Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria

This anime is a pleasant surprise.

The 2024 year has been FILLED with great fantasy anime with famous manga/novel background; Mushoku Tensei, Tensura, Konosuba, Dungeon Meshi etc. Wistoria in other hand as far as i know, is not that famous. This anime surprise is that not so famous novel/manga has animation quality that rival those with a famous manga/novel background.



The bad:
-The premise of this anime is really cliche; "the seemingly useless guy is actually really strong and he wants 'the strongest people' tittle." (but this time they add "so he can be together with his girl" but that doesn't really matter). It's not very interesting.


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The good:

-The direction. This anime has a cliche premise but the way they wrap it, makes it 'good' to watch. The direction also helped the world building by not explaining it in a long scene, but rather chopped it and spread it between episodes and with argueably short sentences plus great visual and animation and effect and the object they decide to pan or animate is very good and make it fun to watch. But it doesn't end there. those things i just said also apply to the fight sequence.

-The Fight. The fighting/action also uses good; visual, animation, effect, sound plus the direction to create amazing fight sequence.

-The Animation. The first thing you prolly gonna realize is that the animation is absurdly good. They picked the correct color to animate this and the minor detail of the world get a lot of care and attention, and the most surprising is how the keep that quality through out the episode and it makes you feels like you are watching a sakuga the whole episode.

conclusion:
This anime is really worth the watch if you are not an elitist who really only care about story and physically can't watch anime with cliche story.
even though you consider yourself as an elitist, i still recommend you to watch at least a single episode.

Last words:
this is an early review and im really wondering if they can manage this kind of quality the whole anime and not just the first three episode.

even tho i put this as 9/10, i really think this anime is as for now 8/10. But just because this anime is really enjoyable for me, i put it as 9/10

If you're looking for a sleeper hit, look no further than Wistoria, the new addition of this Summer. You might find this anime quite surprising, as it serves as a mark that having good staff can often make a difference in making a good adaptation.

Why you might enjoy Wistoria:
1. Good animation
- If you're familiar with the director of this anime, you'd also know he served as the director of Black Clover. This show had many instances of great animation (unless you're looking for constant quality). In Wistoria however, you are seeing the director's prowess to his fullest, the staff he managed to garner to work ... on this anime is astonishing, so you're blessed with good visuals and characters making multiple expressions.

2. Main character just throwing hands
- An odd character who gains an unlikely power that betrays the foundation of the anime's setting and proceeds to use it to fight against every obstacle he finds? You had me on the word 'odd' because it is precisely that anime. In exchange for superhuman strength, his restriction is to never be able to use magic and have to rely on tools that can pierce through magic itself (reference intended). If you're a huge fan of Black Clover or even JJK, you're going to enjoy this MC throwing hands on his foes anytime.

Flaws found in Wistoria:
1. A formulaic process
- I'm not exactly the person to say that cliche = bad anime, but if you want to resort to familiar premises, you need to spice things up a bit or make the story a bit different for a shot of identity. To me, Wistoria feels like a fan-fiction that was done to commemorate the other great things that have been created before its own, so it means you're going to see plenty of common cliches without twists in them.

2. Tropes confirmed
- Classmate girl who just supports the main character? Check. Headmaster somehow allowing the main character to enroll in a supreme magic school? Check. The main character has a big dream to achieve? Check. So clearly, it further cements the point you're not going to watch something out of the ordinary in plot and originality, it's just an anime that has good animation going for it. Typically like Jujutsu Kaisen in general.

In the end, you should give it a shot if you're a big fan of spicy animation and choreography, which the anime does exactly. I think the story and characters have way more to go than just having animation in its book of merits, but it is the ideal example of what an adaptation should be done. It scores a perfect 10/10 in adaptation in my book.

Imagine going to computer science and pretend to write novels. Even if you're the best novelist ever, it still makes no sense.

Just like in Mashle, a kid without magic powers attends a magic school, however there are subtle differences.
First, the protagonist doesn't try to hide the fact that he cannot use magic, yet he is allowed into the school because "it is fun" (a.k.a. lazy writing), and, most importantly, the show takes itself way too seriously. You can build a fun comedy on top of stupid premises, but a tragedy needs solid and believable ground, to create empathy with the viewer.

Characters are so stereotypical that, ... by now, you may have already seen them in 4 or 5 different shows. Dialogues are dull, they explain each other things they already know, and music is as uninspired as it gets.

The only reason to watch this show is animation, which is quite good. Everything else, tho, is absolutely boring, I am watching episode 3 right now, and writing this review is the only thing keeping me awake.