rental magica

rental magica

Its essentially a nonecchi magical romantic harem anime. It is interesting in that in this world magicians rent out their services and operate out of agencies. Rental Magica is one such agency. Each employee is a magician specializing in a different kind of magic and thus may be specifically required for a particular case. Aside from the magic cases there is an ongoing rivalry with other agencies and many of the characters have things in their past that need to be dealt with. The head of the agency is not a magician but does have an unusual power with a dark history that gets explored. The show spends a bit of time on the back stories of all the major and minor characters. Some of it is funny and some tragic.

The show falls in the action genre I am not sure if you would call it shounen but it does have a lot of those elements. All the normal harem girl stereotypes are accounted for I think, Tsundere, dere dere, loli, Rei clone etc.

The shows episodes were originally deliberately shown out of order. This does not particularly help the plot or mood of the show and will certainly confuse any one going in blind but it does mean that you get to see each magician in action before you get their origin and in one case that actually produces a twist.

Aside from its detailed look at different types of magic the show is pretty generic well the marriage between 2 female mages was interesting. I liked it but it is rental material for me. ha! you see what I did? oh never mind.