Little Witch Academia episode 14 aired on April 10th, 2017.
Little Witch Academia is not just an “anime Harry Potter”.
Is the show actually cool or is this a one-off moment like Squidward going on strike?
either way I should watch it. maybe I’ll be able to steer the cytube towards it after we finish Gundam.
As @Awoo said, the show is mostly about cute girls doing cute things in school with magic. The particularly Marxist episode here is just a one-off, but there is a class-consciousness element throughout the show. The show is mostly about daily lives of magic school girls doing hijinks. The show delves into one’s insecurities and how to overcome it. Akko has massive insecurities as she is not from a magic family, not rich, and not particularly good in school, but so is the “antagonist” or more like deuteragonist Diana who is a magic snob from a British royal family. This is where the show mostly excels at, its likeable characters and their relationships.
In the latter half of the show they introduced a real antagonist and conflict, with some decent reveals and resolution, but the plot is a bit thin and the later half suffers a bit from the characters running from one Macguffin to the other, all while the interpersonal character relationships and moments that define first half of the show takes a bit of a backseat for plot explanation.
Trigger can’t write a show that doesn’t have aliens as the antagonist. That’s why it feels weaker compared to their others. They love aliens doing fascist extermination as the principle plot point for some sort of coming together of groups that are usually against one another in pursuit of doing a revolution.
What LWA really needs is a greater systemic evil like a Ministry of Magic that Akko and gang can discover are actually baddies. Diane can start out aspiring to be part of that evil but becomes a class traitor and joins Akko and the gang in fighting against it.
This would essentially be a rehash of TTGL, KLK, Promare and several other Trigger works though. I suspect they’re trying to break this habit.
BNA is an interesting diversion from this formula because it approaches the typical Trigger protagonist (wanting to change the world and being utterly determined to achieve that against ridiculous odds) BEFORE they become the little communists they clearly are. In BNA the protag starts out as a liberal apolitical type that just wants to go back to normal but by the end of her arc she becomes an Akko, it explores what creates that character. If BNA ever got a sequel it would be the story of a revolutionary again.
I like Trigger. They are clearly a studio filled with leftists writing agitprop.
