MagiRanger, there's just so much wrong with this show and so very little right:
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Characters - Lunagel, Snowgel, Magiel, Wolzard (to a point) and Tsubasa are the only ones I don't want to ignore for eternity. Granted, Kai did improve in my book seeing him in Gokai but, that's 1 episode compared to the 49-50 I watched him for in Magi. Urara and Houka were an annoyance along with Nai/Mare/Vancuria w/e her damn name is.
Music - Magiking's theme song I'll save from the fire.
Story: Now, here's my main gripe and what caused me to drop it for a while before being talked into finishing it.
How come every time they got a new power upgrade or a new mech or something, every DAMN TIME, somebody had to take it away from them because they "weren't ready" or.. or it would "overtake them"? When would they be ready? Would Master Kaku have to train them? Would they have to listen to Shoko-tan's singing before they're ready? The heavenly saints' over-parenting must've worked because there was barely any sign of them falling into losing their humanity. There was what, 1 episode focusing on it?
Or, or what about them possibly breaking the "rules of Magitopia"? Hikaru was so uptight about keeping to them ("No, I'll fight the Infershian gods on my own! The rules dictate this!") but, we never see anything really happen. Do they have some sort of trial service set up for rule-breakers? We'll never find out.
To end this section, the whole last 5 episodes were really bad on this:
"Hey, I'm dead. Oops, no I'm not!"
"What? I killed you!"
"No, you killed me right after I convinced your partner to switch sides!"
"What?"
"Yeah, I had a sudden epiphany and you're evil after all so now I'm gonna backstab and kill you!"
I'm all for plot twists and all but, that.. just.. OTL.[/hide]