Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade is the much-anticipated sequel from Studio Trigger's, previous movie Little Witch Academia. Both entries in the series have been highly regarded as being standards for enjoyable stories and an undeniable visual style associated with Trigger. The story focuses on an all girls magic academy as the students study and explores the world that surrounds them.
Akko and her friends Lotte and Sucy continue their bickering and trouble making in this movie. Their punishment is to organize this year, "Witch Parade". The negative aspects of Akko personality present, as she becomes dismissive of he friends ideas. She manages to come up with poorly thought out plans and is surprised when they fail. With her friends awol, she and her new cohorts are tasked with pulling off the parade of without them.
Akko's more pleasant personality traits are shown at this point. Her determination helps her form a plan that actually works until she is rudely sabotaged by the boys of the town. This leads to an even greater conflict between the young witches and a giant. The town's people remain ignorant of the danger they are thank's to some quick thinking from Akko's teacher Ursula. Akko's friends return just in time to aid her.
Little Witch Academia excels in many aspects, but it fails for an original story. Magic schools are a common idea, and the creators failed to set their school apart from other series. They neglected to expand even further into the magical world at large. It would have been helpful to know who the witch was that sealed the giant in the first place. The characters are for the most part tradition anime troupes. Akko is the argumentative, aspirational main character, Lotte is the brainy nerd with Sucy being the somber, emo type. Despite its failings, LWA remains an enjoyable series, which should explain how outstanding it is.
LWA sounds like a fun series, but I've thus far avoided it...partially because my watch-pile is still pretty crowded. As a series, does it descend very far into fan service? While not adverse to it, I tend to find that fan service heavy series bore me. – mattdoylemedia9 years ago
I've seen part of this while a cousin of mine was watching it. I kept meaning to go back and watch it, but kept forgetting!! But will add this to my growing long list since I've been reading these tides.. – Tatijana9 years ago