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REVIEW: Modern Magic Made Simple Sub.DVD

Rebecca, I like the way you emulate this show in your review by mentioning Soichiro without first explaining who he is.

Yeah, it's a rather forgettable show. It looks like its still on Crunchyroll under its Japanese name Yokuwakaru Gendai Maho. You'd think those involved in the DVD release would try to get CR to take the show down, because its not likely that anyone who watched it there would bother to buy it.

In some ways, it would have been a more satisfying use of the fanservice, and possibly the characters, if they had been painted as a potential couple.

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In some ways, it would have been a more satisfying use of the fanservice, and possibly the characters, if they had been painted as a potential couple.

Your goggles clearly weren't tuned properly. Yumiko wanted Koyomi baaaad, Koyomi was just way too dense to figure that out.

no way he could have been more dense than the male lead from kampfer.

I found the placement of the ova episode at the very beginning to be odd. Most of the time such episodes are placed at the end of the series but looking at the encyclopedia it is dated before episode 1 of the series. However is anything gained by watching the ova first? I completely skipped over it until I was finished with the rest of the show and that seemed to work out fine. I don’t remember anything in the ova that made it necessary to watch prior to the rest of the show. It just seemed like an extra episode. Personally I liked watching it last since its lighter content was a welcome change from the heavier content in the latter half of the series.

Rebecca, I like the way you emulate this show in your review by mentioning Soichiro without first explaining who he is.

Yeah, it's a rather forgettable show. It looks like its still on Crunchyroll under its Japanese name Yokuwakaru Gendai Maho. You'd think those involved in the DVD release would try to get CR to take the show down, because its not likely that anyone who watched it there would bother to buy it.

I think the point was introducing the characters, which is why it came first. Episode 1 certainly didn't do that. It also was released first.

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I think the point was introducing the characters, which is why it came first. Episode 1 certainly didn't do that. It also was released first.

Yeah but that’s just it. It didn’t feel like an introduction to the characters. By that I mean in the ova it seemed liked you were already supposed to know who these people are and what their relationships to each other are. I don’t know maybe I have to rewatch it. I think episodes 2 & 3 were where more formal character introductions were made.