Nia Liston Review Finds a Four-Year-Old Who Beats Thugs and Acts on Magivision
The review singles out KONAMI animation's fight choreography and finds the show's premise working as spectacle while its thematic depth still lags behind, which makes the next few episodes the test of whether the series holds.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Anime News Network's review of Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden episodes 1 to 3 describes a reincarnation story in which an all-powerful hero wakes in the body of a sickly young girl. As Nia, she keeps her past life's knowledge and abilities, becomes a child actor to popularize magivision, and beats down unsavory types on the side. Community scores for the three episodes land between 4.2 and 4.3.
The review credits KONAMI animation with treating small stature as a choreography problem. Nia compensates for short limbs with acrobatic movement, an approach the review compares to Yoda in the Star Wars prequels. CGI gets rough in episode three, and the review says the spectacle still carries it.
What the reviewer keeps returning to is the subtitle's implication: that becoming a successful child actor may require a sociopathic streak. Characters around Nia accept her violence and adult intelligence quickly, and the review reads that as the story preparing to examine her rather than scold her.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden Episodes 1-3