Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade is the Kickstarter-funded sequel to the acclaimed “Little Witch Academia”, released in 2013. This sequel has proven to be a worthy heir to its predecessor. The story continues to follow the story from the previous movie. Akko Kagari, the nerdy Lotte Yanson and the gothic Sucy Manbavaran, continue their magical education at Luna Nova Magical Academy and appear to be performing inadequately.
They create a monstrosity out of “brownie and a poisonous mushroom”, poisoning their classmates. They are punished (again) for their poor behavior and are tasked with organizing this year’s “Witch Festival”. Joined by thief Amanda O’Neill, Constanze Braunschweig Albrechtsberger manufacturer and seller of illegal high-tech devices and Jasminka Antonenko food thief.
Akko takes Charge
Akko decides that she will take charge and change the narrative of the tradition festival, showing witches in a positive light. She shows that she is immature and self-centered. She ignores the opinions of her friends and alienates them in the process. Feel down and out after a series of setbacks Akko becomes inspired by her idol Chariot. She heads to the library and begins to study magic in preparation of the festival. Akko invites her friends to join her, she along with Amanda use a rod to steal some magic for the festival.
During the festival, things start off well. However, several of the towns boys harass them and steal their magical rod. The stolen rod’s magic awakens a sleeping giant that attacks the townspeople. Ursula, the teacher of Akko uses her magic to distract the townspeople and include the attack into the festival itself. Together the witches come together to subdue the giant and improve the perception of the Witches.
Predictable but well done
Overall, Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade takes what made the previous movie in the series so exceptional, and expands on the world and the characters. Studio Trigger continues to impress with their animation style that made other series like Kill La Kill, Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt stand out Anime. The fluid nature of the animation with the muted color gives a lively feel. The series alludes to the “history” of witches being persecuted.
I think it should have expanded on this aspect of the universe, instead it was glossing over it. Finally, the rules of magic haven’t been explained. The series doesn’t leave the viewer completely ignorant of the magic system, but adding more depth would have been appreciated. While the story was predictable and the characters were formulaic, LWA remains a standard for good anime.
Little Witch Academia Episode 1 Review
I know what I’m watching tonight. :3
You should its excellent. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Hah, I thought I recognized your avatar name and Tide on Artifice from somewhere. Turns out I was already following your blog too so I guess you were recommended as well. Seeming I just got published I suppose it would be only neighborly to go through your article on mecha and give it a vote in the hope of some future reciprocation 😉
Thank you. I just changed my article per your advice. Congrats on your article being published. I currently have a score of 4. Hopefully, I’ll get published soon thank you again.
And thank you for voting on some of my topics. I did think helping each other out on that website would be mutually beneficial. Oh and I had already watch the Little Witch Academia specials, they are very fun.
You’re welcome, I think we should keep helping each other. I enjoy the LWA series I hope they do some more.
[…] Little Witch Academia was announced as a television series for Netflix a few months ago. The series began running on January 8, 2017 in Japan and will be streaming on Netflix. Little Witch Academia will feature 25 episodes, will be directed by Yoh Yoshinari, and animated by Studio Trigger. LWA the series is based on the two short films that were previously released, Little Witch Academia (2013) and Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade (2015). […]
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Nice, I saw this one pretty recently and it was definitely pretty fun. This is the kind of scenario where I really love Kickstarter. Being able to make a sequel like this with some funds from the fans is awesome
Kickstarter can help a lot of good quality work get made.
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