#mahoyome season 2

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

the last question wasn't in the manga... </3

#studio kafka put so much care into this adaptation #mahoyome anime vs manga comparison #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #the ancient magus' bride #the ancient magus bride #ancient magus bride #tamb #mahoutsukai no yome season 2 #mahoyome season 2 #the ancient magus' bride season 2 #the ancient magus bride season 2 #ancient magus bride season 2

[nijigasakilove]

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Philomela” 😭 man that OST combined with the visuals were stunning. Best Mahoyome episode by far. The last 3 have just continued to top the last.

We finally get Philomela’s grandmother backstory and like you’d expect, her childhood was fucked up too. It seems like there’s a vicious cycle of expectation and emotional abuse placed on people from distinguished magus families.

It just keeps going on and on and on, no wonder Adam wanted to break it by running away. He wanted so desperately for Philomela to not have to deal with that life. His mother couldn’t show him any love because she never got any. She was only a tool meant to carry on the family name and reproduce.

The scene where he holds out his hand to hold his mother’s and she just looks at him like he’s crazy really hurt. In spite of all of that, Adam still made efforts to reach out and connect with his mother but she just couldn’t accept it since she never had that. Really sad story.I’m sure the time Adam spent with his wife and daughter must’ve been heaven on earth for him.

Using your own granddaughter as a sacrifice like that.. jeez this family is so messed up. They all needed help badly, Philomela is the first to actually cry out for it and what a beautiful end to the episode. Now that this is wrapped up, excited for what’s next.

#mahoyome season 2 #mahoyome s2 #mahoyome #the ancient magus bride s2 #the ancient magus bride season 2 #ancient magus bride anime #ancient magus bride #the ancient magus bride #mahoutsukai no yome

[thefigureresource]

Pop Up Parade L Elias Ainsworth [The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2] non scale from Good Smile Company coming December 2023.

#Pop Up Parade L #Elias Ainsworth #The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 #Non Scale #Good Smile Company #Mahoyome #Mahoyome Season 2 #Mahoutsukai no Yome #Mahoutsukai no Yome Season 2 #Male Characters #Horns #Monster Boys #Skeleton #Non Human #Anime Figures

[chaikajpeg]

s2 ep1 of The Ancient Magus' Bride felt like a surreal anxious dream, and I absolutely loved it.

The echo and the constant ominous humming in the background, the cold white light in the halls and rooms, the music, the voice acting, they all created such an eerie, almost creepy atmosphere in the College. I didn't expect that at all.

The manga is an artistic masterpiece. A few thousand pages painted in ink, each little thing drawn by hand in intricate detail, it's a work that already took Kore Yamazaki 10 long years. But even though I fully immersed myself in it, I'm simply incapable of picturing such worlds in my head. There, all these scenes were black and white, crowded in tiny panels on an A5 page. But in the anime they're vast and spacious, breathing, brimming with colour and sounds. Nothing like what I was desperately trying to imagine... so much more than that.

I am in awe.

#chaika jpeg rant #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #the ancient magus bride #tamb #mahoutsukai no yome season 2 #mahoyome season 2 #the ancient magus bride season 2 #tamb season 2 #mtny #mtny season 2

[doublesama]

What's the point of storing forbidden books if nobody knows what's in them? There isn't one, and that's what I argue in this review of The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 Episode 9.

#the ancient magus bride #the ancient magus bride anime #mahoyome #mahoyome season 2 #elias ainsworth

[jugacolours]

#the ancient magus' bride #ancient magus' bride #i'm on a roll hehe #mahoutsukai no yome #i promise i can spell #mahou tsukai no yome #i love this series with all my heart #getting so hype for season 2! #anyway please enjoy #am i getting better at tagging? #the world may never know #mahoyome

[magusfanatic]

SOME ASSORTED THOUGHTS ABOUT THE TRAILER!! i watched it live because of course i did but i wanted to give myself a bit to think about it

- first of all, this is a given but AAAAUGH EVERYONE LOOKS SO GOOD!!! im so happy that there seems to be a bigger budget this time around! season 1 wasnt ugly by any means, but in terms of the human character designs it was lacking a bit stylistically and was a little stiff? this is probably just a me thing because i adore kore yamazakis art style a lot. but anyway, this time around the style is very clean and detailed, and is distinct from yamazakis style but in a way that works very well. the animation also seems to be higher quality. big hype

- the voices all fit really well! theyre pretty close to how i imagined them in my head. its hard to judge how close just based on a single line though. im looking forward to hearing more + hearing the dub voices (the japanese and english voices differ in my head too lmao)

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maybe im just being really forgetful but i cant figure out who the hell this is? can anyone enlighten me??? i can identify every other characters closeup except this person

- and lastly,

i REALLY like this. i dont know much of anything about how the japanese language works, but what i think is happening here is that the language is vague enough that you cant determine whether its about oneself or another person, and so it has a double meaning? but i like it, it very clearly is about chise seeing herself in philomela and wanting to help her as a fellow victim of trauma, as well as wanting to see her gain the courage to help herself. it puts it very well what the main point of this arc is.

but, what immediately jumped out at me is that this is a very clear callback to one of the trailers for season 1.

(im not sure if it appeared in any other trailer. i also cannot find this trailer anywhere else online anymore, so i may try to upload it because i really like this trailer)

and idk i just really like that!

god i cant wait until season 2 airs

#the ancient magus bride #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #college arc #magus bride #magus bride season 2 #tamb #ancient magus bride #i literally woke myself up at 6:50 am to watch it as soon as it went up. i was very irritated but i HAD to do it

[theredplague]

Liza quillyn art! The Ancient Magus Bride!

#the ancient magus bride #tamb #mahoyome #mahoutsukai no yome #liza quillyn #season 2

[ryuki-blogs]

The Witch from Mercury and the Ancient Magus Bride crossover with Suletta and Chise as siblings and Miorine and Joseph as siblings...

#I'm sorry #I'm having brainworms today #it's the goddamn haircuts and color palettes #spam #I still haven't seen season 2 of MahoYome

[xxcrossroadsxx]

Happy New Year to the MahoYome fandom! 🥳🎉🎆

Another year and Magus' Bride keeps being a big, important part of my life. The College arc is coming to its end in five days, and in four months, Season 2 will be released.

Let's wait together for the (very possible) new arc, voice actors and trailers!

#the ancient magus' bride #the ancient magus bride #mahoutsukai no yome #tamb #mtny #mny #ancient magus' bride #ancient magus bride #magus bride #magus' bride #mahoyome

[animehouse-moe]

The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 Episode 14: Nothing Venture, Nothing Have II

Kafka and MahoYome are settling in to this second cour of its second season, as we refocus on the missing book. While the episode stays pretty well in line with expectations for viewers, there's quite a few ambitious and well executed moments within.

The first thing that springs to mind is the use of CGI. Kafka's shown themselves to rely on it to a decent degree for some moments, so I was expecting to see it in this episode regardless.

Two moments stand out though, as rather well done examples: the werewolf opening scene, and Mariel's Harry Potter style brick-removal trick. I think both look surprisingly good, and that they owe it to the darker compositions of the scenes. CGI in bright light can look bad if your detail or compositing isn't really good, but those are both things that can be better hidden with darker and more bleak lighting and colors.

Let's get into the episode at hand though, mostly because I noticed a mistake (that was pointed out by a comment) with my previous post. That is, that Isaac has a crush (or something of the sort) on Philomela.

That's not the case, those feelings certainly still lie with Rian in some capacity, and we come to understand Isaac's actions through the lens of Rian's past. Here, it's Philomela that he remembers rather than Isaac, which is really interesting. It implies that Philomela and Rian's families were closer before his and Isaac's were, where Philomela originally played the role of Rian's friend/right hand man.

Isaac doesn't seem to understand or know of the past between Philomela and Rian, but he grasps the feel of their emotions. He discerns that there's a type of bond between her and Rian, and he doesn't like that so he ends up pressuring Rian on Philomela in this episode which I thought was very interesting.

For reference, it becomes clearer in hindsight now that Isaac's self-deprecation to Philomela was him comparison himself as a match to Rian. Though I'm unsure if it's meant to be in the romantic sense and that that's why we had that shot of Philomela's chest.

Cruising from character to character, I want to visit Alcyone next because this second cour seems to be doing something very curious with them.

Yes, they're continually aware of Alcyone's height in how they frame layouts, but that's not it.

What I'm more interested in is the piece said by Chise later on in the episode about Alcyone.

It's a really interesting idea that she brings forward, because Alcyone sort of fits the bill for being a replacement/parallel Elias for Philomela. I'm sure that Alcyone will play a critical role in Philomela breaking free of her cage, similar to how Elias impacted Chise. It does make me wonder though if Elias will appear much alongside Chise through this stretch. I think leaving them separate is a good thing as of right now though, and that in doing so they're able to allow Chise to grow as an individual and use her past experiences with Elias to involve herself with Alcyone and Philomela.

Speaking about Philomela so much though, she absolutely has the scene of the episode. I love it so much for so many different reasons.

The narrative behind it is just so great. Philomela thinks she's free from her grandmother at the college, that she has a chance to be a normal student thanks to Chise, that having Alcyone by her side she'll be okay.

But then then her old habits kick in and she can't drink the water. She begins to spiral in her isolation, and the iron grip of her grandmother returns in the worst way possible. She uses Alcyone as a vessel for a pre-recorded message to disparage Philomela, to drag her even deeper into the abyss of her own mind. It's an incredibly well put together sequence that shows just how little a thread Philomela has been holding onto as her grandmother threatens to let go of the other end.

And just re-winding a little to the last bit I really want to talk about: the hole in the wall vendor.

One of my favorite things about MahoYome is how consistently it terrifies with the world of magic. How often things are unsightly and uncomfortable, dangerous or menacing. This specific vendor is a great example of that with two things during their interaction with Mariel.

The first is how they search Mariel's mind for the book. In contrast to her way of touching lips, the vendor sticks his hand directly into Mariel's head, which given the physical reaction Mariel has, was not a pleasant experience.

Following that up is the casual explanation that the vendor would have eaten Mariel had she not paid a reasonable price to them for the information that she's searching for.

The world of magic and monsters is such on that the name implies. It is certainly not the realm of humans, and I love that distinction so much. It presents such a unique, but at the same time very classic approach to magic, and I really can't get enough of it.

I also can't get enough of these detailed environments. I wish Kafka had more to play with in regards to the design of the college, because the vendor's space looks incredibly good.

All in all, it's an episode that has a lot of strong points, but can struggle with getting stuck in lulls. Kafka remains a little too ambitious in some scenes as they rely on still images to fill the space. In others though, like the Philomela sequence, they have some really great work being done. I don't think that MahoYome has to be animated perfectly 100% of the time, but I think that the direction and boarding can use some work to promote animation in sequences.

The story remains rock solid though, and I love how much detail and subtle progression there is with the characters here. So so much to love that I essentially forgot about the book that remains lurking on campus. But I suppose there'll be more about that in the next episode.

#ancient magus' bride #ancient magus bride #mahoyome #mahou tsukai no yome #mahoutsukai no yome #magus bride #魔法使いの嫁 #chise hatori #elias ainsworth #studio kafka #wit studio #anime recommendation #anime review #anime and manga #anime

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

ancient magus' bride season 2: anime vs manga comparison

According to the fan and the official English translations, Elias never called Chise a child in the manga (here's a good post from blue-inspiration-blog about that too).

Was the line changed to compensate for this panel that didn't fit in the anime? Or did the creators actually want Elias to call Chise a child?

(this is ch 66, wanted to find it in Japanese but it's no longer available on comicgrowl. If any of you read the chapter in Japanese or official translation to any other language, please tell us how it was translated there!)

#I'm also not sure about what Alexandra said to Chise right after Elias #in the fan manga translation she didn't call Chise a child either #but I found a translation to a different language and it's the same as the anime one (“you're a child. stay out of this”) #mahoyome anime vs manga comparison #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #the ancient magus' bride #the ancient magus bride #ancient magus bride #tamb #mahoutsukai no yome season 2 #mahoyome season 2 #the ancient magus' bride season 2 #the ancient magus bride season 2 #ancient magus bride season 2 #mahoutsukai no yome manga #ancient magus bride manga

[nijigasakilove]

“No one can help anyone’s past, but you’re allowed to speak up now” man this was arguably the best episode of the series for me. The seiyuus and staff brought their A-game for this one.

First off I gotta apologise to the Wolf assassin lady. I really wrote she and her partner off as irredeemable in part 1. I remember saying Chise should’ve left them to the dogs, but if she was under some sort of mind control that changes things. Zoe was able to free her, but it seems like he has some sort of malevolent presence in him as well.. interesting.

Onto the best part of the episode, the kids all being vulnerable and de-aged to kids. Really got a sense of all the horrible things Philomela has been through. Makes last week’s episode even sadder because her parents did everything possible to avoid her having to live like this. The grandmother didn’t care about her own son and certainly doesn’t care about Philomela. The emotional and psychological trauma that girl must have is insane.

I wonder what the grandmother’s ultimate goal with the book is though, it’s definitely not to bring Philomela’s parents back. Gotta be something sinister.

The reveal that Philomela was there the night Lucy’s family was murdered was brutal as well. Can’t imagine how blindsided Lucy must’ve felt. Her seiyuu did an amazing job of conveying that simultaneous feeling of anger, disbelief and pain that someone you called friend was behind it all.

Really really good episode and I can’t wait for next week. They’ve been cooking here lately. Wonder what Elias was up to with Alcyone as well..

#mahoyome season 2 #mahoyome #mahoutsukai no yome #mahou tsukai no yome #mahou tsukai no yume season 2 part 2 #mahoyome s2 #mahoyome season 2 part 2 #the ancient magus bride s2 #the ancient magus bride season 2 #ancient magus bride anime #ancient magus bride #ancient magus bride s2 part 2

[cant-think-of-a-good-one]

i just watched the first episode of mahoyome season 2 and i loved everything about it

im gonna just ramble about it

under the cut tho. cuz i want yall to enjoy the episode

KASJHDKJALSHDKLAHDKASSHDJAKDHA

okay okay okay

so

that was fuking ccrazy awesome

this is only the first episode so everything is so mysterious about everyone. ilove it so much

also the new music gaaahhhh

that fukin intro before the intro i dont know what that was but that was the sickest animations ever

and the episode as a whole has awsome animation

but also especially those super sick close ups. like those are so cool.

its just so beautiful and exciting.

ok im not gonna talk about the things in the thing in order i just wanna point out the neat things.

first one is those fukin cats like holy shit what are they. like i think the closest harry potter equivalent of it is the houses? but this is much cooler i think. because. cats. the music in this part is pretty cool too again, they are so so mysterious. i love all the cats they are so smug lookin lmao. what are they up to

and then the part after that with chise just standing in front of the door is me fr.

ooohh my also want to point out the animation on the caterpillar ladyy. cant believe they actually animated her funny caterpillar legs.

wait i forgot. THE INTRO AND OUTRO. those were so cool. the new junna song is so fukin cool. i think theres also some notes from the season 1 intro in the new one. like a leitmotif thing at the end. thats a nice touch. auggghhhhh i love the thorn animation and all the animation ilove animtion

wawawawawawa

i could go on forever

im gonna end it with a random thought. i think elias might be agender or nonbinary since they're a fukin ancient beast that doesnt understand gender lol. also from the promotional material they're gonna take a form of a woman ??? does that mean this is a yuri anime now XD

well, anyways thats it

i cant wait to watch the next episode

#the ancient magus bride #ancient magus bride #tamb #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #rambly cally

[chaikajpeg]

fr now, how am I supposed to survive this week. don't tell me I'll have to go through this every day for the next 3 months

#i cant even watch anything else while waiting bc i can only think about mahoyome now #ive already watched the new episode three times #and will probably do it again #physically im leading my usual everyday life. mentally im staring at a wall #i swear im not insane #just... excited. a normal amount #chaika jpeg rant #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #the ancient magus bride #tamb #mahoutsukai no yome season 2 #mahoyome season 2 #the ancient magus bride season 2 #tamb season 2 #mtny #mtny season 2

[doublesama]

Chise returns to the back passages once again in The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 Episode 11. But, this time, she learns how her risky behavior could affect those around her.

#the ancient magus' bride #mahoyome #chise hatori #the ancient magus bride season 2 #mahoyome season 2