WWHCurrent Anime & Manga Blog: Past Anime Review: Maburaho

Posted by Onii-chan
May 19, 2012

New and excited to be here!!!!

So for my first review is going to start with this anime called Maburaho after a long and hard decision. I have other anime but I have decided to start with this one. Its all about a guy named Kazuki Shikimori and his magic.

A flashback of the past is shown at the beginning of this anime, when Kazuki Shikimori fufilled a promise to make snow using his magic in the middle of summer.

Our story begins in Aoi Academy, a prestigious magic school where magic has a certain limit before it is used up and you turn into ash. Kazuki Shikimori is a second year student that goes to this school, but only can use his magic 8 times. He doesn’t know that the power of his magic is great, until 3 beautiful girls start going after him.

Rin Kamishiro

Rin Kamishrio, a freshman and a sword wielder, receive a telepathic call from her family members to seek out Kazuki and marry him for the sake of her family as her mission.

Kuriko Kazetsubaki

Kuriko Kazetsubaki, a senior and a talisman holder, also receive a call, but though the phone so it won’t be intercepted, also goes after Kazuki and marries him too.

Yuna Miyama

Yuna Miyama, a second year transfer student to Aoi Academy and a water wielder is a friend from the past and Kazuki's wife in a symbolic kind of way, whom also goes after Kazuki because of what he did with her in the past.

Not only have these 3 beautiful girls gone after him but all of the other girls too, because of Kazuki's powerful genes. Dr. Akai explained Kazuki s family lineage and it consisted of 50 of the most powerful magicians in the world. So whoever gets married to Kazuki will have offspring with similar powers as him.

During all that time at school, Kazuki ends up using his magic and now is close to turning into ash.

Yunas memorable snowfall

His first magic use was to show snow again for the lost memory that he had forgotten of Yuna in the past and the promise that she made to him to have friends and to become his bride.

Yuna!!!! I'm going to save you

His second magic use was to rescue Yuna from a ghost named Elizabeth because they destroyed a splendid suit of armor, but Kuriko was the one who sent Elizabeth out of the abandoned manor and caused the manor to be destroyed. So Yuna was pulled into a vortex that Elizabeth created, and Kazuki used his magic to pull Yuna out, and in the meantime while he was trying to pull Yuna out the two dorms of the students become one.

AHHHHHH!!!!!!

His third magic use was protecting Kuriko against two behemoths, a S-Rank summon which no magic could stop other than his. It all begins with his prophetic dreams that he has, about getting attacked in the near future. Dr. Akai was holding one of the beasts that he captured and the other was created by Kazuki's classmates. He stopped the beasts by screaming his heart out.

Ill save it for you Rin

His fourth magic use was to save a boxed lunch that Rin made for a senior that she liked who was leaving. It was a waste of his magic because Rin didn’t give it to him but in the end giving it to Kazuki as a thank you.

Mister Greatest Magician In The World

During his fifth magic use another character comes into this story. Chihaya Yamase, a childhood friend of Kazuki who ask him to ask his classmates to help out in the Aoi Festival at their play. He uses his magic during the play to stop the monster (which his own classmates made) and turn it into ice then snow and turned a bad play into a spectacular finish.

His sixth magic use was to kill another Yuna that Yuna had made herself. The bottle that Yuna opened up held pathogens of a magic retro virus which caused the person that opened it to lose their magic counts and turn into ash. This made the other Yuna to appear and have the oppose emotions that she had. So the person that Kazuki used his magic on was the Yuna that hated him.

Sorry I couldn't keep my promise

The seventh and eighth magic use was to save Yuna from the virus that she got from opening that bottle. The first time Kazuki tried to save her, it worked, or so we though. Darkness had spread and her spell counts were almost up, so the final decision that he made was to use his last magic use and save Yuna. It worked but now Kazuki was gone, or so we thought…

I thought I was dreaming,
but I am a ghost

Kazuki save me!!!!

I love you

Kazuki Shikimori turned into a ghost after using up his precious spell counts, and the only thing that can turn him back was this mysterious girl was Dr. Akai's little sister, Shino Akai. But she tries to capture Kazuki and turn him into a full pledge ghost. Yuna and Chihaya jumps in this vortex and something happens. His ashes start to return dut to them and now he is able to hold stuff.

Please smile for me Rin

Kuriko's turn was up, to return his ashes. But the problem is that she would not abandon her pride, and if Kuriko and Kazuki's hearts won’t align, Kazukis ashes won’t be restored. But at the stroke of midnight, Kurikos and Kazukis heart aligned in unity because Kuriko was honest with herself and loved him. So his ashes started to come back.

HUH??? Thats Yuna and Chihaya

Rins turn to restore ash was a tough one for her because Shino told her once restored, Kazuki will forget everything. So Rin was avoiding Kazuki. They went for a date suggested by Kuriko to restore his ashes but it didn’t go smoothly. During the date, Kazuki made a promise to Rin to keep on swinging her katana until he returns and another promise was made too. Rin runs away but returns because she gives in to Kazuki's determination, the second promise was her to smile because she was unhappy. Once she smiled, Kazukis ashes started to return but she was scared that he might forget everything, but in the end of course, he didn’t. :D

Every last bit of ash of Kazuki Shikimori was finally returned, or so we though. There was still one person’s ash that was still left, so Dr. Akai decides to find out who it was. All four girls go into Kazuki's heart to find out who it is and where they were, and finally they found it.

Are these Kazukis memories?

The stream of ashes splits into two, one for Yuna and one for Chihaya about Kazuki's past, making snow as a promise and to become his bride as little kids.

KAZUKI!!!!!!!

Will Yuna and Chihaya restore his ashes or will Shino turn Kazuki into a ghost?

I find this anime very nice because there’s a lot of passion going around and plus, its funny. I love how he uses his magic for each person. The art of this anime was nice, the effects of the magic use and how they show their emotions to Kazuki.

The theme was a general school-life one about using his magic sacrificially. It’s about sharing and understanding others, and how people feel for one another.