[Magnugiga]

Here's a fun drinking game (i.e. you'd die after just a couple of episodes) while watching Wizard: take a swig every time someone mentions the word 'hope' or 'despair'. I honestly can't recall any other KR show that hammers its theme to the audience this much. Speaking of that, apparently Koyomi's actor also played in stage version of Danganronpa. How fitting!

As for the show itself, it's very Victim/Monster of the Week-esque with gradual exposition of the core plot'characters throughout. That's not bad in itself, it's the same kind of structure that were executed pretty well in Zero One and especially W. Battles are mostly fun and flashy to watch, and I found the Phantoms design to be really good.

Haruto though... he's kinda bland, isn't he? May just be my general distaste to seemingly OP main characters from the start, but it's hard to connect with him. Just... too many powers too soon. The repetition of the same theme doesn't help, and at one point I was kinda rooting for the Phantoms instead, like, "QUICK TAKE HIM DOWN BEFORE HE PULLS OUT YET ANOTHER BULLSHIT NEW POWER!".