October 17, 2024 • 53 mins
What happens when magic meets technology in a world where sibling bonds defy societal norms? Join us as we unpack the fascinating dynamics of "The Irregular at Magic High School" alongside our insightful co-host, Mira Jane! Get ready to explore the captivating relationship between Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba, as we dissect the layers of their unique sibling connection set against a backdrop of magical prowess and technological brilliance. We promise that by the end of this discussion, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the series' compelling narrative and occasional missteps.
Our journey through the magical society of "The Irregular at Magic High School" wouldn't be complete without highlighting the intriguing character of Angelina "Lina" Kudo Shields, a.k.a. "Angie Sirius". As we unravel her role and interactions with Tatsuya, you'll see why her character adds an extra layer of complexity to the anime. Alongside this, we draw parallels to other popular series like "Naruto" and "Boruto," exploring themes of societal pressure and familial expectations. And don't worry, we've saved room to indulge in a little nostalgia, reflecting on anime classics like "Hitman Reborn," while also sharing our excitement for the potential return of fan favorites like "Blue Exorcist."
While we celebrate the anime's strengths, including its visually stunning effects and memorable soundtrack, we also tackle the challenges it faces, particularly in later seasons. Expect a critical yet appreciative look at the series' progression, with honest takes on character development and plot cohesion. We also shine a light on the anime's empowering portrayal of female characters, giving them moments to steal the spotlight. Join us as we navigate these magical waters with sharp insight and a touch of playful banter—keeping the nerdy spirit alive and hopeful for what's next in the world of anime!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to the Zone Podcast, the show about
nerdy news and reviews.
I'm Jet Black Extreme feel freeto call me JB and today's topic
is the Irregular at Magic HighSchool.
Joining me on this review isMira Jane and without further
ado, let's go ahead and zone inon it.
The Irregular at Magic HighSchool, on it be regular at
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magic high school.
It's a captivating anime whereit blends the realms of magic
and science and technology in afuturistic setting.
It's set in a world where magicis not only real but a refined
technology.
It explores the lives of thestudents that go to first high
school, this institutionspecialized in magical education
, and while we get deeper intoit, I'm probably gonna make some
(00:55):
references that might you know.
You know me with the, butbefore I really get into it,
mira Jane, how did you feelabout your regular high school
life?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I mean I couldn't get over the brother and sister, I
just yeah see, that was mynumber one complaint about this
show.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It's where the two main characters, tatsuya and
Miyuki Shiba, their brother andsister and they're part of the
Shiba clan.
Well, it's like it's a funnything.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
funny thing, the whole 10 master clans like I
don't know why it keepsreminding me of kakigurui with
the whole uh bombies.
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, the jabamiclan and the ubami clan.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, it's like this whole web weave of families like
working together, quote,unquote, if you want to call it
that.
And the whole thing is thateven though I'm going to talk
about the movie in just a moment, like later but it's just weird
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, being Miyuki, being likebrother, why can't you just look
at me like a woman instead ofmy sister?
And I'm like and Chelsea justgotta look at her like bro, we
are related.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I was like what does that matter?
I was like it matters a lot.
It's totally freaking me.
Like the first season was waswild.
I'm gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
The first season they made it very clear that this
was a weird relationship andyeah, like the side characters,
like not to call them sidecharacters, um, because you know
they all have like theirstrengths and whatnot.
But let's just be real, theythem side characters, because
you know they all have theirstrengths and what not, but
let's just be real, they're sidecharacters.
The side characters Were likehey yo, like y'all talk to each
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other, like y'all in arelationship.
And then Miyuki's like really.
And then Tatsuya was like Hmm,well, if we weren't related,
then maybe.
But Nah, I'm just fucking withy'all.
Hmm well, if we weren't related,then maybe.
But nah, I'm just fucking withy'all.
I'm like, and then miki is likewhy are you teasing me like
this, bro?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm like you were serious, bro, bro, bro, bro,
that first of all, first of all,first of all, tassia was not
joking.
I don't care what he said, hisface was way too straight.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Like he has the.
He is super stoic.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
He's super like that jawline doesn't move.
Okay, like, even when he talksit doesn't move.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Listen, listen.
It's funny that you say thatbecause, first of all, with
Tasia, I like this dude, likethe way he be, like, okay, he's
one of those characters to where, yeah, he doesn't have a whole
lot of raw magical talent, butthe way I see it, I'm like, hey
man, my magical talent may belacking, but when I have these
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heaters in my hand and thiscombat suit on, I'm never
slacking.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Bro, and then you know what I will say.
Overall, in general, I likedthe concept of Irregular Magic
High School.
I enjoyed.
I think the first season is myfavorite season.
It felt cohesive, it felt done.
When the season was finished,everything about season one was
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a good season.
So, like it got, the story getsa little bit muddled in season
three in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Like they crammed three arcs into one season,
that's what?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
yeah, but only in 13 episodes.
Like this could have been a 26episode season easily the actual
fan, season two being 12 to 13episodes.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But season three just felt like, okay, really, what
you're doing is they?
First of all, they pretty muchnow that they're like a year
later, like they're now classtwo, like they're not freshmen
anymore and good for tatio, forno longer being uh, quote,
unquote a weed.
And that's the funny things.
Like, um, there's like bloomsand there's weeds, and you know,
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blooms are not supposed to callweeds weeds.
You know, I'm saying it'ssupposed to be course one or
course two, and some people likemiyuki, um, take, um, don't
take that on word, like verylightly, you know I'm like
you're not allowed to callpeople weeds, especially
considering um you consideringTazia being one.
So I'm like if you're insultingall the Course 2 students, you
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might as well be insulting mybrother.
I'm not going to stand fory'all insulting my brother.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'm not, bruh, I ain't going to lie.
I love her ice powers.
Like her powers were super.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Ice princess?
No princess, that's what Icalled her.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It didn't matter.
She was ready to freeze any andeverybody.
She was always ready.
One thing I did like as aschool that's why I said the
first season felt so good.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh, before I forget, I like his nickname, like I mean
, I want to say the English dubkind of ruined it for me,
calling him Silverhorn, but I'mlike no, no, no, I like the old
one, the Japanese subversion, Ilike Taurus Silver.
I was like, ooh, that was fire.
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Ooh, that sounds tough.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm not going to lie to you.
I could tell he was real proudof himself.
He kept dropping subtle hintsthroughout the first season to
get an old girl to realize whohe was.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
mean yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Like he low-key was dropping subtle hints.
I was like Tati, you was notslick.
But he was real slick with it.
He was dropping all them subtlehints to let people know, like
I am that nigga Low-key, but Iam that nigga Low heat, but I'm
that nigga.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I will say one thing I really liked was the school
politics First season did.
So I can't lie, first seasonwas perfect.
In Regular Magic High, ifyou're gonna watch it, first
season is absolutely perfect.
It is not trash at all.
There is nothing I wouldcorrect about season one other
than, of course we've alreadytalked about it the brother,
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sister, whatever well, hold on.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That leads to the second complaint that I almost
had about the entire series.
I felt like it was emotionallyinelastic at times, like it just
felt like you know, like evenwith the slow moments, you know
like they're having a laugh orwhatnot.
It just felt like it felt kindof dry to me, like I kind of
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miss that anime antics.
But then when you get to seasonthree, where you get, uh, that
one red-haired, um new girl, uh,ikt I think her name was, and
the Saegusa twins, then I'm like, okay, there's the anime funny
that I was looking for, with theemotional reaction and whatnot.
(08:37):
Okay, that's the shit that Iwas looking for.
Okay, but season one and two,I'm like like, see, I felt like,
even though I like how, whenthey got serious, they got
serious.
But sometimes when y'all liketrying to be playful, even then
y'all take yourself way tooseriously.
So that was my main gripe aboutit up until season three.
(09:01):
I'm like you know what?
I can forgive it.
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, like I can agree to that.
I can see where you're comingfrom with that.
I just think that, man, I'll behonest with you I'm kind of I'm
low-key obsessed with seasonone.
I'm not gonna lie, like therest of it, season two, season
two feels forgettable.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, hold on.
I know there's a whole bunch ofcharacters, but let's just be
honest.
That's just a funny thing, eventhough the characters I'm not
going to take away too much fromthe watching experience.
You just so happen to belistening to this episode and
actually watch the anime justyet.
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But you know, with thecharacters you're just gonna
have to like, watch it and seehow you feel about them.
But for the most part it's like, and unless they like do
something really crazy, they'rekind of forgettable.
I'm gonna be honest with you,that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What was the question ?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
really crazy they're kind of forgettable.
I'm going to be honest with you.
That's true.
Hold on what was.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Papi's friend's name.
What was Oldu's name?
He had the.
His power basically was topunch people.
That was basically oh my god,why can't I remember his name
right now?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
but, I think you're right was it, I don't know, like
that's.
The funny thing is like therewas more girls than dudes.
That was like in the mix, so itwas like if it wasn't one, the
girls.
I'm like, wait, hold on.
Was there other dudes that didshit in this anime?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
there was, there was, uh, no no, no, like I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I know there was, but it just feels like for the most
part the dudes were like takinga back seat, except if it's not
Tatsuya or um, the prince orMasaki or the cardinal or
whatnot, like everybody elsejust kind of kind of did stuff.
But like, are you gonnaremember it after you watch the
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anime?
Like is it gonna be one ofthose things to where you might
make a anime edit on tikt,tiktok or whatnot?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Be like hey, yo look at what this character did.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's so fucking crazy , Like, let's be real, Come on.
But oh yeah, I know we're kindof skipping because there was a
whole non-school competition art, but you know it was alright.
You know, especially Tatsuyaversus Masaki, that was like the
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best part for me.
Otherwise, it's like you know,they had their fun.
You know, it's kind of with myHero Academia.
They had their little sportsfestival.
Okay okay, Cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Don't you love those Don't you love like, don't you
love those don't you love like.
Every time there's a littleevery time it's a high school
enemy.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love the sports festival, yeah, like they have
like a little tournament.
What now?
Okay, I'm sorry oh, I was gonnatalk about season two real
quick, but what you have to say,I was gonna ask what did you
think about the aunt?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Because, like first season made me feel like the
aunt was this manipulative.
Like she, I was really preparedto see this really crazy like
woman at some point in time.
That's what season one feltlike for me.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, first of all, diddy.
Second of all, yeah, I feellike she's gonna be like the
main antagonist out of it all,because it feels like she's the
one that's trying to manipulatemiyuki into becoming the head of
the yosuba, and she doesn'twant to be the head, she just
wants to be close to Tatsuya,because she knows that pretty
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much.
Bro, I might as well talk aboutseason 2, because season 2
pretty much makes theoverarching theme of this anime
the most prominent.
It's like they kind of hint atit in season 1, but once you get
to season 2 and beyond, it'slike, okay, I know, you pretty
much know what this show isabout.
And, funny enough, before I saythis, keep Naruto in mind okay
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this anime is basically tellingyou that if you got talent, even
at a young age, we are going toweaponize you and milk you for
all your worth.
This anime is about weaponizingmagicians and pretty much
making child soldiers, andthat's pretty much become very
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clear between takio shiba andlena shields now this show.
This anime offers more than justa tale of magical prowess and
high school drama.
At its core, it presents aprofound allegory about the
utilization of child soldiersand the militarization of young
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magicians, exploring the ethicaland moral implications of using
young individuals as tools ofwar.
Now the series is set in aworld where this magic is
recognized technology.
Individuals are gifted withmagical abilities trained from a
young age to harness theirpowers.
With magical abilities trainedfrom a young age to harness
their powers, but the settingparallels to the real world
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issue of child soldiers, wherechildren are coerced or
manipulated into becominginstruments of warfare.
Now, young magicians are oftenviewed as resources or weapons
rather than individuals withrights and aspirations.
Now, like I said, tasia andlena exemplifies this conflict.
Tasio's extraordinary abilitiesmake him both a valuable asset
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and a target, highlighting thepressures and exploitations
faced by those with uniquetalents and warlike societies.
Lena, also known as andalinakudo shields, is a prominent
character introduced in theseries as a powerful magician
with septal skills.
Funny thing is, tassio tried totalk no juice to Lena out of
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her job because she knows thatdeep down she's not really cut
out for this job.
But then again, with herabilities, like you know,
masquerading as the redhead andwhatnot, angie's serious.
Uh, pretty much she was likeforced into this life.
So with lena, uh, she holds asteam position as the head of
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the united states of northamerica's elite magician unit
known as stars, where sheoperates on the alias andy
series, and she's characterizedby her striking appearance uh,
golden, long, golden hair andall that.
And she's had this blend ofdetermination and charm, um,
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playful at times, like she,she's kind of comedic when she
wants to be.
But throughout the series, uh,lena's abilities are showcased
as she's engaged in variousmissions that test her magical
bomb prowess and all that.
And she gets into fights withtatsuya and miyuki and you see
how deep she's in and whatnot.
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On tatsuya's, like you don'thave to do all this, you can
just live a normal life.
And like you don't have to doall this, you can just live a
normal life.
I'm like you don't know me Shutup and all that shit for like
12, 13 episodes.
But think about it like that,like when I mentioned Naruto,
where not only did I thought,she was like, hey, listen, you
and I are not that different.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm like, hey, man, listen you trying to talk those
people?
I'm not hearing all that.
But Listen you trying to talkto those people?
I'm not hearing all that.
But no, bro.
Though, like how Naruto and allof them were raised at young
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age to be prepared for a war andall that shit, and like it just
brings to perspective how, likeeven in real life, where you're
pretty much getting preparedfor a fight that you have no
like the matter in, but they'relike, nope, you're getting
involved anyways yeah, yeah,that does put that into
perspective, because I didn't,you're not wrong, I think
watching naruto, you're justkind of like when you think
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about it you're just like, oh,they're ninjas, so this is
expected, right, like thisshould be.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
But then if you watch Boruto, it's so different, it's
like they didn't have toprepare for war, so the kids
were able to think about, oh, Iwant to be a movie star or I
want to be on television likethe news anchor or so, like
their ideas were way completelydifferent and so far away from
like war.
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So, yeah, I think that's a goodpoint.
Um, I also think that I think aregular, imagine high school
does a really good job ofexplaining the of using
manipulation, because, like, Idon't, I don't want to get, it
sounds like russia, I don't wantto say it like that, but it if
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you, if you looked up like howthey train their gymnast, or if
you look at like the war wayback when, how they train, oh,
you know like, uh, like talenthollywood russia you mean to
where it just Seem like.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Every time they're depicted In media, it seem like
they're always like Extremetraining, like they're like
wrestling with bears or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean it's Low key, not a lot.
So it's certainly extremeextent.
Yeah, it's a lot, but low key.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's more like an exaggeration, Like an over
exaggeration.
It's more like an exaggerationlike an over-exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's a good over-exaggeration, and so it
kind of reminds me of that alittle bit.
Tatsu is such a good.
He's such a good conflict.
He brings conflicting emotionsin me, even though he's the
least emotional character in theshow he makes me feel
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conflicted emotionally andhonestly, I think that that was
intentional, because you startto feel for him in a way.
You're like, wow, he's reallynot a mindless soldier, but he's
a mindless soldier like hedoesn't think about anything
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else other than protectingmiyuki which, yes, he should.
But and you?
And then, as a slow progressionseason later, you start to see
him caring about other peopleand caring if they're safe or
not, and he starts making moredecisions about people's safety,
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which is a good example of thetalk no jutsu right, like he
tries to talk this girl out ofbeing in an environment that he
knows is not conducive to herown nature.
So I think he's my favoritecharacter out of the whole show.
Um, but you made a good pointthere.
(20:33):
I like that.
That was a good point good.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Good, because you remember when you know off the
record, I was telling you, holdup.
There's a prequel movie.
Now check this out.
The reminiscent art uh, thereminiscence artist.
Excuse me, I did not know aboutthis until a few days ago and I
just watched it recently andessentially it said, three years
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prior to the main storyline,how Tatsuya, originally viewed
as an emotionless and powerfulmagician, became closely bonded
to Miyuki, despite the initialemotional distance imposed by
their family and through aseries of events, including a
life-threatening situationduring a family trip, miyuki
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becomes to understand the depthof Tatsuya's loyalty and
unwavering commitment to hersafety, and this revelation
transforms her perception of himand her previously distant
demeanor shifts to one of deepaffection and reliance.
This art not only deepens thenarrative by exploring the
siblings' past, but alsointroduces key elements to the
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Yosuba family influence and thesocietal pressures surrounding
magical prowess.
It sheds light on Tatsu'sunique magical abilities and the
restrictions placed upon himdue to his family's policies,
laying the groundwork for theconflicts and character
motivation seen throughout theseries.
So, with that being said, Ilike how, at first you get the
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moment um, first meet tasuya.
She was like I don't like thisdude, like why he looking like
that all the time, why he juststand there doing nothing, like
he just creeps me out, he makesme so uncomfortable and then all
it took for her to be in dangerby the three guys.
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By the way, the three guys werelike actually cool people, you
know.
They were like I don't know,but point being it's like, Tati
was like stand back, I'm gonnado my job.
I was like You're just ascrawny kid, what can you do?
I was like, oh yeah, you don'tknow about me, but watch this.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Which you know.
It sets up the whole scene.
I'm sorry, it sets up the wholescene For like season one,
right, like it sets all of thatup.
Why do you Just like?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know what?
I'm kind of jumping again.
But can I talk about moment inseason three, now that I'm
thinking about it, how, um, theone side gusta twin that doesn't
like tasia.
Uh, I think it was kasumi, noteasy me.
Uh, kasumi was going to attackon tasia, uh, with, like I guess
, a knee, high knee kick orsomething like that, and then
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Tasia grabbed her knee and justflinged her away and then at
that moment I was like, clearlyyou don't know about me, but
watch this.
Let me show you Let me, put youin a child's place and give you
the ass whooping your daddyshould have gave you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm not gonna lie, but you can kind of warn people.
The whole season, every season,she was like you don't know my
brother, you don't know whathe's capable of.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
And then when he shows what he's capable of.
I ship Tasia with the formerstudent council president.
You know she graduated with Ew.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Why, why, ew why?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Why, ew why?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Why yes, and I'll tell you why ew.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well, I don't know, it's like I kind of like her,
she's cool and they seem likethey have a connection.
I mean it's better than himlooking up with Miyuki.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Listen, it seems like Shimoki was kind of jealous a
little bit of the of the brotherand sister.
Okay, listen, I know I've beenbashing this brother and sister
relationship, but I'm saying itjust came across like she was a
little bit jealous of what wasgoing on between the two of them
and I don't think it was a goodjealous.
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I don't think it was like oh,why won't he look at me?
Kind of jealous.
I think it was like a weirdbrother fetish.
I really do.
That's what I.
That was the vibe.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Why you gotta go there with that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm just saying that was the vibes I got, like that
was that's what I got from that.
Okay, now I ship him with thered-headed girl who was his
friend.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Uh, Erica.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Oh yeah, that's my shipping.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I can't even lie like Hold on, I thought it was like
no, no, no.
I mean maybe maybe like a loverival.
Who knows like no, no, no, no.
I mean maybe Maybe I could loveRival.
Who knows Like, I mean listen,with season three being like
fresh, like this year, who knows, like there might be new
seasons?
Because, hey man, I'm stillkind of surprised they're coming
out with new seasons of BlueExorcist and Black Butler out of
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nowhere.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So I'm like who knows at this point, Bro, I'm so
confused on who X was justsaying, like I just I know
they're like supposedly redoingthe arc that they messed up, you
know, but I just I think it'stoo late.
It feels a little too late tome, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It just feels a little late, feels like they
could have been did this, yeah Imean, I don't really know how
it works over there, but you'reright, you got a point like.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I just felt like I mean, a studio probably won't
pick it up.
It up, you know, yeah, becauseit's not as popular as it used
to be, and like I don't knowwhat studio ended up picking it
up, I'd have to look into it,but that's probably what took so
long was just probably waitingfor a studio to pick it up Right
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and see.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
that's another thing that you just remind me of how
I'm still kind of pissed offabout particular Hitman Re
reborn to, where if it was justmore popular with people it
probably would have got thoselast two uh manga arts all
animated, because that was likethe best part about the whole
story.
Like man it was popping off inthe last two arcs oh my god,
hitman reborn is a sleeper anime.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That is a sleeper.
I feel like people sleep onthat.
It was so good.
It was so so good, like, andthen I didn't even realize I was
into it.
That was the thing.
I didn't even realize I waswatching it until I'm like 100
episodes in and I'm like wait,what happened?
Like how did I get?
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Because it starts off so good.
It's just it's.
I don't want to go on our uh atangent about another anime
while we're talking aboutirregular magic high school but
I know him.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Every born is really it yeah, y'all give uh kateka
hit mary born chance, um,whenever you get time.
Uh, same thing with this anime.
To where with Irregulate MagicHigh School, I would say
definitely give it a chance.
By the way, the spinoff HonorStudent at.
Magic High School.
(27:45):
Remember when you was tellingme about Tatsuya and his facial
features and whatnot?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I looked at this spinoff man.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, first of all, Telling me about Tatsuya and his
Facial features and what not.
I looked at this Spinoff man.
Okay, first of all, it'sbasically season one, but from
Miyuki's point of view and I ina weird way, in this spinoff the
animation changed To whereMiyuki kind of looks more like
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the typical anime character.
So she's not like all doll-likein the mainline story, but with
Tatsuya man.
They kind of fucked up Tatsuyajust a little bit.
I mean it's like subtle notice,but it's almost like you can
tell they softened his face andit's almost like he doesn't have
(28:37):
that stoicness on his face.
I'm like, oh, you ruin him.
No, no, go back to the stoic,stone cold face.
And then they, uh, I saw seasonthree.
Okay, y'all got it back.
Cool, cool, thank god, oh youknow what?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
okay, okay, okay, theory Right.
What if the doll-likeAppearances of a lot of the
females Is what Tatsuya seesLike?
What if that's what?
What if we're just watching theanime From Tatsuya's eyes?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I mean Honestly, it just feels like Twilight At this
point, to where the main no,listen the main movie.
The main feels like Twilight atthis point, to where the main
no, listen the main movie, themain book was from Bella's point
of view, and now we're gettingMidnight Science.
By the way, I don't understandhow we get a whole series for
Netflix for Edward's side of thestory, but here we are.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
We're not gonna.
Let's not Listen.
I'm excited for it, but that'swhy Just leave me alone.
That's like a that's a secretlittle thing.
Alright, I'm not gonna talkabout it.
I'm gonna keep it all to myself.
I'm gonna keep my pop corn.
(29:49):
Okay, that's what I'm gonna do.
Gonna leave that alone in thedark.
Alright, but everyone has theirthings.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
JB Okay, that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to leave that alonein the dark.
All right, good Lord.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But everyone has their things JB, okay, and mine
just so happen to be sparklingvampires, but but that's what I
think.
I think when we're watchingIrregular Magic High School,
we're watching it throughTatia's eyes, so everything
looks a little bit sharpened anddifferent.
(30:18):
And I think the way HonorStudent Magic High School does
it is Miyuki's perception islike everything's softer, like
oh, it's like little hearts andlittle rainbows, like oh, he's
my brother, you know, likeromanticized a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Right, that's my theory, that's my theory about
it I mean you're not wrong, butI hated the way you said that
what's wrong JB.
What's?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
wrong.
You don't like me.
I'm my brother.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No, not the way you know, like how, when you think
about it like damn, like she'sreally into her brother, I'm
like I can't lie, though.
Like it kind of you know whatthe funny thing is?
(31:25):
Because she was like at firstshe was gonna look at it through
like Kendra Lamar.
On Euphoria, let me say thatI'm the biggest hater.
She went from that to oh, mybrother, he's my everything and
all that.
I'm like this, this.
(31:45):
When you think about it, thisall changed when Tassia saved
her life, so it's almost likethis is like the savior hero
complex.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, she's the savior hero complex yeah, I'm
like.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I mean, yeah, I'm your brother, so that's what I
do.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I'm like you're not supposed to catch feelings for
me bro, but then, okay, I'mgonna tell you what I'm more
interested in, and I and Iwanted them to touch on it way
more, because I just don't feellike there was enough of this
Tatia planning on taking on thewhole family from you.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
He mentions it briefly, right, like in season
one.
He mentions it I can't rememberexactly what episode.
I think that's why I loveseason one so much, because
there were so many littlenuggets.
But, like, he mentions itbriefly in a moment to miyuki,
and then we never really see it.
But what we see is him likelike season two, right, we get
to see him becoming a little bitmore emotional, right, a little
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bit kind of flexing thoseemotion muscles a little bit.
But we also see him plottingand planning a little bit, and
then in the third season it'severything feels secretive hold
on.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Can we talk about season three tos here?
To where I like one moment, towhere he was so busy helping
everybody in the nine um schoolscompetition where he was like
running himself ragged.
He couldn't even think straightand pretty much people had to
talk to him saying, hey man,sometimes you just got to chill
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out.
You can't just run yourselfragged even though you're trying
so hard to help people like weget it Like and we do appreciate
you.
But sometimes so hard to helppeople like we get it like and
we do appreciate you, butsometimes you need to take a
break.
You know, and I'm like I feltthat because I'm trying to
juggle so many different thingsand I'm like, bro, like you
gotta like take like one, twodays, I'll just do absolutely
(33:52):
nothing you like, listen to themagic cons, like.
Sometimes it's like oh, magiccons, what do we do now?
Like nothing.
I was like the cons had spoken.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Like, yeah, definitely, you got to take, you
got to take time for yourself,you're not a robot.
Yeah, like, and even though wethink and that's the other thing
too at some point I think weeven started to see tatsu as a
robot, so that particularly thatepisode when everyone's like,
oh yeah, you need to just take achill pill and relax, it's like
(34:31):
, oh, he's not a robot there'salso the narrative in real life
to where you know people arelike nobody cares how you feel
work harder and all that othershit and it's like, honestly,
it's kind of wild how we we'rehuman beings but we treat each
other like we're in human.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
It's wild how, like oddly enough for social
creatures we kind of have ananti-social towards each other.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I mean that's uh, that's a whole like
psychological thing, that's likea.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I mean, I'm not gonna go too deep, but that's just
something I've been noticinglately.
Like you know, like y'all areso fucking weird sometimes real,
but not to catch too much of me, because I know I ain't perfect
, but it's just some shit that Ijust don't understand.
(35:27):
And I'm like you know, peoplewant to have it both ways and
all that.
I mean.
Sometimes having it both waysit makes sense, but then
sometimes, like you, can't haveit both ways all the goddamn
time.
Like you know how if I knowwe're derailing this point, but
I don't care, I'm, I'm justgonna say it.
Um, you know how, like sometimesyou have those memes and you
(35:48):
have those anime memes wherelike oh, would you uh go with
this girl or this girl orwhatnot, and and then some
goober in the comments going tobe like why can't I have both?
I'm like motherfucker, do youthink both of them want you?
I'm sorry, but it's just weirdhow people swear yeah, like
(36:17):
treating Tassio like a robotinstead.
You know, like he's a humanbeing, like he needs rest, he
needs proper meals and whatnot,he needs time off to himself.
Get a hobby, motherfucker, youknow.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I feel you, Igotcha be motherfucker, you know
(36:38):
oh yeah yeah, I feel you Igotcha uh, was there anything
else I wanted to talk about withthis anime?
Uh, it was the double seven,steeplechase and the ancient
city insurrection.
Um, those like the three arcsthat was jam packed into it, but
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for the most part it just feltlike three different arcs, like
it kind of felt like they wererehashing what we already knew.
Um, essentially, you'retraining up kids to become
soldiers, like they made it veryobvious in the steeplechase arc
, to where they changed up thoseevents, to where it just sounds
(37:23):
more like military stuff thatpeople do, and it's almost like
you're making it very on thenose that you're trying to
weaponize these children, and Ifind that very problematic.
That's like I want to say that.
That's like I want to say thatthat's the biggest problem.
But that's not the biggestproblem of the anime, because I
just like that as a theme.
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But the biggest problem is thatrelationship.
I'm like why, like I canunderstand If it was more?
Like what if Miyuki just haveLike this very strong Platonic
Love for her brother To a pointwhere, like, she sees the Best
(38:07):
of him and she just want peopleto Stop underestimating him and
all that?
And It'd be great if she hadlike very strong respect for
tasia, but she's seriously inlove with him.
I'm like, uh, see, this isanother thing.
How I've been noticing onfacebook how some folks are not
(38:30):
all that into anime when theyhave not only sweet home alabama
here, but also the fact thatthey're not in this anime, but
at least not a lot in this anime, but in anime in general.
How it seemed like you have allthese um, boys and girls like
(38:55):
bikinis, you know, sexualizedand whatnot, and the main thing
is they're usually like anywherebetween 14 and 16.
But here's the thing injapanese culture I'm learning
that years the age of consentwas 13, but they bumped it up to
(39:21):
16.
So in Japanese culture, whereanime is usually from when
you're 16, you're good to go, sothat's normal over there.
That's not normal over here, sothat's why there's like a.
I feel like that's one of themain disconnects with anime, to
(39:42):
where y'all making it centeredaround these teenagers and
whatnot, uh, but like in overhere in america, we're thinking
like bro, why can't there bemore anime where the characters
are like adults, or at leastlike 18, 19 and whatnot, like on
average, and it doesn't have tobe weird, see, that's why I
(40:03):
kind of appreciate zen with zonezero, even though that's a game
, but it's more like a animestyle video game, so it kind of
counts to me.
Point being is that all thosecharacters, well, almost all,
like 80 to 90 percent of thecharacters that you see are at
least 18.
So I'm like, okay, it's notgonna get weird if somebody's
(40:27):
gonna sexualize them all.
Well, you know on the thing.
Then again, they are legal aid.
So I'm like I ain't no fairgame, but I'm not going to.
I don't know, I'm justdistancing myself away, you know
.
But if it's like under 18, I'mlike, okay, that's a no-no sir.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You stop that right now.
But, uh, yeah, a bunch ofthings about this anime.
It kind of reminds me of thingsin real life.
That makes my blood boil.
Mj, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I can tell.
I can tell Are you good?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
I'm good.
Outside of all that, let me goahead and talk about some of the
things I really like about thisanime.
The witty dialogue the seriesis peppered with clever
exchanges, particularly betweenTatsuya and his classmates, who
often engage in playful banterand intellectual debates.
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The dialogue not only serves todevelop character relationships
, but also injects humor andintelligence into the narrative.
The art style and visualeffects now, visually it's
stunning, with high qualityanimation that brings the
magical battles to life.
The meticulous attention todetail in the character designs
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and environments and theimmersive experience.
The visual effects,particularly during the magical
combat scenes impressive andvibrant colors, fluid motion
really captured the essence ofmagic and a powerful, beautiful
force.
I would say, and I do like themusic, like lisa, oh, my god,
(42:23):
fucking love.
Whenever I I hear Lisa on thetrack, I'm like, yeah, this
anime is going to be a bangerBecause, uh, I heard, um, I like
her songs and um, the musicplays a pivotal role in shaping
the anime's atmosphere andenhancing the storytelling.
Uh, it was composed by TakuIwasaki.
(42:44):
The soundtrack blends a varietyof genres, including electronic
, orchestral rock elements, toreflect the show's futuristic
and magical themes.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
You know they got opening ending.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
themes were good, the character themes, the battle
music.
Overall the music wassignificantly what you're used
to get the whole experience.
In conclusion, I would say theIrregular at Magic High School
is a very thought-provoking andvisually appealing story that
challenged the conventionalideas about magic and technology
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.
Engaging characters, intricateworld building, stunning visuals
.
Must watch.
Highly recommend Four storiesout of five Because once again
that brother sister relationshipkind of kills it for me.
What about you, mj?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I would definitely get it.
I'm going to give it a three.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Three.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
I'm going to give it a three.
I'm going to give it a threeout of five.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Want to elucidate on that.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Want to elucidate on that.
I mean elucidate on that, likeI mean I'm not, I'm not even mad
, I'm like I don't know.
You thought it was kind of mid.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
I did think it was mid.
After the first, after thefirst season, I just there was.
In my opinion there was so muchto do that they did not.
It feels unfinished.
The first season was a completestory, beginning to end.
(44:35):
It had a middle, it told acohesive storyline.
But you get to the secondseason no offense, I don't care
about stars, I don't give a shitabout her at all.
Like fuck her.
Right, there was no reason.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
I'm like you treat her like rachel from tower of
god, like we're gonna talk aboutthat, by the way, but oh my god
, it's oh fuck, rachel, anyway,like that's a whole other level.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
We're just not not gonna go there right now.
But yeah, no, I didn't give, Ididn't, I didn't care about the
us.
Like it felt like a throwawayseason, it felt likea filler
season and I didn't care likeabout any of it.
It didn't make any sense to meat all.
Like I loved.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
It feel like a filler arc it felt like a filler arc.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
It just didn't feel like it meant anything.
And then we get to the thirdseason and I didn't care about
the new students um, none ofthem mattered to me.
The competition arc while, yes,it was entertaining and great
we have already seen one in thefirst season, the fact that they
(45:52):
brought that back, but only to.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Let's introduce some new events and make it very
obvious that we're trying to getthese kids into the military as
soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
No, no, all the politics to get these kids into
the military as soon as possible.
No, no, Like all the politicsin that season, it just didn't
feel cohesive.
I was so concerned about thefreaking aunt.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Honestly, I'm going to be real with you.
Even though the dialogue I didlike that they kind of tried to
take them so seriously when itwas time to be serious, but for
the most part it did feel like awhole bunch of word salad it
was a whole bunch of like it,just don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Like I said, the reason it's getting a three is
because the first season washands down, bomb and amazing,
like yeah, but after that Ithink it falls apart.
Like, and I also didn't carefor the spinoff, like no offense
to me, yuki, but I don't careabout, I don't, I don't care
what you saw.
Like we know you have a crushon your brother.
That's all we needed to know.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Like at this point, yeah, really what it was is like
they pretty much like made thefirst season and like just from
a different angle and like forthe most part, since it was like
12 episodes.
And keep in mind, since Tatsuyais the main character, it's
understandable that he'll be inmost of the fights and
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accomplice and whatnot.
So sometimes Miyuki's not evenin the picture, uh, when tatsu
is trying to do his own thing.
So I just imagine like miyukireally was only there for half
of the first season in that likeand that's, it's fine, it's
(47:41):
just.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
And then, like I said , I felt like the story when it
came to the aunt.
It just felt.
It felt like there were so manynuggets in season one and I'm
waiting for this big battle, foruh tatsuya to like take over
the family and like save.
That's what I wanted to see.
(48:03):
I wanted to see him take overthe family, save yuki.
I want oddly enough, I can kindof see it, especially with him
wearing this all black suit helooking murdered out like yeah,
like ready to take over, likehis whole entire thing was to
save her right, like that's hismission, that's his job and he
she doesn't want to be, and himbecoming the head oh there's
(48:26):
such a pull-up on like genu bro,like in this, it would just be
so.
It would have been so good tosee that unfold that way.
I think they missed thatopportunity and maybe I need to
read it I mean think about itand maybe I need to read it.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I mean think about it , this dude with his rifle he
could do a material bomb, bursta blast where this one bullet
can decimate a whole seriouscity area like I don't want to
fuck with a dude that can dothat but not only.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
That's remember okay, so we didn't really talk too
much about his magical powers,but he is able to use magic.
His magic is to revive someone.
Like he can heal just about anyinjury.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
His ability is more technical.
But here's the problem.
Here's another thing, I'm sorry.
Another thing, I'm sorry it'sgonna be another real world
application to where don't justpiss you off is a little bit to
where it seemed like with theway schools are sometimes, where
they assume that every kid thatgets into the system are like
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built normally right, but youknow they have like the kid
that's like built different,like they're not like special ed
per se, but more like theylearn differently.
And you know how sometimes withautistic kids they're actually
like geniuses but they justlearn differently.
But the thing is they had thiswhole criteria that Tosia just
(49:58):
didn't fit in.
But if they were testing him onwhat he's specialized in, then
they'll be like, oh shit, he'sactually a genius.
I'm like, yeah, but you werejust testing him on shit that
he's not very strong in, so youjust assume he's worthless
because he didn't meet yourstandards.
But if you actually testing himon what he's actually good in,
(50:20):
then you will see how much worthhe actually has.
But that's just a thing.
Um, he has this ability likenot only is he great at
engineering, but he does havesome uh, combat ability.
Like bro, he trained with adude to learn like ninjutsu and
(50:40):
shit.
Like, well, I don't think hehas to use ninjutsu, his master
does, but he can't.
He got Hands um For sure.
So I guess you can say that, uh,I like Tatsuya Because he just
seemed like that Underdog.
That's actually like A low keygenius and he's just gonna have
(51:01):
to Approve himself.
Well, I don't, he doesn't haveto impress Anybody.
Well, I don't even have toimpress anybody, honestly.
But it is more like one ofthose things where, yeah, well,
you know, I may be a course twostudent, but you know, I'll just
, uh, work hard and, um, do mybest, and you know you guys
flowering, I'm happy for him,man oz, and mainly, talk to you
(51:22):
is, like you know, I'm justtrying to figure things out,
like I'm not exactly sure what Iwant for myself, but I do know
one thing I want to make surethat my sister's safe, even if
that means taking on my wholefamily, to make sure that my
family can't manipulate Miyuki.
And that's the thing where theaunt made it clear to where.
(51:44):
Oh yeah, tatsu is a monster.
We can't manipulate Miyuki, andthat's the thing where the aunt
made it clear to where, oh yeah, tatsuya's a monster.
We can't control thatmotherfucker, but however, he
continually cared for his sister.
So if we can control the sister, we control Tatsuya.
Yeah, yeah, was there somethingyou wanted to add, mj?
Speaker 2 (52:11):
no, I think I think you covered a lot of the things
that I would have said um, Ijust, I do want to mention this.
Um, no incestuous relationships.
I'm just saying, I just want tothrow that out there.
I just just want to make surethat this doesn't motivate
people to do anything.
(52:32):
This isn't normal.
Just saying that's all I wantto say.
I did love season one.
That's about it.
I think that's all I have toadd about Irregular Magic High
School oh oh wait, you know, Ihave to do my Irregular Magic
High School.
Oh wait, I have to do my boycrush.
There were no boy crushes inthis anime for me, really None.
(52:53):
I'm not going to lie though.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
See, that's why I said what I said earlier.
It's where the dudes for themost part the girls had more air
time and shit than the guys,whereas like the guys, I guess
they kind of did stuff, but theydidn't really stand out.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
But you know what Girl power?
It's a girl power anime.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Ironically, but I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
It's done well.
It's done pretty well.
I can't lie.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
Yeah, all right.
Well, well, you know we alreadydid the rating and what not.
So if you're tapped, I'm tapped.
Let's just go ahead and closeit out.
Dear listener, we do thank youfor listening to us babble Until
the end and Mirror J.
I do thank you for being on theshow.
Remember to stay nerdy, myfriend, and great things are
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coming.
We're gonna go ahead and zoneout of here.
So have yourself a good morning, a good afternoon and a good
evening.
Take it easy.
Welcome back to the Zone Podcast, the show about
nerdy news and reviews.
I'm Jet Black Extreme feel freeto call me JB and today's topic
is the Irregular at Magic HighSchool.
Joining me on this review isMira Jane and without further
ado, let's go ahead and zone inon it.
The Irregular at Magic HighSchool, on it be regular at
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magic high school.
It's a captivating anime whereit blends the realms of magic
and science and technology in afuturistic setting.
It's set in a world where magicis not only real but a refined
technology.
It explores the lives of thestudents that go to first high
school, this institutionspecialized in magical education
, and while we get deeper intoit, I'm probably gonna make some
(00:55):
references that might you know.
You know me with the, butbefore I really get into it,
mira Jane, how did you feelabout your regular high school
life?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I mean I couldn't get over the brother and sister, I
just yeah see, that was mynumber one complaint about this
show.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It's where the two main characters, tatsuya and
Miyuki Shiba, their brother andsister and they're part of the
Shiba clan.
Well, it's like it's a funnything.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
funny thing, the whole 10 master clans like I
don't know why it keepsreminding me of kakigurui with
the whole uh bombies.
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, the jabamiclan and the ubami clan.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, it's like this whole web weave of families like
working together, quote,unquote, if you want to call it
that.
And the whole thing is thateven though I'm going to talk
about the movie in just a moment, like later but it's just weird
(02:20):
, being Miyuki, being likebrother, why can't you just look
at me like a woman instead ofmy sister?
And I'm like and Chelsea justgotta look at her like bro, we
are related.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I was like what does that matter?
I was like it matters a lot.
It's totally freaking me.
Like the first season was waswild.
I'm gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
The first season they made it very clear that this
was a weird relationship andyeah, like the side characters,
like not to call them sidecharacters, um, because you know
they all have like theirstrengths and whatnot.
But let's just be real, theythem side characters, because
you know they all have theirstrengths and what not, but
let's just be real, they're sidecharacters.
The side characters Were likehey yo, like y'all talk to each
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other, like y'all in arelationship.
And then Miyuki's like really.
And then Tatsuya was like Hmm,well, if we weren't related,
then maybe.
But Nah, I'm just fucking withy'all.
Hmm well, if we weren't related,then maybe.
But nah, I'm just fucking withy'all.
I'm like, and then miki is likewhy are you teasing me like
this, bro?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm like you were serious, bro, bro, bro, bro,
that first of all, first of all,first of all, tassia was not
joking.
I don't care what he said, hisface was way too straight.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Like he has the.
He is super stoic.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
He's super like that jawline doesn't move.
Okay, like, even when he talksit doesn't move.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Listen, listen.
It's funny that you say thatbecause, first of all, with
Tasia, I like this dude, likethe way he be, like, okay, he's
one of those characters to where, yeah, he doesn't have a whole
lot of raw magical talent, butthe way I see it, I'm like, hey
man, my magical talent may belacking, but when I have these
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heaters in my hand and thiscombat suit on, I'm never
slacking.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Bro, and then you know what I will say.
Overall, in general, I likedthe concept of Irregular Magic
High School.
I enjoyed.
I think the first season is myfavorite season.
It felt cohesive, it felt done.
When the season was finished,everything about season one was
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a good season.
So, like it got, the story getsa little bit muddled in season
three in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Like they crammed three arcs into one season,
that's what?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
yeah, but only in 13 episodes.
Like this could have been a 26episode season easily the actual
fan, season two being 12 to 13episodes.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But season three just felt like, okay, really, what
you're doing is they?
First of all, they pretty muchnow that they're like a year
later, like they're now classtwo, like they're not freshmen
anymore and good for tatio, forno longer being uh, quote,
unquote a weed.
And that's the funny things.
Like, um, there's like bloomsand there's weeds, and you know,
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blooms are not supposed to callweeds weeds.
You know, I'm saying it'ssupposed to be course one or
course two, and some people likemiyuki, um, take, um, don't
take that on word, like verylightly, you know I'm like
you're not allowed to callpeople weeds, especially
considering um you consideringTazia being one.
So I'm like if you're insultingall the Course 2 students, you
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might as well be insulting mybrother.
I'm not going to stand fory'all insulting my brother.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'm not, bruh, I ain't going to lie.
I love her ice powers.
Like her powers were super.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Ice princess?
No princess, that's what Icalled her.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It didn't matter.
She was ready to freeze any andeverybody.
She was always ready.
One thing I did like as aschool that's why I said the
first season felt so good.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh, before I forget, I like his nickname, like I mean
, I want to say the English dubkind of ruined it for me,
calling him Silverhorn, but I'mlike no, no, no, I like the old
one, the Japanese subversion, Ilike Taurus Silver.
I was like, ooh, that was fire.
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Ooh, that sounds tough.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm not going to lie to you.
I could tell he was real proudof himself.
He kept dropping subtle hintsthroughout the first season to
get an old girl to realize whohe was.
You know what I?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
mean yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Like he low-key was dropping subtle hints.
I was like Tati, you was notslick.
But he was real slick with it.
He was dropping all them subtlehints to let people know, like
I am that nigga Low-key, but Iam that nigga Low heat, but I'm
that nigga.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I will say one thing I really liked was the school
politics First season did.
So I can't lie, first seasonwas perfect.
In Regular Magic High, ifyou're gonna watch it, first
season is absolutely perfect.
It is not trash at all.
There is nothing I wouldcorrect about season one other
than, of course we've alreadytalked about it the brother,
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sister, whatever well, hold on.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That leads to the second complaint that I almost
had about the entire series.
I felt like it was emotionallyinelastic at times, like it just
felt like you know, like evenwith the slow moments, you know
like they're having a laugh orwhatnot.
It just felt like it felt kindof dry to me, like I kind of
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miss that anime antics.
But then when you get to seasonthree, where you get, uh, that
one red-haired, um new girl, uh,ikt I think her name was, and
the Saegusa twins, then I'm like, okay, there's the anime funny
that I was looking for, with theemotional reaction and whatnot.
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Okay, that's the shit that Iwas looking for.
Okay, but season one and two,I'm like like, see, I felt like,
even though I like how, whenthey got serious, they got
serious.
But sometimes when y'all liketrying to be playful, even then
y'all take yourself way tooseriously.
So that was my main gripe aboutit up until season three.
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I'm like you know what?
I can forgive it.
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, like I can agree to that.
I can see where you're comingfrom with that.
I just think that, man, I'll behonest with you I'm kind of I'm
low-key obsessed with seasonone.
I'm not gonna lie, like therest of it, season two, season
two feels forgettable.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, hold on.
I know there's a whole bunch ofcharacters, but let's just be
honest.
That's just a funny thing, eventhough the characters I'm not
going to take away too much fromthe watching experience.
You just so happen to belistening to this episode and
actually watch the anime justyet.
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But you know, with thecharacters you're just gonna
have to like, watch it and seehow you feel about them.
But for the most part it's like, and unless they like do
something really crazy, they'rekind of forgettable.
I'm gonna be honest with you,that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
What was the question ?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
really crazy they're kind of forgettable.
I'm going to be honest with you.
That's true.
Hold on what was.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Papi's friend's name.
What was Oldu's name?
He had the.
His power basically was topunch people.
That was basically oh my god,why can't I remember his name
right now?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
but, I think you're right was it, I don't know, like
that's.
The funny thing is like therewas more girls than dudes.
That was like in the mix, so itwas like if it wasn't one, the
girls.
I'm like, wait, hold on.
Was there other dudes that didshit in this anime?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
there was, there was, uh, no no, no, like I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I know there was, but it just feels like for the most
part the dudes were like takinga back seat, except if it's not
Tatsuya or um, the prince orMasaki or the cardinal or
whatnot, like everybody elsejust kind of kind of did stuff.
But like, are you gonnaremember it after you watch the
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anime?
Like is it gonna be one ofthose things to where you might
make a anime edit on tikt,tiktok or whatnot?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Be like hey, yo look at what this character did.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's so fucking crazy , Like, let's be real, Come on.
But oh yeah, I know we're kindof skipping because there was a
whole non-school competition art, but you know it was alright.
You know, especially Tatsuyaversus Masaki, that was like the
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best part for me.
Otherwise, it's like you know,they had their fun.
You know, it's kind of with myHero Academia.
They had their little sportsfestival.
Okay okay, Cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Don't you love those Don't you love like, don't you
love those don't you love like.
Every time there's a littleevery time it's a high school
enemy.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I love the sports festival, yeah, like they have
like a little tournament.
What now?
Okay, I'm sorry oh, I was gonnatalk about season two real
quick, but what you have to say,I was gonna ask what did you
think about the aunt?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Because, like first season made me feel like the
aunt was this manipulative.
Like she, I was really preparedto see this really crazy like
woman at some point in time.
That's what season one feltlike for me.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, first of all, diddy.
Second of all, yeah, I feellike she's gonna be like the
main antagonist out of it all,because it feels like she's the
one that's trying to manipulatemiyuki into becoming the head of
the yosuba, and she doesn'twant to be the head, she just
wants to be close to Tatsuya,because she knows that pretty
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much.
Bro, I might as well talk aboutseason 2, because season 2
pretty much makes theoverarching theme of this anime
the most prominent.
It's like they kind of hint atit in season 1, but once you get
to season 2 and beyond, it'slike, okay, I know, you pretty
much know what this show isabout.
And, funny enough, before I saythis, keep Naruto in mind okay
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this anime is basically tellingyou that if you got talent, even
at a young age, we are going toweaponize you and milk you for
all your worth.
This anime is about weaponizingmagicians and pretty much
making child soldiers, andthat's pretty much become very
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clear between takio shiba andlena shields now this show.
This anime offers more than justa tale of magical prowess and
high school drama.
At its core, it presents aprofound allegory about the
utilization of child soldiersand the militarization of young
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magicians, exploring the ethicaland moral implications of using
young individuals as tools ofwar.
Now the series is set in aworld where this magic is
recognized technology.
Individuals are gifted withmagical abilities trained from a
young age to harness theirpowers.
With magical abilities trainedfrom a young age to harness
their powers, but the settingparallels to the real world
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issue of child soldiers, wherechildren are coerced or
manipulated into becominginstruments of warfare.
Now, young magicians are oftenviewed as resources or weapons
rather than individuals withrights and aspirations.
Now, like I said, tasia andlena exemplifies this conflict.
Tasio's extraordinary abilitiesmake him both a valuable asset
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and a target, highlighting thepressures and exploitations
faced by those with uniquetalents and warlike societies.
Lena, also known as andalinakudo shields, is a prominent
character introduced in theseries as a powerful magician
with septal skills.
Funny thing is, tassio tried totalk no juice to Lena out of
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her job because she knows thatdeep down she's not really cut
out for this job.
But then again, with herabilities, like you know,
masquerading as the redhead andwhatnot, angie's serious.
Uh, pretty much she was likeforced into this life.
So with lena, uh, she holds asteam position as the head of
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the united states of northamerica's elite magician unit
known as stars, where sheoperates on the alias andy
series, and she's characterizedby her striking appearance uh,
golden, long, golden hair andall that.
And she's had this blend ofdetermination and charm, um,
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playful at times, like she,she's kind of comedic when she
wants to be.
But throughout the series, uh,lena's abilities are showcased
as she's engaged in variousmissions that test her magical
bomb prowess and all that.
And she gets into fights withtatsuya and miyuki and you see
how deep she's in and whatnot.
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On tatsuya's, like you don'thave to do all this, you can
just live a normal life.
And like you don't have to doall this, you can just live a
normal life.
I'm like you don't know me Shutup and all that shit for like
12, 13 episodes.
But think about it like that,like when I mentioned Naruto,
where not only did I thought,she was like, hey, listen, you
and I are not that different.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
I'm like, hey, man, listen you trying to talk those
people?
I'm not hearing all that.
But Listen you trying to talkto those people?
I'm not hearing all that.
But no, bro.
Though, like how Naruto and allof them were raised at young
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age to be prepared for a war andall that shit, and like it just
brings to perspective how, likeeven in real life, where you're
pretty much getting preparedfor a fight that you have no
like the matter in, but they'relike, nope, you're getting
involved anyways yeah, yeah,that does put that into
perspective, because I didn't,you're not wrong, I think
watching naruto, you're justkind of like when you think
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about it you're just like, oh,they're ninjas, so this is
expected, right, like thisshould be.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
But then if you watch Boruto, it's so different, it's
like they didn't have toprepare for war, so the kids
were able to think about, oh, Iwant to be a movie star or I
want to be on television likethe news anchor or so, like
their ideas were way completelydifferent and so far away from
like war.
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So, yeah, I think that's a goodpoint.
Um, I also think that I think aregular, imagine high school
does a really good job ofexplaining the of using
manipulation, because, like, Idon't, I don't want to get, it
sounds like russia, I don't wantto say it like that, but it if
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you, if you looked up like howthey train their gymnast, or if
you look at like the war wayback when, how they train, oh,
you know like, uh, like talenthollywood russia you mean to
where it just Seem like.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Every time they're depicted In media, it seem like
they're always like Extremetraining, like they're like
wrestling with bears or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean it's Low key, not a lot.
So it's certainly extremeextent.
Yeah, it's a lot, but low key.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's more like an exaggeration, Like an over
exaggeration.
It's more like an exaggerationlike an over-exaggeration.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's a good over-exaggeration, and so it
kind of reminds me of that alittle bit.
Tatsu is such a good.
He's such a good conflict.
He brings conflicting emotionsin me, even though he's the
least emotional character in theshow he makes me feel
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conflicted emotionally andhonestly, I think that that was
intentional, because you startto feel for him in a way.
You're like, wow, he's reallynot a mindless soldier, but he's
a mindless soldier like hedoesn't think about anything
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else other than protectingmiyuki which, yes, he should.
But and you?
And then, as a slow progressionseason later, you start to see
him caring about other peopleand caring if they're safe or
not, and he starts making moredecisions about people's safety,
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which is a good example of thetalk no jutsu right, like he
tries to talk this girl out ofbeing in an environment that he
knows is not conducive to herown nature.
So I think he's my favoritecharacter out of the whole show.
Um, but you made a good pointthere.
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I like that.
That was a good point good.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Good, because you remember when you know off the
record, I was telling you, holdup.
There's a prequel movie.
Now check this out.
The reminiscent art uh, thereminiscence artist.
Excuse me, I did not know aboutthis until a few days ago and I
just watched it recently andessentially it said, three years
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prior to the main storyline,how Tatsuya, originally viewed
as an emotionless and powerfulmagician, became closely bonded
to Miyuki, despite the initialemotional distance imposed by
their family and through aseries of events, including a
life-threatening situationduring a family trip, miyuki
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becomes to understand the depthof Tatsuya's loyalty and
unwavering commitment to hersafety, and this revelation
transforms her perception of himand her previously distant
demeanor shifts to one of deepaffection and reliance.
This art not only deepens thenarrative by exploring the
siblings' past, but alsointroduces key elements to the
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Yosuba family influence and thesocietal pressures surrounding
magical prowess.
It sheds light on Tatsu'sunique magical abilities and the
restrictions placed upon himdue to his family's policies,
laying the groundwork for theconflicts and character
motivation seen throughout theseries.
So, with that being said, Ilike how, at first you get the
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moment um, first meet tasuya.
She was like I don't like thisdude, like why he looking like
that all the time, why he juststand there doing nothing, like
he just creeps me out, he makesme so uncomfortable and then all
it took for her to be in dangerby the three guys.
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By the way, the three guys werelike actually cool people, you
know.
They were like I don't know,but point being it's like, Tati
was like stand back, I'm gonnado my job.
I was like You're just ascrawny kid, what can you do?
I was like, oh yeah, you don'tknow about me, but watch this.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Which you know.
It sets up the whole scene.
I'm sorry, it sets up the wholescene For like season one,
right, like it sets all of thatup.
Why do you Just like?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know what?
I'm kind of jumping again.
But can I talk about moment inseason three, now that I'm
thinking about it, how, um, theone side gusta twin that doesn't
like tasia.
Uh, I think it was kasumi, noteasy me.
Uh, kasumi was going to attackon tasia, uh, with, like I guess
, a knee, high knee kick orsomething like that, and then
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Tasia grabbed her knee and justflinged her away and then at
that moment I was like, clearlyyou don't know about me, but
watch this.
Let me show you Let me, put youin a child's place and give you
the ass whooping your daddyshould have gave you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm not gonna lie, but you can kind of warn people.
The whole season, every season,she was like you don't know my
brother, you don't know whathe's capable of.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
And then when he shows what he's capable of.
I ship Tasia with the formerstudent council president.
You know she graduated with Ew.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Why, why, ew why?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Why, ew why?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Why yes, and I'll tell you why ew.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Well, I don't know, it's like I kind of like her,
she's cool and they seem likethey have a connection.
I mean it's better than himlooking up with Miyuki.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Listen, it seems like Shimoki was kind of jealous a
little bit of the of the brotherand sister.
Okay, listen, I know I've beenbashing this brother and sister
relationship, but I'm saying itjust came across like she was a
little bit jealous of what wasgoing on between the two of them
and I don't think it was a goodjealous.
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I don't think it was like oh,why won't he look at me?
Kind of jealous.
I think it was like a weirdbrother fetish.
I really do.
That's what I.
That was the vibe.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Why you gotta go there with that.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm just saying that was the vibes I got, like that
was that's what I got from that.
Okay, now I ship him with thered-headed girl who was his
friend.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Uh, Erica.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Oh yeah, that's my shipping.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I can't even lie like Hold on, I thought it was like
no, no, no.
I mean maybe maybe like a loverival.
Who knows like no, no, no, no.
I mean maybe Maybe I could loveRival.
Who knows Like, I mean listen,with season three being like
fresh, like this year, who knows, like there might be new
seasons?
Because, hey man, I'm stillkind of surprised they're coming
out with new seasons of BlueExorcist and Black Butler out of
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nowhere.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
So I'm like who knows at this point, Bro, I'm so
confused on who X was justsaying, like I just I know
they're like supposedly redoingthe arc that they messed up, you
know, but I just I think it'stoo late.
It feels a little too late tome, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It just feels a little late, feels like they
could have been did this, yeah Imean, I don't really know how
it works over there, but you'reright, you got a point like.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I just felt like I mean, a studio probably won't
pick it up.
It up, you know, yeah, becauseit's not as popular as it used
to be, and like I don't knowwhat studio ended up picking it
up, I'd have to look into it,but that's probably what took so
long was just probably waitingfor a studio to pick it up Right
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and see.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
that's another thing that you just remind me of how
I'm still kind of pissed offabout particular Hitman Re
reborn to, where if it was justmore popular with people it
probably would have got thoselast two uh manga arts all
animated, because that was likethe best part about the whole
story.
Like man it was popping off inthe last two arcs oh my god,
hitman reborn is a sleeper anime.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That is a sleeper.
I feel like people sleep onthat.
It was so good.
It was so so good, like, andthen I didn't even realize I was
into it.
That was the thing.
I didn't even realize I waswatching it until I'm like 100
episodes in and I'm like wait,what happened?
Like how did I get?
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Because it starts off so good.
It's just it's.
I don't want to go on our uh atangent about another anime
while we're talking aboutirregular magic high school but
I know him.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Every born is really it yeah, y'all give uh kateka
hit mary born chance, um,whenever you get time.
Uh, same thing with this anime.
To where with Irregulate MagicHigh School, I would say
definitely give it a chance.
By the way, the spinoff HonorStudent at.
Magic High School.
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Remember when you was tellingme about Tatsuya and his facial
features and whatnot?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I looked at this spinoff man.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, first of all, Telling me about Tatsuya and his
Facial features and what not.
I looked at this Spinoff man.
Okay, first of all, it'sbasically season one, but from
Miyuki's point of view and I ina weird way, in this spinoff the
animation changed To whereMiyuki kind of looks more like
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the typical anime character.
So she's not like all doll-likein the mainline story, but with
Tatsuya man.
They kind of fucked up Tatsuyajust a little bit.
I mean it's like subtle notice,but it's almost like you can
tell they softened his face andit's almost like he doesn't have
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that stoicness on his face.
I'm like, oh, you ruin him.
No, no, go back to the stoic,stone cold face.
And then they, uh, I saw seasonthree.
Okay, y'all got it back.
Cool, cool, thank god, oh youknow what?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
okay, okay, okay, theory Right.
What if the doll-likeAppearances of a lot of the
females Is what Tatsuya seesLike?
What if that's what?
What if we're just watching theanime From Tatsuya's eyes?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I mean Honestly, it just feels like Twilight At this
point, to where the main no,listen the main movie.
The main feels like Twilight atthis point, to where the main
no, listen the main movie, themain book was from Bella's point
of view, and now we're gettingMidnight Science.
By the way, I don't understandhow we get a whole series for
Netflix for Edward's side of thestory, but here we are.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
We're not gonna.
Let's not Listen.
I'm excited for it, but that'swhy Just leave me alone.
That's like a that's a secretlittle thing.
Alright, I'm not gonna talkabout it.
I'm gonna keep it all to myself.
I'm gonna keep my pop corn.
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Okay, that's what I'm gonna do.
Gonna leave that alone in thedark.
Alright, but everyone has theirthings.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
JB Okay, that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to leave that alonein the dark.
All right, good Lord.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
But everyone has their things JB, okay, and mine
just so happen to be sparklingvampires, but but that's what I
think.
I think when we're watchingIrregular Magic High School,
we're watching it throughTatia's eyes, so everything
looks a little bit sharpened anddifferent.
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And I think the way HonorStudent Magic High School does
it is Miyuki's perception islike everything's softer, like
oh, it's like little hearts andlittle rainbows, like oh, he's
my brother, you know, likeromanticized a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Right, that's my theory, that's my theory about
it I mean you're not wrong, butI hated the way you said that
what's wrong JB.
What's?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
wrong.
You don't like me.
I'm my brother.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No, not the way you know, like how, when you think
about it like damn, like she'sreally into her brother, I'm
like I can't lie, though.
Like it kind of you know whatthe funny thing is?
(31:25):
Because she was like at firstshe was gonna look at it through
like Kendra Lamar.
On Euphoria, let me say thatI'm the biggest hater.
She went from that to oh, mybrother, he's my everything and
all that.
I'm like this, this.
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When you think about it, thisall changed when Tassia saved
her life, so it's almost likethis is like the savior hero
complex.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, she's the savior hero complex yeah, I'm
like.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
I mean, yeah, I'm your brother, so that's what I
do.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I'm like you're not supposed to catch feelings for
me bro, but then, okay, I'mgonna tell you what I'm more
interested in, and I and Iwanted them to touch on it way
more, because I just don't feellike there was enough of this
Tatia planning on taking on thewhole family from you.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
He mentions it briefly, right, like in season
one.
He mentions it I can't rememberexactly what episode.
I think that's why I loveseason one so much, because
there were so many littlenuggets.
But, like, he mentions itbriefly in a moment to miyuki,
and then we never really see it.
But what we see is him likelike season two, right, we get
to see him becoming a little bitmore emotional, right, a little
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bit kind of flexing thoseemotion muscles a little bit.
But we also see him plottingand planning a little bit, and
then in the third season it'severything feels secretive hold
on.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Can we talk about season three tos here?
To where I like one moment, towhere he was so busy helping
everybody in the nine um schoolscompetition where he was like
running himself ragged.
He couldn't even think straightand pretty much people had to
talk to him saying, hey man,sometimes you just got to chill
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out.
You can't just run yourselfragged even though you're trying
so hard to help people like weget it Like and we do appreciate
you.
But sometimes so hard to helppeople like we get it like and
we do appreciate you, butsometimes you need to take a
break.
You know, and I'm like I feltthat because I'm trying to
juggle so many different thingsand I'm like, bro, like you
gotta like take like one, twodays, I'll just do absolutely
(33:52):
nothing you like, listen to themagic cons, like.
Sometimes it's like oh, magiccons, what do we do now?
Like nothing.
I was like the cons had spoken.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Like, yeah, definitely, you got to take, you
got to take time for yourself,you're not a robot.
Yeah, like, and even though wethink and that's the other thing
too at some point I think weeven started to see tatsu as a
robot, so that particularly thatepisode when everyone's like,
oh yeah, you need to just take achill pill and relax, it's like
(34:31):
, oh, he's not a robot there'salso the narrative in real life
to where you know people arelike nobody cares how you feel
work harder and all that othershit and it's like, honestly,
it's kind of wild how we we'rehuman beings but we treat each
other like we're in human.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
It's wild how, like oddly enough for social
creatures we kind of have ananti-social towards each other.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I mean that's uh, that's a whole like
psychological thing, that's likea.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I mean, I'm not gonna go too deep, but that's just
something I've been noticinglately.
Like you know, like y'all areso fucking weird sometimes real,
but not to catch too much of me, because I know I ain't perfect
, but it's just some shit that Ijust don't understand.
(35:27):
And I'm like you know, peoplewant to have it both ways and
all that.
I mean.
Sometimes having it both waysit makes sense, but then
sometimes, like you, can't haveit both ways all the goddamn
time.
Like you know how if I knowwe're derailing this point, but
I don't care, I'm, I'm justgonna say it.
Um, you know how, like sometimesyou have those memes and you
(35:48):
have those anime memes wherelike oh, would you uh go with
this girl or this girl orwhatnot, and and then some
goober in the comments going tobe like why can't I have both?
I'm like motherfucker, do youthink both of them want you?
I'm sorry, but it's just weirdhow people swear yeah, like
(36:17):
treating Tassio like a robotinstead.
You know, like he's a humanbeing, like he needs rest, he
needs proper meals and whatnot,he needs time off to himself.
Get a hobby, motherfucker, youknow.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I feel you, Igotcha be motherfucker, you know
(36:38):
oh yeah yeah, I feel you Igotcha uh, was there anything
else I wanted to talk about withthis anime?
Uh, it was the double seven,steeplechase and the ancient
city insurrection.
Um, those like the three arcsthat was jam packed into it, but
(37:00):
for the most part it just feltlike three different arcs, like
it kind of felt like they wererehashing what we already knew.
Um, essentially, you'retraining up kids to become
soldiers, like they made it veryobvious in the steeplechase arc
, to where they changed up thoseevents, to where it just sounds
(37:23):
more like military stuff thatpeople do, and it's almost like
you're making it very on thenose that you're trying to
weaponize these children, and Ifind that very problematic.
That's like I want to say that.
That's like I want to say thatthat's the biggest problem.
But that's not the biggestproblem of the anime, because I
just like that as a theme.
(37:43):
But the biggest problem is thatrelationship.
I'm like why, like I canunderstand If it was more?
Like what if Miyuki just haveLike this very strong Platonic
Love for her brother To a pointwhere, like, she sees the Best
(38:07):
of him and she just want peopleto Stop underestimating him and
all that?
And It'd be great if she hadlike very strong respect for
tasia, but she's seriously inlove with him.
I'm like, uh, see, this isanother thing.
How I've been noticing onfacebook how some folks are not
(38:30):
all that into anime when theyhave not only sweet home alabama
here, but also the fact thatthey're not in this anime, but
at least not a lot in this anime, but in anime in general.
How it seemed like you have allthese um, boys and girls like
(38:55):
bikinis, you know, sexualizedand whatnot, and the main thing
is they're usually like anywherebetween 14 and 16.
But here's the thing injapanese culture I'm learning
that years the age of consentwas 13, but they bumped it up to
(39:21):
16.
So in Japanese culture, whereanime is usually from when
you're 16, you're good to go, sothat's normal over there.
That's not normal over here, sothat's why there's like a.
I feel like that's one of themain disconnects with anime, to
(39:42):
where y'all making it centeredaround these teenagers and
whatnot, uh, but like in overhere in america, we're thinking
like bro, why can't there bemore anime where the characters
are like adults, or at leastlike 18, 19 and whatnot, like on
average, and it doesn't have tobe weird, see, that's why I
(40:03):
kind of appreciate zen with zonezero, even though that's a game
, but it's more like a animestyle video game, so it kind of
counts to me.
Point being is that all thosecharacters, well, almost all,
like 80 to 90 percent of thecharacters that you see are at
least 18.
So I'm like, okay, it's notgonna get weird if somebody's
(40:27):
gonna sexualize them all.
Well, you know on the thing.
Then again, they are legal aid.
So I'm like I ain't no fairgame, but I'm not going to.
I don't know, I'm justdistancing myself away, you know
.
But if it's like under 18, I'mlike, okay, that's a no-no sir.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
You stop that right now.
But, uh, yeah, a bunch ofthings about this anime.
It kind of reminds me of thingsin real life.
That makes my blood boil.
Mj, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I can tell.
I can tell Are you good?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
I'm good.
Outside of all that, let me goahead and talk about some of the
things I really like about thisanime.
The witty dialogue the seriesis peppered with clever
exchanges, particularly betweenTatsuya and his classmates, who
often engage in playful banterand intellectual debates.
(41:38):
The dialogue not only serves todevelop character relationships
, but also injects humor andintelligence into the narrative.
The art style and visualeffects now, visually it's
stunning, with high qualityanimation that brings the
magical battles to life.
The meticulous attention todetail in the character designs
(42:00):
and environments and theimmersive experience.
The visual effects,particularly during the magical
combat scenes impressive andvibrant colors, fluid motion
really captured the essence ofmagic and a powerful, beautiful
force.
I would say, and I do like themusic, like lisa, oh, my god,
(42:23):
fucking love.
Whenever I I hear Lisa on thetrack, I'm like, yeah, this
anime is going to be a bangerBecause, uh, I heard, um, I like
her songs and um, the musicplays a pivotal role in shaping
the anime's atmosphere andenhancing the storytelling.
Uh, it was composed by TakuIwasaki.
(42:44):
The soundtrack blends a varietyof genres, including electronic
, orchestral rock elements, toreflect the show's futuristic
and magical themes.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
You know they got opening ending.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
themes were good, the character themes, the battle
music.
Overall the music wassignificantly what you're used
to get the whole experience.
In conclusion, I would say theIrregular at Magic High School
is a very thought-provoking andvisually appealing story that
challenged the conventionalideas about magic and technology
(43:24):
.
Engaging characters, intricateworld building, stunning visuals
.
Must watch.
Highly recommend Four storiesout of five Because once again
that brother sister relationshipkind of kills it for me.
What about you, mj?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
I would definitely get it.
I'm going to give it a three.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Three.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
I'm going to give it a three.
I'm going to give it a threeout of five.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Want to elucidate on that.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Want to elucidate on that.
I mean elucidate on that, likeI mean I'm not, I'm not even mad
, I'm like I don't know.
You thought it was kind of mid.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
I did think it was mid.
After the first, after thefirst season, I just there was.
In my opinion there was so muchto do that they did not.
It feels unfinished.
The first season was a completestory, beginning to end.
(44:35):
It had a middle, it told acohesive storyline.
But you get to the secondseason no offense, I don't care
about stars, I don't give a shitabout her at all.
Like fuck her.
Right, there was no reason.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
I'm like you treat her like rachel from tower of
god, like we're gonna talk aboutthat, by the way, but oh my god
, it's oh fuck, rachel, anyway,like that's a whole other level.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
We're just not not gonna go there right now.
But yeah, no, I didn't give, Ididn't, I didn't care about the
us.
Like it felt like a throwawayseason, it felt likea filler
season and I didn't care likeabout any of it.
It didn't make any sense to meat all.
Like I loved.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
It feel like a filler arc it felt like a filler arc.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
It just didn't feel like it meant anything.
And then we get to the thirdseason and I didn't care about
the new students um, none ofthem mattered to me.
The competition arc while, yes,it was entertaining and great
we have already seen one in thefirst season, the fact that they
(45:52):
brought that back, but only to.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Let's introduce some new events and make it very
obvious that we're trying to getthese kids into the military as
soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
No, no, all the politics to get these kids into
the military as soon as possible.
No, no, Like all the politicsin that season, it just didn't
feel cohesive.
I was so concerned about thefreaking aunt.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Honestly, I'm going to be real with you.
Even though the dialogue I didlike that they kind of tried to
take them so seriously when itwas time to be serious, but for
the most part it did feel like awhole bunch of word salad it
was a whole bunch of like it,just don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Like I said, the reason it's getting a three is
because the first season washands down, bomb and amazing,
like yeah, but after that Ithink it falls apart.
Like, and I also didn't carefor the spinoff, like no offense
to me, yuki, but I don't careabout, I don't, I don't care
what you saw.
Like we know you have a crushon your brother.
That's all we needed to know.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Like at this point, yeah, really what it was is like
they pretty much like made thefirst season and like just from
a different angle and like forthe most part, since it was like
12 episodes.
And keep in mind, since Tatsuyais the main character, it's
understandable that he'll be inmost of the fights and
(47:20):
accomplice and whatnot.
So sometimes Miyuki's not evenin the picture, uh, when tatsu
is trying to do his own thing.
So I just imagine like miyukireally was only there for half
of the first season in that likeand that's, it's fine, it's
(47:41):
just.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
And then, like I said , I felt like the story when it
came to the aunt.
It just felt.
It felt like there were so manynuggets in season one and I'm
waiting for this big battle, foruh tatsuya to like take over
the family and like save.
That's what I wanted to see.
(48:03):
I wanted to see him take overthe family, save yuki.
I want oddly enough, I can kindof see it, especially with him
wearing this all black suit helooking murdered out like yeah,
like ready to take over, likehis whole entire thing was to
save her right, like that's hismission, that's his job and he
she doesn't want to be, and himbecoming the head oh there's
(48:26):
such a pull-up on like genu bro,like in this, it would just be
so.
It would have been so good tosee that unfold that way.
I think they missed thatopportunity and maybe I need to
read it I mean think about itand maybe I need to read it.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
I mean think about it , this dude with his rifle he
could do a material bomb, bursta blast where this one bullet
can decimate a whole seriouscity area like I don't want to
fuck with a dude that can dothat but not only.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
That's remember okay, so we didn't really talk too
much about his magical powers,but he is able to use magic.
His magic is to revive someone.
Like he can heal just about anyinjury.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
His ability is more technical.
But here's the problem.
Here's another thing, I'm sorry.
Another thing, I'm sorry it'sgonna be another real world
application to where don't justpiss you off is a little bit to
where it seemed like with theway schools are sometimes, where
they assume that every kid thatgets into the system are like
(49:35):
built normally right, but youknow they have like the kid
that's like built different,like they're not like special ed
per se, but more like theylearn differently.
And you know how sometimes withautistic kids they're actually
like geniuses but they justlearn differently.
But the thing is they had thiswhole criteria that Tosia just
(49:58):
didn't fit in.
But if they were testing him onwhat he's specialized in, then
they'll be like, oh shit, he'sactually a genius.
I'm like, yeah, but you werejust testing him on shit that
he's not very strong in, so youjust assume he's worthless
because he didn't meet yourstandards.
But if you actually testing himon what he's actually good in,
(50:20):
then you will see how much worthhe actually has.
But that's just a thing.
Um, he has this ability likenot only is he great at
engineering, but he does havesome uh, combat ability.
Like bro, he trained with adude to learn like ninjutsu and
(50:40):
shit.
Like, well, I don't think hehas to use ninjutsu, his master
does, but he can't.
He got Hands um For sure.
So I guess you can say that, uh,I like Tatsuya Because he just
seemed like that Underdog.
That's actually like A low keygenius and he's just gonna have
(51:01):
to Approve himself.
Well, I don't, he doesn't haveto impress Anybody.
Well, I don't even have toimpress anybody, honestly.
But it is more like one ofthose things where, yeah, well,
you know, I may be a course twostudent, but you know, I'll just
, uh, work hard and, um, do mybest, and you know you guys
flowering, I'm happy for him,man oz, and mainly, talk to you
(51:22):
is, like you know, I'm justtrying to figure things out,
like I'm not exactly sure what Iwant for myself, but I do know
one thing I want to make surethat my sister's safe, even if
that means taking on my wholefamily, to make sure that my
family can't manipulate Miyuki.
And that's the thing where theaunt made it clear to where.
(51:44):
Oh yeah, tatsu is a monster.
We can't manipulate Miyuki, andthat's the thing where the aunt
made it clear to where, oh yeah, tatsuya's a monster.
We can't control thatmotherfucker, but however, he
continually cared for his sister.
So if we can control the sister, we control Tatsuya.
Yeah, yeah, was there somethingyou wanted to add, mj?
Speaker 2 (52:11):
no, I think I think you covered a lot of the things
that I would have said um, Ijust, I do want to mention this.
Um, no incestuous relationships.
I'm just saying, I just want tothrow that out there.
I just just want to make surethat this doesn't motivate
people to do anything.
(52:32):
This isn't normal.
Just saying that's all I wantto say.
I did love season one.
That's about it.
I think that's all I have toadd about Irregular Magic High
School oh oh wait, you know, Ihave to do my Irregular Magic
High School.
Oh wait, I have to do my boycrush.
There were no boy crushes inthis anime for me, really None.
(52:53):
I'm not going to lie though.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
See, that's why I said what I said earlier.
It's where the dudes for themost part the girls had more air
time and shit than the guys,whereas like the guys, I guess
they kind of did stuff, but theydidn't really stand out.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
But you know what Girl power?
It's a girl power anime.
I like it.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Ironically, but I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
It's done well.
It's done pretty well.
I can't lie.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
Yeah, all right.
Well, well, you know we alreadydid the rating and what not.
So if you're tapped, I'm tapped.
Let's just go ahead and closeit out.
Dear listener, we do thank youfor listening to us babble Until
the end and Mirror J.
I do thank you for being on theshow.
Remember to stay nerdy, myfriend, and great things are
(53:46):
coming.
We're gonna go ahead and zoneout of here.
So have yourself a good morning, a good afternoon and a good
evening.
Take it easy.
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