{"id":8872,"date":"2021-01-12T00:18:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2021-01-17T08:06:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T08:06:37","slug":"great-pretender-mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei-raihousha-hen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/great-pretender-mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei-raihousha-hen\/","title":{"rendered":"GREAT PRETENDER &#038; Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Raihousha-hen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first tried watching <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/40052\/Great_Pretender\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Great Pretender<\/a> back in September&#8230; and didn&#8217;t get very far. Three attempts later and I&#8217;ve only just finished the second arc and can safely say the series simply isn&#8217;t for me. It&#8217;s certainly engaging visually, and a bit of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lagoon\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lagoon<\/a> dynamic begins to emerge over time, but the character interactions don&#8217;t sit quite right. Particularly how Makoto is treated.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/40497\/Mahouka_Koukou_no_Rettousei__Raihousha-hen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second Mahouka series<\/a> meanwhile is notably <em>lacking<\/em> in visual quality (particularly when compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei\/\" title=\"Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the prequel<\/a>) and doesn&#8217;t have much going for it story-wise either. The characters are its saving grace, and even they take a hit due to the increased harem elements. Frankly, this season probably wouldn&#8217;t be worth watching at all if it weren&#8217;t for the second arc which introduces a couple new entertaining characters and manages to salvage some of the franchise&#8217;s earlier dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first tried watching Great Pretender back in September&#8230; and didn&#8217;t get very far. Three attempts later and I&#8217;ve only just finished the second arc and can safely say the series simply isn&#8217;t for me. It&#8217;s certainly engaging visually, and a bit of a Black Lagoon dynamic begins to emerge over time, but the character interactions don&#8217;t sit quite right. Particularly how Makoto is treated. The second Mahouka series meanwhile is notably lacking in visual quality (particularly when compared to the prequel) and doesn&#8217;t have much going for it story-wise either. The characters are its saving grace, and even they take a hit due to the increased harem elements. Frankly, this season probably wouldn&#8217;t be worth watching at all if it weren&#8217;t for the second arc which introduces a couple new entertaining characters and manages to salvage some of the franchise&#8217;s earlier dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[489,475,478,16],"tags":[172,203,180,439,178,185,184,228,400,181,357,306,188,183,412,411,30],"class_list":["post-8872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-autumn","category-2020-spring","category-2020-summer","category-anime-related","tag-action","tag-anime-original","tag-comedy","tag-dramatic-support","tag-dropped","tag-ecchi","tag-finished","tag-harem","tag-hulu","tag-ln-adaptation","tag-mahouka","tag-netflix","tag-partial-adaptation","tag-school-life","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}