#tatsuya x honoka

[moontheoretist]

The only girl approved by Miyuki Shiba. I feel so glad for her! And she will also get a gift next month, which means Tatsuya will give her a gift for a White Day! Ah, how nice it must be to be the only one which doesn’t have to fear murder xD

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The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc, Part II

By Tsutomu Sato and Kana Ishida. Released in Japan as “Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei” by ASCII Mediaworks. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Andrew Prowse.

This is very much a book of two halves, and I must admit that I preferred the first half to the second, though they both had issues. The first half is a continuation of the plot from the first book in this arc, as Tatsuya and Lina separately and together try to figure out what’s “possessing” these people and how to stop them, but are almost undone by a traitor in Lina’s midst. The traitor is… a character we met once before in the last book, but I must admit “minor character X’ does not really make it very dramatic – I was expecting it to be Lina’s aide Sylvia, which would have been more tragic. There’s also a pretty nice fight with said minor character traitor at the climax of the first half of the book, which actually gives Mizuki something to do. And we get a great way to present boring exposition and still make me laugh – Shizuku calls from California to give intel to Tatsuya, but she’s shitfaced drunk when she does so, and he’s trying to explain things to her as she slurs her words more and more. It’s pretty funny.

I was less impressed with the second half of the book, as it’s Valentine’s Day at the school, and you know what that means: wacky hijinks. I’ve talked before about how I’m not fond of Honoka being defined just by her love of Tatsuya, and I realize that the author is trying to let her and Shizuku get developed by the Honor Student manga author in that regard, but man, here her love for Tatsuya is literally weaponized by the runaway parasite, who possessed a robot named Pixie that’s part of the school’s robotics experiment. As you can imagine, instead of being driven by self-preservation and killing witnesses like the other possessed folks, she’s driven by the intense and disturbingly submissive love for Honoka that Honoka accidentally activated her with. That said, most of the valentine stuff was merely okay, and not actually irritating. And Mayumi’s revenge chocolates made me smile.

The irritating, as so frequently happens in this series, was saved for our two leads. I realize that Miyuki gets jealous sometimes, but what she did with Tatsuya’s chocolates was so petty and immature my jaw dropped. This is not helped by Tatsuya basically saying “welp” and just going along with it. (Tatsuya is not at his most likeable throughout the book – there’s a sequence where he lets Miyuki answer a difficult conundrum they have as he wants her to be “more than a pretty doll” that made me want to punch him.) And, of course, Miyuki is also dealing with her incestuous feelings for her brother, which are sometimes used as the usual gag (Lina’s reaction to Miyuki saying she and Tatsuya are just siblings) but in Miyuki’s inner thoughts are very much taken seriously. She feels guilty about these feelings, but honestly the whole thing makes me feel deeply uncomfortable.

When you add in some “Japan is good, everyone else is less good” speeches, and Lina getting chewed out for daring to fall in love with Tatsuya (a fact that she denies, but no one believes her, least of all the reader), and you have a typically easy to read but frustrating volume of Mahouka. Next volume should wrap up this arc, at least.

By: Sean Gaffney

[xiinying]

Japanese: 魔法科高校の劣等生 Romaji: Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Chinese: 魔法科高校的劣等生 English: The Irregular at Magic High School Genre: Alternate history, Magic, Romance, Science fiction, Supernatural

Staff Directed by: Manabu Ono Written by: Munemasa Nakamoto, Yukie Sugawara, Yukito Kizawa Music by: Taku Iwasaki Studio: Madhouse Licensed by: AUS Hanabee, NA Aniplex of America Original network: Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, MBS, CTC, tvk, TVS, TVA, TVQ, TVh, AT-X, BS11 English network: SEA, Animax Asia Original run: April 6, 2014 – September 27, 2014 Episodes: 26

Cast Tatsuya Shiba: Yuichi Nakamura Miyuki Shiba: Saori Hayami Erika Chiba: Yumi Uchiyama Leonhart Saijo: Takuma Terashima Mizuki Shibata: Satomi Satou Mikihiko Yoshida: Atsushi Tamaru Honoka Mitsui: Sora Amamiya Shizuku Kitayama: Yuiko Tatsumi Mari Watanabe: Marina Inoue Hanzo Hattorigyobushojo: Ryohei Kimura Katsuto Jumonji: Junichi Suwabe Mayumi Saegusa: Kana Hanazawa Suzune Ichihara: Mai Nakahara Azusa Nakajo: Saki Ogasawara Sayaka Mibu: Haruka Tomatsu Takeaki Kirihara: Tomokazu Sugita Masaki Ichijo: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka Shinkuro Kichoji: Ayumu Murase

Synopsis Magic — a century has passed since this concept has been recognized as a formal technology instead of the product of the occult or folklore.

The season is spring and it is time for a brand new school year. At the National Magic University First Affiliate High School, A.K.A Magic High School, students are divided into two distinct groups according to their academic performances. The “Bloom,” who demonstrate the highest grades and are enrolled in the “First Course,” and the “Weed,” who have a poor academic record and are enrolled in the “Second Course.”

This spring, a very peculiar siblings enroll as new students. The brother is an under achiever with some deficiencies, who enrolls as a “Weed,” and his younger sister is an honor student, who enrolls as a “Bloom.” The brother, who with a somewhat philosophical expression, and the younger sister, who holds feelings a little stronger than sibling love for him: Ever since these two have entered through the gates of this prestigious school, the calm campus was beginning to change.

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Watch Sibling Bean-Dogs In Love With "Irregular At Magic High School" x Mameshiba Crossover Commercial

Mameshiba meets The Irregular At Magic High School in a new crossover between the character goods and light novel series in new crossover commercials. Four are running along with the rebroadcast of the Mahouka TV anime that leads into summer's movie The Girl Who Calls the Stars. 

  These will be published May 25th, June 1st, June 6th and June 15th, then theaters will sell collaboration goods starting with the film's opening on June 17th.

  劇場版 魔法科高校の劣等生 星を呼ぶ少女　／　魔法科×豆しば... by dm_50afdeeb18c7a

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— 魔法科高校の劣等生 (@mahouka_anime) May 24, 2017

In 2014, The Irregular at Magic High School TV anime adapted the first seven of what's now passed 20 light novels by Tsutomu Satō. Volume 9 introduced Angelina Kudou Shields, a foreign exchange student from USNA, who was voiced by Yoko Hikasa for an appearance in the Out of Order PS Vita game. Now, this character is getting an anime debut in movie The Girl Who Calls the Stars.

ARNiDELiA will perform theme "SPEED STAR." 

  Cast now includes

  Tatsuya Shiba - Yūichi Nakamura

  Miyuki Shiba - Saori Hayami

  Erika Chiba - Marina Inoue

  Leonhart Saijo - Takuma Terashima 

  Mizuki Shibata - Satomi Satou

  Mikihiko Yoshida - Atsushi Tamaru

  Honoka Mitsui - Sora Amamiya

  Shizuku Kitayama - Yuiko Tatsumi

  Mayumi Saegusa - Kana Hanazawa

  Mari Watanabe - Marina Inoue

  Katsuto Jumonji - Junichi Suwabe

Angelina Kudo Shields - Yoko Hikasa

  Kokoa - Konomi Kohara 

    Benjamin Canopus voiced by Jin Yamanoi

  Ralph Algol voiced by Satoshi Hino

  Ralph Hardy Mirphak voiced by Masaki Aizawa

  via otakomu 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

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