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NEWS: Irregular at Magic High School Anime's New Ad Announces ELISA's Ending Song

Another AD huh? Seems like this is going to be one of the hyped series this upcoming Spring.

Another AD huh? Seems like this is going to be one of the hyped series this upcoming Spring.

This doesn't look like a serviceable fantasy. It looks like one of those narratives where the author missed what makes magic actually feel magical. How can magic, as a concept, flourish in what appears to be a dry, restrained setting? Where's the fun? Where's the imagination? It seems like maybe the author is fantasy fan; like this is his or her way of trying to make 'magic' cool. To be fair, I'm just predicting off the promo, right now. If I'm wrong then I'll be the first one to shed my assumptions and declare myself a fan. It just seems like a lot of anime dealing in teenagers with magic don't really have fun with it; 'magic' just becomes a catch-all term to define whatever superpowers the author wanted to endow their characters with. But just because magic is part of fantasy doesn't make it uncool; 'fun' and 'imagination' are some of the coolest things in my book. And I realize how important a prim and proper demeanor is to the Japanese, but come on. There are also plenty of anime that do cut loose and have fun with their fantasy worlds. Like Magi or One Piece. I guess what I'm saying is, what's the point of using 'magic' if you're not gonna let it BE 'magic'?

Stark700 wrote:

Another AD huh? Seems like this is going to be one of the hyped series this upcoming Spring.

You think so?

People didn't seem to interested in the manga while it was running. I can't speak for the East but I haven't seen any real interest in this series from the West.

zeo1fan wrote:

This doesn't look like a serviceable fantasy. It looks like one of those narratives where the author missed what makes magic actually feel magical. How can magic, as a concept, flourish in what appears to be a dry, restrained setting? Where's the fun? Where's the imagination? It seems like maybe the author is fantasy fan; like this is his or her way of trying to make 'magic' cool. To be fair, I'm just predicting off the promo, right now. If I'm wrong then I'll be the first one to shed my assumptions and declare myself a fan. It just seems like a lot of anime dealing in teenagers with magic don't really have fun with it; 'magic' just becomes a catch-all term to define whatever superpowers the author wanted to endow their characters with. But just because magic is part of fantasy doesn't make it uncool; 'fun' and 'imagination' are some of the coolest things in my book. And I realize how important a prim and proper demeanor is to the Japanese, but come on. There are also plenty of anime that do cut loose and have fun with their fantasy worlds. Like Magi or One Piece. I guess what I'm saying is, what's the point of using 'magic' if you're not gonna let it BE 'magic'?

The magic in this series gives off more of a sci-fi vibe. It's been analyzed to an excent that it's a science. While there is fun to be had, the world is more grounded in reality. Magicians aren't too well regarded by the general population, and they are seen as a valuable military asset more than anything.

So it pretty much fits in with what I'm talking about, then? I just don't see a point in calling it 'magic' if you're going to ground it like that. I understand that magic as a concept in fiction is incredibly hard to nail. You need to give the audience just enough of a 'why' so that the magic doesn't feel random and unbound, but you can't give too much of a 'how' to the point where you spoil the mystery behind it. Magic in fiction is, pardon the pun, about casting a spell over the audience. I just don't see the point in calling it 'magic' when really you're using it as a catch-all term for 'Super-powers with arbitrary limits'.

And when I say "You're", I don't mean you. I don't mean to come off as attacking you, and if I am, then I'm sorry. This is actually something that's been bothering me for a while, and you just happen to be the person I'm getting it off my chest to.

zeo1fan wrote:

So it pretty much fits in with what I'm talking about, then? I just don't see a point in calling it 'magic' if you're going to ground it like that. I understand that magic as a concept in fiction is incredibly hard to nail. You need to give the audience just enough of a 'why' so that the magic doesn't feel random and unbound, but you can't give too much of a 'how' to the point where you spoil the mystery behind it. Magic in fiction is, pardon the pun, about casting a spell over the audience. I just don't see the point in calling it 'magic' when really you're using it as a catch-all term for 'Super-powers with arbitrary limits'. And when I say "You're", I don't mean you. I don't mean to come off as attacking you, and if I am, then I'm sorry. This is actually something that's been bothering me for a while, and you just happen to be the person I'm getting it off my chest to.

They call it magic because it's still mystical in nature. It involves overriding phenomenon and manipulating reality. But yeah, I understand where you're coming from. Knowing too much about it removes the magic from magic.

when you can cast/summon ice, water, fire, ect what do you call them if they are not magic.

You guys always forget about anime. They don't follow the rule of what's out there and define logic.

You can use similar argument on anime swordsmanship, fighting style, sports....

Even Basketball, American Football in anime is not real sport, it looks like they have different rules in anime.

So yeah, anime magic doesn't have to follow any "Magic rule" out there.
魔法 maybe translated to Magic in English, but it means different things in Japanese and Chinese novel and myth.


They also have 仙法(divine magic?). The magic that gods use. 魔法 is more like demon magic in Chinese myth.