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After a six year wait, it is finally time to review what someone is calling the "expletive-strewn The Irregular at Magic High School"... I scrolled through the reviews, watched a few episodes again to reacquaint myself with the show, and I am now once again sure enough that my feelings have not changed. My impressions of the show were again more or less summed up by my favorite reviewer, although he probably did not expect this. So, I am going to borrow and slightly modify some stuff from his review - the main protagonist is COOL, the spells are COOL, the graphics are COOL, however, the incest is NOT COOL, although then again there is no censorship of severed limbs... Who is this anime series aimed at? Well, at me! It was made for the guy who is bored of life, regularly gets stressed out at work, does not sleep well, and struggles with his problems even when he is asleep, analyzing them from different perspectives... Why? Because we are watching a COOL main male male protagonist who deals with all his problems with a cool head using his special powers that are, again, COOL. Heck, that is exactly what I want to be able to do, that is just what I want to be - steadfast, determined, rational, stoic, and when you throw in a believable idol from (not only) all the women - then we have a fairy-tale that I am going to enjoy. I am going to root for the main protagonist, I am going to be proud to be of the same species and gender as the main protagonist... Sure, it is largely about everyone underestimating the protagonist, and that he just waves his hand (with the help of an occasionally slightly flimsy screenplay) and kicks their asses. However, truth be told - this is the easiest and most effective way of gaining satisfaction that any story can offer, and unexpectedly it still works. Misanthropic pretentious arrogant pricks who think they are better than everyone else, and who constantly boast about how amazing they are, are disliked by almost everyone, and that feeling of natural justice, when they get what is coming to them - well that is always satisfying for the average person (because actually in reality, this never really happens). You can disagree with me and argue that there are better shows, better protagonists, better stories. Yes indeed, however, can you name any from the special academy fantasy genre?  Maybe the quite endearing Trinity Seven, but it came after The Irregular in Magic High School... or High school DxD, which is also a very controversial (and expletive-strewn) anime series for many... In other words, if you have seen as many terrible anime shows set in special academy in your life as I have (and are still watching more just because you just like the fantasy genre in general), then you have to consider this anime series above average, and if you have wasted your life with so many beta (to sigma or even omega) males that you are now embarrassed by the entire male species, then you should just love Tatsuya from The Irregular at Magic High School! I am even going so far as planning to watch The Irregular at Magic High School the Movie: The Girl Who Calls the Stars right after the second season in the fall of 2020, because I could not properly digest it yet as it does not follow the first season... I am also happy that I am not alone in this, and that the rating of this, for some, despicable piece of work, is always above seventy percent on other internet movie databases (IMDB, MAL, AL). This anime series is nothing really exceptional, it has obvious plot holes and overall does not always make sense, and there is the incest thing (sure, it makes sense that ninety-nine percent of the time it is not about a biological relative, however, there is still that "little brother" thing, which sounds weird in a sexual context...), on the other hand, it is a dynamic show, I find the main protagonist very endearing, the other characters are not irritating, the animation is more than decent, and even the story with its plot twists has me quite intrigued. Me like it! 7.5/10. (03.10.2020) (vähemmän) (lisää)