This started off well, I enjoyed the premise of someone all of a sudden becoming a mage's apprentice while also teaching him about humanity (Though starting it all off by being bought as a slave girl was utterly bizarre). But in the end it didn't really do much with this premise, I was excited to see Chise learn spells and so on but we don't really get to see much teaching at all, a ton of the times she just miraculously just somehow knows what to do.

After about 6 episodes I found myself thinking it was getting repetitive, same formula over and over. Chise gets in some trouble, new character arrives to help her, it ends on cliff hanger and problem is solved in the next episode's first 5 minutes. A ton of side characters left as fast as they arrived not even giving you a chance to learn to like them and making them feel like the "Deus Ex Machina" of the week. After the first half it just ends up being super slow in my opinion which causes it to be unengaging. Some plot points even end up being pointless in the end. For example, [spoiler]we see her spend some time making a wand and I believe we only ever get to see her use it less than 3 times[/spoiler]. Maybe it's just me but I actually got the impression that this series couldn't make up its mind on whether it wanted to be episodic or actually carry an overarching plot.

I honestly thought the 3 episode OVA from 2016 was a million times better than these 24 episodes. I have not read the manga, but I've heard from fans of it that this anime series feels aimless without the knowledge of the manga and some viewers may end up confused. In the end this really just feels like Twilight in anime form.