There isn’t a sharp line dividing what
some can find beautiful and what others might find troublesome, even
sick. This goes double when it comes to romance, since different
people approach the topic with different hangups, expectations, and
auto-failure situations that won’t be shared universally. Some
things will usually get a pass, and other things will usually be
found disturbing. Sat right in the middle of the gray area between
the two is the core romance of The Ancient Magus’ Bride.
Here’s the basic summary of the setup:
Chise, a teenage girl, is bought at auction, as a slave, by an
ancient and powerful inhuman sorcerer named Elias, who intends for
her to marry him. Full stop. If you think that sounds like
thirty-one flavors of wrong, I don’t blame you. If that sentence
(run-on though it may be) is enough that you think you could never
like this show… you might be right. For me, there are mitigating
factors, but I blame no one for being unable to make it through
episode 1 of this.
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