Catalyst Castle

This is another anime micro review. Read here for an explanation.

This anime takes place in a universe that resembles the modern day world, but where magic is practiced openly, and there are families of magic-users who have gained notoriety for their mastery of different types of magic. The two main characters are a teenage girl and a slightly older guy who both come from the most accomplished family of fire magic-users (they’re cousins, if I remember correctly). The girl is an accomplished fire magic-user herself, and the heir to the family head. The guy never could pick up on fire magic, so he was ostracized at a young age. The story begins when he returns to town and demonstrates a mastery of wind magic. In fact, it seems as though he may have become the most powerful wind magic-user in the world. When members of the fire magic family start getting killed off by means of wind magic, people assume that he’s looking for vengeance against the family that ostracized him, but in reality there is someone else behind it. This whole situation pits the two main characters against each other. The first two episodes didn’t reveal what was really going on. I would be curious to watch more and find out. The two main characters were both pretty interesting. The guy, especially, seemed like an interesting person with a variety of motivations.

Content Advisory: Some minor language. (Maybe? Can’t remember for sure.) There is some fighting, and people die, but there is nothing graphic. You might object to the basic premise of a story about magic users, though honestly it felt more like superpowers here.