The Irregular at Magic High School: First Impressions (And my first request!)

So this was my first ever request!   Happy to give impressions.  Hit me up at the Late Night Otaku facebook page or in the comments here. So without further ado... 行くぞ！

     The Irregular at Magic High School poses a world in which magic is not only real, but technology enabled.  This was all necessary in a world in which global cooling (haha, appreciated that one) and world wars ravaged the population.  Now countries are desperately creating magicians and adapting to a world in which what you think can become reality. Sound interesting?  That is the magic of The Irregular - its setting in all its well thought out glory.

     The show opens on two siblings discussing school matters. They have been accepted into an elite Magic School.  The brother, Tatsuya Shiba, is in the lower ranking classes due to his practical exam being so low.  His sister, Miyuki Shiba, had no such bad luck.  Miyuki was accepted into class 1 - the elites. Its a hard conversation to follow.  If there is any gripes, its that the world is too big, there is so much to try to figure out.  Personally I enjoyed it.  I've only watched the first arc, and it was like reading the first novel in a series.  Detailed enough to feel out all the characters, but short enough to be enjoyable (and keep me awake all night still...). 

   

As the series progresses, we find out Tatsuya is not what he seems.  Despite of his poor magic testing marks, hes actually a hard working magical genius.  Our hero is worth his title as he solves problems by being calm, wise, hard working and just play bad ass.  Each character presented this far has a strong trait that makes them heroic, but Tatsuya is much like Wesley from The Princess Bride. He is completely over the top but likeable anyways. 

The writers play lightly on the humor - no breast grabbing tropes here.  Any humor comes from well written character dialogue.  The action runs well through out and keeps the plot moving.  The moving plot tends to leave more to ask then answered and again that just makes the series the more watchable. 

 To dig just a tad deeper, the first eight episodes dug into discrimination between Class 1- the elite magic user - and Class 2, our have nots.  While they were talking about magic, one can't help but be curious as to what our heroes actions and the resolution of this arc were actually allegory for current economic grievances.  Then again I am told I tend to look to deep.

Overall if I was to rate the series its better than entertaining.  But just a bit thus far.  While not on my list of MUST SEE's, its good thus far and if you want a series to watch its worthy.  I'll be watching for sure. 

So what do you think?  Think I missed something?  Think I got it wrong?  I'll do a full review when I finish, but in the meantime, join the conversations by commenting or at #latenightotaku.