i have an explanation for the "mazica" part! While Hepburn romanization, the most common form internationally, uses "ji" for じ/ジ to match how the sound is pronounced, other forms of romanization, such as Kunrei-shiki (which is more common within Japan itself) use "zi", to keep it consistent with za/zu/ze/zo, since they're considered to be the same consonant/part of the same consonant group. despite being written differently when romanized, they're still the same character and are pronounced the same, so the "majica" puns still make sense to a Japanese audience ('majin' is even romanized as 'mazin' on the logo itself, when describing the game as a 'mazincard game'). it probably would have made more sense to change it to a J when localizing it for english audiences (especially for the targeted younger audience, who probably won't know any of this information and won't make the mazica-magic connection as easily), but i imagine at that point they just wanted brand consistency with the existing japanese materials.
Scratch off cards with one time effects, 88 dollars for a pen, and non-uniform card backs. Starting to wonder if the big three were just incredible luck.
Why didn't they use an ink that reacts with UV light and the tip of the wand could be like a flashlight, instead of scraping the letter and never using the ink again it would simply become invisible over time and you would have to put the light back on to to appear ?
I've been combing through the fan wiki and I'm sorry, the Majin designs are amazingly creative and cool. DID YOU SEE THE BRIDGE DRAGON?? THE CHAINSAW STEGOSAURUS??? It's such a shame that this IP feels like it was rushed out the door before it was ready just to meet a deadline. There was so much potential here, if only they had a chance to really flesh it out
Honestly Mazica may be worse since Redakai's clear plastic card gimmick had a tangible function for the gameplay. Mazica could have literally replaced the scratch mechanic with any other feature to permanently (or better yet temporarily) alter cards and the book case and you wouldn't have lost anything. Heck it probably would have made the cards cheaper to produce and easier to afford, as the high price for the products probably was what killed the series.
I don’t care how much hate there is on mazica party, I am invested in this show and I WILL NOT STOP until I see EVERY EPISODE IN IT’S ENTIRETY!!! (If it is english subbed, of course, if not then… consequences be damned.)
Hope you enjoyed the few eps we fansubbed. Too bad it's not your thing, but hopefully others won't write it off entirely based on this disparaging video. I found the show & its designs very fun and its writing amusing despite the admittedly cheap gimmick. I'm hoping to pick the translation back up at some point when I finish up other projects.
To be fare I can totally see the Book sistem working like Pokemon where both players put their chosen unit and from there go with a main deck and a propper field. Is not so much they tried to copy other stuff is that the execution was very flawed and the greed got to them in time. In the hands of a experienced developer I can see it working. PD: I will defend Balloonya's design do, I think it looks pretty sick my only Ishue with it is that it's supose to be a Cat instead of a Rabbit which would be more fitting for a Magic releated setting
Do I sense a potential video on Level-5's decline in the future? This next Inazuma Eleven in particular is bordering on Duke Nukem Forever/Beyond Good and Evil 2 levels of languishing (won't be surprised if it misses the next release date).
I absolutely love the ascetic of this line and if I could actually read Japanese I would probably collect the cards... or at least get to finally finish watching the show which I was vibeing with until the fansubs stopped.
speaking of scratch off cards, have you taken a look at Scratch Wars again? No english release seems to exist but is still getting support with official events & reprints
I remember this game and anime first coming out and being confused as to how the scratch-off aspect would be viable in the long term .. figures that it wasn't 😬
I wonder if this is foreshadowing that you're going to do a Zatch Bell Card game review maybe an entire video on spell book cards games we need more of those! [Also how expensive are just the booklets?]
It's a shame this whole game relied on Cargo Cult logic. The rock paper scissors dynamic looks like a fun gimmick that could've easily been expanded into its own thing. But they just kept tossing in gimmicks after gimmicks and drowned out any redeeming qualities that would've otherwised shined.
@@burner555 yup appmon is a digimon spinoff, and the new digimon webmanga in the last chapter created a fusion between appmon and digimon called maquinamon.
I was going to say that spelling it mazica with a z was them being stoopid and too literal, grabbing the word as it's spelt in katakana マジカ and then romanizing it "letter by letter", while also using the old romanization standard that makes more sense in japanese than english. Then i noticed they spelt mazica with a c instead of a k... yeah no i'm completely lost in how they managed to reach that dumb spelling.
The Current Pog reboot even worse than this it's $119 for one slammer that has a chance to be real gold and 12 pog packs of 8 pog milkcaps and tied to NFT junk that just look idenical to the 90s ones. Like who gonna buy this pogs/Milkcaps are not very valuable even for impossible to find rare ones.
Maybe some poor kid can get a bunch of these packs for cheap and they can have fun pretending to be a youtuber unboxer? yeah i got nothing. Those main character names are atrocious
I wouldn’t say the next level 5 game is pure ai yet. An ai made background is understandable since that wouldn’t alter gameplay, and the people saying the white strawberries are AI, no they’re wrong, white strawberries are real in japan
@ basically for me, ai is ok, IF what it is used for is very small. And I can’t say the rumors of holy horror ai use is accurate since some people are pointing at white strawberries. Even though white strawberries are a thing in Japan. If only some minor background details are ai that is ok but not fine, if more than 20 percent is ai then it doesn’t deserve money. Basically if a few bugs in a corner are ai that is ok, if all the grass in a field is ai, then it’s a scam
@ oh ok I was unfortunately unaware of them confirming it. Hopefully they do some changes and make it you know, actually good. Else fossil fighters frontier will have some competition for the worst IP ender. And I say ai is ok if used in a such small way, if you make sure it only uses examples that are public domain or made by the one using it. Like if you wanted a flower model, then feed it some pictures you took yourself.
5:44 This is probably a stupid joke. Emphasis on the stupid. 8:45 Is it just me or do they look like Hamtaro ripoffs? 9:05 At least it's not the exact same word. I know there's a one-shot Jojos Bizarre Adventure ripoff comic called Diesel. Where they not only had their own versions of Stands. They actually called them stands.
This episode feels.... Mean spirited? The game seems pretty bad bad but the first half was just tearing into a mostly unrelated company and shitting on the premise rather then the game. Eat a snickers.
I don't believe in being kind to unoriginal, overpriced knockoffs or A.I. Peddlers. Here's the thing: I LOVED Level 5's work basically up until Yokai Watch 3, and so many of the things that have happened since, ESPECIALLY their open use of AI after making stuff like Ni no Kuni without it, was a stab in the heart. Yes, I am bitter that a studio I once respected has turned out like this. Cope.
Love the channel! But you don't get to call their how to play video cringey when i had to watch 2 minutes of a screaming skull for no reason! I'm not too interested in the humor stuff in general with this channel, especially because I think your script writing and design talk is really strong. Just not really my kinda humor.
i have an explanation for the "mazica" part! While Hepburn romanization, the most common form internationally, uses "ji" for じ/ジ to match how the sound is pronounced, other forms of romanization, such as Kunrei-shiki (which is more common within Japan itself) use "zi", to keep it consistent with za/zu/ze/zo, since they're considered to be the same consonant/part of the same consonant group.
despite being written differently when romanized, they're still the same character and are pronounced the same, so the "majica" puns still make sense to a Japanese audience ('majin' is even romanized as 'mazin' on the logo itself, when describing the game as a 'mazincard game').
it probably would have made more sense to change it to a J when localizing it for english audiences (especially for the targeted younger audience, who probably won't know any of this information and won't make the mazica-magic connection as easily), but i imagine at that point they just wanted brand consistency with the existing japanese materials.
Scratch off cards with one time effects, 88 dollars for a pen, and non-uniform card backs. Starting to wonder if the big three were just incredible luck.
It's like the only toys you have really so there weren't many options then
The Mouse Shoes should’ve been named Squeeakers (Squeek + Sneakers)
Okay that's not bad.
Zatch Bell mentioned
We need more spellbook games
I had one of them but never played the game was it any good?
@@albydragondono It has some interesting rules, but they filled the game with many really stupidly powerful cards that broke it.
Japanese Redakai doesn't exist it can't hurt you
Japanese Redakai:
And it came from takara tomy of all people too
Redakai Was somehow better designed
i kinda dig the wand and mascot designs tbf, theyre very fun looking
to note: 8800 yen is actually less than 60 U.S. dollars in today’s exchange rate.
The Yen has been inflating a lot in the past few years.
Why didn't they use an ink that reacts with UV light and the tip of the wand could be like a flashlight, instead of scraping the letter and never using the ink again it would simply become invisible over time and you would have to put the light back on to to appear ?
That would actually require effort and having a good idea
And it'd probably would be more expensive
9:10 Hey don't just throw every magical school under the bus just because of one person!
Yeah it's weird to say the _concept_ of a magical school is problematic because _one_ version of it is written by a crazy problematic person.
Well, when you get invited to said magical school via a letter delivered by a white owl, as seen in Episode 2...
7:42 not to mention the gavv belt has more pizzazz thanks to it’s chomping motion, crank, and the way the gochizou open up.
I've been combing through the fan wiki and I'm sorry, the Majin designs are amazingly creative and cool. DID YOU SEE THE BRIDGE DRAGON?? THE CHAINSAW STEGOSAURUS???
It's such a shame that this IP feels like it was rushed out the door before it was ready just to meet a deadline. There was so much potential here, if only they had a chance to really flesh it out
Another problem: "Hey, give me a sec, I have to scratch off my playing cards." *Painstakingly scratches off several inches of material.*
Man, Mazica Party repeats the exact same mistake Redakai did. Gimmick upon gimmick without any long-term idea or planning.
Honestly Mazica may be worse since Redakai's clear plastic card gimmick had a tangible function for the gameplay. Mazica could have literally replaced the scratch mechanic with any other feature to permanently (or better yet temporarily) alter cards and the book case and you wouldn't have lost anything. Heck it probably would have made the cards cheaper to produce and easier to afford, as the high price for the products probably was what killed the series.
@@thomasalvarenga2839 The fact Mazica is worse than Redakai is a medal of shame of the ages.
I don’t care how much hate there is on mazica party, I am invested in this show and I WILL NOT STOP until I see EVERY EPISODE IN IT’S ENTIRETY!!! (If it is english subbed, of course, if not then… consequences be damned.)
Hope you enjoyed the few eps we fansubbed. Too bad it's not your thing, but hopefully others won't write it off entirely based on this disparaging video. I found the show & its designs very fun and its writing amusing despite the admittedly cheap gimmick. I'm hoping to pick the translation back up at some point when I finish up other projects.
If you have the Funnycat Seeds, please share.
@@Kohdok I don't, sorry. I watched it while it was on RUclips, but they replaced the eps every week and I didn't download them.
Bug the wiki. Someone there has them. It's how I got episode 9.
To be fare I can totally see the Book sistem working like Pokemon where both players put their chosen unit and from there go with a main deck and a propper field. Is not so much they tried to copy other stuff is that the execution was very flawed and the greed got to them in time. In the hands of a experienced developer I can see it working.
PD: I will defend Balloonya's design do, I think it looks pretty sick my only Ishue with it is that it's supose to be a Cat instead of a Rabbit which would be more fitting for a Magic releated setting
GAVV Mentioneeed whoooo
oh i remember this, i watched the first episode. I saw the cards were scratched-up and was like "oh this is never gonna go anywhere"
Imagine a TCG where the cards used thermochromic liquid crystals for their gimmick. (like Rubsigns from Transformers)
Combining "collectible" and "scratch cards" sounds like something cooked up by a person who has never heard of loss aversion.
Mouse Shoes -> Mouse Chu-s, Chu = Mouse
Do I sense a potential video on Level-5's decline in the future? This next Inazuma Eleven in particular is bordering on Duke Nukem Forever/Beyond Good and Evil 2 levels of languishing (won't be surprised if it misses the next release date).
didnt expect to learn in the halloween spooktacular that zatch bell was actually a trading card game too
this was an amazing vid, everytime "i ordered it" popped up i lost it
I absolutely love the ascetic of this line and if I could actually read Japanese I would probably collect the cards... or at least get to finally finish watching the show which I was vibeing with until the fansubs stopped.
Ding the wiki to start seeding the other episodes again.
8:50 In Japan mouses's skeaks are chuchu (hence Pikachu). In that case chuchu --> shoeshoe.
12:04, looks like the zatch bell ccg book just with rings.
speaking of scratch off cards, have you taken a look at Scratch Wars again? No english release seems to exist but is still getting support with official events & reprints
I loved the use of Earthbound music.
So like, how does the electric version of the wand pen thig work?
I reviewed it on Bluesky. It was so dire it didn't deserve a video review.
Mazica because it's often translated as Z in Majin, i.e. Mazinger and a lot more
Never thought I'd see Yo-kai watch get it's own Palworld equivalant, but stranger things have happened I supposed.
Gota put these out more often! Maybe any Friday the 13th too??
Balloonya was briefly "a thing" among... let's call them inflatable enthusiasts
Man I love gavv iv now heard it Pronounced 4 different way I highly suggest the show
Haunted House/Secret of the Ghostball?
I remember this game and anime first coming out and being confused as to how the scratch-off aspect would be viable in the long term .. figures that it wasn't 😬
I wonder if this is foreshadowing that you're going to do a Zatch Bell Card game review maybe an entire video on spell book cards games we need more of those! [Also how expensive are just the booklets?]
It's a shame this whole game relied on Cargo Cult logic. The rock paper scissors dynamic looks like a fun gimmick that could've easily been expanded into its own thing. But they just kept tossing in gimmicks after gimmicks and drowned out any redeeming qualities that would've otherwised shined.
I was expecting NFTs with this gimmick.
So you couldn’t actually make a deck for the girl character cause they never released her book case?
They did, but it's odd that, of the main cast, she never got a starter kit.
@@Kohdok a relief we did get her book at least.
Can next year’s video be about bakugan gen 2?
I’m totally not saying this because I spent thousands of dollars for a game I ended up never playing.
...... appmon is a digimon clone tho?.. not a yokai-watch clone...
Isn't Appmon a spinoff?
@@burner555 yup appmon is a digimon spinoff, and the new digimon webmanga in the last chapter created a fusion between appmon and digimon called maquinamon.
Appmon is literally Digimon however the series and toys work in a similar way to Yo-Kai Watch.
It was Digimon's attempt at copying Yokai Watch.
I was going to say that spelling it mazica with a z was them being stoopid and too literal, grabbing the word as it's spelt in katakana マジカ and then romanizing it "letter by letter", while also using the old romanization standard that makes more sense in japanese than english.
Then i noticed they spelt mazica with a c instead of a k... yeah no i'm completely lost in how they managed to reach that dumb spelling.
The Current Pog reboot even worse than this it's $119 for one slammer that has a chance to be real gold and 12 pog packs of 8 pog milkcaps and tied to NFT junk that just look idenical to the 90s ones. Like who gonna buy this pogs/Milkcaps are not very valuable even for impossible to find rare ones.
Timing
Magic demon are you serious party that the in English.
Maybe some poor kid can get a bunch of these packs for cheap and they can have fun pretending to be a youtuber unboxer? yeah i got nothing. Those main character names are atrocious
I wouldn’t say the next level 5 game is pure ai yet. An ai made background is understandable since that wouldn’t alter gameplay, and the people saying the white strawberries are AI, no they’re wrong, white strawberries are real in japan
NO use of AI is understandable, especially for the company who once worked with Hayao Miyazaki's studio on a game.
It is SHAMEFUL is what it is.
@ basically for me, ai is ok, IF what it is used for is very small. And I can’t say the rumors of holy horror ai use is accurate since some people are pointing at white strawberries. Even though white strawberries are a thing in Japan. If only some minor background details are ai that is ok but not fine, if more than 20 percent is ai then it doesn’t deserve money. Basically if a few bugs in a corner are ai that is ok, if all the grass in a field is ai, then it’s a scam
@@KGKSkull People are saying it's AI because Level 5 themselves said it was AI.
And no, Ai is Theft.
@ oh ok I was unfortunately unaware of them confirming it. Hopefully they do some changes and make it you know, actually good. Else fossil fighters frontier will have some competition for the worst IP ender. And I say ai is ok if used in a such small way, if you make sure it only uses examples that are public domain or made by the one using it. Like if you wanted a flower model, then feed it some pictures you took yourself.
5:44 This is probably a stupid joke. Emphasis on the stupid.
8:45 Is it just me or do they look like Hamtaro ripoffs?
9:05 At least it's not the exact same word. I know there's a one-shot Jojos Bizarre Adventure ripoff comic called Diesel. Where they not only had their own versions of Stands. They actually called them stands.
This episode feels.... Mean spirited? The game seems pretty bad bad but the first half was just tearing into a mostly unrelated company and shitting on the premise rather then the game. Eat a snickers.
I don't believe in being kind to unoriginal, overpriced knockoffs or A.I. Peddlers.
Here's the thing: I LOVED Level 5's work basically up until Yokai Watch 3, and so many of the things that have happened since, ESPECIALLY their open use of AI after making stuff like Ni no Kuni without it, was a stab in the heart.
Yes, I am bitter that a studio I once respected has turned out like this. Cope.
The game is indeed god-awful and the anime honestly pretty forgettable but this video is just as bad, and you pretty much pointed out why
@@Kohdok Also having a cop doesn't automatically make it "copaganda".
Grow up man
I’m not ashamed to say I liked the anime OP to this, but absolutely everything else was awful.
A video about a series relating to Yo-Kai Watch is posted while Yo-Kai Watch is my current hyperfixation. Halloween is treating me good this year!
Semi-related but haven’t keep up with Level 5 in eons and disappointing this is how I learn about them becoming AI grifters 😑
Love the channel! But you don't get to call their how to play video cringey when i had to watch 2 minutes of a screaming skull for no reason! I'm not too interested in the humor stuff in general with this channel, especially because I think your script writing and design talk is really strong. Just not really my kinda humor.
peak video just for recommending Fresh instead of Heartcatch like everyone else
Heartcatch is good, but only after you've watched a few other seasons.