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EP. REVIEW: Wistoria: Wand and Sword Season 2

Yeah I’m also a bit frustrated by again having Will have to deal with completely unfair people and systems again, even though it’s a pretty common storytelling structure for shounen manga specifically. You know the one the main character overcoming obstacles and keying into his powers to defeat a huge enemy, only for them to run into another roadblock where they have to learn how to actually control their power through a training arc where they inevitably succeed against this new trial, rinse and repeat until the end of the story. This trope does work but you have to be careful with it, and I feel like the writer slightly miscalculated its use in this specific case.

I’m also pretty confident in what’s going to happen for the rest of this arc. Will is going to train and defeat the monsters, but Kruetz still won’t be satisfied so they’ll have a duel and Will will win. I’m also 100% confident that he’s not going to end up in the Ice faction, I’m pretty sure he’s going to end up in the Thunder faction. I mean why else would he be so significant in the opening sequence, and have that scene in this episode where his subordinate asks why he didn’t choose Will, and he smiles about how, those who start from the bottom and struggle are the best. I mean why include that if you’re not going to have Will end up in his faction. The question is whether or not Elfaria gets annoyed at this, or is completely OK with it because Will is part of a tower?

It makes the doomed childhood friend more likeable

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It makes the doomed childhood friend more likeable

Humorously enough, Colette is the homewrecker here while Elfi is the blue-haired childhood friend.

FilthyCasual wrote:

Quote: It makes the doomed childhood friend more likeable Humorously enough, Colette is the homewrecker here while Elfi is the blue-haired childhood friend.

Lmao, so true, this is frying me here. I love how Makeine has permanently altered the way we all talk about harem-ish romance.

Ok, I'm glad we'll finally see Magia Verde members doing something other than passive-agressive bickering and aura farming. But, both narratively and by real-life logic, it's better for Will to join any other faction than Elfie's. Considering lighting mages affinity for close quarters combat it does seem like the best fit, so I fully expect Will to end up there.

Yeah I’m also a bit frustrated by again having Will have to deal with completely unfair people and systems again, even though it’s a pretty common storytelling structure for shounen manga specifically. You know the one the main character overcoming obstacles and keying into his powers to defeat a huge enemy, only for them to run into another roadblock where they have to learn how to actually control their power through a training arc where they inevitably succeed against this new trial, rinse and repeat until the end of the story. This trope does work but you have to be careful with it, and I feel like the writer slightly miscalculated its use in this specific case.

I guess the magia vander can just do whatever they want for the most part, so this probably doesn't matter, but I do find it a bit annoying that in the previous selection round they established that if multiple factions choose the same person (I guess for those who can cast multiple elements), that they get to choose which faction they want to join. It's not decided for them.
Doesn't mean it hasn't been a fun fight to watch though

Unfortunately, as I suspected would be the case given how hard the action went last week, the rest of the finale makes for a fairly low-key way to close out the season.

The big problem here is anime having to strictly follow episode counts in batches of 12 or 13 episodes. (So if you want more than 12 or 13, it must be whole second batch making it 24 or 26) and the lack of flexibility in episode counts. If S1 was 17 episodes (the 12 it got + the first 5 this season spent on the attack plus graduation) and this season was a full 12, it would've been better.