While this season had a few, particularly a critical, plot-relevant one, they were remarkably constrained compared to before, helping to let Mahouka’s action-focused aspects shine. Outside of Tatsuya (a whole topic in of himself I won’t touch on here), Mahouka’s biggest issue is arguably its infodumps: they are long, they are dense, and usually featur more technobabble than a normal anime-only viewer is able to handle. The thing I like most about this season is without a doubt the narrative control. It ain’t perfect, it’s fully deserving of all criticism, yet it’s also a decent romp when approached with the right sort of mentality as this season highlights.

This is a series which probably represents the best and worst of light novel adaptations – and makes no qualms about featuring both aspects in noticeable quantity. When looking back at Mahouka’s latest affair, there’s honestly little more to be added than has already been said on this very site. Well, likely after that Miyuki side-story of course, because obviously we know who’s the best girl in this series (*inches closer to Erika*). The reason and purpose of both are naturally ambiguous right now (especially the latter), but rest assured, we’ll be getting both explained in anime form before too long. In the end, however, this arc did as I expected it would by largely serving as the bridge to Mahouka’s later material thanks to both introducing the NSF and their abilities alongside confirming Minami as Miyuki’s bodyguard. Also lack of appreciable Miyuki-isms, that never hurts either. While there’s plenty to be said (a lot of it the usual remarks) about Tatsuya doing Magic Jesus things, I’m not going to complain too much: the art was fun, the animation nice, and Miyuki likely deserves more of the credit for letting Tatsuya be himself. You now, for a predictable finale, Mahouka’s season conclusion wasn’t that bad.

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