Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls (Mahou Shoujo? Naria Girls)

After the Ice Queen brings eternal winter to the land of Nariadia, the only hope to restore balance is to gather human warriors and give them the power of Naria crystals. For this reason, Animaru has chosen the middle schoolers Urara, Inaho, and Hanabi as warriors. The girls, however, are much more focused on mocking the events happening around them and trying to earn money as idols.

When the Ice Queen's familiars appear, they use the "Ice Mirror" to trick the girls into performing ridiculous skits. Will Urara, Inaho, and Hanabi ever step up and embrace their roles as magical girls, or will their antics prove too distracting to themselves?

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Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls Nama de Anime wo Tsukuru Sama

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Hanabi

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Koga, Aoi
Japanese

Animaru

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Ishidate, Koutarou
Japanese

Inaho

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Kuwahara, Yuuki
Japanese

Urara

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Fukagawa, Seria
Japanese

Urara's Mom

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Pink no Majuu

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Mimori, Suzuko
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Ishidate, Koutarou

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Koga, Aoi

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Kuwahara, Yuuki

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Fukagawa, Seria

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"We are Naria☆Girls (We are なりあ☆がーるず)" by Naria☆Girls [Utara (Seria Fukagawa), Hanabi (Aoi Koga), Inaho (Yuuki Kuwahara)]

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"Mezase! Kokumin-teki Chara (めざせ！国民的キャラ)" by Naria☆Girls [Utara (Seria Fukagawa), Hanabi (Aoi Koga), Inaho (Yuuki Kuwahara)]

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Dec 13, 2019

Suissuia

Recommended

Wow, this sure is an underrated anime! But worry not, cause I'm here to clear this anime's name. I've seen that reviews here do this thing were they compare the anime that they're reviewing with others similar in style and more popularity. In this case I'll be choosing Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls: even though they aren't on the same genre, they share a unique way of telling their respective stories. That's why I'll use it as a metric for rating this anime.

Story: 6/10 (1/10 if compared to other animes)
This anime engages in the common story-telling practice, usually found in seasonal animes that are 13 episodes ... long, commonly known as "developing the plot on the last four episodes". Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls does this gracefully and better that any other anime that I've ever seen, developing all of it's plot in just three episodes. A truly exceptional work of art.
Both Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls and Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls share the trait of aggressively throwing important information over our heads right before it becomes important. I must recognize, however, that Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls' plot twist is far better than Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls' one, being the latter evident as soon as the information was revealed.
What made me compare both isn't this two characteristics, however, but a more unique one: in both animes, episodes consist of characters saying stupid things in front of a microphone (which makes it more confusing when we are supposed to take them seriously on the last episodes).
6/10, since both are quite similar.

Art: 9/10 (1/10)
In this aspect Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls distinguish itself from Nyan Neko. The latter has a recognizable MMD style, contrasting with the classic MSpaint style that makes Nyan Neko so recognizable. I found that most people don't find this style particularly appealing and criticize some of it's quirks as it they were flaws. The clipping that constantly happens when a character moves is seen as a bug when it's a feature, one of the things that makes this art-style so enjoyable.
I also enjoyed that the fights were depicted as an still pictures with a different art style than the one seen in the rest of the series. It's reminiscent of Nyan~ Neko sugar girl's opening, which used the same tactic.
I only gave it a 9/10, however, since I kinda miss Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girl's style. It could be a ten, if they drew the fights using MS paint.
Also, should I include the part where they transform and look exactly the same?

Sound: 2/10 (4/10)
In this aspect, Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls definitely distances itself from Nyan~ Neko. Instead of the quality work that Nyan did with it's voice acting (especially the nurse's), we have a voice acting done by professional microphones— acceptable, I guess, but it clashes with the choice they did for the show's animation. They have bits were they can't contain their laughter or directly forget the dialog/improvise, and that's why I decided it was worth a 2 instead of a 1.
The opening was bland, the ending fells short if compared to Nyan's— but what ending doesn't?

Character: 1/10 (5/10)
Look, we have three characters: the flat chested girl, the girl who has boobs, and the protagonist. That's all, there's no other personality trait that distinguishes them. I still gave a 4 (decent) because that's how many animes are, it would be unjust to criticize Mahou Shoujo? Naria☆Girls for it.
At least in Nyan~ every character had a distinguishable characteristic that made them all lovable.
My favourite character in this show was a monster, who appeared in one episode and was sad. This character alone elevates the rating from 4 to 5.

Enjoyment: 10/10
I enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed Nyan, which is to say a lot. The dialog was amazing, the artwork was one of the best that I've ever seen and the pacing of the story was simply perfect. There's nothing else to say.

I'll break character for a brief moment in this review: yes, it was awful. But what else can I say? Is so awful that it starts to be enjoyable at some point. I mean it when I say that this is underrated: even if it isn't at My Immortal's level, I think it deserves a better recognition as the awful— yet enjoyable— anime that it is.

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Jan 14, 2024

TheSparkledash

Mixed Feelings

If you go into this show expecting a "normal" anime, you're going to be very disappointed. This is not a normal anime. The best way I can describe it is a couple VTubers doing improv sketch comedy in VR chat. There was an attempt at an overarching story, but it's so cliche that it really isn't worth paying attention to for the most part (with the exception of the final episode where everything suddenly gets way more serious out of nowhere, which gave me some serious tonal whiplash. In a good way that is)

I don't think I even need to say anything about the animation. ...

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Jul 18, 2022

AniStrawberry

Not Recommended

Oh god. What even is this? I didn’t exactly have high expectations in the first place, but they just became nonexistent the first five minutes of this garbage. I wanted to make a review, so I had to suffer through all 12 episodes and pray this would stop. I cannot wait to return to the actual anime world and not this.

STORY: The story is quite unpredictable but I didn’t like it. The ending was confusing.

ART: Look up one image of this show if you already haven’t, and you will be absolutely mortified.

SOUND: I would say it’s the show’s only strong point since I did ...

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