Talking Shop: Little Witch Academia

Preston (MagicalChurlSukui): Reviewed 10 after all — Not Great :/

Franklin (Oigakkosan): Yeah…let me read your take :)

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Franklin: Yeah you captured it.

I just want it to be about something and it’s not. It’s random throwaway skits featuring mostly jerks. Akko isn’t especially likable. Nor Sucy. And Lotte gets rare screen time.

It’s just like whuuut dooo you want me to get from you show???

Preston: Yeah

Franklin: You ever read/watch The Magicians?

Preston: Neither

Franklin: Magicians the show is fine. Not great but fine. The book is terrible.

It’s more like LWA. It just doesn’t go anywhere. Lots of wheelspin and underdeveloped characters

Preston: It’s weird. LWA has always felt like it should be more serialized. Oh well

Franklin: Diana’s love for Chariot hasn’t even become a thing. Diana knowing Akko is powerful hasn’t become a thing. Those were good eps but even they haven’t gone anywhere

Preston: It’s weird. LWA has always felt like it should be more serialized. I almost feel like a Harry Potter TV show would be like this…big arc events at either end of seasons but lots of padding in the middle.

But I would be very surprised if LWA drops something big at the halfway point

Franklin: The HP books are full of dead ends and fluff. Malfoy is like a cartoon villain in the first three. Individual episodes would have content but it wouldn’t work well as arcs.

As eps with self-contained arcs I mean. Like Hermione’s Elf Rights Arc. It would last a whole season and end with nothing happening. Forgotten in the next season entirely

At least each HP book has a villain and a mystery. LWA has neither. We know who Chariot is, we know Diana liked her once, we know Akko can be powerful. We don’t know why knowing that matters

Preston: There’s no real coming-of-age story either after the first ep. Any elements of that are too wishy-washy.

Akko seems locked in 10-year-old mode

Franklin: Not a slice of life either, since there’s not much to the characters

Preston: It seems the non-magical world love shitting on witches in the show…so they could theoretically have a situation (or crisis) where suddenly the world needs witches again…

But it just hasn’t been building to that, or anything like that. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Franklin: No buildup. No development. No payoff.

Preston: It’s not as if I’m some anime-writing expert, but those seem like no-brainers to have in a show like this

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