English Dub Review: TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy ” The Lesson Will Now Begin”

Overview

Makoto starts planning his curriculum and class size now that he’s employed at Rotsgard Academy. He wants to teach students to expand their use of elemental magic, but his first-class seems to think that’s simply impossible.


Our Take

Predictably, (and comically) Makoto passed the teacher recruitment exam and he wastes no time getting enrolled in a class to quickly make some hard-earned gold. And to prove that, both Makoto and Shiki will have a magical mock fight to showcase their skills, though the two may have gone a bit too far as their fight gave off Dragonball vibes in terms of how upper-tier it was.

Meanwhile, Mio continues her quest to learn proper cooking skills (which is mostly played for laughs), while Tomoe embarks on an investigation of Lake Hoshi, formed during the war between humans and demons over Stella Fortress. Later on, 5 out of 10 students decide to commit themselves to Makoto’s tutelage, yet there’s somebody jealous of his presence, while Saki makes an unintentional fan of his own…

Overall, this was quite a fun episode. Despite the two subplots not leading anywhere yet, I’m curious why they’re putting so much focus on Mio’s subplot to improve her cooking skills, or how this factors into the other two “isekai’ed” heroes that were introduced in recent episodes. Plus there seems to be a running joke that Shiki fell in love with a weird ass food in the village that sounds disgusting when you say it out loud the name. Regardless, I’m curious about where this goes next!