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143. Hina Logic: From Luck & Logic
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34834/Hina_Logi__From_Luck___Logic
Summer 2017 (12 episodes)
My Score: 5/10, MAL Score: 6.65/10
Best Character: Liones Yelistratova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-GYlA4mXvQ

Premise: Princess Liones Yelistratova enters a school that trains Logicalists, a certain kind of magic user. There she makes many friends and learns to manage her abilities.

The Good: Hina Logic is a spinoff from Luck & Logic, a battle anime I've never seen because I heard it's abysmal. This one has cute girls doing cute things, however, and while it still has impressive magical battles they're pretty much all low-stakes training exercises. The main draw to this anime is the character interactions, which are lighthearted fun and lead to lots of great jokes. Liones was my favorite because she had the strongest character, plus her supporting cast was fun, like her doting parents. I loved Mahiro too, she was a genius inventor type who was always blowing things up with her latest gadget.

The Bad: This is pretty much a cute girls anime set in a magical academy, which is a great place to have one. However, aside from the occasional battle and a few standout moments, Hina Logic doesn't do a whole lot to set itself apart in the genre. I enjoyed all the characters, but I've seen their archetypes in plenty of other anime. The arc in the final episodes was too serious for my tastes too, I much preferred the lighthearted fun from earlier.

Overall: Hina Logic is a fun cute girls anime with nice characters and some surprisingly well-animated battle sequences. I complained in the bad section that it ultimately didn't do anything new and the archetypes were generic, but I want to clarify that isn't a terrible thing. I'm always happy to find and watch another cute anime like this, because they're always a good time!