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Unmagical Boy Place (不思議な少年の場所) is a psychological horror unmagical boy anime series produced by production dóA based on the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Kentaro Sato, which is a spinoff/sequel to the manga mh:reversewonderfulbooks:Unmagical Boy Genesis. It premiered on April 6, 2018, with the first episode being pre-released on March 18 of the same year during the Magical Festa event.

Good Qualities

 * 1) This anime adaption based on the manga of the same name feels like it didn't have reasonings to exist when the series was ongoing during being moved to Weekly Shonen Champion from Champion Tap!. By understanding, it probably only exists to capitalize on the dark unmagical boy genre just like mh:besttvshows:Alluep Unmagi Akodam Unmagica, which has similar themes.
 * 2) *Even so, it could have turned the dark unmagical boy genre into a dead horse, with reliance on exaggerated cruelty.
 * 3) It still has the same depressing story found from the manga revolving around the main protagonist, Aya Asagiri, being bullied at school and beaten by his sadistic brother, Emanak. In an attempt to take up her own life, she instead discovers the Unmagical Boy Place that gives her "magical powers" such giving her a magic stick in a form like a toy gun, which resulted in some deadly consequences.
 * 4) *Speaking of, Aya, she is much more useless than she is in the manga. But, she still has the same traits and actions found in the manga.
 * 5) Just like the manga, it will confuse viewers who either hadn't read the manga or heard of it, since it's already supposed to be a spin-off to its predecessor, Unmagical Boy Apocalypse, which the latter did not have an anime adaptation in the first place and no connection at all. Making the adaptation possibly have massive plot holes.
 * 6) The story's tone doesn't even know if it's trying to be dark to fit in the horror genre and the unmagical boy genre.
 * 7) Just like the manga, it still has the same mean-spirited and cruel nature but worst, by making Sarina, her friends, and Emanak, even more, eviler than they were in the manga.
 * 8) Very lazy character development and story writing that emphasizes the amounts of victimizing and sympathizing in a failed attempt to feel like a unmagical boy series while lots of decisions the characters make don't make much sense while never having a solid identity.
 * 9) Same as the manga, it's still a non-stop series of events about Aya and her friends enduring incomprehensible suffering against their tormentors and it never ends.
 * 10) *While it tries to be a sad story but comes off as poorly executed with taking the cruel aspects way too seriously to the point that it was unintentionally hilarious.
 * 11) *Even so, Kosame and her team were sadly butchered in this story as they try to make Aya and Arumustay very useless.
 * 12) The rest of the unmagical boys in this series are hit-or-miss in this story and are never developed.
 * 13) The series takes similar horror anime, Higurashi: When They Cry, and mh:besttvshows:Elfen Lied to a more modern take on the next level. And tries It WAY TOO seriously by missing the point and attempting to be mature just like the manga.
 * 14) *Since being a horror AND a unmagical boy series, It clearly tries to make it TOO scary enough, with plenty of gore. But it makes a lot of scenes found from the manga to be too repulsive and unpleasant to sit through.
 * 15) *For that, it doesn't even feel like a horror anime, it's just plain mediocre.
 * 16) Despite it being faithful to the manga, they added too much filler and alter scenes that weren't in the manga. But similar to the OVA adaptation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, the 2007 film Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, Deadman Wonderland, Omamari Himari and Rosario Vampire, it is not 100% faithful to the scenes found from manga and could have been more like a recreation style similar to David Production's adaptation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure for example.
 * 17) They even removed lesser plot points like how Emanak described Aya during his father's beatings, why Kichiro Misumi kidnapped Emanak, the relationship between Aya and Makoto Hinomoto along with more about Arumustay, and Keisuke's friendship with Emanak.
 * 18) One of the most notable changes made from the anime is that Makoto Hinomoto, who has been a recurring character from the manga is now a background character in episode 1 and his scenes with Aya were sadly removed.
 * 19) Just like the manga, it has a lot of pointless filler like Aya and the girls going on a beach, while Emanak and Sarina continue to torture Aya for no reason which makes them more evil and twisted than the King and the Site Administrators.
 * 20) False Advertising:
 * 21) The first visual shows Emanak wearing Nijimi's panties while holding Aya's gun and Arumustay's smartphone and that was never in any of these episodes.
 * 22) The third visual shows a confusing fight of Aya, Arumustay against Nijimi, Rina, and Sarina in a train mill at daytime that wasn't in the manga.
 * 23) Weak low-budget production values for its animation and character design along with often lots of art balancing errors like Nana's face being different in every episode along with one of Sayuki Ringa's Yakuza guards' eyes look very messed up to the right.
 * 24) Same as the plot, the animation is beyond amateurish and over-the-top like the manga along with grotesque character expressions because...HORROR.
 * 25) Aside from the animation, it is very mixed at best with lots of animation errors and mistakes that feel off and feel overdone and is wasted with really dark coloring to make it darker as possible along with reducing the amount of lighting in a post-processing animation stage to avoid the need to draw meaningful details. But this was done by a new anime studio titled Production DoA'.
 * 26) Speaking of Production DoA' (who are new, non of the anime's production members barely have any experience working on it or even read the manga. But, try to cram in new scenes just to make it a more generic horror series like the manga.
 * 27) Even the action scenes are not good, but were rushed and slow.
 * 28) It has a lot of unlikeable characters that are way too dark and lifeless to fit the unmagical boy genre with the villains being hit or missed, cartoonish and even forgettable as well:
 * 29) *mh:loathsomecharacters:Emanak Asagiri, Aya's older brother, is still the same selfish, cruel scumbag that he is from the manga and he still abuses Aya like this, since his sadism is worse than Sarina. Also, he is by far one of the worst characters and the most insufferable in the whole series, where he still lures Aya nonstop.
 * 30) **Just like the manga, He is still rubbish as a villain who has no build-up and any purpose to the greater narrative of the story.
 * 31) **Since being unlikeable, Emanak has a lot of screentime from the anime, and he never stops stalking Aya.
 * 32) **His motivations were left from the manga and are just about how he described his father and the human race as scums only in the anime.
 * 33) **He also still has the same traits and goals found from the manga doing things like using Nijimi's panties by threatening a store cashier, Keisuke Naoto to commit suicide, stealing magic sticks, killing Nijimi in self-defense with no remorse, and not getting into custody as punishment when he was kidnapped by Detective Kichiro Misumi, instead he is tortured and sodomized.
 * 34) **His blue hair color in the anime version is a straight-up rip-off of Shinpei Sakamoto from My First Girlfriend Is a Gal.
 * 35) *mh:loathsomecharacters:Sarina Shizukume, Aya's classmate who only bullies her for being ungrateful, and uses her friends to keep Aya out of trouble.
 * 36) **She still has the same traits from bullying Aya but is very sadistic. But does the same things found in the manga like vandalizing Aya's locker, desk, and class table, pulling Aya's head down to the toilet as her face drowns, using an older male student to assault Aya, scaring Aya with a box cutter, telling Nijimi about where Rina Shioi is and tried to kill Aya and Arumustay.
 * 37) *Aya's father, is still an abusive parent to the family as he still pressures Emanak into studying and hits him as a disappointment. But, is still the source of Emanak's sadistic complex nature from abusing Aya as a stress relief. His scenes from the manga were butchered and ignored along with how Emanak described him.
 * 38) **On the subject of him is only revealed in the manga where it's shown that he was assumed to have failed at college and led him to have a mental breakdown of what will happen to his education and future.
 * 39) ***After marrying his wife, it was revealed that he murdered his wife's second child and was replaced with Aya, who was later revealed to be adopted as well.
 * 40) Keisuke Naoto is just another pop star idol fanboy who still serves no purpose to the main narrative of the story. His friendship with Emanak is removed.
 * 41) The first episode didn't stay close to the manga, instead, they just butchered some scenes that were in the manga and alter them.
 * 42) The fight scenes are inconsistent and are confusing like the manga.
 * 43) This anime itself heavily relies on too much monologuing just for filler.
 * 44) The 9th episode expects viewers to show how evil Emanak is when he uses Nijimi's panties and then tried to steal all the magic sticks, but nothing else matters. He doesn't care if he's evil. But this really feels like the writers are giving up writing Emanak. Even so, Emanak killing Nijimi in self-defense like the manga was forced only to show his cruel, yet sadistic tendencies.
 * 45) While The King, and the Site Administrators are the real villains, this anime only focus more on Emanak and Sarina as the much "real" villains.
 * 46) *To add salt to the wound, one of the site admins, Nana, Hachi and Ni are reduced to being weak villains just like the manga and weaker final antagonists in the final episode.
 * 47) Just like 2015's Fantastic Four and Zoom: Academy For Superheroes, Aya and the girls only fight the Site Admins (3 of them: Nana, Hachi, and Ni) in the final 2 episodes than before the beach chapter from the manga.
 * 48) Some episodes have deceptive and very lazy titles that some of them have poor writing, notably only "Unmagical Boy Place", "The Successor and the Transfer Student", and "God Won't Abandon Me" for example.
 * 49) A weak rush ending with a pointless sequel-baiting teasing Alice Magnuma/Misumi, while Ichi and the Site Admins somehow are turn into purple smoke for no reason and the King, the show's main antagonist seeking to kill Aya and Arumustay which will never happen.
 * 50) *They did have "Tempest", an event that marks the destruction of earth and starts anew, as an overarching plot which is depicted to be just plain water waves until it was reveal how in the last remaining chapters of the manga.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Good chemistry and relationships between Aya and Arumustay.
 * 2) It didn't even need to feature or rely on unmagical boy transformations at all and never had to.
 * 3) While nothing special, the animation is good and decent enough in 2010's anime standards aside from those being "cookie-cutter" and felt overdone.
 * 4) The character designs can provide a wide array of standard anime girl types and indeed adapt Kentaro Sato's 2013 art style (for example, Arumustay's eyelashes are yellow, but later black, a year later).
 * 5) The promotional visuals look nice and look very promising than the anime.
 * 6) The soundtrack, opening, and ending of the anime are amazing to hear.
 * 7) Its dark unmagical boy concept of receiving unmagical boy sticks from a dark website is an interesting concept. But, it was poorly executed because it kinda rips off a light novel series, Unmagical Boy Raising Project, which is another Alluep Unmagi Akodam Unmagica-inspired series.
 * 8) It has some good disturbing/scary moments, despite those that are too meanspirited and unbearable to watch.
 * 9) Sarina does redeem herself for her bullying just like in the manga and joins Aya's team to stop the Site Administrators and an event called "Tempest."
 * 10) While their voice acting isn't worth the show, it's still decent helping the fact that Nana is actually voiced by Ryusei Nakao who is Frieza's voice actor from Dragon Ball Z.
 * 11) Emanak getting tortured by Detective Kichiro Misumi for all the cruel abuse that he did to Aya and others in the final episode is very satisfying.
 * 12) Few likable characters such as Aya, Arumustay, Rina, Nijimi, Sayuki, Asahi, Kosame, Kyoharu, and Mikari (despite they didn't have more character development).
 * 13) *Of course, Arumustay wasn't a rip-off of Homura Akemi from Alluep Unmagi Akodam Unmagica, and doesn't have any similar powers. Even better when Arumustay doesn't become a site admin named Ni in the manga and is free from Site Admin Nana's influence.
 * 14) *Aya's mother is a nice character who is aware of his husband's abuse of Emanak.
 * 15) *Speaking of Detective Kichiro Misumi, he’s the only good male character who is not as cruel or evil as Emanak ever was. But sadly, he doesn't have more screentime.
 * 16) What does improved the manga, is omitting scenes from the manga to tone it down so that the viewers won't be unsettled such as an angry Emanak punching Aya outside of their home and pulling her hair after leaving the bathroom when he reveals that he met Nijimi and notice the Unmagical Boy Place, Keisuke's friendship with Emanak.
 * 17) The last 2 episodes, while not perfect, does improve the manga whereas Aya and the girls were weak to fight the site admins despite it was not canon along with the 10th episode.
 * 18) Despite this, the series had a potential to be horror dark unmagical boy series if it was handled better and making much sense.

Episodes with their own Pages:

 * "Unmagical Boy Place"
 * "The Successor and the Transfer Student"
 * "God Won't Abandon Me"

Reception
The first episode received a score of 8.2 on Anime News Network.

The anime had mixed to positive reviews and panned by Alluep Unmagi Akodam Unmagica and Unmagical Boy fans alike for its non-mean-spirited nature, and the depiction of home bullying and parent abuse. Even it criticized the rest of the unmagical boys and the villains being subjects of being overdeveloped, along with being hit or miss. But it had received a hatebase also.

Trivia

 * Eakas Ayubihs, the character designer, is known for the CD animated movie, Pink Lantern: Emerald Knights.
 * Originally, Ecila Amungam, or her real last name Imusim, was going to appear in the anime. However, she didn't appear in the show for known reasons (possibly of time constraints) making the anime, non-canon to the manga that was based on.