The WORST episodes of The Irregular at Magic High School
Every episode of The Irregular at Magic High School ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Irregular at Magic High School!
In a world where magic is not a fairy tale but has existed for one hundred years siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba prepare to begin their studies at the elite Private Magic University Affiliated High School (Magic High School for short). Entering on different levels of the academic spectrum the two turn the once peaceful campus into a chaotic one.
#1 - Steeplechase Part II
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/2024
Tatsuya and the other Student Council members were spending their days extremely busy in order to deal with the sudden change of events for the Nine Schools Competition. However, out of the blue, Tatsuya receives an email from an unknown sender. The email states that the changes in the competition were due to pressure from the JDF, and that the Kudou Family was planning to piggyback on the JDF's order to test out a secretly developed military weapon at the Steeplechase Cross-country Event. This prompts Tatsuya to head to Nara, where the Kudou Family's stronghold is based, to find out more about the experiments they are conducting.
#2 - Steeplechase Part III
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2024
It turns out that the secret experiments that the Kudou Family has been conducting was for developing parasite dolls, a female combat robot possessed by a parasite. Experiments on the dolls' operations are being conducted at the Steeplechase Cross-country venue, where security is abnormally tight - so much so that Tatsuya himself can't even break into the premises. As such, Tatsuya orders Pixie to keep an eye out for the parasites while he conducts adjustments to the CADs and gives instructions to the underclassmen as an engineer. However, this continual sense of nervousness and nonstop days of hard work are tiring out Tatsuya. He's never felt this tired before.
#3 - Double Seven Part I
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2024
It has reached the month of April in 2096, and various aspects of Tatsuya's life are changing as he advances to the second year. Tatsuya and Mizuki transferred to the newly established Department of Magical Engineering, and Mikihiko has also transferred out of Course 2 and was now a Course 1 student. Along with this change, Tatsuya and Miyuki were now living with Minami, who was sent to stay with them by the Yotsuba Family. Tatsuya enters the school year hoping they would have a peaceful student life this time around, but the new year meant the arrival of new students, like Kasumi and Izumi, the twins of the Sagusa Family, and Takuma Shippou, the new student valedictorian who feels a rivalry towards the Saegusa Family. All of them have their own quirk or two, for better or for worse...
#4 - Steeplechase Part I
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/2024
A notice has been sent to the magic high schools across the country that a portion of the events in the Nine Schools Competition will be changed. Shockingly, three of the six events will be changed. In order to respond to the sudden change in events, First High School's Student Council is thrown in a frenzy to understand the new rules, reselecting athletes and readjusting their CADs. While everyone was complaining about the Competition's management due to the sudden change in timing, one month before the start of the Nine Schools Competition, Tatsuya had a growing suspicion about the strong military flavor of all the newly added events.
#5 - Double Seven Part III
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2024
Information gets out that Kanda, an anti-magic advocate and Diet member, will visit First High School with the media to observe the school's curriculum, claiming that he has heard disturbing rumors about it. He plans to create an uproar with the media and assert that the school is brainwashing students into the military - if he finds anything suspicious of that nature. To stop this ploy, Tatsuya suggests performing an experiment showing the students creating a Sustained Gravity Control-Type Magic Thermonuclear Fusion Reactor = Stellar Furnace. The students plan on demonstrating that the magic education they receive at the school can solve energy problems, and that magic can contribute to the peace of humankind depending on the type of magic they use.
#6 - Ancient City Insurrection Part V
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/28/2024
The night before the Thesis Competition. Tatsuya receives a report from Fumiya that they have located Gongjin Zhou's whereabouts. He was hiding at the JGDF's 2nd Supply Base in Uji. Tatsuya speculates that he would not have enough offensive power to fight alone at the JGDF's base, so he contacts Masaki. When Masaki hears that they would need to invade an army base to get to him, he hesitates for a moment but decides to accompany Tatsuya to fulfill his responsibilities as a member of the Ten Master Clans. The two invade the army base where soldiers controlled by Gongji Zhou await...
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#7 - Double Seven Part II
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2024
The entrance ceremony has ended, and club recruitment of the freshmen has begun. Amidst the competitive recruitment frenzy, the Robot Research Club and Motorcycle Club were getting in a heated stare off over a freshman that both clubs were aiming to recruit. Kasumi, from the Disciplinary Committee, and Shippou, from the Extracurricular Activities Federation, intervene. However, now the two who had come to break up the fight begin arguing amongst themselves over who should have authority over the situation, and were on the brink of initiating a physical fight. Meanwhile, Koichi, the head of the Saegusa Family, was devising a plan to mitigate the Yotsuba Family's power through a false anti-magician campaign that the USNA's Humanist Extremist group was drawing up for the media.
#8 - Steeplechase Part IV
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/2024
The women's division of the Steeplechase Cross-country Event has finally begun. Tatsuya has Pixie figure out the location of all the parasite dolls and tries to eliminate them before they come into contact with the players. However, the parasite dolls unleash their magic at speeds that exceed Tatsuya's imagination. Though it is difficult, he manages to seal away the first parasite doll. Tatsuya goes on to seal away the remaining parasite dolls one after another, but the highest-performance models, the Prime Four, now stand in his way.
#9 - Ancient City Insurrection Part III
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/2024
The nationwide Magic High Schools Thesis Competition held by the Japan Magic Association. Also known as just The Thesis Competition will be held in Kyoto. After experiencing the Thesis Competition being attacked by the Great Asian Alliance last year, Mikihiko, the head of the Disciplinary Committee, proposes to the Student Council that this year they would like to inspect the area around the venue in advance to ensure security. Tatsuya, Miyuki, Minami, Leo and Erika will also be accompanying him. On his way home after the Student Council meeting, Tatsuya learns from the news that Mayumi's bodyguard, Saburo Nakura, was murdered by someone in Kyoto.
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#10 - Ancient City Insurrection Part IV
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/21/2024
As Tatsuya is researching the Traditionalist bases in Kyoto under Minoru's guidance, he meets the owner of a restaurant, who is also a Traditionalist, on the way to Kiyomizu Temple. The shop owner shares that he is concerned about the current state of Nara's Traditionalist sects being absorbed by casters from the Continent and offers to share information with Tatsuya. Based on the restaurant owner's information, Tatsuya narrows down a place in Kyoto where the Traditionalists are hiding. He meets with Mayumi, who wants to find the culprit who killed Nakura, and Masaki, who happened to come across them during a battle against the Traditionalists, and heads to Arashiyama with them.
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#11 - Ancient City Insurrection Part II
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/7/2024
In order to obtain cooperation from Retsu Kudou to capture Gongjin Zhou, Tatsuya, Miyuki and Minami visit Nara, the home of the Kudou Family. Retsu Kudou readily accepts Tatsuya's offer and introduces him to his grandson, Minoru. Minoru is one year Tatsuya's junior, and although he is physically weak, he is said to be a very powerful magician. At the dinner table, Minoru hears that Tatsuya and his friends are looking for a traditional magic user and offers his help. The next day, as Tatsuya and the others are scouting the Traditionalists' base in Nara under Minoru's guidance, they are attacked by the Traditionalists at Nara Park.
#12 - Ancient City Insurrection Part I
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/31/2024
The Nine Schools Competition has ended, and it is now the second semester. Ayako and Fumiya visit Tatsuya to deliver a letter they were entrusted directly from Maya. The letter was a request asking for Tatsuya's cooperation in capturing Gongjin Zhou. The Kurobas were also pursuing him but lost sight of him in the Kyoto area. It seems Gongjin Zhou has been receiving help from the Traditionalists, a faction of Ancient Magicians, in his escape. The Traditionalists and the Kudou Family have been in conflict with each other for many years. So, Tatsuya decides to reach out to Fujibayashi, Retsu Kudou's granddaughter, to ask for Retsu's cooperation in capturing Gongjin Zhou.
#13 - Yokohama Disturbance Part III
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/24/2014
During the preparations for the Thesis Competition, a girl is seen carrying a wireless password breaker. Erika offers to teach Leo a move that would be lethal against his enemies. Since they are taking the day off together, rumors start flying about them!
#14 - Visitor Arc XI
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/2020
About a month after the parasite incident, Tatsuya and his friends reluctantly bid farewell to Mayumi, Mari, Katsuto and the other seniors at the 29th graduation ceremony at First High School. The time also comes for them to give a send-off to another friend who came from America.
#15 - Visitor Arc VI
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2020
Valentine's Day is a day to gift chocolate to the one you love and confess your feelings. This tradition is a source of joy and grief for many even at a distinguished institution like Magic High School. What will happen this year on Valentine's Day?
#16 - Enrollment Part V
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2014
Mibu tells Tatsuya that they are planning to let the school know of their thoughts about the discrimination among the students. An open forum is held at the school regarding the treatment of Course 1 and Course 2 students. However, there is an intrusion…
#17 - Enrollment Part IV
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/2014
Mibu meets with Tatsuya at a cafe. She thanks him for defusing the brawl between her and Kirihara peacefully. She asks Tatsuya to join their kendo team. He suspects that she has an ulterior motive…
#18 - Visitor Arc IX
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/2020
Thanks to Pixie's psychic powers, Tatsuya and his friends are finally able to capture the parasites. They leave the scene after Erika and her team arrive, but a third faction disguised as the police appear before them and get in their way.
#19 - Visitor Arc XIII
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/2020
The New Breed Front announces that they are going to explode the Offshore Tower in one hour. There is no telling whether they might set off the bomb any earlier. In order to foil the New Breed Front's plans, Tatsuya and Miyuki take Minami with them and head for the control center on the first underground floor.
#20 - Double Seven Part IV
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2024
News outlets were enthusiastically reporting the great success of the stellar furnace experiment carried out by the students at First High School. However, since Takuma Shippou had heard from his father that the Saegusa Family was going to be the ones to deal with Diet member Kanda, he thinks they used Tatsuya to claim credit for the experiment's success themselves. Takuma then takes his pent-up anger out on Kasumi Saegusa, who he happened to pass by on campus. Kasumi, unable to turn a blind eye to these insults against her family, is on the brink of engaging in a magic fight with Takuma... But then, the Disciplinary Committee intervenes before either of them makes their move, and takes them in for questioning. Tatsuya suggests they let them duke it out in an official match to end this mutual enmity between the two once and for all.
#21 - Visitor Arc XII
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/2020
Tatsuya and Miyuki are invited to a party celebrating the completion of Japan's first hyperbuilding, Tokyo Offshore Tower. At the party, they are astonished when Hayama introduces them to a young girl named Minami Sakurai.
#22 - Visitor Arc V
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2020
A parasite is an information body that was generated from the spirit dimension. How could an entity from another dimension appear in the physical world? An evil visitor of unknown origin infiltrates its way into First High School.
#23 - Visitor Arc IV
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2020
It turns out that the masked magician that engaged in a sword fight with Erika was Lina. With her identity blown, Lina uses the Parade spell to attack Tatsuya. Tatsuya attempts to disable the Parade spell by dismantling it but fails.
#24 - Nine Schools Competition Part III
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/8/2014
The bus that is carrying the students to the Nine Schools Competition is attacked by unknown forces. Tatsuya suspects that it is the work of an insider. At the banquet before the competition, students meet Kudou, the chairman of the Magic Association.
#25 - Yokohama Disturbance Part I
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/10/2014
Lately, Tatsuya has been reading about creating the Philosopher's Stone, thinking that it might have the capability to store Magic Sequences. Surprisingly, he is asked to participate in the Thesis Competition as a member of the First High School team.