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Edjwald
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(The) Banished Court Magician Aims to Be the Strongest (TV) Source: Light Novel (ongoing @ 5 volumes, written by Alto, illustrated by Yuunagi) Demographic: Animation Studio: Gekkou Genres: action, adventure, fantasy Themes: aristocracy, dungeons, medieval, royalty, sorcery Plot Summary: Alec Yugret is a magician who dedicated himself to support magic to help out the crown prince and his efforts to clear out dungeons in their earlier days. The prince suddenly fires Alec as the court magician one day, declaring that someone who only knows how to cast support magic is useless. Now jobless, Alec is contacted by an old friend named Yorha, who asks his help to once again venture into dungeons. Air Date & Platform: October 04, 2025 (Saturday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Pending [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] |
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I don't mean to pick on this show, it may be perfectly fine, but it is a classic example of the kind of show I'll avoid this season due to having a bad case of Anime Overlyfamiliaritis.
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smurky turkey
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I get what you mean, just hearing the title made me think of 5 other ''someone being banished'' anime that released this year.
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Edjwald
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Yep.
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smurky turkey
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The premise of this show reminds me of that anime with the saint who was sold to another country due to it also not making sense when you think about it. You have Alec, a very skilled magician who specializes in attack magic getting kicked out of his party due to only using support magic. I assume that he had a reason for that but due to a lot of incompetent communication it was seemingly never really talked about. Also, if the prince and his cronies has bothered to research Alec's past a tiny bit more they would have figured out that something is fishy (though admittedly they are a bit high on their own supply).
On the same note, Alec wanted to become a court magician to clear his mentor's reputation but why was said mentor banished and how was Alec planning to change things? Not a horrible start but so far Banished Court magician seems like nothing special besides a wonky premise. |
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Edjwald
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If this anime could go back in time and be the very first "Banished From My Party" anime...well, it still wouldn't be as good as Banished From the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life on the Frontier (or at least, that was the first one of this genre that I recall), but maybe I wouldn't have yawned quite so much.
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Episode 1
Gather around, ye gentle folke, and listen to my tale from the land of Mid! Yet another title I planned to skip but then decided to try out just for funsies. The thing that stuck out the most... who the Hell came up with that party name... Lasting Period??? Thankfully, they are not a party of only female adventurers, but still. But the show gets the last laugh I guess because I will watch more. With all these Mid shows I vowed not to sample and am currently watching, I suspect a Royal Flush is in my future... |
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smurky turkey
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While the second episode was by no means amazing I liked it a lot more than the first one. Part of that is Lasting Period seeming like a fun group of quirky characters. The episode also took the time to explain a few things. Said explanation for why Alec was stuck being a support mage is utterly stupid though I suppose it fits given the shithole of a country he worked. I look forward to seeing the full party go wild (and the prince party crashing).
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Edjwald
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Welp, as of episode 1, this train was chugging uphill, and I was in a train car with the door slid open, ready to jump off at the next bend. I watched last season's "Banished from a Party" anime Scooped up by an S-rank Adventurer all the way through, and it was the latest in a long line of generic, basically non-objectionable, standardized anime products from this sub-genre. It was about as mid as mid gets, and I still don't dislike it, but that experience just about killed my ability to passively watch this kind of anime with little or no brain activity because I like the premise well enough.
But I have to admit, I thought episode 2 of this show was a distinct improvement too. The guild master is much more interesting than that tired non-entity from Scooped[ et al/i] whose name I can't even remember. I have to give the anime props for having the protagonist lose too, even if it did give him an out by making him at low mana levels and having the guild master use an artifact. The party seems a bit more lively than [i]Scooped's party too. Nothing complex or genre shattering, but the antics of the fighter and the cleric were still mildly amusing, and even the common sense leader of the party is a sloppy drunk. Not that this is a good thing, I'm just saying...they're not the bland bunch. The animation wasn't a series of still frames and wonky special effects taking the place of motion either. It certainly wasn't Demon Slayer, but it didn't represent the depths that a lot of last season's fantasy anime descended to in the second half of their seasons. And the MC's reason for nerfing himself and the party's attitude kind of made sense, which is a lot more than I can say for the majority of "Banished from the Party" anime that have come down the pike lately. So, yeah, I'm gearing up or another kick at that anime football, Lucy. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Yeah, the author of this was definitely not a woman. When they said their party name, I just went "yikes."
Now, correct me if I missed it, but was there anything in the first episode that indicated that Alec's mentor was not just a random stranger who randomly approached him and randomly asked if he liked magic, but rather, his father? It just seemed like that info was way late in coming. |
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Edjwald
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I'm thinking the original Japanese name of the party probably didn't carry the same unfortunate associations. Makes me wonder if it's an AI translator.
I thought the dad thing was strange too. Maybe the MC was adopted at some point after that intro scene? |
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Gina Szanboti
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Oh good, it wasn't just me. I said over in the Preview Guide thread that the first ep felt like a metaphor for grooming, with the kid traumatized and still defending him even after his abuser was found out and kicked out of the court for it.
 Of course that could still be the case even if he is his father...
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minamikaze
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That party name bothered me enough to check.
It is not due to a bad translation, since that's what it is in the original Japanese, according to the official site introduction blurb パーティー「ラスティングピリオド」 パーティー (is Party - transliterated: PaaTii) ラスティングピリオド (is Lasting Period - transliterated: RaSuTiNGu PiRiODo). So it would appear to be the original author's fault. Perhaps the author didn't know that "period" didn't just mean "era or time interval" but also was a euphemism for "menstruation" in English. |
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smurky turkey
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I assume so, otherwise it would be a rather unique choice.
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minamikaze
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I was checking out the Character pages on the official site and I noticed in Yoruha's description, she is listed at the leader of the party:
「終わりなき日々を（ラスティングピリオド）」Transliterated: Owarinaki Hibi wo ( RaSuTiNGu PiRiODo) Translated: Never Ending Days (Lasting Period) So this seems to be similar to how the party name in Let This Grieving Soul Retire, has a Japanese name, but also a Katakana English version of it. 嘆きの亡霊（ストレンジ・グリーフ）Transliterated: Nageki no BouRei (SuToReNJi GuRiiFu) Translated: Grieving Soul (of the dead) (Strange Grief) In both cases, the katakana English names are not quite the same in meaning as the original Japanese. |
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