

Having present day Miyuki and Tatsuya flying to the island and reminiscing about the past is a terrible way to frame an origin story because it provides a context that disconnects us from what is happening. Now from a construction standpoint I have two more gripes.

franchise is what I'd call a well animated visual novel with action scenes. Miyuki narrates throughout the whole anime and it's used as a means of dropping meaningless exposition and lore dumps and telling us things that really should have been conveyed from the direction and animation instead. I'll get more into that later (spoilers I guess), but now for my surface level problems.Īs usual the show has an over-narration problem. However it fulfils an interesting role in that it is the missing link to understanding who Tatsuya is, how he came to be, and his relationship with Miyuki. This special is par for the course when it comes to the Mahouka franchise - bad
