The Japanese card-game-based anime series Luck & Logic (VL-9/17) proved to be popular (or at least profitable) enough to inspire this so-so spinoff. The setting is a Japan where intruding aliens called "foreigners" have launched hostile attacks, but benevolent foreigners have conferred monster-battling powers on select humans, who are called "Logicalists." Here, even though principal fighting is over, the special ALCA state school continues to accept girls as fresh would-be Logicalists—just in case. Liones is an actual princess from a mythical realm, happy to step away from her clingy royal family (led by a muscleman-king patriarch with a slightly pervy attitude toward nubile girls) and hopefully bond with a foreigner of her own. Her relationship with seasoned Logicalist Nina results in much shojo-oriented comedy of earnest young heroines-in-training, who inevitably display impressive cleavage in fan-service swimsuit episodes and indulge in girl-on-girl cuddly stuff after enchanted Valentine’s chocolates make them fall for each other. Ho hum. Compiling all 12 episodes from 2017 in a dual-language Blu-ray/DVD Combo set, rated TV-14, this is strictly an optional purchase. (C. Cassady)
Hina Logic—From Luck & Logic: The Complete Series
(2017) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $64.99. Funimation (avail. from most distributors). Volume 34, Issue 4
Hina Logic—From Luck & Logic: The Complete Series
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