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I really only mentioned Barnum & Bailey because they were the oldest I could think of on the spot who regularly wore stripped pants in the 1800’s.
That would be any carnival barker from the 1800s forward.
Pretty much.
Hence why I mentioned it, since it was the oldest I could think of.
You could go even further back then with court jesters from the Renaissance and before.
But what would be the point other than derailing the thread even further with comparison posts?
VIDEO: Chibi Shorts Further Explain “The Irregular at Magic High School”
May 15, 2014 10:30pm CDT
Aniplex posts two more “Get to Know Magic Studies” shorts
Derail? The discussion is still about something about the show and the people that make it, so how can that be a derail? If we started talking only about DBZ without making any connection to it like, Goku is the god-like character that can always do anything just like MR Genius…without that kind of connection between the shows and just shipping Tien and Picolo would be a derail.
I haven’t learned anything form the chibi’s except the school population limit, and for that big a school, they have it better than any other school even for the weeds!
Sounds like those pants have gotten around.
Would the otaku support for this show have dried up like California if they had called this The Irregular at Magic University? There is no way that this is really a high school; this is more impossible a high school than Hogwarts. 
If these people were in their late teens and 20s then it would be a lot more believable, especially when we have characters whose backstory involves them being war heroes who personally mowed down the opposition.
I think it is like a technical school, like in Infinite Stratos. so a vocational high school, and ehre the vocation is magicians.
Like if the USA had any sort of decent educational system there would be school before college dedicated to a profession people want to get into and then they have base knowledge for it prior to a college. Nope, here they just teach random anything so you are unskilled for anything unless you are NOT a part of academia then you get help finding a job and learning a real skill while in high school.
calling it a university could easily have screwed it over. just look at Magical Warfare. Maybe just going with “academy” would have been best?
The Crimson Prince had a backstory about being a war hero (or criminal, depending upon the side) who mowed down soldiers like grass on the battlefield and he’s a high school freshman in the “present” of the story. That’s stretching the believability a bit IMO.
As we see it, this high school doesn’t really teach anything. I’m not complaining that the show is focusing on the action instead of the classroom stuff but it is interesting to consider IMO as we aren’t getting a real idea of the school’s purpose and function, or of how magic is used “in the real world”.
I do like the way the CADs are shown as being to magic as a calculator is to a math problem, and that they can be beaten by someone who is skilled in “mental math”, so to speak. It’s more elegant and complex than the normal spell-slinging magic of anime.
But we are seeing the purpose of the school in just that.
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They are weapons. Magicians are trained to be used instead of nuclear weapons to reduce the casualties of war. Also Taurus Silver was limited in some way so his power couldn’t be used at full force. His sister even just recently mentioned that.
or something like that.
If i am wrong and they are not trained to be weapons then it is surely presented poorly. Weeds are the lesser weapons that misfire so to speak, while the blooms are the M-16 that always works. Looking at it like Upotte, then the weeds are that one girl that is always sick and breaks down while the blooms are Sig.
I found it interesting that they used the English (well, Engrish) word “bodyguard” in this.
Considering who the VAs are for Tatsuya, Mayumi, Miyuki and Mizuki, The parody title for this anime should be My Older Brother Can’t be this OP.
I get the point but, on a tangent, I’m not sure why the internet is all about Tatsuya being OP. He’s a professional pitted against rank amateurs, so he looks better than he is, and he has weaknesses. The weaknesses haven’t really come into play but he still has them.
because they cannot comprehend a high school student being a WMD since they didnt pay attention to the little part of the first episode where he took out all those people in a flash, and the others are still trying to learn “waht are magics?”
Episode 18 –
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More of Tatsuya’s secrets are revealed and his true nature is coming to light. It seems that Miyuki is the only thing that keeps Tatsuya human anymore.
It was funny that Tatsuya got to dance with all of his ladies, except for the one that really wanted to dance with him – his sister. LOL Miyuki ended up taking care of that on her own and it was very well done of her. I also enjoyed the suggestion of Tatsuya making a good marriage – with Mayumi!
I have difficulty buying that Jumonji, with all his power and connections, doesn’t know
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that Tatsuya is a member of the “Big 10”. I interpreted that conversation that they had, the one where Jumonji dramatically decided to speak to Tatsuya while having his back turned to him, as one of those very Japanese “I know, and I know you know but I won’t say it so read between the lines” conversation that Urobuchi has become famous for.
Then again, the guy looks like he was held back a decade or so in high school so maybe he isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer 
Hopefully this goes another season. I hear that the next arc is the best arc but given how long the arcs in this show are (18 episodes and we’ve just finished the second one) I’m concerned that they won’t have enough time to fit it all in to this one.
I think…
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Jumonji was more like the ant trying to ask the boulder to move and did not really comprehend the difference in size between an ant and a boulder.
No Heads knew about 3 years ago, but it seems Jumonji hasn’t caught on yet even after breaking into that gate so far back. I am sure only the Chairman (the old one with no eyes) knows who Tatsuya really is, at least part of it, outside of the special forces. Seems only one person has really figured out who Taurus Silver is either.
The 10 clans seem to rely so much on pomp and circumstances to really pay attention to who everyone else is. Otherwise EVERYONE would already know who Miyuki and Tatsuya are since half the 10 clans are already at First High School.
Well, I think Officer.Counselor might know something more than he is just a student and some super strong guy that does his training under the same priest as she does. I hope she suspects otherwise what does it take to be an investigator?
I loved most where Tatsuya was apprehensive like he was about to kill Jumonji in the event he was found out and being asked to return home, though we all know everyone from home knows where he is anyway. I think the second of fear he showed was not that of being found out, but that he was going to have to kill Jumonji and how easy it would have been right after dispatching the No Heads. Means only love for Miyuki and anger are not the last emotions he possesses, but that hint of fear seems that maybe he is hiding something from even those who made him what he is. Just so hardened after the war that he has learned even greater how to hide it from everyone, including Miyuki so he can hide her pain from her too.
If he isn’t hiding something else, I will be disappointed they gave him a second of fear like that from someone he knows all to well enough about.
Love how the prince also had to show he lost to Tatsuya twice when he walked off to dance :laugh: Tatsuya already has what he wanted and beat him in the game too!
The awkward start of the new arc caused this show to really stumble. According to crunchyroll comments, the books had Tatsuya working on this pet project of his throughout the series while the show just sprung it on us in an awkward info-dump before making it into the central plot point for the new arc.
High Schools having to work on research projects and having to compete through that research for prestige and funding…another point for the “this show was supposed to be set in a university but was rolled back because the Japanese otaku hate everything post-high school” theory.
Also the bro-con came out in force in this ep, as if the show were trying to compensate for the many episodes of the last arc where it (and the annoying sister character) had a subdued presence.