The world-building seminar, which is a bit leaden with text, is made utterly palpable by Anisphia’s ridiculous exuberance in delivering her lecture. So much of this just works and works and works.
Sure, she might be a little thirsty, but she’s not totally predatory and, while Euphyllia might be a little less outward in her emotional displays, she’s got no trouble keeping her new friend under control. Even when the story slows down or has some odd issues (boy, they really worked that fanservice button hard a couple times), Anisphia is here to carry the day. Yes, girl has met girl, and I am ever a sucker for a good yuri and this one starts off with some serious flare. Which leads to possibly my favourite scene in a manga in ages (Manga moment? Manga moment.) when Anisphia comes screaming onto the scene by smashing her way through a window on an out of control broom, then kidnapping Euphyllia to get her the heck out of there. Speaking of our second lead, Euphyllia is about to be rejected by the prince, her betrothed, in a classic scene that was literally just replicated in this very same week of releases in The Holy Grail of Eris (and this is a lot more fun in that respect and lacks the pacing problems of its competitor). It might be silly, since Euphyllia is clearly OP, but the fact that she’s the native instead of Anisphia gives this a really fresh feeling. She’s also got all her previous world knowledge, but she doesn’t exactly become overpowered - it just provides her with the means to think about the world differently (so far, anyway) and that’s an appreciable detail. The art gives her the energy she needs to be one of the best characters I’ve seen in some time. There’s a lot to discover and enjoy in this new world and Anisphia’s got no time to think things through.
The whole reason this story works so well is because of the gorgeous art and how good it is at depicting, well, everything, but also how much it gets across and the vibrant world it creates.Īnisphia is a heroine of the first order, taking the hyper but inattentive and disinterested trope and just replacing it with hyper. You’ll never convince me that the light novel is better than this adaptation because it is absolutely not possible.
So begins the story of an over-eager lunatic and the magic prodigy she loves. A little night jaunt winds up with her bringing along Lady Euphyllia, who gets stolen away just when her life is falling apart. When Anisphia reawakens to her memories of her previous life, she dedicates herself to studying ‘magicology’ even though she has no spellcasting power of her own.
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