Kuroda, you whiny brat….

At the end of last episode Midorikawa got message from Kuroda stating he’s quitting. This episode actually begins before this happened. Kuroda is growing tired of whiny clients and performing small magic.

He asks Asagi out on something that looks like a date.

They stroll through the old shopping mall

Of course Kuroda, fool that he is instead of seizing the opportunity and treating it as a date starts to voice out his complains and doubts.

He is just a teenager afterall, a teenager who was given huge power and responsibility, who’s now getting disappointed that the reality doesn’t seem to be living up to what he imagined being a mage would be.

Instead of not letting Barlogs pass, he has to fix up watches and broken wases. He wants something more epic and as a typical teenager, he’s not willing to wait. Asagi, the one who seemed more arrogant out of two surprisingly is appreciating any kind of magic and she doesn’t react to kindly to Kuroda’s whining. Since Kuroda didn’t find understanding then does something very immature and rash: he decides to quit. And it’s up to his friends to change his mind

Unfortunately the usual helping spirit; Sora is down from the cold and the rest of the “team” have to do without her.

The “intervention” scene was just great.

Midorikawa is the first one to try. He definitely changed in a subtle way since the beginning of the show (in large part I suspect because he can actually perform magic now, even if a small one). He appreciates the opportunity life gave to him. At the same time he understands the doubts Kuroda has and he doesn’t want to pressure him. His “Life is long speech” gets interrupted though

It seems pressure was exactly what Kuroda needed.

And Asagi was more than willing to provide it, bashing the hell out of him

and it worked well

Mission accomplished

In reality it’s obvious Kuroda didn’t want to quit, he just made a stupid decision and then was too embarrassed to admit it was wrong.
Now he has good excuse to and it seems like he will seize this opportunity. I did like how there wasn’t a big scene of him admitting his mistakes, instead as everything in this show it’s handled in much more realistic way

Good work intervention squad!

And we even got a new song this episode, great as always. I really do need the soundtrack from this show ASAP!!!

This was a nice episode, the characters once again proved to be believable psychologically (which is something rarely seen in anime about teenagers) and it seems this show is intent on just showing us a small slice out of young mages life, not attempting anything more, but at the same time delivering in spades on what it aims at.

rating: 9.0/10

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