School in high guardian spice is fundamentally stupid 

ok so one major thing that i left out and wish i talked about here was the class schedule. in episode 2 we are introduced to class schedules meaning rosemary and sage have to take seperate classes for the sake of forced drama. the second it stops being relevant to the story the class schedules are dropped entirely so sage and rosemary could take the same classes together. this is a prime example of the writers setting up somthing and breaking their own worldbuilding just for the sake of making their plot happen. Almost everything they set up is just arbitrary nonsense just for the sake of making things they want to happen happen even if it breaks previously established rules.

Also why Rosemary, Sage and Parsley need to use dorms? Parsley LIVES in the city and Rosemary and Sage can just stay at her cousin's place. And the teachers ignore and laughs at bullying and Parsley should have been suspended for "dropping" her hammer at Aster's foot.

Zenia (Zinnia?) is like... the only smart character in the show for realizing 'Hey, all of this is fucked up. Fuck this, I want out.'

"I can accept sending kids off to their death, but beating up a bully? Now THAT'S too far!" This god-awful school, apparently.

Honestly surprised that Carraway didn’t suspend the student who nearly assassinated him in front of a class of teenagers

If Slime Boy we're like a DND bard, he'd be able to heal whatever party he is assigned to in the class, but they don't explain anything about what he does aside from singing.

I feel like maybe the story could be more interesting if the girls actually notice all the things _wrong_ with the school and they become trapped or smth or are trying to stop the corrupt teachers.

I feel like the potions teacher could have been fun if they had taken the time to show that she was just messing with them. Like not having the kids actually be in danger , have kids from the older years comment on her to the characters like “ oh her ? Yeh she’s crazy but she’s harmless ... mostly “ Maybe give a method to the madness , like she thinks you learn faster when doing ‘field work ‘ or something. But they don’t they’re just like ‘ ha ha child murder ‘

For me, writing has nothing to do with budget, you don't automatically get better if you have more money, you are either experienced or not. Look at the fanfictions, some are very good that I wish it was in the show, and they do it for free.

"Why are you talking like Skeletor?" "Because I cAn AnD iT's FuN~!" Valid.

Here are two things that should have been established early on first that a guardian is a person extensively trained to be able to deal with a myriad of dangerous situations that ordinary people would be helpless in, second is that such problems are common enough that going to these lengths to forge these children's into guardians is warranted. One review I saw had a proposed rewrite where in the first episode, the train the girls on are gets attacked by monsters. I want to jump off of that and have it, so Sage and Rose manage to hold off the monsters saving quite a few lives but are slowly getting overwhelmed either by how many monsters there are or by one partially strong monster. Then just when they are about the fold, they get saved by a full-fledged guardian, perhaps one of the teachers, who ends up dispatching the monsters with much more ease than the two girls had. This would have gotten across the idea that guardians are needed to protect the general populace and that while the girls are capable, they still have a long way to go before they reach the level of one.

You can see the inspiration from Harry Potter, given the staff’s blatant disregard for the student safety.

It infuriated me when the writers said that this was "something that we hadn't seen before." But when I thought about it, they're right, no one has made a complete mess of a cartoon like they did.

In the early episodes of Naruto, after graduating from Ninja school and becoming full Ninjas a big question was always on my mind: "Why? why are kids doing this?" That was answered by the 3rd Hokage during the chunin Exam by how its a form of income for the village and a show of military strength. You also see the teachers/Instructors have regular meetings and collectively decide what to do with the students and how to further proceed in lesson planning. HGS feel like teachers were selected and they all have different ideals on what a guardian is and don't have any unified school board. I haven't see the full series but dose any of the teachers talk to one another?

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the cult behavior in this show. The fact that the creators never caught on shows how either incompetent or indifferent they are.

Something that might have made Redbud more of an interesting character and less psychopathic is if she announced the tea was poisoned, and when everyone was freaking out that they were going to die, she'd specify that not all poisons are lethal, to show that she teaches her class with hands-on experience forced on them because she believes that's the best way they'll learn. And when one student starts to react far worse than everyone else, she quickly gives him an antidote and asks him if he forgot to list any allergies on his personal info in the application. This would show that she not only cares about their wellbeing, but studied their information to get to know them before they even met her.

I’ve also wondered this: Why are there modern things involved in this supposed “fantasy” world? Like, I don’t know, firefighters? Modern casual clothing? Hell, even that octopus mech. I know I sound nitpicky, but come on. If you’re trying to do a fantasy world, make sure everything fits in the time period.

Here's the thing that always bugs me about the school. These students are being handpicked because they have 'exceptional qualities', (words directly from the maiden and I will be emphasizing a lot) qualities that we actually don't know even till now. Then why are they still learning basic stuff like ethics and sacred languages? These students should have been intermediate to expert levels by the time they enrol. It's like college students going back to study elementary, it makes no sense. They don't even know what they want to become, this is literally summer camp for these kids. Come to think of it, it makes some sort of sense why the school is operating like that, but the writers forgot that these students were selected for their 'exceptional qualities' halfway through. Which furthers your point on just having no consistency throughout the whole series The blacksmithing class for example, those students look like they have never crafted anything before and the only person who is pretty much an expert is parsley. So is the school lying that they picked those students for their 'exceptional qualities.' Why are they wasting their time learning basic stuff of their profession? Potions class, I actually understood now why Redbud began the first day poisoning the students. Because according to the triad, they should have 'exceptional qualities' already. They should be able to craft an antidote on the spot. But no, they don't know anything, and half of those infected students just legit gave up. They send them to their death in the cave because these students have exceptional qualities, they will figure it out how to get out of there. But no, the writers have to pull the most convoluted nonsense out of their ass to progress the story for their main characters Then some students like thyme can go study warrior and magic classes like a red mage. Pardon my ignorance and throwing this off a tangent because I view red mages only from the early Final Fantasy entries, and I freaking hate red mages. You just can't master magic and physical weaponry like that, you're just going to be average at both. So Thyme is just wasting her exceptional qualities in this school. Why is Sage learning weaponry when she is all about magic? If they want to incorporate real life college into a fantasy world, have Thyme major in physical weaponry with minors in magic. Parsley in this case would be major in blacksmithing and minors in weaponry. Sage, major in magic and minors in potions, Rosemary is just major in weaponry, no other minors And you're also telling me a seasoned warrior like rosemary can't even take down a baby dragon? Acts like a complete buffoon, has toxic relationships with her friend sage. Cannot judge situations to save her life, her mother just appeared in a dungeon under the school after so many years, and she just eats that shit up. Was spared her life because the writers literally had to nerf mandrake and make him dumb. Not self aware to know that she was vulnerable at that point, all she wanted was to get that asshole. Remember...exceptional qualities we're dealing with here. The corruption and nepotism in this school is really a league of it's own

As a manga artist once said in their manga. "The intelligence of the character is based on the intelligence of the writer."

Pressed for time: had 4 years to make it, and wouldn't be as bad if it was an organized effort Pressed for budget: shouldn't have even HAD a budget given its source Hiring storyboard artists b4 script was done: should've told the artists to take some time acquainting themselves with designs, practicing sketches of them, playing around with throwaway gag/blooper ideas, etc. until the script is done, so they'd get better/more efficient at sketching AND possibly get some ideas/motivation out of it for the writers An adult show instead of a kid show? So what? The opposite would require many revisions, but as long as a show is ENTERTAINING adults won't care if it lacks gore and innuendo.

3:10 Bro i actually really like this art right here. I’d prefer it if the whole show looked like this, but more complete.

What is it with magic schools and irresponsible teachers?

"All female writing staff" when that is the first and major description you give your own staff, it doesn't bode well. Their gender shouldn't have more impact than their actual contributions to the literal world. I can only imagine how some of the writers felt... having accomplished so much and probably worked in the writing field for years... yet when their own company describes them the only thing they mention is their gender.

I mean I don't see how Rosemary got in unless it was pure nepotism from her mom being famous, so maybe Aster got in that way too. Heck, we don't even know what kind of entry exam they have, rosemary and sage live out in nowhere and had apparently never left their hometown before, so it's either nepotism, some kind of college style application, or there are just roving talent scouts from the school that recruit you based on whatever you can show them at the time.

Are we sure Redbud wasn't intended to be a villain at some point before being turned into a teacher, but they forget to remove her villainous traits for some reason?

7:05 As a bard, he would obviously roll to seduce the dragon.

With the fact that tjis was originally a webcomic by Raye, along with him having used the characters as a university project, both long before production for this train wreck began, it's bizarre with how broken the show actually is. Fundamentally, the problems with the show come down to just one thing...poor management. All the problems stem from there, as Raye said they started boarding before the first script even came in, then when you see how many storyboard artists (I use that term veeery loosely) worked on the eps, you wonder why they were even hired and question why so many, as most shows (even highly financed ones) really only have 1 or 2 on staff, sometimes three, here, up to eight! And they wondered where all the budget was getting spent... poor management!

The problems with the series has less to do with production and more to do with Raye’s decisions. If he bothered to come more prepared, CR’s meddling would have been minor setbacks.

Harry Potter: "There's like 1000 ways to die on our magic school." High Guardian Spice: "Yeah, the Harry Potter school is too safe for children."

To be fair, “Everything Hour” makes me think of what study hall was like in high school. Study hall was just the school’s way of saying “free time” but with a more academic tone, LOL Except in my school you didn’t go outside and do random goofy $#*t. But I went to regular normal high school in this dimension, y’know. LOL I did a lot of tutoring. I also did lots of drawing & reading comics. I had friends who’d hang out and play D&D or other non-school fun hobbies like that.

There is also the issue with the society of Lyngarth(I’m guessing this is how you spell it). Think about it, guardians are supposed to be something seemingly important to this world and yet there has been no other guardians in Lyngarth besides the teachers and Lavender. It’s especially infuriating in that one scene with all the people bidding the students farewell to their mission through that murder mountain: you’re telling me not one of any of those people are guardians that went to high guardian academy where it is located and they couldn’t bother to chaperone? Not to mention that if they do exist, they never contribute to the plot or to the characters as examples for what they should thrive to be.

An ethics class in a warrior school is perfectly sound: the other courses teach the students how to commit violence, or teach skills relating to the committing of violence, and the ethics class teaches them when and why to apply violence and how much and what sort to apply. Not that the HGA faculty qualifies to teach such things.

So basically... We have a bunch of girls who look and talk and act like middle-schoolers who attend classes that are elementary school level (like, Harry Potter Books 1 and 2 stuff) but then we sprinkle in some blood and high-school-esque swearing. Are these characters 10 or 14 or 17? They can't be all three at once.

For any aspiring writer out there dreaming of making a magical school setting, remember this: what will the students do when they graduate your school? RWBY (for all the issues it had) tackles this masterfully: the whole purpose of the Huntsmen Academies is to create Huntsmen and Huntresses, essentially the police force that fights big scary monsters that normal humans, and even the police force, are unprepared for; they use specialized weapons, learn to use superpowers effectively in battle, and survival techniques among other skills necessary for combat against the creatures of Grimm. Compare that to The Asterisk War or that other subpar magical school anime where the protagonist's name is Thor and the entrance exam is a completely arbitrary battle against the person next to you without any prior warnings whose name I forgot. In these animes, the magical school setting only exists - teens go to those schools, they fight each other for some reason, then they fight terrorists for some reason, then they fight in a tournament for some reason, but we never know WHY they are going through that. What's the point of these schools, what will the students achieve by studying there, what kind of future are they investing on for themselves?

The one good thing that came outta this show? The multitude of videos repeatedly shitting all over it! It's like the sweetest addiction I could have.

I know the cult like environment of the school was unintentional but could imagine a dark fantasy story using the premise of this show? Here's a quick summary of the idea I got. For example the school boasts about being exclusive, but that's just it's hook to get the kids/families interested and keep them loyal. Who wants to be a disgrace who lost such an opportunity, right? Maybe reason the first year is so unorganized and sent on death missions is to thin the herd. Also to get the kids accustomed/desensitized to death. The reason direct student-on-student violence would be punished so the teachers can keep them in line. Can't have you're soldiers-in-training get too much freedom. As the students get closer to graduation they lose empathy towards those who fail, like the teachers. While getting stronger but also more conditioned to to accept the restrictions their vows puts on them. Finding purpose and freedom in carrying out dangerous missions their given. Essentially the school is a candy-coated cult/military-ish place that churns out highly skilled fiercely loyal, but ultimately broken guardians for the country. But it's so ingrained in the culture that no one views it as wrong.

I feel like High Guardian Spice had potential to be like a "Madoka Magica" if it was aimed at a mature audience, where they would learn the school is abusing children and sending them to suicide missions for their own entertainement.

Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters= teaches mutants how to control and manage their powers. Hogwarts= trains future wizards in the art of magic. Acme Looniversity= Teaching young toons on how to be funny. High Guardian Spice= ??? (your guess is as good as mine) :/

Ahem, magic school, ever since the days of Harry Potter, magic schools have been presented with their crazy out of world experiences, typically viewed by someone who is not from the world. Thus "otherworldly." Their function is to teach us how life works while also keeping it natural to those who reside in the area. HGS does this by.... not doing it at all. What's a guardian? What's the difference between new and old magic? Why is this school special? I'm not am expert at magic schools, I only did it once, but if I can do a better job, then we have a problem. And don't anyone blame the budget because I see those YT animated projects with the budget of a poptart and they do better. I don't delve into magic schools, but I assume the process isn't that hard. It has to be one of the most common settings for a reason. It shouldn't be rocket science to take a real life school and mix magic into it, right? I don't know, I specialize in fantasy rebellions, kingdoms, and governments. Anyway, magic school should be well defined no matter what, I don't even know how you fail at describing it to the audience because a school is literally the place where lore dumps happen. And someone tell me why the teachers are trying to kill the students. I need to know.

at 3:17 i wished they kept sages design. she wouldnt have looked so bland is she had the little belts and petticoat under her dress. its a better look then what we got. doesnt make up for the writing but i care a bit for the bad designs then the writing i suppose

Saying it now, this show COULD'VE worked having been "For the children" but rather train them to be stonecold killers, with the villains being the ACTUAL "Good guys" trying to stop the academy from creating more ruthless soldiers. That being, if the writing and dialog wasn't ass, there was some level of consistency (*Rosebud*), and cut out the pointless bullshit they add in for filler. This would've been an amazing commentary on how cults can affect even young minds and prove to be VERY dangerous with false promises and conditioning. But alas, we have whatever the hell this is, most likely never to continue or be touched upon. Though I'm sure no matter how many seasons, this show can't be saved due to it establishing zero fundamentals.

I think if the show had early on established that "guardians" are basically D&D adventurers / dungeon groups it would have worked to have different classes like mage, healer, even bards etc. I think it's what they wanted to go for, but they didn't explain it well. The idea of a school explicitly educating people to allow them to form an effective dungeon group is kinda fun in a meta, self-referencing geeky way tbh.

How many students get thrown under the bus when trying to becoming guardians. Also I hate the potions teacher 100% in the show.

I feel like this show falls into a problem alot of shows do with its magic school. Its written like a high-school, but with everything they have, it would have worked better as a college. Rune reading class won't mean much if your job is to hack, slash, and sometimes raise a shield. But for some people who might go into the more knowledge based skill sets it would. Highschools make generalists, college is for specialists. Have this be a college!

The main thing that bothered me was the vows part "HERE'S HOW YOU MAKE A REAL VOW" They could have used this as a character development waypoint that shows how much the characters have changed when they can renew their vows in the future but NOOPPE

If you read the second Harry Potter book there is a moment in potion class where Harry caused a scene by splashing the potion they were making at the time all over everyone. Snape is then shown that he had already prepped an antidote for that very potion before and handed it out right then and there. Snape doesn’t fuck around with class safety. That is a good characterisation of Snape, showing him to be more complex than just a typical bully. It would seem HG takes a lot of inspiration from the Hogwarts teachers to write their own, but they only watched the first two movie and never bothered to read the books. In fact you can see a lot of half-concepts in HG, as in they remind you of something that has been done better elsewhere, and would have done well if the writers had a better understanding of that concept. For example elves in fantasy settings are often aloof and proud, because of their longevity and storied culture. So in HG they made Thyme to be an edgy bitch because she is an elf. She is also paired with the dwarf because of course LoTR did it with Gimli and Legolas, but LoTR showed more of the racial traits of both character and how slowly it was chipped away through adventures making them good friends. HG couldn’t set up the character properly despite using their races or show any progression. The problem with HG is that the writers rely too much on pop culture fantasy without dwelling deeper into their inspiration.

9:28 This is how I'd portray the school if I were the head writer. Redbud and The Triad would make phenomenal villains in the right hands.

I feel like the different classes could work if there was different types of guardians with roles and jobs that are explicitly stated. A school about guardians should say what a guardians is and show how different hypothetical branches work together to do whatever they're supposed to do. It might also give the show an excuse to show how the main characters are exceptional and the varying reasons they were able to get in the school.

I never thought there would be a magic school more dysfunctional than Hogwarts, but here we go.

6:16 I gave AI this : Girls go to a magical school to be guardians. They learn how to use new magic. They learn sword fighting and other skills. Keywords : Girls, magical, school The output was : Girls go to a magical school to be guardians. They learn how to use new magic. They learn sword fighting and other skills. There are 7 schools. It's a school where magic exists. Or something like that. If I knew that the girls go through school I'd have to learn something too. Which I don't. (which I'm a moron because) I have no idea what I am going to do after I graduate, or after college. Like I said before, maybe I'll go back to school and get a degree in something. But I also can't say if I will or not. Because I still have this huge question mark hanging in my brain. I just have it, that's all. You could call it an anxiety, depression, OCD thing. Maybe it's something else. Whatever, if you think about it. Just remember that it is a magic school. Not a wizard school or a witch school, a science school for wizards and witches. And girls are not wizards. We are witches and wizards with swords.

Caraway is by far the biggest disappointment for me from this series. He was best friends with Rosemary's missing mother turned traitor. Why isn't he helping her try to find her mother? Though Rosemary doesn't seem to be that interested in her mother either. He could have been a really cool character who leads the team into training fights and tells them cool stories about the monsters he killed and talks to them after something scary happens and actually teach. Rosemary should not have gone to her aunt/cousin/whoever they were. She should have contacted her mother's best friend

I kinda wished that they build up on the school being so messed up with how they end up treating their students. It could lead to a much more smoother dark plot that would say something about the kind of community that surrounds them. Maybe that Doyle character would be revealed to be the one who learned the true meaning of being a guardian by leaving the school and this twisted society as a whole to live on his own and forge his own path. And that evil society that was shown at the end of the series is actually a group of outcasted rebels that strive to fight for human rights. With our main cast learning that everything they knew was a lie thanks to Doyle and make a plan to hopefully set things right Oh and then the climax would be their plan going horribly wrong and receiving cruel and unusual punishments!! Rosemary would be the most devastated as she helplessly watches everyone she loved being separated from her as she’s endlessly tortured in a prison Maybe later down the line an attack by the rebels would be ensued on the city. A valiant knight would break into the prison killing all the the tormentors and freeing as many people as they could. That is until they got to Rosemary’s cell. She would be almost unrecognizable at this point. Her hair being all messy and torn up, clothes almost ripped completely off, bruises, cuts, and nasty burns everywhere. With a tired and shaky voice she asks who the knight is. This causes them to step forward. Reaching their hand out. And in a soft familiar voice. “...Rosemary...?” Rosemary gasped at her name being called by the knight. But before she could even think about it. The knight takes off their helmet. Revealing her mother’s face right behind it. And after all these years of suddenly being absent for her life. After all these years of hoping to one day be a guardian to simply look for her. Rosemary finally gets the chance to meet face to face with her dearest mother again. And embrace her at Rosemary’s lowest point when she is released from her restraints. In mere seconds. The little girl falls into her lap as she completely breaks and starts crying. Shouting that she was wrong. She doesn’t actually want to be a guardian anymore like how she thought she wanted to. She was just scared. And wanted to go home. Her mother would look absolutely heartbroken hearing this come out of her once cheerful and aspiring daughter. She holds onto her like it’s the last time she ever would. As she repeatedly apologizes to Rosemary for ever leaving her behind. She didn’t want things to end up this way. She starts to quietly sob with her in the end. Still apologizing.

I feel like, in character, Red would absolutely be willing to be the one to kill the dragon- because she wants to do it. Not for Rosemary- though she could use that excuse- but because she enjoys death. I actually like the idea of someone who has sociopathic tendencies being brought onto the staff due to a number of secondary factors and then being held back by the rest of the staff- only being unleashed when none of them are around.

Story fix: The country where the high guardian academy is located is at war and guardians are somewhat soldiers, explaining why they need to learn weapon smithing and healing alongside fighting and itd also explain the absolute lack of guardians. But that wouldn't quite explain why the kids are so excited to become guardians and why the academy is so dangerous

14:09 Lmao it looks like Amerallis is the one saying that.

Tbh, I wonder if the inconsistency with the school's objective as to what they want to teach to the students came from the fact that this show has polarizing inspirations. According to Raye, this show was mainly inspired by petite princess yucie, magic knight rayearth, and little witch academia. All three of these shows do have one thing in common and that is that they are all shows related to the magical girl genre. However, petite princess yucie was about a special school teaching students about how to become magical princesses essentially, and had the students do both magic related assignments and activities that resembled more of girl scout activities such as community service and the like. Magic knight rayearth was about girls becoming chosen magical warriors to defeat a big baddy and slay monsters as you would've guessed, and lwa was about an academy that well... teaches its students to become witches obviously. Raye probably couldn't decide which inspiration the school curriculum should resemble more, so he decided to go for a mixture of all of them even if it wouldn't necessarily work or make sense...

Damn, the High Guardian Academy make Hogwarts and the U.A highschool from MHA look like a daycare in comparison 💀

8:38 You're saying "or a dumb character they want to introduce" as Amaryllis enters the scene. You didn't think this one through, did you?

9:09 Ethics Class is taught by a demon😆 This show has such wit in its visuals.

One could pose the same question of "what does a 'hunter' do?" in the anime of Hunter x Hunter, however, they already answer it basically even before the series start in the first episodes: **Fearsome monsters... Exotic creatures... Vast riches... Hidden treasures... Evil enclaves... Unexplored lands... The world "unknown" holds magic and some incredible people are drawn to that magic,.They are known... as HUNTERS!"** In literally less than 30 seconds the viewers already have an ideia of what Hunters do, it really isn't much difficult to create something for Guardians.

It's basically like an owl house rip-off you'd find at the dollar store.

A school with such callous disregard for the lives of its students having an ethics class could have been a really good joke. If the series was trying to be a parody of these sorts of magic school concepts, you wouldn't have to change a thing about it except for the protagonists' attitudes and you'd have something genuinely funny.

I only watched till the early episodes of naruto and they have trials like this before (that's when I just stopped watching when it was at the forest trial), I remembered the stakes being so much higher and dangerous, students actually died in there. This isn't even half a pinky's worth of what those trials in naruto were.

I like to think HGA is like the public school of their world.

I'm pretty sure the poison thing was just a fake-out... I mean, they said something like "Congratulations on getting through Disorientation Day" afterwards, so that implies it was a mental test. I used to be convinced the skeleton thing was a joke meant to scare the students too, but after seeing the whole mess in the caves, I'm not so sure... though I suppose the creatures going out of control was meant to be taken as something exceptional the teachers hadn't foreseen.

Any dragon will be weak in the knees if slime boy serenades them, he's clearly a bard

22:07 You know what? I'm think this Women was a super villain they convinced to stop trying to destroy the world and keep her in check by sending her children to murder for payment.

3:20 y'know... I like this design more than the finished one

The whole school is like the Hunter Exam from Hunter X Hunter. Except in Hunter X Hunter there's an actual REASON why a lot of people who take part in the exam die.

I'm confused by the races of this universe. In one episode, the magical girls are tasked with tracking down a demon to make a deal with it or something (Idk but I think they end up killing it.) So, you have this grotesque demon the girls are tasked with finding in a cave...but there's also the demon lady who teaches at the school. Wtf??

2:08 (paused) at this parade, apparently celebrating trainee guardians, someone is waving a flag depicting 🧙, falling to her death in a cave and getting impaled on the stalagmites.

It's charitable for you to think this show was written by writers. No, the only qualifier you needed to be on the staff was "Woman", preferably with an "LGBTQ+" bent to you. Writing talent or experience was not a prerequisite. Just adherence to that ideology. The staff just copypasted various anime, Y/A fiction and fantasy tropes they saw in stories like Harry Potter, without actually considering how it'd make any sense. None of them knew what they were doing and your average high school English student could have written a better story. Like you pointed out in another video, they didn't write the plot, setting and characters with the intention of them making sense. It was just stuff they wanted to see represented, regardless of if it makes for a cohesive narrative.

Harry Potter does have dangers in school. BUT, it's either from arachic design choices, or with the expectations that the teacher will intervene if something goes wrong. Students aren't allowed to die. They are allowed to be placed in a deadly situation, but that's it. If they die... Guess what happens? Less students, less confidence in Hogwarts, less reason to send anyone to THAT school. It'd be one thing if a student dies from an accident or an unforeseen circumstance... But letting your students die is another. They're preparing them to let in the Wizarding world, what good is it if you fucking kill someone?

I love hearing people rant about a show I’ve never watched and have no intention of ever watching

This makes me feel confident in my own writing. I'm wanting to make a show. My show has a few cliches in it's plot but I'm working making a joke out of it but also making it serious. Plot: An African American teenaged girl named: Dimania with the power to control time, argues with her mother of how she doesn't know much about her father. She's runs away from home thinking she could run away from her problems, as she runs her eyes are blurry with filled tears where she doesn't realize where she's headed. she goes through a purple glowing wall that takes her to a different side of the world: Heaven Haven Reign a forest once filled with a specimen with different features called: Catas. This is where Dimania's adventure starts. History of a Heaven Haven Reign: A war where humans and Catas are fighting due to believing false rumours of how humans came to take over the their home from a mystical forest called: Heaven Haven Reign. The Catas lost the war, they lost everything but until one female Catas takes a stand and uses her powers to make a gigantic glowing purple wall beam that blocks certain parts of the area the humans and Catas were fighting at. That concludes to the war ending, fast forward 15 years later the purple wall somehow is able to let certain people go through (the main character and a few other characters I still need to make). That's all I did my best explaining my plot of my future story. I'll be adjusting the plot so people with have a better understanding of what's going on in my story. But I will start my story off with a war, because I love having action being the first thing I see in stories I've read. Anyway I hope my plot makes sense and that you enjoyed it! (I'm 15, a growing story writing inspired by my mother!)

I don't think any show creator has ever pissed me off this much since Rebecca Sugar.

If you want an adventure in a fantasy school setting done right, listen to The Adventure Zone graduation. The school has a specific purpose that ties into well thought out worldbuilding that is of course a primary aspect of the story, not just a setting piece. Safety is a top concern, while of course for plot reasons things go wrong. It does twist villains and twist villain teachers well, and is overall much better written despite only being made by three people.

I feel like they wanted a potions teacher that was scary, but not a wet blanket. It's like they made a reverse Professor Snape. Female, colorful clothing, oddly cheerful The three things that are the same are: Potions, weird tests thrown at students, and some level of child endangerment. But if I went in blind and was looking for someone to teach me potions...I'd go for Snape. I feel like I'd actually survive in his classroom.

also caraway just randomly has a giant octopus mech and it was never brought up again

There is one thing they could have changed with Caraway’s character to make his character relevant to the plot. Make him the principal/ director of the academy. Think about it. The Snapdragon convo would make more sense as a principal talking with a student who got in trouble. Mandrake searching through his office would make more sense too as the principal of an academy training guardians WOULD be getting info from higher ups about missions and stuff. Maybe have it that The Triad are aware of The Rot and have Caraway tasked with secretly studying it. His friendship with Lavender can still be the same, maybe have him mention being a Guardian before taking up the role of the Academy’s Director. ( I don’t know, I’ve been putting WAY to much thought on how to improve High Guardians’s story recently and that just something that came to mind)

I genuinely love that you’re taking apart something different from other people. May I suggest asking how the economy in this world works? Do the girls need jobs? Magical minimum wage/ child labor laws?

I just realized that the main characters' names aren't just herbs: they're specifically the four herbs from the refrain of the song "Scarborough Fair".

Me and a friend of mine are making a game. Its a 2 person team which means he codes amd animates and I make the art and story. From my experience, the best way to make a story is to step into your audiences shoes and ask yourself "who what when where why and how" this practically applies to all aspects of the story. Flushing out characters while making their emotions fit with the scenery is very important. That being said this show doesn't have a brain. Theres nothing to fix because its beyond that point.

My question is... Raye has been trying to get this series off the ground for awhile and pitched it to different companies... in that time Raye didn't bother to write a story about during his free time? I mean... he had years to work on what kinda show he wanted and what he wanted them to do etc...

"Magical equivalent of a school shooting" is a line I never would've thought I'd encounter within my lifetime, and yet here we are.

i agree that the writers constantly break their own rules, but when it comes to the question of 'why is Pretty Boy McDipsh*t in this academy' i actually assumed that they were implying he was a rich kid who has powerful/rich parents who maybe got him in that way? i mean, that constantly happens in real life where you hear of these 'pristigeous' universities and you wonder why these braindead frat boys even get in, but it's because of mommy + daddys money. but then again, that could just be me trying to make sense of the writer's tomfoolery also sorry but that two min intro.... was painful

Sacred languages actually makes sense as a class for a magic school- especially when magic users, use runes. Different languages have different values. For example, direct translations might vary between "i broke the vase", to "the vase was broken because of me", to "it broke". If runes channel intent, different runes would have different effects. Meaning discovering and cataloging more would make more things possible through runic magic. Unfortunately, they clearly never thought about it at all.

"Why are you talking like Skeletor?" "BECAUSE I CAN AND IT'S FUN!"

If they went out of their way at least, ONE TIME, and said that the school has gone CONSIDERABLY downhill since Rosemary's mom graduated, a lot of this would be excusable

I mean happy child murder schools are a common fantasy trope or just people being reckless, just look at something like fire emblem three houses or every adventurers guild in fantasy . I get its particularly bad here but it is incredibly common

22:35 The fact that it looks just like Eda scares me But if Eda saw her, she would probably not treat her in a positive way

“No sane parent would send their child off to this school” But your forgetting, insane parents make insane kids

The child abuse part is actually the best part of the story. That's actually the darkest aspect of the show, and that's not always a bad thing.

"Who cares about consistency, it's just real" is the dumbest argument every time. Yes, it's imaginary to *us* but to the story, the world it's set in *is* real and should thus behave as such. Whether things existing in it are unreal to us is completely iorrelevant because it's not our world, but certain rules should apply.

I like how everyone just universally like Slime Boy

I've never heard of this series before and I'm here just for the funsies but, honestly, there's some narrative potential right here (16:20). That could be a GREAT critique on the structural problems of academic achieving, specially college. Kids and adults alike are put under massive psychological (and often physical) ordeals to achieve diplomas and recognition through academic means -- but the harsh truth is that, if asked, most of them would not be really capable of pointing out why all these ordeals are necessary, how they contribute to their objectives or even WHAT said final objective really is. And once most of them graduate, they are hit hard by the question: now what? Was that an *intentional* narrative device for the series, we could've had achieved some amazing results here.

I feel they were trying to go for the whole "Pushing your limits near death" thing, but the writers don't understand logic or how anime works. Like we got teachers laughing about actual children getting killed, meanwhile UA from Mha gets flag over two incidents where a bunch of villains planned a coordinated attack on the school and kidnapped a student which were out of the teachers control.

12:12 THAT GOD DAMN MECH! GGAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Basically what if Big Brother founded a magical school...after being hit in the head several times.

Surprisingly watching your high guardian spice videos have given me better incentive and ideas on how to write my own story. Though the plot idea isn’t complete, I’m getting a better idea This was hard though due to the fact that the characters in this were my own fan characters of a completely different fandom and was used mainly in rps. So the characters were fleshed but not the plot so I couldn’t connect them well. So I have to go back to the character writing board to make some small changes.