Magical Warfare
Crunchyroll has another series on the list to announce today with the pickup of Magical Warfare, aka Maho Senso. The series is set to broadcast every Thursday starting on January 9, at 3:30p.m ET for premium members while free members able to watch one week later. The audience scope for this series is a bit limited as it’s open to members in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Madhouse production is directed by Sato Yuzo with scripting done by Fudeyasu Kazuyuki. Ebata Ryouma is doubling up here in duties by taking on both character design and the position of chief animation director. Kouda Masato is providing the scor for Flying Dog for it.
Announced as going into production for 2014 back in July, Media Factory previously opened the official Japanese site for Maho Senso/Mahou Sensou, aka Magical Warfare. Media Factory has several of their light novel series in the works to shift to anime adaptations, which comes after a few volumes of the novels and some of the manga as well. The original work comes from Hisashi Suzuki with artwork by Lunalia. The series is getting ready to roll out its sixth volume and Yu Ibuki has been working on the manga which began in early 2013.
Plot concept: In this modern magic action story, Takeshi Nanase is an ordinary high school boy who has a somewhat dark past. Due to certain circumstances, he formed a “fake” couple with his childhood friend Kurumi Isoshima, but otherwise, he lives a normal life. However, one day, he comes across a girl named Mui Aiba, in a uniform he has never seen before, collapsed on the school campus. This encounters changes Takeshi’s destiny completely. Mui tells Takeshi that she is a magician, and she apologizes, for she turned Takeshi into a magician, too. What Takeshi once knew as one world is actually two — one world where magicians live and the other world where humans live.