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Jul 15, 2023 10:48 AM
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The level to which this is ripping Harry Potter (direct scene rips, copying architecture, some music queues, clothing, some archetype similarities) is actually where I would sue, except pls no jkr don't need no more money.
Jul 15, 2023 11:50 AM

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1st I thought it was meh but 2nd episode aI'm disappointed, I wanna Nanao fights that prick but the idiots intervenes and have to watch that bs and the worst part they canceled the second duel wtf
And the rest it's about learning magic which I think none of the students learnt anything (or I feel like some of them already ahead so I kinda wonder what are they doing here ?) and at the end they got trapped in the chamberofsecrests labriynth and have to fight their senpais

I'm not impressed, the show felt unoriginal and mediocre

Btw can someone tell me (spoiler is fine) why is it called seven spellblades when the main characters are just six ?? Is there a seventh ?
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ridojiri said:
The level to which this is ripping Harry Potter (direct scene rips, copying architecture, some music queues, clothing, some archetype similarities) is actually where I would sue, except pls no jkr don't need no more money.
I think if they did rip off harry potter and still did bad, they can be spare from a lawsuit
Jul 15, 2023 2:57 PM

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Animu Harry Potter with swords, episode 2. Beautiful opening.


Nanao is a sword autist battoru-sexual. Nice, I like the stereotype. Just diminish the "de-gozaru"s, at least 50%, please...


Not!Hermione is gonna suffer quite a bit, due to different moral compass from the others.


Wonder how many volumes this is gonna adapt. 2, aka, the ideal for a 1 cour? Rush and do 3 or 4?


Also, hope JKR does not sue this...because she totally can...
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Jul 15, 2023 4:03 PM

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I'm Cyrus Livermore, a fifth year student. If you told me that he has repeated his fifth year class for 10 consecutive years, I still believe in you. I even thought that he is a teacher. lmao
Same, i thought he's a teacher lmao 
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Jul 15, 2023 4:21 PM

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ridojiri said:
copying architecture.

Mate just like almost any architecture in anime, it's copying the real world. This is almost a direct copy of the Mont Saint Michel from France. Which is one of the most stunning human made place you can visit in the world, so nothing wrong with copying that.

Jul 15, 2023 4:52 PM
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Ophelia is here!!!!!

It's so great to finally see that Nanao vs Oliver scene in the anime. I've been loving the adaptation sm. 
Question, What Happend To Her Mid-Fight? When She Started Cryin And Said Something Like "He's Here", Do They Know Each Other From Before Or...? Confused The Hell Out Of Me
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Jul 15, 2023 6:48 PM

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ridojiri said:
The level to which this is ripping Harry Potter (direct scene rips, copying architecture, some music queues, clothing, some archetype similarities) is actually where I would sue, except pls no jkr don't need no more money.
I'm convinced some of you haven't seen anything Harry Potter in awhile and I say this as once a major HP fan.

RedChrome said:
1st I thought it was meh but 2nd episode aI'm disappointed, I wanna Nanao fights that prick but the idiots intervenes and have to watch that bs and the worst part they canceled the second duel wtf
And the rest it's about learning magic which I think none of the students learnt anything (or I feel like some of them already ahead so I kinda wonder what are they doing here ?) and at the end they got trapped in the chamberofsecrests labriynth and have to fight their senpais

I'm not impressed, the show felt unoriginal and mediocre

Btw can someone tell me (spoiler is fine) why is it called seven spellblades when the main characters are just six ?? Is there a seventh ?
It. Is. Just. The. 2nd. Episode.

As for what students leaned: 

1) They just stat through demonstration of what Sword Arts looked like so they get idea what focus on 
2) They learned how handle silkworms and improve mama control.
3) We didn't see much of spellogy but short show the were learning how familiars work.

This was all this very episode but somehow missed it to pointless complaint about stuff. Like school transforming into a dungeon bad, generic and filling you with outrage to make you made? Why do have problem with some of upperclassmen being hostile? How them being opposite be better when also not unique? This just a texrbook example of fishing for complaints and making oddly specific claims. The show clearly do any right for you so I don't know waste your time, if everything is generic just because it generic anyway.

I went though this same crap with Re:Zero and it just as exhausting.
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Wow the rating drop so much but i think this actually dope show. From ep1 to ep 2, it massive jump from 6 to 8. 

I kinda understand why tho. Nanao as main heroine seems really bad idea with her gozaru and samurai attitude.
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I liked the op song, that's how fantasy anime openings should be.

The show is not that bad, I can't still understand the bashing.

Mashle was even more of an HP rip-off than this; well it was a parody, in any case (and a quite fun one).

This anime has nice art, nice animation, average story (so far) and characters that can potentially develop. It's not that bad, I think.
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Jul 16, 2023 7:40 AM

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The writing is ass.
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Jul 16, 2023 1:16 PM
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average anime..have no unique story line..
Jul 16, 2023 6:06 PM
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didn't like how that girl can't kill a monster that will hurt her and have her teammates clean up her mess. the way that the mc talks is also getting on my nerves hoping that it will just be this episode so I will continue, but I may drop if it gets too stupid with the plot.
Jul 16, 2023 10:48 PM

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I thought this episode was just ok as the storyline was a bit confusing and so far I'm not that interested in the characters. Nanao wanted to fight to the death with Oliver (why?) and she cries when Oliver said he won't fight her anymore. Katie hurts herself by not being able to burn a silkworm after its cocoon went black. And for some reason the entire school becomes haunted at night with older classmates seemingly preying on 1st years, luckily Pete has Oliver and Michela with him or he'd be a goner.

Hoping all of this makes more sense down the road.
Jul 17, 2023 3:58 AM

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As someone who've been reading the novels since they came out, I'm very pleased with the adaptation so far. A few hickups here and there but there is clearly effort being put into this! 

Jul 17, 2023 11:59 PM

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That was a pretty intense sword fight for just sparring

Uhhh are the subs wrong or the writer? what they are using are not athames. Anathame is a ritualistic double bladed dagger not a sword.

I like Katie being caring about all creatures.
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The visuals and fight scenes in the opening are the only thing that are holding my attention. Hoping the future fights looks as good as what's shown in the opening and less of what's shown during the sparing match. I do think I understand what they were going for with the crying bit but it was still pretty cringe.
Jul 18, 2023 8:35 AM

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traed said:
That was a pretty intense sword fight for just sparring

Uhhh are the subs wrong or the writer? what they are using are not athames.  Anathame is a ritualistic double bladed dagger not a sword.

I like Katie being caring about all creatures.
They are short swords actually, but otherwise that's what they aren't just a weapon, they aid in casting magic.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athame
Jul 18, 2023 8:40 AM
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This episode was ok. The new female charakter looks very intresting and the relationship between main charakters isn't seems forced. I'm realy looking forward to get to know more about Oliver and Nanao.
Jul 18, 2023 9:43 AM
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:D Awesome. I liked it really much. It fels like HP but it is not like that. :D We will see.
Jul 18, 2023 12:01 PM

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BTW, I said how the Japan-based section of this fantasy world is still in warring era using sword and spear and such... in ep 1 thread.

But apparently the European-based section of this fantasy world already had magic and fantasy creature and mage robes from 400+ years ago. So what was Japan-based section doing? lol

The difference of culture development seems quite distant huh? lol (makes me wonder if the Japan-side of the world is doing the same as iRL Japan with closed-borders with next to no magic or fantasy creature, except apparently Michela's dad went in and saved Nanao out of no where in mid battlefield and scouted her for the European-based school...)

This is evidenced by Nanao herself that she barely knows what magic is and is mostly just physical based. And her ideals is still stuck on "warring era" where fights till death is the honorable thing to do.

The girl literally cries cause she was stopped from killing the MC... LOL

(BTW, speaking of the dad... where's he? he isn't shown in the school, is he still out traveling the world? lol)

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And then.... poor caterpillars... this is just like what they did to the trolls. Fantasy creatures are just toys to the Humans. Using and Killing them is a natural way of life.

Where as this is reflected by Katie that she wants to treat the Fantasy creatures with more respect but she keeps on getting fucked over by other stuff (the troll was by someone that was "trolling"... but the hooded person is suggested to be MC's bodyguard in same hooded outfit... huh...)

And this caterpillar was cause she got distracted by a random flower petal.

I support Katie, cause imagine if todays world we're still using LIVE animals where you stab a giant nail into them while they're still alive and then cut them up slowly. Yea... that's what they're doing to the caterpillars. Forcing them to under go metamorphosis and if turned bad, they kill them.


Also, MC is already doing his moves to get that Harem...

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And then we got this succubus-type senpai huh... and they prey on new students? huh?

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mmoraze said:
HOW DOES 3.8 RATING FOR 1 EPISODE
AND 4.1 RATING FOR EPISODE 2 GIVE THE WHOLE ENTIRE SHOW A RATING BELOW 7

CAN YOU GUYS ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE


You can literally see under [Stats] that the series rating is based on the entire series and not the episode rating. So even if the episode rating is crap, the series will still have a higher rating if the series rating is higher.
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Iron_Maw said:
traed said:
That was a pretty intense sword fight for just sparring

Uhhh are the subs wrong or the writer? what they are using are not athames.  Anathame is a ritualistic double bladed dagger not a sword.

I like Katie being caring about all creatures.
They are short swords actually, but otherwise that's what they aren't just a weapon, they aid in casting magic.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athame

While sure it doesnt inherently have to be double bladed they are indeed a dagger. On the wiki page it mentions swords sometimes are used instead of athames, so a sword is not an athame. Though those swords are a little short so maybe it's close enough, im not sure what the limit on a dagger length is before it starts being considered a sword.
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Straight forward to Harry Potter

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Decent OP and ED, the music and visuals are also good.

I think the reason the first episode felt kinda off to me was the characters were already acting like a friend group before they even knew each other's names.

Setting the awkwardness of the first episode aside, I'm really liking how seriously the show is taking itself when so many other magical school anime rely on comedy. Even just the relatively simple worldbuilding of "we wizards use swords to cover our main weakness" does a lot for me.

However a lot of the character writing feels like it was written by a child, and the labyrinth taking over the school at night is pretty dumb though, I'm hoping there will be a logical explanation for that.

Jul 19, 2023 10:36 AM

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The opening song is so good. Maybe best in this season
Jul 19, 2023 10:41 AM

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traed said:
Iron_Maw said:
They are short swords actually, but otherwise that's what they aren't just a weapon, they aid in casting magic.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athame

While sure it doesnt inherently have to be double bladed they are indeed a dagger. On the wiki page it mentions swords sometimes are used instead of athames, so a sword is not an athame. Though those swords are a little short so maybe it's close enough, im not sure what the limit on a dagger length is before it starts being considered a sword.
Term is not use because its exactly like Athame historically but due to the relationship between the weapon and magic. The weapon functions like does in wiccan lore so it fits the series thematically. Furthermore Athames in this story are meant to be a bit flexible terms of shape and size compared to real world counterpart. For example the katana Nanao uses on her first day of school is actually Athame customized for her use. All fiction embellish stuff like to serve the world-building and narrative interest so making things super accurate isn't a big deal. Especially in a fantasy setting.

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Decent OP and ED, the music and visuals are also good.

I think the reason the first episode felt kinda off to me was the characters were already acting like a friend group before they even knew each other's names.

Setting the awkwardness of the first episode aside, I'm really liking how seriously the show is taking itself when so many other magical school anime rely on comedy. Even just the relatively simple worldbuilding of "we wizards use swords to cover our main weakness" does a lot for me.

However a lot of the character writing feels like it was written by a child, and the labyrinth taking over the school at night is pretty dumb though, I'm hoping there will be a logical explanation for that.
Its not unusal to make new friends with others on first day of school. I've made couple without hardly knowing that much about them. I also don't acted like they know each other before as you look at dialoghue before the troll they very awkward around each other and only just making small talk. Some of them like Katie and Guy outright combatantive against each other. It was only after the troll incident introduction at lunch they started warming up to each other. 

I'm not seeing how the character writing childish, the cast interact like any other normal 15 year old you read in many shounen style stories (setting differences aside). In fact I thought Oliver and Katie conversation was really nice and Oliver handled it well being empathic to her point viewpoint while making his own point clear how she will need to compromise a little if she is to get through Kimberly.

Also I don't get how school transforming in labyrinth is ridiculous compared to any other fantasy concept like flying boats or people riding fire-breathing lizards. Like you avatar from a show where the characters put points in to cards to somehow learn skills and that part isn't meant for humor, its an actual thing. So  why is the line suddenly drawn here, there way more dumb things happening other show like in Zom 100. The dungeon itself obviously is not just there for sake of it, without even going into LN specifics Michela mentioned in the anime they aren't read to be at school during the night atm, so from that context this hint that this will part of their curriculum to hone their magic later.

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Well, the OP song is kinda catchy for this show.

Looks like this anime is taking a deep dive into magic mechanics including the usage of magic swords. This includes having Oliver participating as a member against his opponent Nanao. Not sure I feel about Chela in this anime yet. Something tells me that smile of hers may be hiding something. 

I do notice that the how takes its magic context seriously, and probably will get more complex later on.

Is it me or is the anime a bit fast?
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Stark700 said:
Well, the OP song is kinda catchy for this show.

Looks like this anime is taking a deep dive into magic mechanics including the usage of magic swords. This includes having Oliver participating as a member against his opponent Nanao. Not sure I feel about Chela in this anime yet. Something tells me that smile of hers may be hiding something. 

I do notice that the how takes its magic context seriously, and probably will get more complex later on.

Is it me or is the anime a bit fast?

It seems to be adapting at a pace of 5 episodes / volume, which is below average in pacing, so no, it's a pretty good pacing overall.

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Who the fuck wrote this?

Alderamin on the Sky's author. Pretty good pedigree right?
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Already really not liking this lol who were those "students" at the end? They look like they could be in their 30s or 40s LOL
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Oliver needs to explain to Nanao properly man smh.

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Was a good paced one
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Already really not liking this lol who were those "students" at the end? They look like they could be in their 20s or 30s LOL

Good thing that the girl is 19-20 and the man is 20-21 then I suppose.
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I feel like I might be reading too much into the fight scene, but are we not supposed to interpret it in the sense that he saw so much pain in her eyes that he wanted to put her out of her missey? If that's the case than that's a pretty metal thing, and I can't wait to see how this progresses.

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EP 2

Well i see they're starting with some op
You could argue there is both too much and too little. apparnetly people are speculating it'll be 15 eps, a lot happens in the OP, so hmm.


AAND its a cliffhanger. oh well. its not immediately obvious, but yeah, not only is the school, the other students are out for them as well. or something. not much happened this time, but at least something happened.
The ED visuals uhm...seem a bit weird.

I forgor who voiced katie so I'll need to check again. Otherwise not much to say. No followup on the nanao thing yet, this is just the beginning I guess, and whatever daheck is going on
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I'm loving the opening.

The fight was more impressive than I expected. I'm a little curious with why Nanao suddenly started crying.

I feel like it's only a matter of time until Katie has some sort of breakdown.
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The first lesson in the magic academy: sword arts, under instructor Luther Garland, and Nanao's rumour has spread all around the school, enough for everyone to take notice. The upperclassman Richard Andrews is a bypasser during the troll incident, and Michela stands before him while Oliver and Nanao face each other as an example. But rightaway, Nanao proves her swordsmanship so intense that Oliver can't afford to give leeway towards her, though that triggers her past memories for a weebit. But it seems that when Nanao referred to her white-haired self, it is a case of two faces of her that Oliver can't seem to fend against.

With the second lesson being spellology under professor Frances Gilchrist and magical biology under Vanessa Aldiss, it has all of the Hogwarts elements going for it, though this school is a testing ground for to see potentials this early. Michela easily revels through, though for Oliver to help Nanao and her to help with Katie and Pete. For Katie, she's doing this slowly, though she prioritizes saving lives than actually making results, as a result of her family's upbringing. It's clear that her upbringing, met with the reality in Kimberly is clashing, through Oliver encourages her to see things through, not alone. As expected, Castre comes finding Oliver to report that she's going to leave him to his own devices, it's for a while.

For Oliver, Michela and Pete to get stuck in the school's dungeon, facing 4th Year Orphelia Salvadori and her research, she's danger as a succubus. And if that's not enough, the 5th Year Cyrus Rivermoore comes surrounding the 3 of them.

Trouble brews at Kimberly this early, though it's no perchance of survival.
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you can get a feel for it. this show COULD be pretty good. but it's just not

i watch, but there's no attachment to the characters. there is some intrigue in the overall plot, but the way everything is presented just doesn't "capture" me as a viewer

i decided i like the ending, though that has ZERO significance to how good/bad a/this show is. i'll watch a few more episodes just to make sure, but this is trending towards a DROP, which is unfortunate (because like i said, it seems to have potential, but it just feels so flat)
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Zefyris said:
Alkimia said:
Already really not liking this lol who were those "students" at the end? They look like they could be in their 20s or 30s LOL

Good thing that the girl is 19-20 and the man is 20-21 then I suppose.


would be, if the world doesn't judge people by appearance instead of age.

A person looking like 30-ish will be thought of as a 30-ish.

Same as a person looking like 12 will be thought as a kid even if their actual age is 20.

It's just how the current world works, you can try to argue with the government or social media that "age matters" but it won't change, "appearances first"

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So yea, these guys looking like 30~40 years old just doesn't really fit the school setting.
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amlg said:
Zefyris said:

Good thing that the girl is 19-20 and the man is 20-21 then I suppose.


would be, if the world doesn't judge people by appearance instead of age.

A person looking like 30-ish will be thought of as a 30-ish.

Same as a person looking like 12 will be thought as a kid even if their actual age is 20.

It's just how the current world works, you can try to argue with the government or social media that "age matters" but it won't change, "appearances first"

.

So yea, these guys looking like 30~40 years old just doesn't really fit the school setting.

we're talking about a fantasy setting with magic, and the anime community, perfectly fine with thousand of years old lolis right? How can that even be justified anymore lol?
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op real cool like a trails game trailer.
intense fight there. Nanao a total battle junkie.
so many weird teachers & senpais.
pretty normal harry potter stuff so far
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Very intrigue one where this will go.
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One of my very favourite OP's this season, feels like this was absolutely tailor-made for the show.
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nanatsu op definitely sounds like umineko when they cry
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I certainly wasn't expecting that the school would be built on top of a labyrinth, that is a pretty interesting concept there. Seems they got themselves trapped down there.

Katie really isn't going to last long in this school if she doesn't learn to fight. She's a bit of an interesting character, not wanting to harm any animal.

Nanao and Oliver's duel was a pretty awesome fight, very well animated too.

So far, a pretty good anime, will definitely be watching this one to the end.
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I guess the characters in the story think/know how powerful magic is compared to swords or something, but it seemed pretty bizarre how they were mega fearful for Nanao in the duel when they already saw her defeat the troll.
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It was decent I hope it will be better as time goes on
the opening is banger

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5th year my ass!

Bro looks like he has kids already!

Wtf, both of them do! I thought he was a professor or a instructors the MC was mentioning, the same goes for that succubus "student" but nah both of them are just "students"

Both of them looked like they went through 2 divorces or something, how are they still just students?!

Have both of them been repeating a grade or two for the last 10 years?! Or what?
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We get more info on the academy/school atleast but still can't say I am hooked into the show. Atleast the OP is nice.
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