Review of Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
Akashic Records Synopsis: Sistine Fibel and her best friend Rumia Tingel are students of a prestigious magic academy, where Sistine hopes to be trained by the best to unlock the secrets of the mysterious Sky Castle, as her grandfather's last wish. When hers favorite instructor suddenly retires, his replacement, Glenn Radars, is anything but what Sistine expected, as he appears to be lazy, incompetent and not very skilled at magic. What was missing: I would say that the anime would be much better if it had more episodes, because there are 12 episodes and there's not much to put, that's why I say that if there were 25,or 35 more worked episodes, it would be a much better anime, there would be less break. of time, more character development and things could go slower, and definitely put in a little more drama; Rumia almost died and Sistina gave me the impression that she didn't really care about it.
About the characters:
In my opinion, the best characters are Re = L and Glenn, because they were the only ones who had a well explained backstory.
I'm not a big fan of Rumia, it looks like she was meant to be that typical character who just gets screwed all the time. They tried to put a backstory on her, but it didn't fit very well...
Sistine is also another one I don't really enjoy. No one knows anything about her other than the fact that she wants to find out more about Sky Castle (by the way, she talks about it the entire anime).
Celica... disappointed me a lot. All the episodes talks about how powerful she is, and how she is the best magician on the continent, but I only saw her doing 3 spells the entire anime.
And please who the fuck is Eleanor? Ok, I know she was the only one who did the Akashic Records, and got into the idea of ​​performing the revive spell, but what else? Akashic Records is the name of the anime, she should have been used a lot more.
Art:
The art is really something to admire, cute characters, pleasant to see, the characters' eyes are very big and colorful, stealing a lot of attention, and detailed and armed hair, typical of loli, an impressive scenario, very colorful and for whom like a medieval footprint, I really liked that.
Sound:
A great dubbing, both in Japanese, English and Portuguese (my mother language). We just need some characters' enchanting and screams to be stronger, with more desire, then it would be perfect. A very good opening, with an addictive song, I was singing all day, a great soundtrack too, placed at the right times. I didn't like ending 2 very much, but just because it's not my style of music...
Overall:
I would recommend it, but for someone who is starting in the otaku world and needs something lighter, buuut I would not recommend it to someone who already knows this world.