Soushin Shoujo Matoi

Matoi Sumeragi wishes for nothing more than to lead a normal life away from the spotlight. She is quite satisfied alternating between school and her part-time job at her best friend Yuma Kusanagi's family shrine. But this routine life is permanently disturbed when a Night—an evil extra-dimensional entity—attacks the shrine. Matoi is able to drive it off after unwittingly calling upon the powers of a god, the natural enemies of the Nights.

Matoi and Yuma are soon joined by Claris Tonitolus, an experienced exorcist from the Vatican, and agent Haruka Luciela, who works for the secretive Night defense organization IATO. Despite not knowing the perpetrator behind these attacks nor their motive, Matoi must come to master this newfound power in order to protect both the people around her and the once normal life she holds so dear.

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Sumeragi, Matoi Main

Suwa, Ayaka Japanese

Kusanagi, Yuma Main

Oozora, Naomi Japanese

Tonitolus, Claris Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Sumeragi, Shingo Supporting

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Luciela, Haruka Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Saphirus Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Ludos Supporting

Asanuma, Shintaro Japanese

Tezuka, Hideo Supporting

Abe, Atsushi Japanese

Cariot Supporting

Hiyama, Nobuyuki Japanese

Yayoi, Amane Supporting

Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese

Oochi, Kazuaki Assistant Producer

Kamiji, Tomoyo Assistant Producer

Sakoi, Masayuki Director

Yamaguchi, Takayuki Sound Director

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Mar 31, 2017

MyGo

Recommended

One Underated Anime with simplicity and good story!

Shoushin Shoujou Matoi Probably one Anime that Majority of people didn't watch because it's aired on wrong season About Mahou Shojou ( Where Ikusei Keikaku was Aired so everyone attention will straight to that anime )

Story : ( 9/10)
the story is rather simple, it's about sumeragi matoi , a very ordinary middle school girl one day get attacked by creature called night and suddenly transformed to Exorcist girl from amulet that hands down from her missing mother as granted the power from the god . so her extraordinary day begin as she keep her everyday life and exorcist ... girl in balance.
so what deal with this story? it's simple, they kept it straight foward without make their viewer shake on various tragedy like madoka and ikusei keikaku did. so this anime really took different road. matoi herself was seeking for her day rather being ordinary, so at first she's really insist to not involved but get dragged by Yuma (her childhood friend) that later became exorcist girl too.
and not to mention most Mahou shoujou animu are focusing on Friendship or love but Matoi anime are different.
they rather focus on matoi and her father awkward relationship since she's was separated from him for couple years. each episode show how they progressing their daughter-father relationship (spoiler : episode 11 are best part)

Art (7/10): the character design are nothing special, but as expected from white fox who done re:zero and Gochiusa anime. they're really put great effort on this anime. their transform mode design are looks really great but sadly other side character and even the night are pretty plain

Sounds (10/10) :
this is one best part of this anime! opening theme are no doubt best one of the season, the rock/enka sung by M.I.A Regina really built a nice tense before the anime started and the ending song from Sphere are sounds tender and sad which potrait how the dramatic sub-plot for matoi and shingo with scene where matoi pick up shingo by bring him a umbrela. not only that, the anime ost are fantastic.
for example, the battle bgm are pretty intense with modern music with some traditional touch on there.

Character (9/10)
Matoi: The main character are the typical cute anime girl you find on a lot anime. she's cute, pessimistic, shy and a bit naive. matoi is someone who just want her everyday life going as ordinary as possible. she's get dragged by her childhood friend and ended fight night everyday.
she's also very clumsly in front of her father but she's trying hard to keep her relationship natural as ever.

Yuma : Matoi Childhood friend, probably opposite of matoi. she's hella cute, very optimistic, brave and LOUD! she's probably the one who kept me interest to this anime. yuma have exorcist bloodline so she's already gifted as one since very young but later her God are sealed by her grandpa. so at first she's kinda annoying and keep drag the MC to dangerous place but after Claris accidently break her seal. she's granted her power from 2 gods and became exorcist girl as well

Claris: to be honest nothing much to tell about her. she's always move and act if only there's command from her supervisor. so until she's friend with yuma and matoi, she's really cold, knight-ish, and mean toward other one. her objective are for revenge her old partner after got attacked by night and fall to coma state. even when she's get along with both of them, clarus still kinda emotionless but later on episode 11, she's finally show her emotion and for the first time denying her supervisor command.

Enjoyment (9/10) : this anime are kinda breath air for Mahou shoujou anime. it's only 12 episode with a lot opposite aspect of mahou shoujou you see nowdays. so you find a lot cliche in this anime but their presentation are somewhat very enjoyable so you kept your interest and keep watching

overall (9/10):
highly recomend this anime if you like something extraordinary yet very ordinary. it's like watching slice of life anime but with some action and story progression. so there's some intense and story plot that keep your interest and invest but there's also some healing factor as we seen a lot on CGDCT anime

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Mar 30, 2024

justinharsey

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (10/12 eps)

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When it comes to creating any series, trying to maintain a certain level throughout is a challenge. One problem with short run anime is trying to shove in as much content as possible in the time allotted when it's clear that the idea needed more time to fully develop. For this series, it falls apart by the 9th episode.

The reason I watched this series is because I like to look into certain individuals or studios and what all they've done. Currently that is studio White Fox. Being their only original work, this magical girl series has a unique take and is more playful with itself ... than it appears (given the stigma of the genre), but it's potential starts to wain with its quick run time.

The 9th episode starts the downfall. Up until his point, the series was well-paced, the lore & mystery was intriguing, the character were fun to watch, and was direct pretty fine for 2/3 of its life. One problem with this is how much time is given for the series' finale. Episode 9 kickstarts the final arc with a lackluster directing, a crammed plot, a villain that appears and dies as quick as they came giving no time for any sense of what they are about, and important plot stapled in. The following episode only suffers in the same manner adding the common problem of many anime of having characters babble out their thoughts and ends with random twist villain cliffhanger moment.

This is not to fault the team behind it. The animation is good; not White Fox's best but not unwatchable. Episode 6's self-aware opening where the comedic character inserts her face over the other girls is a fun little laugh. This is one of those cases where it should have been a 2-cour series, but being original it probably is harder to sell that especially given the saturation of the media increasing in the 2010s.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 26, 2017

ismichi

Not Recommended

In order to avoid spoilers, I'll sum things up instead:

The story allowed room for so much simple, generic mahou shojo goodness. What did the series decide to do? Ignore at least half of the things it set up to be done. Which left both loopholes and a lack of theme to prevail. Instead making it super complicated with no resolve to be had.

Like, I could've gotten behind this series. But every time something was set up, my disappointment was rising -- time was running out and nothing seemed to be getting resolved SO MUCH AS TOUCHED AGAIN.

I wasn't even expecting it to ... be something super serious or "groundbreaking", etc. I just wanted something simple and cute. But I was met with half-attempted storytelling, and got angry instead.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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