Magia Record is trash because the source material is trash. Doesn't tell us anything about the production talent still at Shaft.
Kakushigoto
Leo Parker
Owen Campbell
At this point it's wasted talent. You've got guys like Oonuma and Hatakeyama who have struck out their own and are doing great work, but the others are content to remain under the Shaft umbrella doing nothing.
Easton Mitchell
Who is even left there? They've had talent going out the doors since 2017.
Cooper Perez
What exactly is this? Don't tell me that the girl's parents are dead and this is all reminiscing.
Bentley Gutierrez
The girl is actually the one who's dead
Justin Cook
This looks great, the animation really feels like Kumeta's style, reminds me of SZS even though it's not Shaft. I miss them bros
Juan Roberts
If they were going to get Ajia-dou of all people to animate it they could have at least tried to rope in a competent director like Kazuaki Imai, Masaya Fujimori, or hell, even, Sunao Katabuchi (he still works on Maru-chan, right?). I have no idea why, out of everyone they could have selected, they chose the fucking Dre-Fes and Isekai Maou guy.
Whether you like or dislike MagiReco's story you'd be hard pressed the call the production quality bad. That's an important distinction to make.
Shaft still has AbeGen, Okada, Miyamoto, Sunada, Itou, Sugiyama, Shiotsuki, Yamamura, Iwamoto, and Numata and Takeuchi, Nakura, and Saeki are still doing contract work for them. They've still got plenty of fight left.
All in all, I think Shaft are actually in a much better position now than they were a few years ago since with fewer people to carry them to surefire success, they'll have to actually start getting creative again in order to break even.
Jonathan Jones
fuck off
Daniel Kelly
Anthony Torres
Here's the manga PV shaft did for Kakushigoto a while ago
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