The opening episodes snap with real character chemistry that most idol shows take a season to build. You get witches in a music academy because the show trusts that premise enough to let it breathe, and the OST sits in your chest like it was made for that specific moment. The middle episodes stumble, and the ending rushes past what it set up, but those first four episodes are the kind of character work that makes you forget a show is underrated because you're too busy rewatching them.

Tiara, a princess from the kingdom of Waleland, arrives at Flora Girls Academy, a school for young witches, hoping to become a "light" who purges the world of magical beasts. She also wants to grow more like her older sister, a gifted singer. Headmistress Chloe admits her almost at once and places her in the group of her childhood friend Rosetta, where she quickly befriends Lavie, Ashley and Lynette. Then she learns the truth: the school sorts students into Noir, Rouge and Lapis ranks by test score, her group sits at the bottom in Lapis, and all of them face expulsion together if they fail this semester. Tiara pushes her new friends to take their studies seriously in this fantasy with a strong focus on music.