It’s Club Fair time, and Kurumi is interested in joining a particular club involving magic. After all, she came close to executing one part of the spell. Of course, Kurumi was in for a surprise she hadn’t expected.
From last time, Kurumi came close to performing a spell, but she wasn’t quite there yet. Of course, it’s club hunting time as they see all the presentations from various clubs. Sure, Miki was surprised how the school’s dance club turned into the Tambourine Dance Club, but say seemed alright by this.
You might be wondering about the club that Kurumi was excited about when Miki told her about the Mystic Research Council, which does stuff with magic. They put on a nice show using magic. Of course, when Kurumi tried to join, she saw Magumi’s homeroom teacher. Yes, the one with that Capybara, for some reason. He was like, what is this Standard Program student doing here? Kurumi can’t join this club since she is not in Magumi. What is she thinking?
As expected, Kurumi’s dreams got crushed, just like when she couldn’t get into Magumi despite getting a high score. Of course, two students in lab coats tried recruiting Kurumi into their not-so-official Magic Research Club. It consists of two students who wanted to get into Magumi but got rejected. It was weird in their way. They also have a pet owl named, you guessed it, Hoota. Of course, they come off as a bunch of weirdos.
That said, the club isn’t a club, as they are on a secret mission. To investigate the cause of the Element M responsible for the “Seven Wonders of Rettoran” or phenomena around the school. Left unchecked, it can cause bad things. That tree from last time is just one of them. Now that the M levels are normal, it’s just a normal tree.
As expected, Miki followed Kurumi and got roped into the club. Still, it is surprising that Magumi and their teachers don’t know about it, given they focus on magic. It makes me wonder if the school is hiding something. Still, I wonder who might be their advisor to this Magic Research Club.
That night, Kumi mentions to Miki that she got rejected from the Mystic Research Council since it’s for Magumi only, but Miki never thought there was a second one. Kurumi wonders if the stuff they were telling was true, as Miki mentioned that incident during that demonstration. The funny thing is that Hoota delivered a scroll summoning Miki and Kurumi to go to the old music room where the Magic Research Club. They found another wonder as they looked using one of those item finder rods you see in Pokémon.
The funny thing is that Kurumi was the one who found it, and it pointed to a bewitched piano. It started playing weird music that they shouldn’t listen to, or they will pass out. The two senior members and Miki fell unconscious as Kurumi thought about performing a spell before realizing she left her pen in her room. Then, Suzuki, Kurumi’s and Miki’s homeroom teacher, neutralizes the piano with a spell.
As expected, we find out that Suzuki is the advisor for the Magic Research Club. Yep, they task these two labs coated students to seek them out. She mentions that she needs to make magicians out of her class sooner than expected. The cat is out of the bag, and we know it already. Suzuki doesn’t believe that the Magumi students have what it takes to deal with these threats.
It’s not surprising since Magumi students key in the spells they need into the Magumi notebook to use and be done with it. However, it comes at the cost of the lack of flexibility. After all, the student who summoned a creature that went out of control struggled to neutralize it, and Suzuki went in, drawing the spells and managed to take down the threat. Maybe the thing to get out of this is that the Magumi school curriculum is flawed in taking on the coming danger. As they say, being high-tech might not be the best course of action compared to doing spells the old way. But we know who might be behind this as that shape-shifting dog girl was observing and then walked away.
Meanwhile, Yuzu doesn’t seem interested in any of the clubs. That is while she continues to investigate why Suzuki wants to teach standard students magic. Yuzu is still skeptical, but I wonder when she will believe in what Suzuki is trying to do. Either way, Suzuki is training her students to deal with the potential threat at the school, which can affect the entire world.
(Also known as The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians)
@chikorita157 For as much as the teacher who draws the magic symbols might have a flexible repertoire, they reuse the same sequence (as if a transformation sequence) for her magic.
Just altering the shapes a bit each time or something would have made it more interesting.
The club member with the long sleeves that constantly talks about evil (I could have sworn he was pro-evil from those rants) is genuinely creepy. Never expected him to be anything but a bad guy.
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I think she is probably using the same spell, so why create another scene of her drawing the same spell, so why reanimate something that is not broken.
But yes, it seems a bit too perfect, like using those terminals, where you don’t even need to draw the shapes. But funny how those lab coat members of that magic club seem evil, but doesn’t seem to be, which makes me wonder what Suzuki is up to.
@chikorita157 Maybe they are meant to be weird, you know like stereotypical US high school nerds. But ultimately helpful and nice. Only more episodes will tell.
I kinda hope they don’t make some “I was evil all along” reveal, it’s one of my least favorite tropes. I think it’s better writing if they overcome something more meaningful than betrayal.
The goal is for her to become a magician/wizard/I forgot which term they used, rather than be the hero.
Still think the art style is such a big part of it as well. Hope it matches the plot 🙂
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