
And she runs to hug armored Past-Life!Hero. We've got a redheaded girl (the one chained to the rock), whom I'm guessing is going to be Love Interest #1 in this life. Yes, dear protagonist, escape from this cliché nonsense in the depths of slumber.Īnd I'm guessing this is a dream of the past life? I approve the Gothic architecture. They have to all stay strong, to become Saviors who use their Ancient Arts against the Metaphysicals. And our speech-giving lady principal has a huge witch hat… and what looks like otherwise normal modern attire.

Our hero looks like he's struggling to stay awake through this. And here, you get powers from memories of past lives. (Meanwhile, in the real world, we in the US have schools literally designed by the same architects who design our prisons.) Our special students have been gathered from all over the country to use their Capitalized Noun Powers against the Capitalized Noun Monsters. With that glimpse of future badassery done, we now jump back to a much lamer time, six months previous.Īnd here's our impossibly fancy and pretty school the likes of which are found only in anime. At least it's suitably destructive.Īnd talk of hope from Witch-Hat girl witnessing in the distance. Of course weaponizing bad emo poetry is high-level Black Magic. I'm thinking someone's played a lot of JRPGs here. And a staff-wielding girl adding an ice buff to another girl's sword. This is more teenage Goth poetry.Īnd among the side cast holding off the dragon while our caster incants include someone in Western Knight armor with an unfolding lance, a (blonde) Ninja Maid, Huge Mace girl, an archer, and assorted boys and girls with improbable swords. I mean yes, the Kidou from Bleach were long and poetic, but they were mostly nonsense poetry. Yeah, nothing pretentious or chuuni here, no siree.Īnd okay, magic where you don't have Instant Runes but have to actually draw out the glowing symbols yourself I'll give them props for that. And here's the rest of our teen magic squad. And it looks like dragon fire's going to take out that building on the hill… nope, magic barriers there, too.
