Anime Rental Magika

[2010DigitalBoy]

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Do you enjoy/know the first thing about the Shinto religion? Then you'll probably have a lot of fun with this show since it seems to use terminology of the subject liberally along with it's own set of story guidelines. Rental Magika (or Rent-a-Magician) can pretty much be summed up by it's title. It's about a group of magicians who do jobs when they are needed. The format looks to be monster-of-the-week style in a way reminiscent of Trinity Blood or Witch Hunter Robin.

Episode one was not very impressive - the animation was pretty weak, especially for a first episode and it didn't seem all too original story-wise. However, the show has a very interesting visual style that will either make or brake it as a whole.

The first episode was about 50-60% battle which was good, because I have a short attention span, but the first battle wasn't exciting at all - your standard anime fight. However, the second fight had some great visual effects and enough trippiness to get me interested. However, if the whole go-into-trippy-universe-with-dizzy-effects is episodic it will quickly loose it's luster. So overall, I think by the second episode it will be easy to determine if this is a uniquely presented action show, or a lame cheap boring ignorable poorly animated failure that'll end up on [AS] next year.[/COLOR]