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Watching this anime is a torture.

The first episode feel nice and refreshing, the animation and design is pretty good, and you start getting an idea of a possible trama.

The second episode is identical, at the third one you realize that is anime, doesn't have a trama, and that all episodes are copy and paste.

The show is totally empty, boring, tiring, there is no diversity, everything is flat and repetitive, the humor dies after the first two episodes because of the continued copy and paste.

It's not even worth writing a review, there is nothing to say, after the last episode, watch on fast pace, i ... was just thinking: that the title it's pretty appropriate for this anime, it's time for torture, watching this anime until the end, was a torture.

This was an anime, who didn't believe in itself.

The starting point was all good, knowing the studio around the anime, knowing who direct it, knowing his previous work, and so what expecting to him, and after seeing the trailer. And i'm pretty sure we all know that those artists, can't make more than 2 or 3 masterpieces in their life, so nobody is asking Watanabe to get us a second Cowboy Bepop, but we all expect at least a high level anime, something good, surely not a poor written story.

And i want to really like this show, because in the end, it's not a ... total bad anime, like other on this season, for example the new Gundam. The anime is totally watchable, the sound is good, it can be a bit boring and repetitive on the first 6 episodes, but not to a point to drop it.

The issue is the expectation people have from this show, and they are totally right on that, even worse the fact that the anime, start with telling us stuff like: Hey! I'm the new Cowboy Bepop! Maybe i get it wrong, but starting from the trailer, with the Jazz music we all recognize from Cowboy Bepop and the main character, Alex, a copy of Spike on how it looks and behave. After having finished the show and watching again the trailer, seems like they spent more time and money on the trailer itself.

The show is empty, the story is very basic and predictable from the start, the writing is bad, dialogue is uninteresting and unengaging. Character are one way, and most of them have no soul, they don't talk, they are generic.
In a few words, the plot is too basic, and the narrative too empty.
It feels like a project that need to be done, and people was forced on doing something.
Adding the fact they were trying to catch people and interest, with the nostalgia of Cowboy Bepop.

They failed, on everything, and it's unfortunate, because the show had potential. Fortunately for them, looking to MAL and internet, almost nobody watch this show.

Animation was fine and the overall quality of drawing wasn't really good from the start, i was hoping for something more refined, just like Cowboy Bepop. What can be saved, it's the music, not amazing, but good.

I still give a nice rating, because i've seen much worse stuff this season, like all anime i've seen, more than 10 shows, and this one is actually watchable, if you don't have too much expectation.

I want to make a pretty soft and fast review.

At first touch, animation and design is what stand out, both in good and bad way: general design, animation and Gundam stand out for the amazing quality and precision of details, then you look at the characters design, how they are literally drawn, and you can’t understand why this choice. At left we have the amazing Gundam design from Ikuto Yamashita, the master who invented and design the EVA of Evangelion, an amazing mecha designer; and on the right we have characters design from someone during an acid trip. It doesn’t make sense. I can’t ... see why this design choice, that make you feel this show very poor from the start.

Then about character and story, mmmh, there is a better way to describe this. At first, on the first 2/3 episodes, I was just watching the snow, trying to find stuff and understand, but after a bit I noticed a similarity to another anime I already see, multiple time too. Almost like a déjà vu. Then I remember that this anime is directed by Anno, and what you see on this show is a nostalgic Anno, because when you start to making pieces together you start finding old plot threads. You can see this on a lot of stuff, even on some animation on the last 2 episodes, I’m not kidding, there is a specific scene on the last episode that make me scream Evangelion!

I could say, that it’s welcoming the fact Anno is using a lot of his old stuff, on making this anime, but the fact is that it isn’t Evangelion, It’s Gundam, and you should stick to this. It still amazes me, how so many amazing people, capable of making some of the best anime ever made in the world, like Evangelion or FLCL, end up making this thing, even considering the budget they had available.

I don’t want to go deep into the story or plot, there are already very good review talking about the issue I was describing above.

In the end, even if I don’t suggest seeing this show, considering how boring it is, I still convinced “The Witch From Mercury” is much worse in terms of plot and characters.

To the guy talking bad about Unicorn, it’s an amazing anime, considering the high production quality and low episodes number, I can’t understand why is compared to this one, when maybe the closest show to compare the last one made, The Witch From Mercury, on this one, there is ton of stuff to say, about how trashy it is, and how bad money get spent from company on making anime based on what people don’t want to see.

I was watching my 8 episode, when i was thinking about how much boring the show is, and i was thinking, i just need to be patient a bit, it would end at episode 12. Just then, i noticed the series is rated for 26 episodes, how they can make 26 episodes of this stuff! It's impossible, there is nothing to show!

I can understand that the show can be fun or relaxing for some people, but not for me, that's the typical low effort on everything show that every season have, even so this season is full of low stuff.
The show doesn't make sense, ... it's extremely generic and boring, full of cliché from other anime that don't make you laugh at all, the pacing is slow and confusing, that's why 8 episodes seems infinite to me, in a bad way, i can't imagine watching 26 episodes straight. There is no story to make 26 episodes, characters are very basic and generic, in 8 episodes there is almost no development or growth from them. Each episode it's repetitive on content and situation, in a way that you can imagine how the next episodes would do and end.

It's a waste of time watching this show, i dropped myself after 8 episodes, watching the first 2 is enough to understand how the anime work.

This could have been the best anime of the season, if it wasn’t for the finale.

It’s an extremely underrated anime, from the start to the last two episodes, it’s almost perfect, very fluid animation, vibrant colours, map settings, music, character development, etc. Personally, the first episode is the one that hit me, and the second one followed it like magic, it’s easy to see the quality that Studio MAPPA put into their anime.

It’s a new way to look into isekay, the amount of creativity put into this anime is amazing, surely an original anime for this year. Trama was predictable, like a written ... tale, but very easy to follow and enjoy. Very nice and enjoyable the fact the protagonist doesn’t use some type of magic to combat but just the love for its job and the animation.

But guys, character development here is amazing, done precisely and very slow through all episodes; take our protagonist, Natsuko: we see everything from her, thrown away in a new word, even if was one very close to her, given a new power to understand and use, try to understand what to do with the narrative of a movie she already knows and how to change it from a finale she likes but don’t want to happen, so struggling, at the same time growing into a different person, evolving, discovering new thing about other and herself, like how to love, and in the end, success from her struggling.

It was a solid 9, until the end. It feels strange, like forced or do in short time. With some thinking it could be a better finale. And I don’t think there are hidden messages here, about the finale or how you should see it. Like, we want this anime to finish differently to the finale of "A Tale of Perishing”, and in reality, we have, two finales, both good and bad, and this feel pretty strange and rush too.

There is no much to describe, I suggest trying looking into this anime, seeing from other comment, it’s a hit or miss, the first episode is enough to understand if you like it or not.

The end is open, yes, but we don’t need a season 2. Thanks.

CGI: Try watching just one episode of Initial D 4th season, done in 2004, and then compared it to this show done in 2024. I don’t understand, is technology going back in the anime industry? You need to commit to make a CGI bad like this. It makes the all show very disappointing to what.

Animation: Pronto? Hello? There is someone here? Ah fuck, the animation guy is off for coffee. Have you seen how cars move in this anime? I know it’s an anime, so it’s not real life, but guys! That’s not a fantasy anime, or maybe it is? Is MFG setup in a ... word where gravity didn’t exist like for us?

I can’t stop comparing this to Initial D, considering the author want us to consider this as a sequel, but everything is so bad. It’s obvious that CGI and Animation is the first thing you see and noticed when watching the show, even Initial D 3rd season have much better CGI and Animation, we can start comparing this to the 2nd season, made in 1999. And unfortunately the story isn’t much better. Then we add the infinite scene of driving like watching Captain Tsubasa on his infinite field, with the very annoying commentator voice. What a puzzle we have here.

Characters still very "generic" and bland, they lack motivation and all dialogue are very poorly written, no change to the first season on this matter. There is no much to say on that, because dialogue is really flat, drivers tend to not talk at all when driving, you can't sense their sensation, like on Initial D, the only talking is done by the announcer, that generally repeat itself constantly and make itself pretty boring and annoying. There is no technical talk, like on Initial D, no technicalities about engine, cars, etc, driving skill etc.

I can’t stop thinking how bad of an idea, and unrealistic it is, having public street as racing scenario for a legal racing competition, how dangerous it’s driving on a situation and condition like this, both for the drivers and people living near the street. And how it’s more impossible for the racer driving cars without safety features like roll bars. I know it’s an anime, it’s not real, but it’s not a fantasy anime too, right?

We still miss Eurobeat. But we still have a 200hp car surpassing very easily a 500hp car, absolute plausible. And fortunately we have Angels giving us fan service.


I could add more, but I don’t want to make a long review, I think the one I make on the first season, summarized everything about the anime.

EDIT: to answer to the guy that make a good review probably in my response:

Initial D was a deep story, they make 4 seasons and one movie, it's a deep story about a guy becoming a legend of drifting, we see him having difficulty on some battle, learning new stuff every episode, loosing is beloved car, knowing new people and making new bonds. We see him on a ton of different scenario, from love problem to helping friends, etc.
If the story of someone living his life, isn't a deep story, i don't know what can be one!
MFG story? Surely not deep, there is no story at all.

Initial D was a realistic depiction of racing, in fact Initial D is inspired by real fact occurred, the Drift King could be a good topic to search and learn. And MFG is obviously set on a possible realistic scenario, we can say a fantasy, considering the anime.

Initial D is pretty realistic in car movement, surely some are very difficult to do and need pro drifter or people really skilled, but it’s not impossible, we have real example on real life too. Initial D is a very good representation of drifting in real life and car movement and handling is done very well.

We can absolutely pretend that Initial D is much better, we can't even compare them, it's like day and night. Starting from animation, CGI, characters development and grow, quality of the story, diversity in the scenario, very good and study dialogue, tons of technicalities about how a car work, driving skill, car scenario etc. I could talk for days about differences. It's like white and black, both colours but totally different in the spectrum.

TLDR

This is NOT an Isekai and slice of life that talk about magic tools and inventions.
This is a shoujo and romance anime.


There are some basic things wrong, in this anime. That’s what i correlated on the 4 episodes i've seen, literally 1/3 of the anime.

Just follow me, my argumentations are pretty easy to understand.

... - We start with the title: “Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools”, what do you understand reading it? What do you feel and imagine reading the title?
At first glance, there is someone, probably a Girl from the name, she is on her best form, that’s why she is blooming; she’s probably a craftsman that makes magic tool, and maybe she is blooming because she had a bad experience, and she’s starting fresh new.
So, we know that’s basically someone that craft magic tools, right? So you would expect an anime where there is a girl that craft magic tool.

- If we study the info about the anime, we know it’s a fantasy, a slice of life and an isekai.
So, this girl is probably reincarnated, in a fantasy environment, where she crafts magic tools and the anime is about her crafting, and so i would expect seeing like the process of crafting, getting idea for things, making things, maybe some economy parts too, etc.

Do you know what is an isekai? I don’t want to quote the all Wiki article, but what make sense to be an isekai in the end, is the fact that the person that got reincarnated/move to the new word, keep the memory of itself and remember almost everything of what append.

So, you have the base, now i would analyse the 4 episodes i see:

- The anime start with the scene of a woman, doing spreadsheet and then having a nap on the keyboard (probably dead, i know that spreadsheet can be mortal). Then the anime start with the “new world part”. The rest of the first episode is related to the protagonist, we would see her from child to adult.
The isekai part, it’s 30 second, and there is no other mention all along the other 3 episodes and i’m sure that’s all i would see, considering we have already seen her grow to an adult and don’t remember anything.

What they think? That adding the “Isekai” tag to an anime, make it more popular?
They could have removed the first 30 second, and wouldn’t have matter anything to the anime, and its story. Yes, there is a situation where the girl “invent” something not available on the new words, a hair dryer, wow, that’s it? Or the raincoat? If this is the isekai related part, that she’s not an inventor at all, copying things that already exist, that would break the all story even more!

- Then we have the all story itself, i told you before, that from the title, you would imagine an anime about crafting and invention, right?
Wrong, that’s a Shoujo, it talks about romance. The anime is all centre to the woman protagonist, her personal relationship, gossip with friends and people around her, about the romance situation, some bad write drama, be betrayed and other love and romance. Do you think i would watch it, knowing it was a romance anime? NO.

All 4 episodes are related to romance situation, with a small part on the first episode, related to inventions. That’s it, there is no “Magical tool” and the fresh start too is related to a new romance start. That’s the classic romance anime where the protagonist get her first bad experience, and then she knows the men of her life. Done.

I think a better title for this anime is: “Dahlia in Love”. A title like that, surely wouldn’t attract people like me, that would have love, to watch a slice of life about craftsmanship, and invention.


In the end, after having a wrong title and genres, where even the author don’t know what he/she is writing; the anime is generally mediocre, with basic art and animation, some ok CGI for the flame/magic animation, general light and some strange bubble you see in the background sometimes. The story and trama is pretty basic and obvious, with the second episode we can already know how the anime would finish, considering it’s a pretty standard romance story. The script is poor, but in line with a basic romance story. Character development is pretty bad, starting from how the protagonist react to some bad romance act in the first 2-3 episode with her fiancé, and after how everything develops. Of course there is almost no growth from the main character, about magic tool and craftsmanship in general.

That’s a bad anime, and it feels like the story too is probably bad written, not just a bad transposition. I would finish it, and i would probably lower the vote to 4.
Personally, i’m not impressed, that’s pretty standard, the average anime quality in the last 7/8 years, has dropped a lot, finding good show in new seasons it’s pretty rare, without talking about sequel of other anime.

Don’t waste your time, avoid this anime.

No doubt humour is subjective, but when a show is boring, there is no much to do. I’ve watched the first 3 episodes, and the amount of times i laughed or even smiled, is equal to none. When the amount of time i feel the need to move forward the time cursor on the media player, was almost every few minutes.

The anime lack almost everything: from the average animation and design to the very poor CGI, the 3D animation makes me vomit; there is no script, the writing seems done by a monkey, the average gag is pretty bad, and it’s just a desperate ... attempt to randomly catch the viewer attention. There is no chapter development, there is no drama, the only character we know something is the blonde hair girl, but even that, the background is very poor and bad written. I know it’s a humour anime, so certain things doesn’t matter a lot, but this anime feels empty and extremely repetitive, but in a bad way.
The anime doesn’t “stand up”, it feels created in a hurry, by placing some random piece together, without thinking about the outcome.
Every season or two, there are to be some humour show, that does everything except humour, and this one it’s just on point, starting from: why using a Deer? I don’t get the point, what i’m missing here? It should be a joke of some sort?

I can easily say, that the only good things is the Intro, but just the first time you hear it.
There is no much to say or review, considering how basic the anime is.
This show is a waste of time.

Each episode is 24 minutes, circa. 5 minutes of recap, one minute of OP and 2 minutes of ED.
Just 15 minutes for the show, then during the show, the amount of flashback people got, is amazing, we can easily remove 5 and more minutes, 10 minutes for the real sauce.

Real sauce? Ah sorry, the real sauce, yeah yeah, give me 10 minutes and i would find something.

This anime has many issues, but the worst is the pacing, the feeling is that nothing is happening, the real content of 5 episodes could be fit in just one episode and still slow to watch. One rescue ... could take 4/5 episodes, where there would be much time dedicated to the recap of all the precedent episodes instead of new content, some episodes are just recap and flashback, so totally useless.
The 18 episodes i watched until now, could be fit in 7, i don't understand why forcing to make 24 episodes when 12 would be more than fine. Money? More AD on the Tv show? Generally making more EPs would be expensive, but considering they are just recycling the same animation and part of video of other episodes, to make recap and flashback, maybe they can lower the overall price and still make more profit.

Hard to say something on the characters, considering the low amount of content, and the poor contest where they fit. There is a learning curve with the main characters, but is very slow and out of contest.

The story is all over the place, there is no one main strand, and the pacing ruin everything. Sometimes they start with good detail about what happening, but then they start ruining it with useless flashback and recap.

Art and sound are on the poor side, probably on pair for a budget anime.

Watching this show is a waste of time, not worth.
It's a shame that something this important, like the service that those real rescuer does, is compared to a low quality show like this.

I start episode 4 and, mmhh, did i miss an episode? Better watching the end of episode 3, nope, miss noting, my bad.
I start episode 5....what i'm missing? Did i see the previous episode?
Today i start episode 6, déjà vu? What's wrong with this anime?

There is no explanation whatsoever, i can't understand a thing!
Struggling to find a patch to follow in the story, hoping for the next episode to tell me something, each time different scenario, more characters and more things to follow without knowing what’s going on. I can't figure what the main plot is, what the main characters are trying to achieve ... and why, every episode is a mess.
There are very big voids, there is no continuity in the story and scenario in general.

The story in general is too vague, if not poorly written, is poorly demonstrated, it's very difficult to find some logic and stay with the story. The first episode was difficult to digest, but i was hoping for an easier solution on the other episodes, instead they keep adding new scenario, new chapters, new things, without giving information about the old stuff.
It's a mix of poorly design choice, the story doesn't stick and don't tempt you to keep watching the anime.

The characters have mostly the same design flow of the story, they look all the same, no development and growth of the main chapters, just a bunch of people throw in.

Art is the only nice thing that remain good, but pretty much destroyed by the average animations. Not only, the characters look, looking into this anime is like looking on other anime, every character resembles me of other characters on other anime. They look pretty familiar, pretty copy and paste, not original, like a cliché, they don't hit.

Rating could change, but i don't have hope for this anime. I'm pretty disappointed with Studio Bones.