Having no hope she willingly give herself to an auction and is then purchased for 5 million pounds by a large demonic masked figure.
Turns out this large demonic man Elias Ainsworth is actually very kind and caring to Chise. The first person to ever show her affection.
She is made his wizard's apprentice. Turns out Chise is a special girl with a unique condition. A condition that Elias wishes to study and learn alot from.
They develop a relationship. And go on errands for the church. They encounter mystical and demonic creatures. Aswell as evil alchemists that are fundamentally different from wizards.
It reminds me a bit of Majo to Yajuu aka The Witch and the Beast. Where a male and female witch hunter are looking to break a curse on the female character.
Or Niehime to Kemono no Ou aka Princess of the Sacrifice and King of the Beast which is basically Beauty and the Beast.
Its a very character focused anime. Very art style and visual style focused. Alot of conversation. Always introducing a new character. Alot of focus on music.
Not very combat focused. It has a bit of horror and mystery to it. And some touching tragedies. And yet the anime still throws in some wacky comedy that lightens the mood, but other times feel jarring and out of place and ruin what should have been a deep moment.
Although the main characters are likeable. Chise is written too much like a mary sue. Every creature she meets immediately adores her.
And Elias is too much of a monster on the outside kitten on the inside type character. And i wish they were a bit more complex than just a couple of perfectly perfect people.
The characters dont have interesting chemistry. It all boils down to the same 'we come off as enemies at first but in fact we're really childhood friends' type relationship.
I wish there was some genuine mistrust between the characters. I wish Elias actually scolded Chise once in a while. I wish the two characters argued just a tiny bit. Their relationship is just too perfect.
Im not asking for forced drama just some genuine disagreements from time to time.
Everything just seems to be surface level with these characters. And some characters have the same copy paste personality as other characters. And after a while it gets very samey.
It feels like the story is looping on itself. The same things happen to the main characters over and over again. And as such it doesn't feel like the story is moving forward. And instead goes in circles for 24 episodes.
My hope was that this anime would atleast be an 8/10 but its a 7.
