I was planning to watch the original anime before the remake started airing, but I got too busy and couldn't make it in time.

Found the full set online for a really great price! second hand, but it's in great condition 😌. Been a fan since the 90s, but never got a chance to read the manga before, can't wait to get into it ❤️💙💚

Sauce: https://x.com/rayearth_info/status/2110389917893505520/photo/1

Keiko is also our GOAT VA, Megumi Han's mother!

NCOP Non-credited OP / Creditless Opening

魔法騎士レイアース

ゆずれない願い - 田村 直美

"Yuzurenai Negai" by Tamura Naomi

Air Date: Oct 14, 2026
Broadcast: Wednesdays 23:45 JST

Please keep the discussions to the specific episode only, and if you are talking about events not yet to happen in the new anime/manga only events, please remember to spoiler appropriately just in case we have newcomers.

Hikaru Shidou Umi Ryuuzaki Fuu Hououji

A ustedes cual les gusta mas?

I honestly never watched any animes besides Magic Knight Rayearth that features Takamori or M.A.O whom I heard of voicing any characters here that could help me recognise their voices upon repetitions, can you please tell me which girls did they voiced via their physical descriptions?

These illustrations were just released, and I loved Hikaru's outfit, so I drew it :D

By the way, nice to meet you; I'm Knaito.

https://rowanrabe.ink/the-believing-earnest-heart-of-stories/

I have. Thoughts on the Rayearth remake. Just based on the first episode.

The other works listed are all impressive as well. This is a big blow for the industry.

Overall: 3.0 maybe 3.5 out of 5

Pros:

--- I like the main trio characters asthetic designs which work very well on an individual basis and when they are all together

---Mokona is cute

---We have some absolutely gorgeous scenery and background designs

---I LOVE the 1st and 3rd opening and I GREATLY appreciate that all 3 openings have an english version which are very well done and very enjoybale to hear

---I like the main back and forth banter of the trio and how they all get along, there is no meleodrama bullshit and conflicting personalities or tiresome rivalry dynamic

---english dub is fantastic

---I like the big reveal of part 1. It was a interesting twist

---The mecha designs are really cool

---some really cool monster designs

---I like how when part 1 progresses, we see the magic knights visually get better with extra little flourishes to their designs and swords as well as we see Cephiro crumbling more and more.

---Fucking love Lord Zagato's pompous demon king asthetic look

---Part 2 has a nice change of pace where [spoiler]we end up going back to Cephiro which is a unique idea for an isekai

---I like the idea of [spoiler]the main trio having to deal with invading countries in part 2

---I love [spoiler]Nova's character design and personality, she is so good at getting under Hikaru's skin and mentally messing with her both emotionally and mentally and I believe is a good example of "evil version" of yourself done right when so so so many times that kind of example is done so blase and tiresome, but Nova is really effective at her job and it just works

---I really like [spoiler]the final battle where everyone shows up to help and chip in, its such a scene

Cons:

---the dialogue has to be the weakest part of the show. So so so much of the dialouge is vapid nothing-burger repeating the same lines or stating the obvious or telling us (the audience) stuff we already know over and over again and this problem plauges the entire series

---Part 2 is good but I feel like it has the weird problem of "a lot of stuff is happening while at the same time, not a lot of stuff is happenning at all"

---I kinda felt like the series was building Mokona in the background to be this character who would "have more then meets the eye" type character...but no...it never happens. He just stays a cute bunny mascot

---in part 2, so many characters [spoiler] declaring their love to another character despite the series spending zero time exploring it and it just feels ridiculous and melodramtic at times.

---I wish the side cast in part 1 got more screen time and stuff to do in part 2 as in part 2...they don't really do all that much

---in part 2, I feel that [spoiler]Chizeta and Fahren end up being nothing burgers ideas that the show could of have cut and absolutely zero things would have changed in the anime

---I vastly preferred when [spoiler]Nova was evil because she was the dark shadow of Hikaru's heart rather then being tricked by Lady Debonair into being evil. Kind of ruins her character and the actual point of her character

my art in honor of the premiere 1 episode "Magic Knight Rayearth"