The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent : Review

The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent, yet another show based around the idea of reading the source material to actually feel satisfied with the story. So much is left behind and unfinished, and just leaves me feeling that so much more could have been done with it. So much potential, wrapped up in a show I know will never get a second season or more content. Now in this case, I am already reading the Manga so I guess it isn’t a massive issue for me in this case. But I will always mention it when it happens, because it always leaves me disappointed.

Now onto some of the actual content of the show. It felt unbalanced, like we got a long prologue and a cut down first arc. We spend episode after episode in this episodic style, following Sei in her daily life. During this section we are mainly getting world and character building in spades, and it feels like it is working well. But it has a massive flaw, nothing honestly happens during this period of time it feels like. You keep wanting to get some progress on whatever the actual story will be, or see this romance between Sei and Hawke actually develop into something. And this stage goes on for so long I end up loosing interest, when I know nothing of consequence will actually occur during the episode.

Than you get the progress and things start moving at a lighting fast pace. Aira’s story suddenly gets pulled into the forefront and is used to get the actual story moving. And it never stops once that happens. But it occurs so late into the show, it just have the proper time to actually do anything. This also causes things to feel a bit unexplained and rushed, like they suddenly realized they need to hit a certain point, and they waited too long to get there. Something else that starts to actually occur during this section is progression with Sei and Hawke. But once again, it happens so late that nothing I really want to see happen can. They just don’t have enough time to progress the story or the character in a method that I feel is all that satisfying. And leaves us with a conclusion that just isn’t, this isn’t a conclusion to anybodies story. Instead it is the beginning of a story we will never see in Anime form.

Onto other things, visually I think the show looks good. Nothing felt super high quality or outstanding, but definitely of a better quality than many shows. This is also I think partly due to the lack of action due to the genre, many shows will stand out due to flashy fights, and this doesn’t have anything of the sort to pop or show off. None of this is a negative, just due to the nature of the show.

In general, I guess I would say the show is fine. Nothing outstanding. But don’t go in expecting a satisfying conclusion to a story. This is 100% a old fashion Light Novel advertisement, the type of thing I really do hate. What I would give to allow more studios and directors freedom to make original shows with flexible episode numbers and lengths.