No offense to any potential fans but I do have to say how depressing I find it that any even remotely original anime are never getting a second season yet a million cookie cutter faux medieval European fantasy harems are greenlit every day. I get that they produce whatever sells but surely people will have to grow bored of the same thing being done over and over again? Surely…?

The First two movies, Beginnings and Eternal are simply a slimmed down version of the original series. The third movie, Rebellion, is entirely new content, as is the upcoming movie. Thus, either:

• Original series > Rebellion > Walpurgisnacht: Rising
• Beginnings > Eternal > Rebellion > Walpurgisnacht: Rising

Will both work fine, though generally the series is recommended over the movies due to them having to cut out some scenes to save runtime. Or if you want and don’t mind the repetition, you can always watch the series first and then all of the movies.

Magia Record series is a spinoff featuring a different main cast and can be watched any time after the original series/first two movies. It will most likely not be in any way mandatory watching before the upcoming movie.

No one says “women soldiers” except maybe a civilian.

And I’m not telling you to, stop putting words in my mouth. Female as an adjective is fine, “female soldier” is fine, calling a group of human women “females”, as in a noun, is demeaning and incel lingo.

I’d rather sound miserable than incel.

“They said”

If only there was some generally agreed upon symbol to denote direct quotes as opposed to paraphrasing an idea in your own words. If only…

they preferred training females

It’s “women”.

The show is amazing but HIDIVE really dropped the ball with video quality. The show has a lot of noise and dark scenes which meshes very poorly with extremely bitrate starved streaming. It’s quite noticeable:

• HIDIVE
• Amazon Prime (JP only)

Sadly, on Amazon it’s only watchable in Japan legally, but, uh, you know what to do if you value the video quality of your anime.