#Hatena☆Illusion

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Hatena Illusion is an anime adaptation of the manga series written by Tomohiro Matsu. Romantic comedy anime is also one of Funimation‘s licensed anime. The anime series, created by Children’s Playground Entertainment, originally started on BS NTV, MBS, Tokyo MX channels on January 9, 2020. The anime, directed by Shin Matsuo, aired 12 episodes in total and made the season finale with the episode aired on June 3, 2020. Fans are wondering now; will there be a second season of the series?1 What was about the anime: Hatena Illusion?2 Will there be a second season of the anime?What was about the anime: Hatena Illusion?Shiranui Makoto, who is starting his first year in high school, goes to Tokyo to become the apprentice of the world-famous illusionist Mamoru Hoshisato, whom his family knows. Makoto has always wanted to be an illusionist ever since watching Makoru Hoshisato and his wife’s show. In addition, this couple’s daughter Kana; aka Hatena, is his childhood friend. Although Tokyo is the center of constant strange and chilling events, Hatena’s presence gives Shiranui Makoto comfort. In the Hoshisato mansion, known as a Makoto haunted house, they are warmly welcomed by the butler Jeeves and the maid Emma and reunite with Hatena. While Hatena welcomes Makoto’s arrival, the two are not getting along as well as before.Will there be a second season of the anime?The anime has not yet been renewed for a second season by Funimation or by either the studio or producers. As we mentioned before, Hatena Illusion was an adaptation of the manga written by Tomohiro Matsu. The manga was originally published on November 21, 2014, and has been published for a total of 1 year. The manga, which has four volumes in total, was completely adapted to the anime. The manga is not ongoing today, so it’s hard to see a new series season. However, such a thing may be possible if the script continues.The last episode of the series was postponed due to various reasons. When we look at the series’s reviews, it is one of the anime series that have been subjected to negative evaluations among the anime series published in 2020. It had potential, but the audience mostly couldn’t find what they wanted. The possibility of a second season of the series is not expected in terms of both popularity and source material.

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3x3 worst anime but like again

these might be axed soon

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Today’s Maid of the Day: Emma Sakurai from Hatena☆Illusion

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Winter 2020 Anime - I’ll be posting merchandises of these anime on this blog (updated)

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Hatena Illusion - Ep.12

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Hatena, the master thief, is off to collect her prize. - Hatena☆Illusion - Episode 1

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Today’s anime dog of the day is:

This doggy from Hatena Illusion (2020)

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Hatena Illusion

Since he was a boy, Makoto Shiranui has dreamed of being a famous magician like his hero, Mamoru Hoshisato. He travels to Tokyo to train underneath his mentor and reconnect with Mamoru’s daughter, Hatena, at their haunted mansion. It seems like Hatena has a few things she can teach him as well. What kind of magic can these two conjure up when they finally take the stage?

Imagine how talented you have to be to take a combination magical girl/magical thief/actual magician premise and end up with absolute shit?

Don’t waste your time.

I tried. The idea is so interesting, I watched fully half the series--6 episodes--but, mind-bogglingly, it just gets worse as it goes. And not even worse in a fun way: this series is full of dull, uninspired characters whose personalities have been pasted together from the scraps whatever reached third-tier popularity in 2008.

Childhood friends reunite, but Hatena’s anticipation and joy turn into disgust when she realizes Makoto isn’t a girl, and she spends the next several episodes hurling insults and abuse at him. And in fact, she’s ready to throw him out of the house altogether until the staff proposes flimsy a “we hire him as a butler” that mostly seems like an excuse to get him into formalwear. Hatena gets upset, all the time, and easily, over very stupid things, most of which she causes herself but never acknowledges.

In episode 3 (EPISODE THREE! A QUARTER OF THE WAY THROUGH THE SHOW), Hatena finally “explains” to Makoto why she hates him: she somehow missed that he was a boy. And also apparently the “oh no Makoto’s been turned into a boy!” yelling and patting his chest in episode 1 didn’t clue either of them in to this.

So then Makoto offers to live elsewhere and just visit, and Hatena gets upset again for literally no reason other than Bad Plot Writing.

Seriously, it’s been a long time since I watched a show with such a flatly unlikable protagonist. And with a boy whose personality is so one-note as Makoto (”nice”), I feel like I’ve time-traveled back to 2002.

Here’s the level this show is on: the bodyguard of a wealthy girl is FROM THE MAGIC FAMILY, which is known to want to steal magical artifacts, and this family connection didn’t come up in a frikkin background check. And then, a few episodes later, same character convinces Hatena to try and Do A Thing that will ostensibly benefit them both, except the character hasn’t changed. I mean, somehow they’re ignoring the fact that she broke into their house and stole something like, last week. And then Hatena is all *ShockedPikachuFace* when things go south.

Verdict

English dub? Yes

Visuals: Dull. Generic.

Worth watching? Why would you do that to yourself. No.

This show cannot, at the halfway point, decide what it wants to be: a magical thief show? (They’ve stolen maybe one thing at this point? Badly.) An insipid teen romance? (Not happening.) I hate it. I hate it so much.

Where to watch (USA, as of November 2020): Funimation (sub and dub)

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Hatena Illusion - Episode 5 Preview

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A second PV for the “Hatena☆Illusion” anime is now currently streaming. Its broadcast is scheduled to premiere January 9th.

-Synopsis-

“Ever since watching a magic show held by him and his wife Maeve, Makoto Shiranui has always admired Mamoru Hoshisato—a world-class magician, as well as friend of his parents—and came to Tokyo to become his apprentice. Kana, nicknamed Hatena, is the couple’s daughter and his childhood friend. As the hustle and bustle activities in Tokyo catches Makoto off guard such as burglaries by a beautiful thief, he depends on Hatena’s comforting side. When he came to Hoshisato’s now-haunted mansion to reunite with his childhood friend, he is greeted by the family’s butler and maid, Jeeves and Emma along with Hatena, only to discover that they are not as compatible anymore.”

-Staff-

Director: Shin Matsuo

Character Design: Nakano Ruizu

Sound Director: Masakatsu Oomuro

Music: Kenichi Kuroda

OP: Liyuu

ED: Aina Suzuki

Studio: Childrens Playground Entertainment

-Cast-

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Aina Suzuki

Miyu Tomita

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Takashi Matsuyama

Sumire Uesaka

Satomi Arai

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Yoshino Nanjou

via: hatenaillusion-anime.com

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Winter 2020: Episode 3

I said before on my first Winter 2020 post that I’d give the anime I chose to watch 3 episodes to see whether or not I’d continue watching.

Here are my thoughts on them.

First off, Magia Record.

It’s not like the main Madoka series but I can’t exactly put my finger on why. It just feels different but not in a bad way of course. It’s still interesting due to the mystery but I’ve not connected with any characters yet. By that I mean, other than Iroha, I don’t feel like caring much about the other girls yet. That’d probably change in later episodes the more I know about them but I don’t know how well they can showcase everyone when, according to the OP, there are gonna be a lot of characters for this show unlike the main one with 5 important characters (plus Kyubey).

Still, it’s good although I wish Iroha gets stronger cause right now she hasn’t really done much in terms of fighting. All the better character development in the future though so I’d look forward to it.

Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (2020)

Different from it’s previous adaptation not only in art style but also in how they handled the first few episodes. The art style still kinda uh, confuses me on how to feel? Some characters look good in this (Childman looks way younger here than he did in the first anime. It was the reason I didn’t recognize him at first.) while some looked better in the first series (Orphen looks like a pretty boy in this style but I think he looks more handsome in the old style).

Since the way they handled the story is different, for someone like me who watched this like, more than 10 years ago and remembers little of it except some parts in the beginning and end, this made me feel excited and interested. For one, back in the first anime, the thing about Azalie being the dragon was a spoiler but here it’s showed in the beginning. Her dragon form is called ‘Bloody August’ in the first anime but here, I don’t think I remember her being referred to as that. Anyways, start of adventure soon, I hope? There’s a lot of magic school flashbacks here and while interesting, I’d like to see the main characters get more screentime (Orphen, Claiohm, and Majic).

Bofuri continues to be a fun and exciting series about cute girls playing a VRMMO! Despite being an OP character, watching Maple and Sally fight is still fun and also, the mods are starting to nerf her lol.

Still no overall plot at the moment and I dunno what that would be later on but for now, I’m just enjoying the ride. I’m curious about the blond guy though - the knight who got 1st in the event whose face isn’t shown. What will be his significance, I wonder?

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard is an okay show, I guess? Not the ‘case files’ I was hoping for. They have little detective work done and the show is more like ‘Character of the day needs a jewelry-related thing and has some personal problems and is helped by the 2 main guys whose shop becomes some kind of counseling room’. It’s not bad as I said but its kinda boring at times. While Richard and Seigi are the MCs, the ones with the spotlight is whoever the character of the day is. It’s episodic right now and there maybe a bigger plot later but I’m not sure if I’d still continue following this series. It’s nice if you like jewelry though as they do give info on that so kudos to them as the ‘jeweler’ part is not just something they threw in - the characters actually know stuff about it.

So verdict is: semi-dropped for now. Might come back later if I felt like it but it’s not a priority anymore. I wanted a detective series, dude. Oh and Seigi might be straight and has a thing for that girl he met before but if you guys wanna ship the two MCs, there are some shippy stuff here for you as well :)

Hatena Illusion explains to us why Kana’s family steals: her mom’s family makes magic items and they decided to sell them even thought they’re dangerous. Her mom, Maeve, thinks this is bad and runs off with the guy she likes and also goes everywhere to steal the ‘artifacts’ (magic items) so they would pose no danger. She does replace it with a non-powered replica so the people she steals from won’t miss them. Reminds me somewhat of DNAngel.

That said, Kana is annoying as heck. Typical tsundere who is violent and keeps hurting Makoto even when something is her fault. Makoto is some kind of dormat as well which is annoying. Ema, the maid makes things worse with her stupid comments which doesn’t help and Kokomi, while annoying in the first episodes seems like the only one with common sense and I ended up liking her in episode 3.

I want to drop this show cause Kana pisses me off but hey, Makoto just became a magical (thief) boy and now I need to give it 2 more episodes! It’s rare for there to be a protag magical boy. Most of the time, they’re either supporting or background character but Makoto is a co-protagonist (I know Binan Koukou exist but that’s more of a parody anime).

I’ll be back on whether or not I’ll drop this completely after seeing episode 5.

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun is one of the few shows here which has a different ‘style’ in presentation which isn’t bad and actually makes it stand out. The story is also fun with the seven mysteries (and if you watch the OP, everytime a mystery is revealed, they stop being shown as silhouettes in the next episode’s opening) with their respective rumors and backstories. We also have some new characters and some clues about Hanako’s past.

I like this show. It’s cute and has some adventures and a tiny bit of romance (I already ship Hanako with Yashiro) and comedy. The current story with the stairs seem like it’d be fun as a video game haha. I’d definitely be watching this one til the end.

Side note: this and MagiReco feels similar due to the ‘rumors’ and such. I mean, they started dealing with some rumored ‘stairs’ this time. It’s like MagiReco’s seven mysteries is spread in towns instead of just in one school. Just saying the coincidence is interesting.

A Destructive God Sits Next to Me is probably the biggest disappointment to me for this list as I looked forward to this since last year. I needed a replacement for Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy and this seems perfect but character-wise, it is not.

While it is funny (the first episode had me laughing so hard), there are a lot of scenes that just annoys or frustrates me. The 2nd episode in particular was unbearable and the only thing that kept me going is the thought that I promised to watch 3 episodes. By the end of the episode, all of the frustration I felt just broke when Koyuki had the misunderstanding with the girl and I ended up crying. Yeah, I cried. It sounds stupid and it is which makes it worse. I only ever cry in comedy anime when there’s either a heartwarming or dramatic scene. Here it’s frustration.

I can tolerate Hanadori since Koyuki can and does punch him when he goes too far. It’s Tsukimiya I can’t take. His actions and personality gives me nothing but pure annoyance and hate (except the notebook scene in episode 1 which is really funny). He’s a mean-spirited character and he just makes me uncomfortable. Their homeroom teacher too, is annoying, by the way.

We have a new character this time, though who looks up to Hanado-- er, I mean ‘Miguel’-senpai. He’s annoying but only a little as its his first appearance. I’d give this 1 or 2 more episodes as I want to see who and what kind of person the long-haired guy in the OP is but I don’t think I can take this entire series.

Too bad as the art style is super cute and part of me low-key ships Koyuki with Hanadori (their interactions are cute sometimes esp. when Hanadori drags Koyuki in his fantasy). It also got a banger OP I can’t stop listening to. If I’m able to ignore or at least get used to Tsukimiya, I might watch more. Might. I’m not positive I can take it.

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These are all my personal thoughts and opinions of these shows. They’re not an indication of whether or not you, the reader of this post, will enjoy it. Give them all a shot and maybe you’d end up liking them more or less than I do as we all have different taste and sense of humor. Hope you guys are enjoying this season’s anime offers. I’d write more about these later on probably when they end or when I decide to completely drop them.

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Winter 2020 Anime - I’ll be posting merchandises of these anime on this blog (updated)

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Final Thoughts - Hatena Illusion

Just because a show is interesting, doesn’t make it good.

Here we have yet another first solo outing from a studio accustomed to providing assistance to other teams, and boy howdy does it show this time. The first thing I noticed about Hatena Illusion is that it looks dreadful, with animation shortcuts constantly on display, and character design verging on ‘ugly’. The production all around is a bit of a mess, since some of the lines of dialogue inexplicably sound like they were recorded in an empty closet instead of a recording studio.

The plot is something that might have had me invested (a girl from a very famous, wealthy family of magicians invites her old childhood friend to live with her so they can study together), except about a third of the way in, we switch to poorly-written, very-outdated gender comedy that comes off as accidentally transphobic. The title character finds out her childhood friend was a boy the whole time they’d known each other, and from there, any hope of the story of close-up magicians studying together is thrown directly out the window in favor of predictable schlock.

It looks bad, sounds bad, and is bad.

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Hatena Illusion - [Final Episode] Episode 12 Preview