It starts you off with a blank: a kid at the bottom of his year who can't tell you his own past, and it makes that hollowness the actual engine instead of a gimmick. Then Albus ships Seville out on the headmaster's "special training" into territory that hates magic, hands him Loux Krystas, Holt and Kudo for company, and quietly turns the dead-eyed dropout into someone who decides things. That's the payoff reviewers keep circling: protagonist progression you can measure, plus a cast that's genuinely fun whenever the show remembers to point the camera at them. The pacing is honestly erratic, long stretches of downtime and then a sudden lurch forward, and the world-building borrows heavily from the Grimoire of Zero shelf it grew out of. Watch it for the campfire beats between the fights, the party dynamic, the moment Seville stops apologizing for existing. If you loved Zero and Mercenary, this scratches the same itch from the student's side of the desk.

Seville is a student at a magic academy with no memories of his life before he enrolled, and no sense of why he is there. His days feel empty, and since he never learned how to put in effort, he sits at the bottom of his year. Then Headmaster Albus orders him into a risky special training: spread the use of magic in a region where witch hunts still happen. Only a few years have passed since the war between the church and the witches ended, and the world has yet to fully accept witches or their magic. Alongside a small band of companions who each carry wounds of their own, Seville sets out on a journey through situations both dangerous and absurd, and slowly begins to find out who he is. The action fantasy mixes adventure with comedy and ecchi moments.