While Northern executes his plan to sacrifice standard study students to benefit modern magic users which goes terribly wrong, Kurumi, Yuzu, and Suzuki tries to stop him, which involve finding the last wonder. However, with Kurumi and Yuzu finding the rock they hid, it’s the last piece of the puzzle to save Retoran. Is it enough to save it?
Of course, we saw the flashback of Kurumi meeting the magician lady. We see more after Kurumi receives the Magumi book from her. After Kurumi makes the promise, Minegenius asks what Kurumi wants to do as a magician. Then afterward, Kurumi can become a real magician.
Last time, we learned Minegenius/Suzuki and Hazel are friends, and Northern seems like an outcast. Somehow, Suzuki manages to save Hazel from his reckless plan. That is while Yuzu and Kurumi use their ancient magic to deal with the last wonder. As expected, the sky became pretty with shooting stars. Disaster seems to be adverted at Rettoran as the standard program students start recovering from Northern’s experiment’s effects: Suzuki thanks Kurumi and Yuzu for saving the day.
With that, while the Magumi students make it out, the blue-haired girl looks pretty sinister. She won’t reveal it, as there are things that they are better off not knowing. Northern says the same thing. From the incident, it irks me that Northern never received any punishment for his actions, maybe because the higher-ups are trying to push it under the rug like it never happened.
Also, it’s nice to see Lemone and Mikana, part of the Yuzu posse, reunite with each other. We do learn that Hazel is Kurumi’s grandmother. No wonder Minegenius shows up near Hazel’s house to clear the sky, or Suzuki visits her to talk about Kurumi. I have a feeling that Suzuki knows that she gave the notebook
As for the festival, seeing how the class pulled off the mashup of toy trains, Yakisoba, opera singing, and tambourines was interesting. It’s a silly idea, but at least it works, right? Somehow, they incorporate ancient magic as it’s everywhere now.
It appears that Yuzu took the test and passed. Of course, Kurumi doesn’t, as she doesn’t feel the need to. She has the Magumi notebook, but of course, Suzuki revealed something. Right before she takes her leave, she shows that Kurumi can become a Magumi student without taking the test.
She qualified all along. But Suzuki intentionally failed her so she could have Kurumi learn ancient magic first. It’s still kind of cruel to disappoint Kurumi, but it’s not surprising that Suzuki wants Kurumi to learn the same magic that her grandmother knows. In the end, Kurumi doesn’t regret what Suzuki did as she hasn’t figured out what to do as a magician. Kurumi thought that using a smart notebook makes one a magician, but it’s not necessarily the case that being a magician is more than just casting spells. With that, she intends to keep studying the other magic. While Suzuki wanted Kurumi to tag along, she decided it was nothing.
Final Thoughts
As expected, while Mahou Tsukai ni Narenakatta Onnanoko no Hanashi certainly looks colorful with a pretty art style, the story leaves many more questions than answers. Sure, the ancient and modern conflict was interesting as the contemporary faction was surprised by the ancient magic that anyone could cast. Of course, some things are left unanswered.
Things like who is that shapeshifting dog person as she observes Kurumi but never interacts with him. Also, why is Northern motivated to sacrifice the wrath of standard program students? It appears the effort to suppress the ancient magic fraction continues despite some knowing about it. I wonder why Northern wants to go against the Ancient magic faction despite hanging out with Hazel and Minegenius/Suzuki.
Also, I wonder why Suzuki never revealed that she met Kurumi when she was a child, and she gave the notebook. Still, Kurumi might know it’s her but didn’t reveal it. Also, I’m perplexed that Yuzu would go to the Magumi side despite knowing ancient magic and being interested in it.
As expected, the show ends with a cliffhanger, with the creature taking the dog into the door with a dog collar with the initials K.M. We still don’t know who this shapeshifting dog is and why she knows Kurumi. Is she Kurumi’s familiar or lost sibling? More questions were left unanswered.
Overall, I enjoyed it as it reminded me of the current conflict but left me with more questions than answers. That said, Kurumi and Yuzu will make a nice pairing, though.
(Also known as The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians)
@chikorita157@chikorita157.com @yon Hmmm what you think about the ending.
Seems that there are things left unanswered.
@chikorita157 @chikorita157@chikorita157.com Haven’t caught the ending yet. Last week of work this week so now I hopefully have some time:)
@chikorita157 @chikorita157@chikorita157.com Felt like a season ending and not a series ending. We got some reveals, like Hazel, but no explanation of why that trio is wildly different ages. Not to mention that two characters seem to be the same person, but with different hair colors and chronologically wrong.
Plus Kurumi hasn’t figured things out. Not in an open ending type of way, but more of an incomplete hero’s journey.
Not to mention that they didn’t stop the actual bad guy. He’s properly evil and they just kinda shrug it off. At least he’s consistent, most RL evil people don’t think they are wrong.
I swear it solidified as a capitalism vs socialism (kinda by default as the rest of them are capitalism adjacent) fight in the end. The elitist that thinks they know best vs owned by the people. Wish people could take these lessons to heart more.
It absolutely needs more episodes. If nothing else because of the beautifully artful style. Said it before, don’t want everything in this style. But for this show it was flawless.
The funny thing, I was thinking this given the whole class war thing… After all, magic in a way is what allowed everyone an equal opportunity to do Obviously, the Modern wants all the magic, since it’s power after all..
What is interesting is that the modern faction only can use limited amount of spells, while ancient has many possibilities. It’s like the whole conflict between AI and creators as content made by AI, besides spreading lies are superficial and uncreative compared to ones created by writers and artists. After all, AI cannot create new ideas of their own, only generate output based on existing works.
Agreed, that there needs to be more episodes to feel complete though.