A girl who can't catch a break finds out magic runs on code instead of wishes, and suddenly her clumsiness stops mattering. The show treats its magic system like debugging software, spells layer, chain, and break in ways that feel earned instead of convenient. Watch it for the genuinely funny dynamic between a disaster of a protagonist and a patient mentor who knows exactly what she's doing.
Koyomi Morishita has it rough. Her classmates won't stop mocking her diminutive height, and her clumsiness doesn't help matters. At least she is better off than Yumiko, a girl with a magician out to kill her, until the two of them cross paths. Help comes from Misa Anehara, a master mage and graduate student who agrees to train Koyomi in a new style of magic. Here spells are broken down into sequences of code, and learning them will be no small job. So far Koyomi's only real talent seems to be making washbasins drop out of the sky at random. The result is a comedy about a crash course in magic for a girl who badly needs one.
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