Review of The Ancient Magus' Bride

**No Spoilers** **haven't read the manga, based completely on the anime alone. so my opinion will not be based from a position of reading the manga prior to watching anime.** **Below will be the shortened review , If you dont wanna read through the detailed** **Shortened Review** STORY [ 6/10]- This is a story of suffering and redemption...of the human condition and of our own limits to withstand the suffering the world will inevitably pile on us. Our MC goes on a journey of self discovery and finds her own voice in the process. Our secondary character Elias goes on his own journey as well as he struggles tograsp and understand human emotions. I was equally invested in both of their journeys.

ART [7/10]- The art style in this show is beautiful. The spells that are cast are bright and filled with power, the creatures are creepy, cute, weird and all completely unique . The characters are drawn well and express emotion phenomenally

SOUND [8/10]-This was a very strong point from the show, everything from the OST to the ending soundtrack was almost perfectly conceived. This was one of those shows that I never skipped the opening nor the outro songs and I actually payed attention to the song choices throughout the different types of scenes and I believe everything was done spot on

CHARACTERS [8 /10]-This is by far my favorite part of the story. I think the dynamic between he MC and the second main character is great. All of their motivations are clear and I empathize with every character for different reasons.

ENJOYMENT [10/10]-I loved every second I was watching this show.

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**FULL REVIEW**

STORY [6/10]
I was put of by this story at first. The premise of an older entity and a 16 year old girl being "married" didn't sit right with me at first. As I watched the show I realized
that i misunderstood this completely. This is a story of suffering and redemption...of the human condition and of our own limits to withstand the suffering the world will inevitably pile on us. Our MC goes on a journey of self discovery and finds her own voice in the process. Our secondary character Elias goes on his own journey as well as he struggles to grasp and understand human emotions. I was equally invested in both of their journeys. Every episode gave me a little more info on why the characters were the way they were and as I saw their point of view..It was easy to emphasize with them, even the villain. I would say That this story did its very best to be original and interesting and it succeeded in both regards. It is not perfectly written or conceived by any means but I loved it all the same.
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ART [7/10]
The art style in this show is beautiful. The spells that are cast are bright and filled with power, the creatures are creepy, cute, weird and all completely unique . The characters are drawn well and express emotion phenomenally. Everything from the tears to the fight sequences are animated beautifully. Every characters art style was well thought out and they we a joy to observe and grow to love, partially thanks to how well drawn and animated they actually were. I have no complaints for the art style of this show and think it deserves high merits.
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SOUND[8/10]
This was a very strong point from the show, everything from the OST to the ending soundtrack was almost perfectly conceived. This was one of those shows that I never skipped the opening nor the outro songs and I actually payed attention to the song choices throughout the different types of scenes and I believe everything was done spot on.With such a large variety of different soundtracks that fit every situation in the Anime....It is hard to fault the show for any of the choices and It deserves to score well in this category as well.
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CHARACTERS [8/10]
This is by far my favorite part of the story. I think the dynamic between he MC and the second main character is great. All of their motivations are clear and I empathize with every character for different reasons. Even our non human characters have many human qualities and struggle with them . Our characters make dumb and selfish decisions or dumb and selfless ones. In the end I cared for pretty much every characters and enjoyed all of their screen times and back stories.
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ENJOYMENT [10/10]
I loved every second I was watching this show. I think that when a show is able to entertain and make the viewer feel something ...even through its flaws it really is a beautiful thing. This will be one of those anime I think about for a long time and Im glad I took the recommendation to watch this one.