I'm extremely disappointed thus far with Magia Record. In the absence of Yuki Kajiura this show surprisingly still pulls out some good music by Takumi Ozawa and my hat goes off to them for that. We're even treated to one full magical girl transformation sequence which was fun. The character art is still just as good with unique designs for all main girls, enough design variety that gives them all a place to be in this series. What is the world of magic that these girls are intended to fight (which this show surprisingly has very little of) and what is these girls ordinary lives. This show follows Rebellion's act by constantly bleeding the unreal of the witches into the real so often it's hard to track what is what in this world. But that's also to this show's detriment as the art just seems to be all over the place with no design purpose other than to look cool. The rest are just uh? The show is just as visually trippy as the original, with just as many odd designs and creative uses of Gekidan Inu Curry's art.
The good one, the stoic one, the hot head and the cheerful one. None of the characters are interesting and all feel like the same stock characters in many shows. With so many characters to quickly introduce and quickly dump.
Besides our main girl, Iroha we have so many other characters that come into play and the plot seems to just forget about most of them anyway. The first major issue this show has is the bulky cast. Despite being apart of the official franchise, Magia Record feels like one of those poor imitators often with a meandering first season of no thrills, no stakes, no suspense, no intrigue, nothing that made the original series so great in the first place. Review of Season 1: Since the original Madoka Magica became such a success there were a slew of imitators that tried to do what it did but there can only be one as it often is.
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