{"id":5623,"date":"2026-04-05T17:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/?post_type=anime&p=5623"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:02:29","slug":"the-ancient-magus-bride-those-awaiting-a-star","status":"publish","type":"anime","link":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/anime\/the-ancient-magus-bride-those-awaiting-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Those Awaiting a Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n

When Angelica sends Chise a pile of books to help with her magical studies, Chise is surprised to discover a children’s picture book among them that she once owned years ago as a child. She tells Ellias the history of how she first came to own the book; of her neglected childhood and a magical library hidden in the forest that once gave her relief from her unhappiness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is how I got Karen to start watching the series. It’s beautiful and bittersweet, an excellent introduction to Chise’s past. It gave Karen a lot of context to work with as someone new to the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The OVA is absolutely stunning, and while it is bittersweet, it’s framed in current Chise’s retelling. We see first from her lens as a child, the horror, the terror, the beauty, and then is gets recontextualized with her newfound knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Angelica sends Chise a pile of books to help with her magical studies, Chise is surprised to discover a children’s picture book among them that she once owned years ago as a child. She tells Ellias the history of how she first came to own the book; of her neglected childhood and a magical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5624,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[3],"rating":[310],"series":[1079],"smut_stuff":[],"trigger_warning":[967,511,288,292,502],"trope":[557,558,654,609,503,532,754,340,536,423,403,329,534,625,648,526,461],"tv_genre":[765,330,833,695,694,1016],"class_list":["post-5623","anime","type-anime","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","rating-310","series-the-ancient-magus-bride","trigger_warning-ableism","trigger_warning-age-gap","trigger_warning-body-horror","trigger_warning-child-abuse","trigger_warning-neglect","trope-absolute-asshole-npc","trope-bad-luck-charm","trope-cant-say-no","trope-damsel-in-distress","trope-fairy-tale","trope-havent-i-seen-you-before","trope-if-you-love-them-set-them-free","trope-last-minute-hero","trope-loss-of-humanity","trope-main-character-coloring","trope-mcs-skewed-metrics","trope-power-of-friendship","trope-power-of-love","trope-symbolism-is-a-neon-sign","trope-the-monster-is-grief","trope-tragic-backstory","trope-twist","tv_genre-drama","tv_genre-fantasy","tv_genre-paranormal","tv_genre-romance","tv_genre-shoujo","tv_genre-tragedy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anime\/5623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anime"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/anime"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anime\/5623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anime\/5623\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"smut_stuff","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/smut_stuff?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"trigger_warning","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trigger_warning?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"tv_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clorinspats.com\/mediamenagerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tv_genre?post=5623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}