" or "see this as mysterious" instead of unpretentiously directing the crowd or allowing them to make up their own personalities.
Each and every episode has some stupendous second where the music gets enormous and characters trade heartbreaking history and Chise has some "otherworldly" snapshot of character movement without any end in sight. This is fine whenever done a few times, however it's done so considered normal it feels hamfisted as opposed to real.
The show likewise appears to be dependent on precipice holders. Characters how up and compromise Chise, just to uncover themselves as heroes in something like a moment of the following episode. It goes downhill fast and makes you can't help thinking about why these evidently pleasant individuals needed to appear to be unpleasant hijackers during their initial feeling.
I truly needed to like this show, yet it comes up short on enchantment comparative shows like Natsume Yuujinchou and Mushishi dominated. Eventually, when you look past the extraordinary settings, staggering soundtrack, and fantastic creation, there's simply not much there.