Wistoria: Wand and Sword

In a world where every character has a hair color that perfectly matches the element of magic that they use, one boy will have somewhat confusingly colored hair to indicate that he can’t use magic. Instead, he wields a sword. I just noticed this hair coordination thing while watching the very last episode so I felt the need to point it out. I don’t know if I can quite call it the stupidest way to design characters, but it gets a big groan from me. I wish I could say the rest of the show made up for that but I think I might have been groaning intermittently for the majority of my time with it.

It’s not that it was bad, it just was incredibly mid and it spent a solid 6 episodes machine gunning me down with multiple villain to redeemed friend arcs. I actually thought I was gonna lose my mind. There’s an argument to be made that introducing a member of the main cast as an annoying villain only to have the main character get through to them and find common ground but there is a point where you have to stop with that shit and that line was clearly invisible to whoever wrote this story. I’m struggling to condemn this show too much cause it had some great animations for the fights and even showed hints of really interesting story lines in the future (on the off chance that there is a future for this show). It was also among the few action shows around to break up the romcom season though so maybe I’m just giving it more credit than it deserves. Oh right, back to the last episode, I’m pretty sure I just heard Mr. Sword Man shout over to his enemies to lover #1 and say something like, “We need wand and sword”. If I never write a review again just know that I suffocated after cringing so hard from that line.