The start of this anime was not so bad at all for me, however I do have to point out one thing that made this start absolutely horrible, the maid! I don’t know if the novel had intended it this way but her voice was so annoying to listen to and her attitude was insufferable. I didn’t hate this show at all when I started watching it besides the maid. Kunon is a young boy that has been struggling in his younger years of life because he had no vision. There is one thing however that changes him forever and that is magic. He gets passionate and sets his goal, he will create a spell that will allow him to see! This is a very simple concept but there is nothing wrong with it. I was ready for the journey of a kid figuring out how to deal with his blindness in a more positive way than before and develop his magic in creative ways. And to be honest, the anime did a pretty decent job with it! The show did not feel like a bad watch at all for me. One occurring point a lot of people made about Kunon in this stage of the show was his behavior and that especially him joking with the girls/women in this show. He gained a lot of confidence when he was progressing with magic and gained a pretty boasting personality. On top of that he was thought to have a “gentleman persona” which made him very flirty with every female character in the show while the boasting character was shown towards every male character. I didn’t mind this too much at the start since well, he was a kid that struggled with being blind all his life and he finally managed to feel positive in his life now. He also already had a fiancé at the start of the show (arranged marriage) and they were forced to meet up every now and then to meet up which did feel a bit awkward to watch at times in my opinion. I’ve seen people complain how his flirty jokes with every girl in the show makes him not loyal to his fiancé but then again, what do you expect a 10ish year old kid to know about this? Throughout the show we still see him set to stay with his fiancé.
Now in the middle of the show is where I really got mixed feelings from the show. The first half was alright, like I said, a simple concept with not too much going on but also no real reason for me to truly hate it. It was very watchable especially if you wouldn’t pay full attention at all times and just watch it in a relaxed manner. Now the second part and I will start off with episode 7 of the show. This episode was named after the name of the show and you might guess it from that, Kunon gains the ability to see through a spell. After some training with his current mentor and him testing out his vision for some time it's decided that he will be attending a special magic school. Another reason I really wanted to point out this episode is because it seemed like Kunon started reflecting on things around him and himself and we also experience a time skip here. So my first thought after watching this was hey, we will be developing his character in a positive way! Sadly this was not the case, the basic behavior and flirty jokes came right back the next episode and while the academy was a nice change of location and I was curious about it at the start, I kinda stopped caring for it in the middle of it. It was just Kunon is so great, Kunon helps the girls with passion and the boys get to work under him. Every girl there, student or teacher, deserves flirty over the top reactions and I feel like Kunon doesn’t develop his own magic in really any way differently then he had so far. It's like the whole progress just stopped? Well an important thing I almost forgot to mention is, the maid was gone and we got the maids little sister now who is way less worse but was this the exchange for the main characters development? It honestly feels like such a shame since the hope I received from episode 7 just disappeared. The last two episodes felt especially annoying, with the factions sending their “best girls” to recruit Kunon and him just being his usual self around them the whole time. While he was talking to the faction leaders he gave the two dudes short cocky answers while he gave the girl leader overly exaggerated answers. And then for the final fight he would 4v1 the girls from the different factions just for him to use an old spell he used while training with his old master and beating all of them. It just felt all so empty and I was happy when it finished since it meant the jokes finally stopped.
Well to finish up this review, it was watchable but it was not good for sure. I want to add another thing which is unrelated to the quality of the show itself but a friend of mine told me that Kunon’s mask looks like a bdsm mask and I keep thinking about it now whenever I see it.. sigh. I wouldn’t label this show as terrible either, I had moments I was enjoying the watch but there weren’t many of those moments. Now for my final rating of the whole show it was a decision in were the good parts overshadowing the bad parts or was it the other way around and honestly, maybe because I was watching it weekly, for me it were the bad things that were overshadowing the better moments. Because of this my final rating for this show will be a 4.8, a watchable show but too many things that held it down for me bringing it slightly under the literal “mid”.
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