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REVIEW: Little Witch Academia episodes 14 - 25 Streaming

The antagonist was also a huge weak point, she essentially has no motivation, good old evil for being evil. Its also incredibly obvious who it is and one character in the show knows full well that she's evil yet doesn't ever bother doing anything about it. So you end up with most situation being easily avoidable if she just had a 10 sec conversation with Akko, but nope, gotta drag on the story.

Wait, are you serious? You thought that Croix's character was being evil just for the sake of being evil? If anything she kind of lacked the sort of big hammy evil think I was somewhat expecting. Because Croix really had the motivation of thinking she was saving the "magical" world, but it was kind of all in that she personally had too much pride in things like her own personal skill, that she could not see why she was not chosen. Her being evil was that she lost her way, of such things as looking down on people.

The big contrast was meant to be put against Ako, that you can complain that Ako sucked, but she had everything that Croix did not. Akko did start to take things seriously, but a big part of what made her great was her real strength, of being a big dreamer, but also big on empathy, the defining strength she had was in the belief she had in everyone else's dreams. She did not need to know what reward she was working towards for gathering the words, because she had one personal wish she wanted that she felt she could accomplish, which she does, and it is one of the best when she moves past that.

To call Akko nothing but annoying, might be to maybe not fully understand how Diana, a prodigy in most aspects, can be jealous of and appreciate her towards the end. That not everything is about being the smartest or strongest, that Akko is someone who seems to be at a disadvantage in those areas, that she will require a whole lot more effort in those areas. And yet she still tries.

Believe it or not I was starting to prefer Diana more as a protag than Akko despite hating her in the first half of the show.

I should add that Ako and Diana are very different in how they approach magic, and I doubt that'll change much even when Ako overcomes her limitations: there *was* a reason that she was chosen to receive the Shiny Rod. It's not about being a *better* witch, but rather about being a certain kind of witch -- it's more about the approach, and Ako's approach made her a better candidate than Diana or anyone else of her generation.

Ok then what is Akko's "approach to magic" that makes her more deserving of the rod than Diana, Lotte, Sucy, or even Amanda?

She wants to be like Chariot and make people smile with magic shows and things...Ok, but how does that make her deserve the rod more than Lotte (who is studying magic to keep her family business alive) or Diana (whose entire family dedicated themselves to helping the sick and the needy through magic)? What Akko wants to do is nice and all but it doesn't help magic thrive or give people more than a moment's entertainment.

A- is too low. This is a modern classic. Best show in the last 5 years or so, minimum. Excellent animation and direction (it's Trigger's masterpiece perhaps), incredibly good good, very natural characters (they really felt like "people" instead of archetypes) and it's very entertaining and accessible. Overall, it's almost perfect show. In fact, the only show I know that works on all levels since this one was Madoka.

As far as Akko, her dream is literally to meet her Idol, which is somehow treated as equally or even more noble than any other character in the show, for some reason (Pshhhh restoring your familly former glory and freeing them from misery, so pedantic, real dreamer just want to meet pop idol). Everyone has dream that they believe in just as much, Akko is just too lazy to actual attain those dream, hence why she's such a great dreamer. Successful people aren't dreamer, they're achiever. Diana isn't a prodigy at all, she's shown working hard all the time, Akko is the prodigy in the sense that she's "the chosen one" for absolutely no reason other than she is, she didn't work hard to get that position, she just really wanted it. Akko is "the secret" made into character form, people want to achieve stuff and they like to think that other people who are better than them only got that far trough raw talent, but at the same time people don't want to work hard, they want stuff to fall on there lap while there out there having fun. That's Akko, she's just a wish fulfillment.

Akko is an example that the hero does not need to be the strongest or the smartest, that people who might be neither can feel like they mean a damn. So I think that it misses the mark to try and diminish her character for not being those things.

But people have problem that Akko learnt next to nothing and didn’t really change much. Not that she is not the smartest girl under the sun. At least it sounds like meiam wanted a character who learns from their mistakes and as a result starts to act differently/puts an effort to achieve something.

But people have problem that Akko learnt next to nothing and didn’t really change much. Not that she is not the smartest girl under the sun. At least it sounds like meiam wanted a character who learns from their mistakes and as a result starts to act differently/puts an effort to achieve something.

It looks to me like meiam doesn’t like the fact that the main heroine stays as she is, but this inability to learn, instead of having a negative consequence on Akko’s life, doesn’t actually matter. Quite the opposite, Akko even gets rewarded with a powerful artefact. I can totally understand why it may leave a bad taste in someone’s mouth.

Same with her becoming discouraged that the efforts she put in something doesn't yield results, that just show how little she learned. Cramming the night before the exam yield poor results because its ineffectual, only lazy people need to resort to that. People who get good results apply themselves diligently everyday to master there skill (which is way harder than cramming at the last second). Akko is impress by all magic because she doesn't realize the complexity of it, she think it's something that can be learned in a few day and that the people who have been dedicating there life to learning it, and therefore good at it, are just talented.