Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - Raihousha Hen - Episode 5 - 10 Second Anime

Mia’s visit to Angelina’s magic school turns into a violent emergency as a parasite reveals itself to its pursuers.

Visitor Arc V

Hmm.

There were two important scenes in Mahouka this week and they both capture the theme of Tatsuya the reluctant harem king. The first was a seeming throwaway scene with a miffed Mayumi planning on making bitter chocolate for Tatsuya on Valentine’s Day. The second was the epilogue scene with a robot maid waking up after the free body parasite invaded her.

Valentine’s Day in all harem shows is the scene for all-out war between the harem members, so Mayumi set the stakes quickly and precisely in Mahouka as she complained about Tatsuya not joining their patrol. Erika felt the same way, so already there are mixed-up feelings of payback and possessiveness among the haremettes for Tatsuya not giving them the requisite attention. Erika may have feelings for Leo, but she hasn’t admitted that to herself or him yet, so she’s still nominally a harem member. Mizuki might have already moved on to Mikihiko’s team, but there’s still fondness for Tatsuya related to her best friend Honoka’s strong love for him.

The robot maid will be pure fanservice fun. Anime loves sexy maids and sexy robots, so we’re getting an exponential increase in levels of comedy, sexy scenes, and pure blushing power. There’s a reason Mahouka introduced this new character so close to Valentine’s Day and we can already see from the spoilers in the opening credits that this mechanical maid will relate to Honoka somehow. Somehow… come on, this is Mahouka. We know what happens next.

Heh.

Tatsuya shot that Parasite guy with a tracer, so now there’s coordination between many factions. Mayumi knows how the groups working together are the best way, but she doesn’t like how Tatsuya made it sound like she’s following his orders. A proud beautiful woman needs to assert that pride. She’ll get him back on Valentine’s Day! With bitter chocolate! Ah, this will be a fun episode.

Oho. Shizuku calls from America looking like a slattern, scandalizing Miyuki. She says she didn’t drink alcohol, but she’s acting drunk and wants Tatsuya to praise her more. That’s Miyuki’s job! Shizuku gives Tatsuya the puzzle piece that the parasites came through an interdimensional rift made by a black hole experiment in Texas. Using the spiritual magic language, the SSC people made a “thin place” without realizing it. Trying to take energy from extra dimensions isn’t good. Dimension W told me that! Through Tatsuya’s words, we learn that magic only looks like it doesn’t conserve energy in the closed system of the universe. We just don’t observe its higher dimension effects. Thank you, Tatsuya-Hakase.

Valentine’s Day is coming up so that means it’s time for all the girls to talk about Tatsuya, even though they have their own crushes they can’t admit to. Forget that guy, Mikihiko is the devoted boyfriend Mizuki deserves. Ha! He brought sandwiches, but they came from Tatsuya! He’s out-devoting Mikihiko to attend Erika’s feelings. That guy is too much. Ah. It’s time for Angelina’s team to intersect with Tatsuya’s factions and everyone realizes they’re on the same side. Something bad came inside the Magic Academy. It’s related to the parasites because Mizuki felt their spirit being energy. She’ll join the scooby gang for whatever happens now. Mikihiko will take responsibility for Mizuki. Of course, he will.

Oh no. A parasite compromised Mia’s team. Let’s hope it’s not Mia, for Angelina’s sake. Miyuki and Honoka are there to latch onto Tatsuya for emotional support. Lucky them. Miyuki noticed that Tatsuya didn’t register the “aura,” which shows the hole in magic that he compensates for.

Aw crap. Mia shows a compromised state. Eep. The scooby gang jumps to conclusions without the secrets Tatsuya holds. They think Angelina is an accomplice instead of a parasite hunter. And Mia is a parasite. Specifically, she was the White Mask who gave everyone so much trouble and whom Tatsuya shot with his tracer bullet.

Miyuki is on the job. Put some ice on that attitude, Mia. Whoops. Self-destruct from a being who came through an evaporating black hole – that’s tactical nuclear weapon level. Juumonji the Wall is on it. No good. It’s a random MIRV attack with ball lightning. Tatsuya used his World-Sense to find the parasite not possessing anyone. That’s new. Ah. It’s sticking around to find someone to possess.

The scooby gang is troublesome, so where will it go? Harsh. Tatsuya called the Top Magician Sirius of America “useless” for not yet knowing how the parasites choose their hosts. Such Japanese jingoism. “Well, excuuuuse me!” is the perfect American response. Mizuki will risk her normal sight to isolate the spiritual being’s location. Mikihiko’s spiritual barrier shawl looks like he just married Mizuki. OTP! Mikihiko hurt it while Tatsuya blocked its desperate strike back at him. It escaped. But where did it go? The encounter was a draw.

Epilogue time. The parasite found a host. A sleeping maid robot? Oh, Japan.