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Once upon a time, in a small town called Willowville, there lived a young boy named Max. Max was a curious and adventurous child, always seeking out new experiences and magical encounters. One sunny day, while exploring the woods near his house, Max stumbled upon a mysterious paw-shaped stone. Intrigued by its unusual shape and sparkling glow, Max picked up the stone and felt a strange magical aura emanating from it. He couldn't resist the temptation to touch it and see what would happen. As soon as Max's fingers made contact with the stone, he felt a sudden surge of energy coursing through his body.

As soon as Max's fingers made contact with the stone, he felt a sudden surge of energy coursing through his body. To his amazement, the stone began to emit a soft golden light, enveloping Max in its warm embrace. As the light subsided, Max found himself in a completely different place - a magical forest filled with talking animals and floating fairies.

Anti-Magic Academy

Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon spends its first moments fooling you into thinking that it’ll be a gritty military drama. There’s a flashforward to a terrible battle. There are ruined city buildings, a wounded youth in a school uniform facing death, and a little witch-girl intoning “Congratulations” with flat menace.

And then we’re in the story proper, and the youth, Takeru, is walking into a classroom in time to see… a buxom girl classmate in a bunny suit, who’s being forced to pose sexily for her malicious woman senior. Yes, we’ve found the show’s goofball side already, with lashings of fanservice. Anti-Magic Academy slides between the action/goofball poles for pretty much the whole series.

I should say there’s lots of fanservice, but it never gets as all-enveloping as, say, High School DxD, so don’t expect that kind of anime. I’ll also say Anti-Magic operates pretty much on harem principles, with Takeru as the only boy in a battle team full of girls. But he’s much cooler than many harem protagonists. Takeru’s already a strong warrior when we meet him, and he’s voiced in Japanese by Yoshimasa Hosoya, who enjoyed a fascinating character journey as another soldier, Reiner, in Attack on Titan.

Takeru is also a very upstanding guy – he’s very protective of girls, for deep personal reasons. But misunderstandings will happen, and his female colleagues have a tendency to let their hair down in front of him. That, or take their clothes off.

Based on a “light novel” series, Anti-Magic Academy throws viewers into a soup of familiar anime staples, making it instant light viewing. The set-up is that this is a modern world where magic powers are real and the forces of order – including Takeru and his girl allies in their title Test Platoon – must fight them continually. The baddies use forbidden spells and artefacts, sometimes using warriors from legend to fight their battles (shades of the Fate franchise). Later stories have more of an SF flavour, with cruel experiments in genetic engineering and a young child cursed with Akira powers.

Naturally there’s a lot of fighting, and this fighting is a real mishmash. Takeru himself prefers to use swords – the clue’s in his family name, Kusanagi. In mythology, Kusanagi is Japan’s answer to Excalibur, which is presumably why Motoko in Ghost in the Shell chose that name too. But as well as swords, there’s heavy artillery and robot mecha, and heroic transformations linked to the little witch-girl in the opening scene.

Each of the main storylines centres on a different character in Takeru’s team, and it turns out they all have extremely dark and tragic backstories, often involving family members, in whiplash contrast to the frequent goofing. But of course the characters have the collective strength of their team family; they can bicker about boob sizes and fight for each other’s lives at the same time.

The show’s animated by the Silver Link studio, who you may know for such series as Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts and Fate/kaelid liner Prisma Ilya (a magical-girl take on the Fate franchise). Anti-Magic Academy also has broad parallels with a series that Silver Link made around the same time, called Armed Girl’s Machiavellism, which had a similar mix of frequent fights and harem comedy with a cool hero.

Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films. Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon is released in the UK by Anime Limited.

Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon spends its first moments fooling you into thinking that it’ll be a gritty military drama. There’s a flashforward to a terrible battle. There are ruined city buildings, a wounded youth in a school uniform facing death, and a little witch-girl intoning “Congratulations” with flat menace.

The animals in the forest welcomed Max with open arms, excited to meet a human who had discovered the power of the magic paw. They explained that the stone was a relic left behind by ancient wizards, who used it to grant wishes and protect the balance between the human world and the mystical realms. Max's eyes widened with wonder as he realized the possibilities that lay before him. With the magic paw, he could make his wildest dreams come true. He could fly through the sky on the back of a dragon, explore the depths of the ocean with mermaids, or even become invisible and roam the world unseen. However, Max soon realized that the magic paw came with a great responsibility. He had to be careful with his wishes, as they could have unintended consequences. The animals warned him that the magic paw could only be used for good and selfless purposes. If he became greedy or used its powers for selfish gain, the magic would be taken away, and he would never be able to return to the enchanted forest. With this newfound knowledge, Max embarked on countless adventures, using the magic paw to bring joy and happiness to others. He helped his neighbors by granting them wishes for good health, prosperity, and love. He assisted animals in need by using his powers to heal and protect them. Max became known as the "Wishmaker of Willowville," loved and admired by all the townspeople. As the years went by, Max grew older and wiser. He realized that the true magic of the paw was not in its ability to grant wishes, but in the positive impact it had on the lives of others. Through his selflessness and kindness, Max had brought light and happiness into the lives of everyone he encountered. One day, when Max felt that he had fulfilled his purpose as the Wishmaker of Willowville, he made his final wish - for the magic paw to find another deserving soul who, just like him, would use its powers to spread love and happiness in the world. With his wish granted, Max bid farewell to the magical forest and returned to his normal life in Willowville. Although he no longer possessed the magic paw, he carried its essence within him - the belief that a single act of kindness could create ripples of joy that would last a lifetime. And so, the legend of the magic paw lived on, inspiring generations to come to embrace compassion and selflessness as the true magic that could make the world a better place..

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