Megan Leyman

The Anti-Magic Academy: An elite school that trains its students to become Inquisitors whose mission is to hunt down and neutralize witches and other evil magical practitioners. Not every squad of Inquisitors is a success story. Just ask captain of the ragtag 35th Test Platoon, Kusanagi Takeru, who stubbornly clings to the outdated ways of the sword. When the beautiful elite shooter, Ohtori Ouka, gets demoted into Takeru’s band of misfits for excessive use of force, the 35th Test Platoon may become the greatest team ever – if they can only learn to overcome their differences and work together

I got this manga for my birthday earlier this year from my brother and his girlfriend, the two of them put a lot of thought into my gifts this time around so that really made me smile.

I read the whole thing after my birthday in march and love it, I read it all again for this review and loved it again.

The two main characters that this story focuses on are Takeru and Ohtori. Takeru is an underdog at the academy as he is the only one there who uses a sword in combat, compared to everyone else he ways are outdated.

You get to see how amazing both Takeru and Ohtori are throughout the whole thing, they start off not getting along but that changes by the end of the book.

The start of the story introduces you to Takeru, the leader of the 35th Test Platoon with a sniper who is very clumsy and blacksmith who likes to blackmail members of the platoon into wearing cosplay, over all the platoon haven’t done well, that’s til a former witch hunter joins the group.

I don’t really want to explain the plot as it’s ruins the whole reason to hunt down this book down, similar to how the cast hunt down witches…see what I did there?

Moving on

The amazing art style, characters and plot should get you hooked from start to finish!

Out of the all the manga I have reviewed for this blog so far, this is the first one in the fantasy genre and I don’t think this is going to be the last you will see of this genre on this blog!

I confess apart from a few exceptions like One Piece, Naruto and Yakuza Reincarnation I don’t really look into fantasy a lot. Slice of life/Gender Bending is more my genre, so I was surprised I liked this from start to finish twice.

I have to recommend this as a gift to any one who wants to get into manga as you can read it in all go and there is even an anime that you can watch before or after!

You can buy the book here via amazon.

Click the book review topic at the top of the post to be taken to my previous book reviews, this is going to be the last manga I will be reviewing for this year but not the last book I will reviewing, you will have to wait and see 🙂

Thanks for reading!