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EP. REVIEW: The Honor Student at Magic High School

she is constantly pining after Tatsuya while he is oblivious (or at least pretending to be oblivious) to her affections.

More than any other episode so far, this feels like little more than a paint-by-numbers recap designed to get us from point A to point B.

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she is constantly pining after Tatsuya while he is oblivious (or at least pretending to be oblivious) to her affections.

I still don't get why the first season skipped the summer break volume. spoiler[Honoka confesses to Tatsuya there. He actually knows what's coming too when she's asks to speak to him alone. He turns her down, of course, but does explain that he's incapable of strong emotions and thus can only like her as a friend. She takes it well and gets his permission to keep loving him until she finds someone else.]

Though the problematic thing about her feelings is spoiler[that elemental families like hers were genetically conditioned to have absolute loyalty to their chosen master, who is Tatsuya in Honoka's case.]

Not likable? She's always been a sweet cinnamon roll.

As for Eimi, she also had her own story in the skipped summer break volume. She even gets a not-Tatsuya love interest.

[Edit: just toned down your language a little. Errinundra.]

I'm too scared to read the spoilers of a LN that never translates but I hope he ends up with Mayumi. Too many teases in Anime and I think Mayumi the perfect fit asides Lina lol

True1AnimeFan wrote:

I'm too scared to read the spoilers of a LN that never translates but I hope he ends up with Mayumi. Too many teases in Anime and I think Mayumi the perfect fit asides Lina lol

Spoilers of that type don't mean much when we're talking about a series that never ends. Considering how Mahouka pulled an Index and just started a sequel series, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the half way point or less.

It's here that the setup for an actual, exciting climax becomes possible—we even get a never-before-mentioned half-time to the event where the characters have the chance to talk it over and build tension for the coming face-off. After all, without all the other girls getting in her way, Airi could potentially go back to her original strategy—a strategy that allowed her to outscore Miyuki in the preliminaries.

However, despite this perfect setup, the other characters dissipate the tension rather than build it up. It is made perfectly clear that there is no reason to do the second half at all, and that even if Airi went out there solo, Miyuki would still win. This is baffling, especially when the scoreboard shows that Airi is trailing a mere nine points, and I can't help but wonder if this is an animation mistake (It wouldn't be the first in this series); perhaps instead of the score being 49-40 in Miyuki's favor, it was supposed to be 94-40. (After all, in the original series, Miyuki finishes with 99 points total.) As it stands now, the idea that Airi couldn't score 9 points unopposed seems ridiculous.

This show was ass. It didn't offer any new real insight into Miyuki's character, it only reaffirmed what we already know: What drives Miyuki is her love for her Onii-sama. Miyuki is so uninteresting and unlikeable as a character. She has no flaws, she's just perfect at everything.

The other big thing is that the comments about the second half of the match not mattering were for the school competition. First High would get enough points with either a first or second place Mirage Bat win, and therefore there was no meaning for the schools in the match continuing. It is like how Miyuki didn't have to face off with Shizuku, but the two of them wanted to compete for personal reasons.