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Wizard Barristers

type	TV series
director	Yasuomi Umetsu
writer	Yasuomi Umetsu
producer	Shinichi Nakamura (Pony Canyon) Hiroshi Otaru (Showgate) Kazuaki Morijiri (Genco)
music	Kayo Konishi Yukio Kondou
studio	Arms
network	Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS, TV Aichi, AT-X, BS11
network en	, Anime Network
first	January 12, 2014
last	March 30, 2014
episodes	12
episode list	#Episode list

Wizard Barristers (ウィザード・バリスターズ〜弁魔士セシル) is an anime television series produced by Arms and directed by Yasuomi Umetsu.[3][4] It is set in a world where ordinary humans co-exist with magic users, and magic users are represented in law by a subset of defense attorney (Bengoshi) called "wizard barristers" (Benmashi). The series follows Cecil Sudō, who has recently become the youngest wizard barrister in history. The series aired from January 12 to March 30, 2014.

Plot

In 2018, humans and wizards live together in Tokyo. Police continue to protect order in society, but wizards known as Wud are tried according to magical law via Magic Prohibition Law, in special courts defended by wizard barristers via the Court for Magic. Half-Japanese, half-Canadian Cecil Sudō has just become the youngest wizard barrister and begins work at the Butterfly Law Office. Although Cecil has not realized it yet, she has tremendous magical potential.

Characters

Sudō Seshiru (須藤聖知)
The main protagonist who is Japanese Canadian. At 15 years old, she passed the national bar and at age 17, became the youngest wizard barrister in history. She has blue eyes and shoulder-length purple hair, mostly in two braids with multi-colored spherical beads at the ends, which shatter and have to be replaced when she uses her magic. She wears a loud colored "battle dress" including a miniskirt and rides a scooter. Her motive for becoming a wizard barrister is to rescue her mother Megumi from the death penalty. She has several magic powers, unlike most Wuds who only have one, which include manipulation of metal, fire and sand. Her most notable power is forming a giant robot vehicle called the "Diaboloid" from metal near her.
Hotaru Natsuna (穂樽夏菜)
Natsuna joined the law firm on the same day as Cecil and is initially jealous of Cecil's reputation as a wizard barrister. Eventually, after learning that Cecil intends to rescue Megumi from the death penalty, Natsuna becomes friends with Cecil. Her magic is taming dust and sand.
Hachiya Mitsuhisa (蜂谷ミツヒサ)
Mitsuhisa is a prosecutor of the Court of Magic, but resigns when he awakened as a wizard and joins the law firm. He creates fast streams of water from thin air. He works alongside Cecil in a murder case, in which a girl named Mayu Saotome killed a manager named Ken Oizumi, who killed his employee and Mayu's lover Masato Namase.
Tentō Moyo (天刀もよ)
Moyo is a paralegal assistant with the body of Lucifer in human form who is attracted to Cecil. As archangel, she has many magic powers which she hides. Moyo may sense where Cecil is, secretly protecting her from dangerous situations.
Kabutohara Tsunomi (甲原角美)
Tsunomi is a kind witch whose magic is manipulating wind into large gusts and blasts.
Sasori Koromo (左反衣)
Koromo is a witch who loves to make lewd puns accompanied by lewd actions like aggressively fondling her own breasts. Her magic is divination, or precognition, by the use of tarot cards.
Chōno Ageha (蝶野アゲハ)
The leader of the law firm, Ageha has no magical abilities, she is clever and quick thinking.
Chōno Seseri (蝶野セセリ)
Seseri is Ageha's partner and brother in the law firm. He is stern, especially towards Cecil. His magic is creating human-sized robots.
Batta Mitori (抜田美都利)
Mitori is the receptionist and computer operator of the law firm. She does not have magical abilities, but her skills to quickly and accurately analyze and process any kind of information are supreme.
Kamakiri Tobirō (鎌霧飛郎)
Tobirō is a clever old man of the law firm. His magic is illusions, such as making one person look like another. He first worked with Cecil on a murder case, in which a bowling alley manager named Takuma Kiritani was knifed by his employee Hiroyuki Suzui.

Wizard Barristers

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Butterfly Law Office

Shark Knight Law Office

Metropolitan Police Department

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Media

Light novel

Anime

Episode list

Episode list

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