Under normal circumstances (or at least before I got into slice-of-life shows), I would’ve easily labeled Natsu no Sora as totally deadpan boring and dropped it without remorse, because I’ll most likely be watching it with the wrong mindset -- with a desire to see awesome magic action or romance, in the same way I watched Aria (and slept through it >.>). But as the past 7 episodes have shown, this anime isn’t just about magic per se, or at least not in the magical extraordinary way we know it. As coburn puts it, magic here is naturally part of the world of Natsu no Sora, embedded into the characters and the very society where all this takes place.
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