Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. They’re wizards, but they’re also lawyers! Yesterday, Sentai Filmworks announced the English dub cast for Wizard Barristers. The series will star [...]
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This is review number three hundred and twenty. This anime is part of the Winter 2014 lineup. The anime I’ll be reviewing is called Wizard Barrister: Benmashi Cecil. It’s a twelve episode anime about [...]
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Wizards are lawyers and defend wizards with trials while fighting each other with golems. This show is really boring. It has people fighting each other with wizard mecha so you wouldn’t think this [...]
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I’m just going to go ahead and spoil all of Wizard Barristers for you on the off chance that I can spare you from watching it: Sudou Cecil was killed and brought back to life with forbidden magic in [...]
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We were a bit weary that this last episode would be another nightmare of poor animation and cut corners, but thankfully there was enough gas in the tank for a respectable-looking finale. We even get a [...]
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The whole purpose of anime and most other audiovisual media, is to show as well as tell what is going on. This episode told us quite a bit, much of which could have been very interesting, but [...]
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Cecil always knew there was something fishy about her mom’s trial and conviction, but she didn’t know there was something fishy about still being alive after the altercation. Nor did she know of the [...]
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Time for the newest batch of reviews and this season I'm kicking it off with a review of Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil. Long story short, Wizard Barristers is about a young barrister named Sudo [...]
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Procedural as a genre is a little less vague than slice-of-life as a genre, I concede, but I think Wizard Barrister is a pretty solid example of a procedural. The one biggest issue about procedural as [...]
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Cecil resumes her investigation of the incident six years ago that led to her mother being sentenced to death (we’ll set aside the fact she wasn’t instantly put to death, as we’ve seen done to other [...]
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Well, it isn’t as if the show’s been coy about this, but damn, Cecil really is beset on all sides by foes! Thanks to the progress made between them in these last couple episodes, Natsuna isn’t one of [...]
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And here’s the last batch of anime reviews for the winter season. Time to start thinking about spring!… Nagi no Asukara Nagi no Asukara has been one of those anime that grew on me more and more as the [...]
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Kudos for this episode for choosing to send its cast to Boston, out of all of the places to visit in America. It’s a very odd choice, but for all we know, the majority of Japanese are aware of the [...]
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This episode begins rather appropriately with Cecil getting chewed out for using magic in practically every single situation she’s found herself in so far, causing collateral damage and inducing fines [...]
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As is usually the case with these kinds of shows, WizBar chronicles the daily lives and trials of magical people who are really just people if you take away their magical abilities, but parallel to [...]
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It seems that Makasu has asked that Cecil represent him in court in order to make up for everything that's he done to her. He even plans to confess to setting up her mother but the rest of the [...]
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This week Cecil wrestles with her entirely understandable and justified reservations with defending a Wud serial killer who not only murdered fifteen wizards, but by all accounts thoroughly enjoyed [...]
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Because we obviously have a bigger fish to fry. • Ah, good ol’ Wizard Barristers: Someone: “Is she even allowed to defend him?” Ageha: “Makusu personally selected her so the court can’t oppose it.” [...]
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Wizard Barristers hasn't exactly been a series with a realistic eye for legal proceedings, but surely even in this world a defendant asking the subject of his crime to be his defence barrister is [...]
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