I always felt if you want to make Rosemary have character development, you need to destroy her sword. The weight of her mother's shadow seems to hang over her all the time, but the writers don't even want to address it as being negative. The sword gets a small piece of the pommel broken and she's beside herself in grief. Imagen if it gets destroyed or something and Parsley has to forge her a new one. The show should focus on Rosemary's story that of stepping free from her mother's shadow and becoming her own woman and the new sword will be the final piece of this journey.

A moment that occurred to me: Rosemary is insisting to Sage that they simply MUST go to the academy to escape their boring lives, and Sage is resisting, pointing out that it’s super dangerous and her mom went missing and such. After a while of arguing Rosemary says, “Well, if you’re not coming with me, I’ll just go by myself!” and storms out of the room. She goes to pack her things, and leaves for the train station, where she finds Sage (The more coordinated of the two, I imagine she’d take less time to get her stuff ready) already there. And then Rosemary is like, “Sage? I thought you were staying in Pebble? [Possibly insert a direct quote from Sage’s side of the argument here]” Sage just sighs, and says “If you go alone, you’re

A magical boot camp makes way more sense for training Guardians than a magic school. But if you still want to keep the magic school angle, there is a potential workaround: due to the recent acceleration of Rot growth (caused by propagation of Terra-spheres, which are not yet known to be linked to the Rot), the demand for Guardians has spiked to the point where regular magic academies are being co-opted to train more Guardians. Basically an emergency wartime scenario.

Actually, I think I have an idea of what the Rot was supposed to be: The consequence of New Magic. In HGS, Sage often comments that you can use New Magic "without a cost" and that old magic comes with some sort of sacrifice, so it would make sense that the Rot set in after New Magic got introduced into the world. The miracles must come from somewhere. It would also explain why Sage's mother was originally a New Magic user, but did a 180 on it when she found out the true price of it, turning to only using Old Magic from then on to not further hasten the Rot.

For a split second, for a brief moment, I read the title as "Irish Guardian Spice", then wept upon the realization that that is not, in fact, the title.

Is High Guardian Spice fixable? Of course it is - that’s what you’re proving with your abridged series!

As a Jrpg player I can think of a few ways to make the first episode better. Have Rosemary & Sage fight some low-level monsters during the journey to Lyngarth to give them a chance to showcase their skills similar to Octopath Traveler or Bravely Default. This way shows that the two girls are High Guardian material.

Easiest change: kill the plot and make it a funny, light hearted, fantasy sitcom show where the main focus is relationships and identity.

Personally I'd make Mandrake Rose's brother. Dedicated to destroying the guardian institution. Why? Because while Rose and her Mother was a tale of love and inspiration, her brother's was a tale of ABUSE and intimidation. Basically Rosemary was destined to be a guardian, and her Mother is proud of her for it, but her brother was beaten for even wanting to be a guardian because his mother's a misandri- I mean she claims men taking up violence. cause the source of history's problems. However the villain group WAS interested in him. He joined them because they promised him a dream his parents emotionally and physically abused him for even having: the dream to become a great warrior. It could also lead to an interesting redemption arc where he realizes he's not the hero he dreamed of being and turns on the villains.

Personally, I'd handle weapons a bit differently. While I do think it would be better for all of them to be casters of some description, I think it'd be better if weapons were like Artifacts in Made in Abyss, as tools with specific in-built functions, for example Parsley's Hammer being able to create like explosions whenever it hits an enemy a-la Blaze Reap. By doing this it gives a much larger versatility in movesets as someone like Hakone who specialises in hand to hand combat could use a tool like the Thousand-Men pins to increase their strength or Third Works in order to increase their combat potential.

The idea of the villains being a corporation hiding the negative part of their products and how they are destroying the world is probably the smartest move.

I think instead of making the potions teacher a villain, make her a veteran with PTSD. She is using illegal teaching methods, because she believes it will save more lives in the long run. Like Moody from Harry Potter.

The potions teacher is clearly there to sabotage the guardians. Run with it. Make her one of the major villains. Have her say that she's surprised it took them so long to figure her out... She wasn't trying hard to hide it. She could have even put poison spells into the food to take out most of the academy once it's no longer useful. the spell is in their system. snap her fingers and most if not all of them collapse, weakened and easy pickings for their enemies.

Honestly I think slime boy could still be in the show as an MC but you could make his terrasphere attacks more music based like maybe he plays southing notes and melody’s to put enemy’s to sleep

Changing the school to be safer could also make a fun arc for Zinnia. She's the coward of the school, but we see that the training is designed to bring out the best in the students, and it makes her more confident and maybe even eventually one of the top students.

Honestly, I think Slimeboy could stay, just make bards a support class, like strengthening others while cc-ing the enemies.

I don't really feel so great about kicking Astor out of the school. I see a lot of potential in his character and the relationship with others. Like Rosemary for example, I see both of them being like friends but also rivals at the same time. They would have like comedic interactions with each other like a brother and sister bothering each other. They both definitely would get along well since they're both seeming to have the same interest or just lacking intelligence. Plus Astor can be a pretty useful asset to the main characters, like coming to help aid them in a situation like being trapped by spiders or something since he does have a confident but absent minded personality to do it. But only so he could show off to Rosemary. With this change I can see Astor being a fan favorite upon many.

The fun thing in these types of videos is that no two rewrites look the same, everybody has their own version and what they choose to change and what inspiration they draw from is really unique.

- As you said, I think it's best if each person is adept in specific categories of magic, rather than just focusing on the casting method.

They really missed the opportunity to make parsley an alchemist blacksmith rather than a normal blacksmith in the academy, just saying. That would've been way more interesting plus it could fix the issue of pars not really being connected to the main conflict much.