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(Four episodes watched): Oh wonderful--another Magical Academy/Mages/Grimoires/Demon Lords anime (and likely a harem as well). That was my first reaction to Trinity Seven. The theme of magic seems to be seen as a gravy train that every Japanese mangaka/anime studio that is at a loss for other ideas wants to grab a piece of nowadays. Yet T7 wasn't as bad as I had expected. A couple of interesting touches caught my attention, like Arata apparently having created an entire alternate reality all by himself, and his honest goal of trying to find out what happened to his cousin and recover her. This might go somewhere, I thought. The comedy was OK as well, not brilliant, but not the lame sort that I had noticed in several series this season either. Perhaps most importantly, the characters seem to have some character to them. So, in some ways a generic and predictable show but in others a modestly interesting one. (-1) + (+1) = 0. In other words, too soon to say whether T7 will be worth watching or not. Unfortunately, episode two didn't excite me. There seems to be plenty of the usual magical mumbo-jumbo, and a good deal of fanservice (like a questionable scene where several girls need to urinate but can't because they are trapped in a small space with Arata). But the main story didn't seem to go anywhere; little or no progress was made towards figuring out what had become of Arata's cousin, and the message seems to be that plot will be subordinate to the usual cheap generic stuff. There was a touch of wit to the jokes and dialogue, but just a touch, and an intriguing plot will be necessary in order for me to watch this. I decided to watch another episode, and found episode three to likewise be more about fanservice than storytelling, and that it had even less wit than last time. It might be significant that as I began playing episode three I found that I had forgotten almost everything about the series up to that point. However, something happens which suggests that Arata can finally go looking for his missing cousin, so I decided to watch yet another episode. For my trouble episode four was rather lackluster and reminded me that T7 is basically a mix of magic and fanservice, but not much story or characters. It's trying to please me with the usual magical jibberish and numerous girls repeatedly getting groped and losing their clothes. Almost no progress has been made towards the presumably main goal of the story, finding Arata's missing cousin, and if asked to briefly summarize each girl's personality (even with just a word or two) I couldn't. That would seem to contradict my initial feeling that the characters did indeed have a little personality; I guess personality is something which can be lost if the characters don't continually display and reinforce it. Just showing it once at the start isn't good enough to maintain it throughout a series. Anyway, I decided that I was undoubtably only fooling myself if I believed that much of a plot would ever coalesce around this skeleton. Last updated Saturday, March 28 2015. Created Friday, October 17 2014. | ||||||||
