I don't want to go into too much detail on the series, but Elaina is one of the most detestable main characters I have seen in a long time, and they're SUPPOSED to be likeable.

It started with the manga, and it was so much worse in the manga. The anime is no better. In the field of flowers. The slave girl who is beaten, talked down, and knocked around by life and those around her. The suicides she assisted with. The poorly written shock value that occured later on in the episodes.

My biggest gripe will ALWAYS be her attitude towards any situation and how she deals with others. She acts like a rich woman who is on vacation to a struggling third-world country so she can treat those as under her, there simply for entertainment, no matter their hardships. Give for the slave girl. She sees her abuse, she sees (in the manga) the possible aftereffects of the slave's rape by the owner. She sees her being beaten, verbally attacked. And at the end, when she fixes the broken vase and the owner abuses her for breaking it, she tells the slave girl "At times like these, you should say thank you." and leaves without helping the girl. It tried to make some point about staying out of things, and she allowed a small girl to continue her abuse and then countless deaths later on with the field of flowers.

It doesn't even end here. This character acts like she is better than everyone, going as far as stroking her own ego over and over, and then sitting back comfortably as she watches a fellow witch suffer terribly. And just... watches. It tries to then play HER off as the victim, for having to witness such terrible things. And not help.

Then she's off to the next location to just watch people suffer and live through hell, because that's all she seems to want to do. She somehow just so happens to find the worst thing possible happening wherever she goes so she can watch others get hurt, then she leaves when she would need to make a decision.

Just a disgusting main character and it's only made worse by how the anime's perspective is how good, kind, and helpful she somehow is.

This show seems to have some sort of issue with even knowing what itself is. It feels like a near tone-deaf world of suffering, painted as if it were "gray morals with no true alignment." There is nothing gray about rape, slavery, suffering, murder, and allowing others to die because you don't want to warn people of a malicious magic RIGHT at the border of town that is killing people. She has no moral compass, she only cares about what she can experience before quickly leaving when things might look like she needs to help in some way. "Just because you are doing something for someone else doesn't make it right." she says, as a child is raped and beaten, kept as a slave after her family died in a fire.

Wow, what an amazing anime, so inspiring.