Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Movie: Hoshi wo Yobu Shoujo

Story: Not much to tell, in 28th March 2096 (almost the start of next school year), some military affiliated scientists makes a magic sequence which causes a meteor fall and the way they do it is horrible. So one of the scientist makes a decision and starts the event you are about to see. However, story contains significant people that were not in the anime before which causes a major confusion for anime-ony watchers so my advise is that you should need to read Visitor Arc of the novel to understand a couple of things, i am about to go detail in characters. Verdict; 3/10 Art: I don't have much problems except a few physics related stuff, but this is anime so i will turn blind eye and enjoy myself some "Heavy Metal Burst" visuals. So, 7/10 Sound: There wasn't paticularly great stuff but it fits it scenes. Can say ok. 6/10 Characters: Now where I am mostly disappointed. They gave a title about her, but outshined by the Tatsuya awesomeness. One of the Visitor Arc's major characters, Angelina "Sirius" Stars, is expected to play a heavy role in this but writers blew it. They left her blank as a white sheet unlike most characters, which had their time in the animated season. That's why you are better of reading the novel to get introduced to her. However, as someone who read up to 12th volume of the serie, i enjoyed quite well because i had the prior knowledge of the characters, which is, i think will create confusion among non-readers because of the developments before the film. Overall score:5/10 worth watching if you are aware of the events of Visitors Arc.

This is simply a mediocre film overall, people who enjoyed the first season of the series of being dumb fun but understand its fundamental shortcomings like characterization, world, and the overall writing. This however fans of the TV won't like as it fails in pacing, even the bare minimum of characterization. Stuff occurs but u don't know what is really happening, like who Lina really the movie gives her like no introduction but rather in the movie knows her, flashbacks of the prequel manga came like whoever didn't read that would be confused and weird polish. This show does not feel like madhouse production one punch, black lagoon, death parade, parasyte, Redline, the girl who leaped through time ...... This feel so tame and boring directing, this does not feel like a movie production but an extended version of the tv series, this does not scream this needs to be in a film. Simple things that would help the characterization, eliminate a lot of unneeded characters, people r introduced for simply no real reason, they just apart of the story and not really set up anything. Or the high school students act they age, play videos game, cards, movies to establish the friendship as they lack chemistry except for like 2 characters maybe. Like in hxh killua and gon having a food fight with pie simple traits like that gives some characterization. art- for the most part is solid but like the TV show, the buildings are a really light novel like with hardly any distinction, it has the light aesthetic, the CGI background characters were distracting like it wasn't implemented well example good use is attack on titan, starblazzer 2199 ..... Animation- it the same as the tv show, so nothing i feel like that praise worthy, madhouses TV shows or OVA have much better animation than this tbh, i felt the TV show version was used much more effectively Sound- your standard madhouse Characters- described above Enjoyment- I watched Howl Moving Castle 2 days ago from time of this review that film that was 2 hr long, where this movie that 1hr and half felt 2 and a half hour film rather than a solid 90min Overall if you like the tv show you may get a kick out of it, but even so i did enjoy simply the stupidity and enjoyment factor not really the writing is concerned they were done adequately in the tv show we some of they perspective decently enough, however movie does not do that. In each arc of the series some characters change however they is no characterization of any significance that occurred so when season 2 comes out you literally won't need to see this film to understand. the factor a movie basically asks you to read a light novel and a manga is shameless, you should be able to watch season 1 to understand this film . i would say for me actually 4/10 However look at the art, animation, sound the production into account I would say mediocre 5/10 average, in a techically level.

The Irregular at Magic High School: The Girl Who Summons the Stars The Irregular at Magic High School: The Girl Who Summons Stars es una película que, creo, cumple. Si bien no es nada nuevo dentro de la franquicia, se siente como si fuese tranquilamente un arco más de la primera o de la segunda temporada del anime. Es una historia entretenida, seguimos a los personajes de siempre que ya conocemos, Lina vuelve a tener su aparición y, en general, la película mantiene bastante bien la esencia que ya tenía la serie. Creo que el mayor defecto que tiene la película está relacionado justamente con Lina y con el momento en el que se estrenó. La película salió antes de la segunda temporada, antes de que el personaje de Lina fuera presentado en el anime, por lo que su aparición termina siendo un poco incongruente si uno sigue el orden en el que fueron estrenadas las obras. En mi caso, como la estoy viendo en orden cronológico, esto no me supuso ningún problema y pude disfrutar de su aparición sin que se sintiera fuera de lugar. Más allá de eso, creo que es una película que cumple. No es la gran cosa, pero cumple. Es entretenida, tiene a los personajes que ya conocemos y mantiene la dinámica que caracteriza a la franquicia. Además, me parece interesante que, a diferencia de muchas películas de anime que buscan diferenciarse bastante de lo que se hace en sus temporadas, esta película no intenta hacer algo demasiado diferente. De hecho, tranquilamente podría sentirse como un recopilatorio de varios episodios del anime, o como un arco que perfectamente podría haber formado parte de alguna de las temporadas. Y no necesariamente considero que eso sea algo malo. Creo que, después de haber visto dos temporadas y una película, también es cuestión de entender qué esperar de The Irregular at Magic High School. Quizás yo esperaba demasiado del anime y ahora empiezo a entender que esta es la forma en la que probablemente va a seguir funcionando la franquicia: tramas relativamente cortas, con conflictos que terminan teniendo una resolución bastante concreta, personajes que mantienen su respectivo carisma y algunos elementos nuevos que se van incorporando, pero sin que necesariamente la historia avance hacia algo mucho más grande. En conclusión, The Girl Who Summons Stars me parece una película cumplidora. No cambia demasiado lo que ya conocemos de la franquicia ni aporta algo revolucionario, pero tampoco creo que lo necesite. Es, básicamente, más The Irregular at Magic High School, y teniendo en cuenta lo que ya vi de la serie, eso es exactamente lo que esperaba.

If you liked Season 1 then you'll more than likely like this, but wait, do not watch this until after watching season 2. While the date of this movie places it after season 1 and before season 2 Visitors Arc, the events of this movie firmly place it AFTER Visitors Arc main storyline. In Visitors Arc we are introduced to Lina and Stars for the first time, the movie sees their return, indeed at the conclusion of Visitors Arc (before we start a new short storyline during episode 11) she heads back to the US with bags full of souvenirs and it is also the end of the school year. This movie chooses to start with Lina arriving in the US with all her souvenirs and the rest of the cast on vacation, this firmly places when it is set in the timeline of the franchise. So lets get into the review, when this came out I skipped it, I was told I could skip it as it had no relevance to the story, well, that's half true. The story is a self contained arc in so far as the events are all wrapped up by the end of the movie, however it requires you to know the events of Season 1 and the cast of Season 2 as this is by no means a stand-alone movie, and while the events don't directly lead into Season 3, it does point at the direction of travel. So you can skip this movie and it won't negatively affect things, but watching it will add an extra threat to the tapestry. I've seen many an anime movie that doesn't feel in keeping with the series its based off, is totally unconnected and feels like a colossal waste of time. I generally suspect most of them are anime original as they don't have the same tone, the characters don't feel the same and it just feels like they are trying to stretch out a filler episode. I mention all of that because this movie doesn't have those problems, it helps that the author of the LN went and wrote this story especially for the movie adaptation. This allows the characters to be intact and behave like they should as well as the organisations and the world as we know it, everything is in keeping with the established worldbuilding and it slots in seamlessly within the timeline. That's not to say that with other franchises they don't also have the original writers pen something for them, but more often than not because it is not going to be a released work by the author and instead an anime original work, they tend not to worry so much about how it slots into the overall universe, how it might affect events or where it is in the timeline. So all of that is to say that the plot is good, it is as entertaining as the rest of the series, and the movie isn't disappointing unlike most anime original movies. If people were expecting a breakdown of the plot, this isn't that kind of review, for one thing I don't want to spoil it, but it follows the standard notes. There is a conspiracy of events, we have our core cast members dragged into said events, Tatsuya resolves events with help of his friends and Miyuki. This is the formula we are used to and this is how every arc goes. If you enjoy the series, you will enjoy this, if you don't enjoy the series, why would you even consider watching this?

The girl who summons the stars is an okay movie in the irregular at magic high school franchise. It is not standalone and should be watched after the second season so you're familiar with the characters. Its story isn't the best and it's not immediately clear where the plot fits in relation to the rest of the anime. The things that are happening are explained but they seem extreme and chaotic. There isn't any significant character development in this movie either. The main reasons to watch the movie are fanservice and cool action scenes. The art is quite nice and the sound is okay. Overall it can be a fun movie to watch and if you liked the first two seasons of the anime chances are you'll like this movie as well. If you haven't watched the anime, please watch that before the movie.