It feels like just yesterday, but it was actually seven years ago when I first complained about this arc of Mahouka! It was unbelievably boring. The olympics of magical boredom, where all the events are lame as fuck, and everyone wins because actually Tatsuya helped them! All hail Tatsuya!

Now, this new season, is even worse! Why is this remake just redoing the events of the original from a slightly different perspective?

What perspective, you ask?

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You can tell a lot about someone by what perspective they choose to view things from. As a Christian, I believe that God always sides with the poor and the oppressed, and so should we. And who does the author of Mahouka side with? The most powerful people in the country, the children of the elite, at the top school, who monopolize violence through the use of magic while they whine about how they are the victims.

“Terrorists” in Mahouka are angry about how the non-magical people are treated. Why would this be? Mahouka doesn’t tell us, since not a single character of consequence is from one of these marginalized groups. But we can guess. We’ve observed these high school magicians enforce their opinions through almost casual violence. What do you think the adults do? I’m sure there is tons of abuse of the non-magical by the magical. Even between magical, you clearly know if you’re from a good family or not, and power and wealth are largely hereditary. It would suck to be a non-magical person in this universe. I would have to side with the “terrorists”.

Ah, the classic “both-sideisms”. As she benefits from being a scion of the elite, she thinks that both the powerful and the oppressed have something to say. If only they could stop arguing, and all agree to maintain the status quo where she continues to stomp on the backs of the oppressed without consequence! Continue reading The Honor at Magic Academy 05 — Preserving Privilege Through Violence →