I'll jump in and not look where I'm landing. Here's the praiseworthy: Wistoria has great battle choreography. Each swordfight/battle offers a unique fighting challenge and Will never wins in the same. Top marks in that field. The just ok: The world building. This is where Frieren and Dungeon Meshi excel and this along with Spell blade just get by. Dungeon Meshi establishes rules that you see applied throughout the series. In Wistoria, the rules prop up the cardboard thin conflicts. Like how everyone hates on the magically impaired until we introduce Finns and suddenly there is a non magic class that's quietly revered and respected. And they make the scene conveniently after all conflict has been squeezed out of that orange. The so-so: Like Spellblade, it is very derivative. Harry Potter, Black Clover, Percy Jackson and a few others swirled together. That isn't a sin in itself, but it doesn't take the story anywhere we haven't visited before. Will's ambition to be the next Hokage/Wizard King/Pokemon Master? Check. A childhood promise sublimating and substituting for sexual growth? Check. Tropes become tropes because they work, but where are we going here and is it any good. Conclusion: it is good, but not great. come for the swordfights, but staying will be up to you.
See i haven’t actually watched Mashle yet it’s just one of those anime i somehow keeep putting further and further down my list even though i know it’s good
