Admin's Anime Review : NIGHT WIZARD

Title : Night Wizard The Animation
Studio : Hal Film Maker
Genre : Seinen , Fantasy , Comedy , Action .
Original Run : October 2-December 25 ,2007
Episodes : 13
Director : Yuusuke Yamamoto
Character Design : Tomoyuki Shitaya
Original Creator : Takeshi Kikuchi / F.E.A.R.
Original Character Design : Hiroyuki Ishida

Admin's Score

Story : 80

Character Development : 84

Artwork (background , characters , machines and weapons) : 87

Songs : 80

Battle Depiction : 77

Night Wizard all stars : from left to right : demon lord Bell Zephyr , Himuro Akari , Shiho Eris , Hiiragi Renji , Akabane Kureha and Anzelotte .


Night Wizard The Animation is an adaptation from a Japanese urban sorcery action RPG with the same name released in 2002 .

Synopsis

Night Wizard , a term given for those whose mission is to protect the world from creeping darkness . They fight against the Emulator (demons) and their kinds using an artifact or 'brrom' , a form of weapon owned by the Wizards and once saved the world from desturction . Hiiragi Renji , a highschool teenager , is one of them . He was called 'The Falling Man' because he kept on repeating class ,skipping school and can't graduate on time because of stacks of mission given by the Night Wizard organization leader , Anzelotte . One day , a female student named Shiho Eris were transferred to his school located in Akihabara . Hiiragi's best friend , Akabane Kureha immediately asked her to join the astronomy club . From this club , Hiiragi , Eris and Kureha got to know each other well . Later , it was revealed that Eris possessed an artifact called Ain Soph Aur , that was able to keep 'Seven Jewels of Virtue ' , items that have an incredible magic power .
The existence of the jewels and the artifact possessed by Eris attracted a lot of demons . Therefore , Hiiragi , Kureha (that was apparently one of the wizards) and the other wizards were given mission to protect her 24 hours a day . Many battle enfolded between the wizards and the emulator and the demon lord's army , to collect the jewel , for the purpose of protecting the world or conquering the world . Eris and the others start their journey in many places to collect the seven jewels in order to save the world from the evil plan of the demon lord . Many of characters that were included in the Wizard alliances are revealed later as they join forces to fight the evils . The outcome later is unpredictable as an inconvenient truth of Shiho Eris and the jewels are revealed , as many battle keep on rolling between the wizards and the demons ...

Strength : Nicely done artwork , nice character design ( that reminded the audiences of somebody else from other anime...) , cool machine and weaponry and neat background . Unexpected plot that happened at the end of the anime cause a great pulse in the story beat , moving it from happy to thousand of conflicts . Comedy that wandered around the story , especially at the boring time of slice of life , enlighten the audiences .

Weakness : Some slice of life and flat storyline may be boring to the audiences . The plot were so monotone in the beginning and also very predictable . The collecting of the jewels story seems so easy with this plot .Although the genre is action , the battle depiction is too short and only some kind of one hit one kill using specials or monotone slashing .

Screenshots :

Anzelotte , the leader of the Night Wizards alliances . Her favorite sentence in giving mission , especially to Hiiragi is , "Please answer my questions with 'Hai'(Okay) or Yes." Seeing her will remind you of Shana (Shakugan no Shana) , the only difference is hair and eye color...


Akari Himuro , one of the Night Wizards , firing a magic bullet using her weapon , Gunner's Broom , while fighting the emulators in the dimension of Red Moon .


Akabane Kureha , Hiiragi's best friend since childhood , with her weapon , the crossbow that able to fire a lot of magic spells . Behind her is Eris .

Hiiragi Renji , the main character and protector of Shiho Eris with his weapon , Demon Sword .