Rental magica
Plot Summary:
The story revolves in the life of Itsuki Iba whose father’s disappearance made him take over the family business: a magician dispatch service. Their family basically employs countless magicians and other supernatural beings in order to send them out to help those who need magical assistance.
Itsuki Iba is the cowardly president of a `for hire` magic company called Astral. Always in need of money, Itsuki`s company rents out magicians to perform misc jobs. His company features many magic schools such as Solomon (Demon Magic), Shinto (Prayer Magic), Onmyodou (Spirit Magic) and Celtic (Ritual/Paper Magic). Not the only company out there looking for work, but Itsuki`s company has an `ace` in the hole which happens to be Itsuki himself. If things become more than they can handle, Itsuki will remove his eye patch.
As a side note, most of these people are grade schoolers and 2 of them happen to be classmates of Itsuki`s. The running joke of the show is he gets hit by Honami and Adilisia when any girl even looks at him. Also, in order to run a successful business, he has to connect with his employees, which is more difficult than it seems due to his personality. But not only does he have to deal with his own employees, he also has to deal with those who threaten the family business.
Cast:
Jun Fukuyama as Itsuki Iba
Kana Ueda as Honami Takase Ambler
Mikako Takahashi as Adilicia Ren Mathers
Daisuke Ono as Kagezaki
Junichi Suwabe as Ren Nekoyashiki
Katsuyuki Konishi as Sekiren (ep 16-)
Director:
Itsuro Kawasaki
Review:
Judging from the first episode, it’s pretty mysterious but very complicated and unclear like for example: what happen to his right eye, how they gain their abilities, and the villains where they came from—it was stated that the episode is not in chronological order though. Watching this anime series needs attention since the story isn’t happening the way it should be, I’ve never seen like this before, I find it so confusing. The characters also aren’t quite convincing. If the first episode happens later in the story, the character should at least be more particular with their abilities, especially the main character.
The series needs to be followed through, until then one can understand the whole plot. Not unless you already read the story.
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