Mahou Shoujo Site

i really like the story i haven't gotten caught up that much yet but too me its good though i hate her older brother and the bullies but other than that i like the main character. I'll be brutally honest when i say this i have watched all kinds of anime over the years i saw the same material over and over but Mahou Shoujo Site is pretty good to me and i'm keeping my statement and no one will be able to tell me otherwise. Yes there are some points in the story that aren't that good i'll admit that but while some points ... aren't good others are, i love anime like that.

(This review contains minor spoilers about the characters.)

Terrible Magical Girl anime is a guilty pleasure of mine. Ever since Mahoiku aired in late 2016, I've been wanting more bad Magical Girl anime, and this anime definitely delivered.

Story - 1

The story revolves around Aya Asagiri, Despite the fact that she has done nothing wrong, everyone she meets absolutely despises her. She's relentlessly bullied by her peers at school, and physically assaulted by her older brother every night. Then out of nowhere, a creepy website grants her a magic stick. Except, like all pseudo-horror magical girl anime, there's a catch. A being called the Tempest is preparing ... to end the world, and only one magical girl can survive.

It's extremely cliche, definitely been done better before. There isn't much to be said other than it's an absolute train-wreck of a plot.

Art - 6

There's nothing wrong with the art. Character designs are okay at best, nothing appalling but nothing breathtaking. The only nitpick I have is with the idol group, Dog Play. All of the members except Nijimi look like boring background characters. They all have brown hair, no effort at all was put into their designs. It'd be passable if they all just had colourful hair like Nijimi does, but it seems they didn't care enough about them to do that.

Sound - 5

None of the music is memorable at all. I come back every week having forgotten what the background music even sounded like. The sound effects are adequate.

Character - 1

The characters are terrible. Seriously, I could rant about them for hours. I'll provide a brief summary of my feelings for each major character that has been introduced so far.

Aya Asagiri - Boring damsel in distress type character who everyone treats like trash for no reason other than to give her a sad backstory.
Tsuyuno Yatsumura - The stereotypical "mentor" character. Most magical girl anime has one of these characters. Her backstory is just about some guy who murdered her family for no reason at all.
Kaname Asagiri - That one guy every female character is falling over for. His parents have unrealistic expectations of him, so he beats up his sister to let off his stress. Disproportionate? You bet. He seems to only exist to create conflict.
Rina Shioi - Also probably only exists to create conflict. She goes around murdering other magical girls to steal their sticks, just to almost get herself killed because of it.
Sarina Shizukume - One of the most unlikable characters in the series, and that says a lot seeing as they're all unlikable as hell. She doesn't have an ounce of empathy within her, and the majority of her dialogue is just her not listening to the other person and forcing the blame of all her problems over to Aya. I mean, yeah, her friend was killed. Absolutely tragic. This must justify how unlikable she is, am I right?!
Nijimi Anazawa - Actually off the rails at this point. She will stop at nothing to kill the person who killed her friend, she'll even go after her own friends without a second thought. Her complete 180 would have been surprising if it weren't for the fact that literally every character does it too.
Kosame Amagai - An emo girl with the edgiest power ever. She's the reason why I lost all faith I previously had in this show's ability to tell a compelling story. She's literally just a plot device created to make things convenient, she's also an annoying edgelord.

Enjoyment - 7

The only reason why I'm enjoying this show is because I love laughing at terrible magical girl anime. If I didn't, I'd have dropped this show after the first episode.

Overall - 2

If you want to spend your night laughing at a terrible show with terrible characters, then this is for you. However, if you're going in looking for a compelling story, you've got another thing coming. This anime should only be watched when there's absolutely nothing else you can watch.

So, firstly, I'll admit this show is far from perfect. I can totally see why some people have given this show as low as a 2 rating overall. MSS is a dark, unfeeling anime that is truly not for everyone.

The abuse, torture, etc. of the MC, Aya, is essentially a plot device to drive our sympathy for her. Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I do think it could've been made a bit... less dense. In the first ten minutes of EP1, sadness is just fired nonstop, and while I guess you could say that's to represent how, from Aya's perspective, it *is* ... nonstop, it still feels like too much at once.

The bully characters are written a tad too heartless for my tastes, as they seem to enjoy literally nothing but making her sad. I'm not going to spoil, but the reason why the bully her is just... so dumb. I mean it's so fucking stupid, the first time I saw it I was literally in open-mouthed awe at the unrealistic stupidity of it. The conflicting emotions the show tries to make you feel (making you sympathize with one of the bullies) is completely undermined, at least for me, personally, by the fact that she is so clearly unredeemable.

Okay, so, why an 8 out of 10? Simple. I genuinely enjoyed this show. Despite everything, no matter how bad or good this anime may be, I actually liked it. I was curious to see where it went, I think the plot was engaging and well-paced, twists were reasonably built up to, etc. I can't necessarily say I recommend MSS, but if you think you're in the mood, you should give it a shot. Just... make sure you're in a good mental place, first.

(NOTE that my ratings are influenced by my knowledge of the manga)

I was afraid to watch the anime because I heard this was a bad adaptation, and after watching it, I can see why. The anime, imo, did the manga little to no justice, and if you're at all interested in this series, I highly recommend reading the manga.

The anime changed the series the events occurred in and never fleshed the characters the way it is in the manga. This could be due to the anime trying to adapt an unfinished manga, which deserves more than 12 episodes to be adapted properly, but even then, ... I feel that this could have been adapted better.

The worst part of this, imo, is the ending. It was just thrown together because the fate of the two characters in question have not been revealed. The anime tried to create a concluding end, and that makes me believe that we will not be getting a season two. Honestly though, I don't even want a season two, because if we did get a season two, it would be an entirely new series since stuff that happened in the anime completely alters the plot and some characters in the manga. If anything, a completely new adaptation is needed.

An anime I can liken to this is Akame ga Kiru. The manga was adapted before it was even completed, and because of this, the fate of a handful of characters was completely different. It takes away from the experience after dedicating time to reading the manga, and it was just a huge disappointment.

I can only hope that when the manga concludes, we will get a proper adaptation. The characters develop a lot more, and the plot is deeper (in some aspects), and this was all thrown away in this adaptation.

I guess I can say that the anime was entertaining enough. The art and animation was good enough for me to not be driven away by it, so I enjoyed that. Something manga readers look forward to is the series you are reading get animated on screen, and that was the elation I felt when seeing the characters come to life with voices and colors. I still am disappointed in the adaptation overall, but I enjoyed seeing these characters on screen.

I’m so pissed off. Not just because I felt like I wasted my time with this show, but also because this had all the right ingredients to be a great experience. Mahou Shoujo Site might seem like yet another Madoka clone, but this one combines elements of shows like Mirai Nikki to try and have a more unique spin on the genre. Although it started off extremely compelling and interesting, the show eventually got boring and frustrating to watch, although the ending was not as bad as it could have been.

Not everything was bad, though, even near the end of the show. The visuals, while ... initially appearing strange and even dated, are not all that bad. The music, while unmemorable and sometimes shamelessly taking cues from Madoka Magica, also suited the scenes well. The animation was pretty good and the character designs were a little unique. The base premise of pitting magical girls against each other in a Mirai Nikki-like competition based on the rules from some mysterious website is also not the worst, and introducing ideas such as the end of the world, while unoriginal, do make the stakes higher.

What makes me angriest are the numerous places this show fucked up and lost all of the potential it had to be a great show from the first episode. One of these areas is character development, which is unfortunately very botched. Right from the first episode, we are immediately attached to the main character Aya Asagiri and want to see her at least get one over the people that are bullying her, if not just get revenge on them. However, this show manages to take a character that was initially likeable, pitiable, and (for some unfortunate people) relatable and turn her into a non-compelling dumbass who pisses you off every time she’s on screen. Why? Why does this show insist on making her an unrealistically nice dumbass rather than someone who grows with her experiences? Aya experiences hell every day, yet still has sympathy for the people that cause that hell? At least instead of killing them once she gains her powers, she should be less hesitant about defying them. But when any sort of character development—mainly regarding her strength as a magical girl and attitude—finally comes for her, it is too little too late.

Unfortunately, the “just make her a complete dumbass or way too weak” problem with this show doesn’t stop with Aya. Nearly every one of the good guys falls victim to this issue, especially during a certain scene. Even magical girls that are supposed to be more intelligent such as Tsuyuno Yatsumura, Kosame Amagai, Kiyoharu Suirenji, and others are purposely dumbed down whenever it is convenient for the story, which usually seems to be to make a villain feel more smart or threatening than they really are. Imagine one person going up against multiple, but instead of any actual fighting, the one person manages to incapacitate all of them and just have fun being an asshole until some deus ex machina saves the day. There was nothing smart about how he got the upper hand; everyone else was just unrealistically dumb. It felt like I was watching a male power fantasy. Why was all of this caused? Because Aya STILL does not want to have the people that have abused her harmed or killed even later in the series! It is frustrating for all of the wrong reasons.

Aside from characterization gripes, there are also rules of the universe that seem to be wildly inconsistent, although this is a little more of a minor gripe. Case in point, the [MINOR SPOILER START] rule that magical girls can only use their powers so much in a limited time and that in general every time they use their powers their lifespans decrease. [MINOR SPOILER END] For some reason, this rule only seems to apply for the heroes and never for the villains. Why can a villain use their ability numerous times in the span of a few seconds with virtually no consequences while Aya or Tsuyuno cough up blood or collapse after using their powers no more than ten times? It just makes it feel like the villains are not actually outplaying our heroes, but rather just cheating because of bad writing.

However, by the ending, it felt like the writer was listening to my thoughts as my criticisms regarding how unrealistically dumbed down the characters were basically vanished into what I thought was an excellent fight sequence. The rules for how often magical girls can use their powers were still inconsistent, but this time in worked in favor of the heroes, so I guess it balances out? Not really, but whatever. At the very least the show didn’t end on a sour note.

All in all, Mahou Shoujo Site has a pretty good premise but is unfortunately weighed down by being wildly inconsistent in a lot of things and being unable to make some villains threatening without making the protagonists incompetent. Despite what may have seemed like nothing but criticism and contempt for this show, I did actually enjoy it. Even though it was incredibly edgy at the start, I actually wished that they would embrace that more. The story line was also interesting enough to keep me watching at the very least. As much as I would like to recommend this, those middle episodes destroyed my faith in this show so thoroughly that I don’t think you’d be able to come out of those without feeling immensely disappointed. You might be better off with the manga for this one.

The first couple of episodes are a great depiction of the human psyche... and the greatness ends there

The one interesting element this series had quickly gets drowned out by an over the top plot, eccessive amount of new characters with zero time to develope them, changes of heart which make absolutely no sense with little to no credibility, nonsensical powerups, and even more characetrs which pop out of nowhere in random episodes seemingly with some importance to the plot only to then be completely forgotten, all neatly wrapped up in one of the most lackluster endings of all time

I'd only ever recommend this series if ... you want to watch it for a laugh, 'cause it does have one of the most hilarious magical items in the universe
Other than that it's just wasted potential

I don't know what to feel about this anime. But I guess, it was worth the watch??? Or not, I'm not sure.

The story instantly hooked me on in ep 1, the uhm... edgy feel (?) gave me chills that made me wana watch more of it. But the more the story progressed just had me dying, it was very, very, typical.

Art? I'm not sure if I'm happy about it either. I'm not the type of guy who likes going into the juiciest bit of very uncommon data, but I'm guessing this wasn't made with the best of the best staff either. It was ... typical, I guess. maybe?

Sound? I very much like both intro and outro, it's not *catchy* but its the type of opening that sounds good and you just cant skip it, just because the song is good.

Character... I am honestly disappointed, not because of personalities but how much of a big hypocrite everyone is, I do enjoy the Yatsumura x Asagiri ship, but everything is literal trash. I am scratching my head why no one hasn't killed anyone when they so much hate the other. They got over everything so quick like: "Hey girl, im sorry i tried to break ur neck and nearly kill u, i still dont like u tho haha but wana hang out on the beach?" "Oh okay sure girl, i hate you as well but why not as well have some f u n at the beach"

I like beach episodes, but when its very forced into a show that doesnt fit its theme? Not sure about it, tho there were shows that werent the happy tag and managed to pull off a beach episode like Another, which i totally enjoyed, it really is weird when just the other episode they were trying to kill each other.

Enjoyment? mm... sure... i enjoyed, i guess. maybe.

Overall 7/10, i dont know. im not a huge fan of the show and i most probably will not ever in my lifetime touch the manga. I guess its worth the watch if you really have nothing else to watch, or just want to clear ur damn watchlist. But if ur in for the "edgy" stuff, i think you will be disappointed lol

There's not much to add to everything else said in the other reviews, except for this: If you can't tell the difference between violence and pointless edgy shock value, you shouldn't be writing reviews, and shame on everyone who made the "most helpful review" a 7, this deserves a 4 at best.

Why "pointless edgy shock value" you ask? There's no development on the characters and protagonist at all, just a cute damsel on distress getting attacked by all kind of people for no apparent reason, making you try to feel bad for her.

They even copypaste the whole "end of the world and magical girl's negative ... energy" aspects from Madoka Magica, there's no reason to watch this anime over that one honestly.

The end also is sudden and forced, leaving a terrible taste in your mouth.

This is... an acquired taste. It's edgy as hell first episode belies a surprisingly warm character drama. The 2010s Tumblr-esque aesthetic hides a crazy Esoteric plot that would rival Evangelion... if it ever got a second season. It misses some character development, the pacing is awful, and I... kinda loved it. The art style certainly leaves a lot to desire, and the EdgeTM is definitely an issue, particularly in the first episode, but push through it to watch an actually intriguing and pretty good anime. It's just a shame it ended so abruptly, with little to no chance of a second season - just when ... it seemed to be getting into the nitty-gritty, too.

Underrated anime.

Mahou Shoujo Site is what happens when you try to mix all sorts of weird psychological gimmicks without ever thinking how it would go. It is about miserable girls that are turned into magical girls by being given magical 'sticks' gotten from a website called Mahou Shoujo Site.

The show starts by showing our main protagonist being bullied and abused 24/7. I feel like all of these scenes are supposed to make you feel bad and sympathize with our protagonist, Aya Asagiri. But what it really did is making it painful to watch. Fortunately, it is only like this in the beginning.

All those misfortune made her ... get a magical stick after stumbling to Mahou Shoujo Site. After first using her magical stick, she encountered another magical girl, Tsuyuno Yatsumura. Together, they form some kind of bond, while fighting off the problems that is hidden in the Mahou Shoujo Site. Along the way, they will meet some other magical girls, some become the focus of future episodes.

The theme in this anime is usually some kind of dark psychological atmosphere. Occasionally, there is some moments they tried to make it heart-warming when the characters remind themselves of their bonds. But if course, it fails to make you feel those dark atmosphere or sympathize with the characters because of how utterly ridiculous the scene is. Some scenes are absolutely ridiculous that you will be unable to watch this seriously and just start laughing.

The characters are made super unrealistic and are in no way relatable. Our main character just tolerates all the abuse that she gets. Her brother (the one that abused Aya) is someone who looks down on litterally everyone but himself.  There is also Nijimi Asazawa, who is an idol at surface but actually just wants to kill someone horribly underneath. Some characters also went through drastic changes with only little time (sudden development), they are hostile towards the protagonist at first, but easily changes sides to helping her. All these characters are made very messed up, it might not necessarily be bad if you like watching extremely messed up characters.

Art and music are not impressive either. The anime's ending is also one of the weirdest one i have seen. It is live action dancing with flying sperms in the sky. I think it is supposed to have some kind of connection to the story, but i can't help thinking how weird it is.

Taking everything into account, while the premise is quite unique or weird, this anime is just a horrible mess of gimmicks including, but not limited to, magical girls, psychological problems (abuse, murdered relatives, etc), and psycho genius brother. It fails to make us care about the characters, even when we are given half-episode-long backstory. But can it be entertaining? Yes. It is so bad that you can get enjoyment watching its badness, or you could actually become curious on how it will progress.

This story tells us about something about a person's experience through bad things. Aya and Yatsumura had a tragic experiences which leads them to be able to access the website in their desperate situation. It just explaining that every 1 people out of 1 million of people maybe suffers this kind of situation out there and crying for help. This situation is just a fact of a reality that really happens. It just the story of the anime the author thinks that what if they are given a chance to change their situation but it will cost their own life. It just what if ... in reality also these persons who are suffering made a contact on something or unknown power,Will they make a revenge to the ones who made them suffer or will they forgive them.

I liked the animation too. Its just there are different companies that draws anime like highschool dxd series which receives a lot of changes in Hero(Season 4) but I still love the original art of the series. The facial expression tells us what really an emotion should the character have just like in reality if your angry or mad your emotion should be in enraged situation, or somewhat killing intent to the the person you want to have revenge. Same animation in Kakegurui. Its not boring and I am really excited what will happen in Episode 6 until the end. I find this anime interesting (Omoshiroi).

Well that's my opinion, I do respect other's opinion and review for this anime
but as for me I love anime and this adds to my collection of the Greatest Anime That I Haved Watched.

Peace Yo!!

- Finally my review of Mahou Shoujo Site, the anime that most surprised me in the spring season 2018; beginning with the story that is simply sensational, the story begins a bit confused but soon becomes interesting and with several epic moments, but in general does not have much to say of history, is a story ''different'' but extremely interesting and surprising.

- Now on the technical side, unfortunately the technical part of Mahou Shoujo Site does not stand out much, it is a good but simple technical part, both in its animation as in its visual; now if you have something that stands out for ... sure it's the soundtrack, which is simply excellent and captivating in a way; another highlight is his direction that is simply excellent, he can easily create epic and thrilling scenes, highlighting episode 5, in short, Mahou Shoujo Site has a simple technical part, but an excellent soundtrack and direction.

- Now about the cast of characters, which is the greatest positive point of the work, the characters are extremely captivating and all possess their own personalities and of course all are well developed throughout the series, especially the protagonist Aya Asagiri who in my opinion had the best development throughout the series, in short the cast of Mahou Shoujo Site is simply excellent.

- Mahou Shoujo Site undoubtedly is the anime that most surprised me in the spring season 2018, it is amazing how the series manages to create tension scenes so easily, in addition to clear some more emotional scenes, finally Mahou Shoujo Site has a story '' different" but extremely interesting and surprising, plus a first-rate direction, sensational soundtrack and of course a great cast of characters, without doubt is my second favorite anime of the spring season 2018, and for sure I more than recommend it to everyone Mahou Shoujo Site, a simply amazing anime !! 💘😍💙 !!

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never before have i been compelled to write a review of an anime, but here i am. i watched this show on a binge of bad anime with my friends, and after viewing this after magical girl raising project, there's really only one thing that i can say about it:

site makes raising project look like madoka in comparison.

for context, i don't like either of these shows. i also don't think that madoka should be blamed for the boom of bad dark magical girl anime, because if these shows really were made to follow in the footsteps of madoka's success, then they fundamentally, horribly ... misunderstand what made madoka good in the first place. to each their own, and i'm sure there's a lot of edgelords in this world that will think site is a good piece of media for its lazy and pointless abuse of its underdeveloped, unsatisfying characters, and that's fine, i guess. but if you're someone that enjoys madoka, or even just something with a good plot and characters then, like. don't even bother with this one. seriously.

the art style is fine, i think. the music is also fine. but any entertainment i got out of site is solely from the fact that i watched this with friends knowing that it was a horrible excuse for a deconstruction of the magical girl genre (and i think that calling it even that is too high of a praise).

because welcome to magical girl site, where if the girls aren't being tortured or abused, they're torturing someone else, probably. for what it's worth, there's breaths of fresh air away from the 'edge', but they're always filled with extremely boring melodrama or moments that might have been touching if i didn't find the characters sharing these moments to be dull as well. even though magical girl raising project also shares site's problems of having shock value and death mean nothing to the characters or story's development, at the very least, it was entertaining. site is just. boring.

from the very beginning, our protagonist is hit back-to-back with horrible things in a horrible world, and instead of developing her, it just felt as though the show was squawking at me; "do you feel bad? do you feel bad yet? do you feel bad for her? she's so pitiful and sad! look, she's crying! she's hurt! do you feel bad yet? do you feel for her?" which is the first and one of the most glaring, lazy ways that this anime tries to go about getting you to care for its characters. i'll avoid spoilers by detailing other ways this anime tries to go about its characters, but if you enjoy a show treating its audience as though they have a brain, you won't enjoy anything about this anime.

there are some people will say that none of this matters, because the anime isn't trying to be serious. i disagree. this anime spews a lot about misfortune, suffering, friendship, and even love - with this alongside the touching character moments, i believe this anime is completely taking almost everything seriously (aside from its obviously comedic moments). if you can get through this believing that it's just some silly show, then, like... power to you, though.

if you like madoka magica for its deconstruction of the magical girl genre, its characters, and the way it portrays despair and hope, then don't watch this anime. if you're on the other side of the spectrum and enjoy watching bad anime, then... also don't bother with this one, or if you're really curious, watch it with friends, because when i wasn't busy laughing with friends about the appalling writing choices, site was dead boring.

you'll probably only like this show if you don't care for plot, don't care for characters, and if you're someone that likes to call themselves an edgelord that enjoys the relentless onscreen abuse of young female characters, in which case... power to you, i guess?

tldr; if anyone recommends this anime to you believing it to be a masterpiece because girls die and get hurt just like in madoka, they were lying. go watch something else.

Short review (spoiler-free):

In a nutshell, Magical Girl Site is a very interesting dumpster fire to watch when you want to lower your mean score on MAL. To respect the top review of this show here on MAL and its honorable reviewer, I will try to avoid the word "edgy" in my descriptions and comments here. This anime is comically over-the-top almost all the time, and don't expect any decent pay-offs in the plot or character development. Telling from the mangaka's works (Magical Girl of the End in 2012 and this one), he probably got his brain fried permanently after watching Madoka Magicka, and developed ... a condition that drove him to compulsively trying to outdo Madoka in all the wrong departments. Many scenes in MG Site gave the impression that the mangaka was writing this story in the height of a psychosis episode when he needed proper treatment he just said "fudge it" and instead took a bunch of LSD.

Baseline quality: 4.5/10. Look, I won't pretend that it's the worst anime ever made. There are some merits and qualities to the show. However, I also cannot pretend it's worth something more than 5/10.

Recommended to: "sick effs who just want to get off messed-up stuff" according to the top review here. People who get ironically entertained on a meta level by The Room. People who want to watch some real bad anime in order to lower their MAL mean score.

Pros and Cons: (Minor Spoilers)

+ Pretty solid art and interesting character design (save for a few broken frames). Almost every character is distinguishable (which is a quality many better shows cannot claim to possess). I feel bad for the animators as they deserve a much better story for their efforts.
+ Dramatic OST and songs work more often than not.
+ A few decent battle sequences and a mildly interesting climax.
+ Unintentionally comedic in some instances. (one pivotal scene with the MC's evil brother, for example).

- I went in with expectation of about 6/10 (in the spirit of finding a few grams of gold nuggets in a mountain of manure) but still got more cringes than I asked for. An example is a girl's funeral which took half an episode with the main characters crying nonstop...despite the fact that they never knew that girl that well.
- Too morbid for any believability. The population in the world of MG Site is made up with about 90% psychopaths, sadists, yanderes or other over-the-top degenerates. Everyone has skeletons in their closet, but in this world almost everyone is just batshit crazy. This story may as well be set in the Arkham Asylum, seriously.
- Took the worst from Madoka, Mirai Nikki among other "dark anime" and multiplied them by 10. You want some type of malicious cosmic force like Kyuubey? Well how about 100 of them, all sounding, looking and acting dramatically demonic all the time? You want some cruel battle royale with super powers? Well, how about 10 Yuno Gasai but in different hair colors? You want a tragic main character? Well how about having literally everyone in her life be a sadistic degenerate, adding all the tragic traits from all sad stories on a calculator? You get the idea.
- Predictable. As a mystery thriller set in an expanding fantasy world, the main arc follows the Madoka formula pretty closely. When you expect the show to somehow hit you with a "theater of the absurd" curveball in pivotal moments, it more often than not hit you with the same old pitchfork. Take the "friendship"/Yuri love between Aya and Tsuyuno for example, when you think the show was genuinely making their bond somewhat more believable and relatable than Madoka and Homura, the show just threw this relationship into a microwave and turned the power to maximum.
- The 12-episode anime is an adaptation of the first 50 or so chapters from the manga, as if they were really expecting it to be the next phenomenal hit that lasts years with multiple seasons. Well too bad there won't ever be a 2nd season, as it seems.

Extra thoughts: (More spoilers)

Writing reviews is more revealing about ourselves than it is for the objects we review, sometimes. In that regard, I am actually thankful for MG Site the anime, for it helped me articulating something I disliked about Madoka Magicka in the first place. You see, when a writer designs a story around a fundamentally hopeless cosmology, all the narratives of hope and love the writer tries to bring out also becomes extra artificial and manipulative in nature. That is why as poignant as the girls' rebellion was in the show, or as commendable as Aya's declaration of hope is at the end of the show, the thematic integrity of MG Site simply does not work. As gleefully morbid as the mangaka's writing usually feels, I think there are still serious themes he tried to convey. This core problem as I mentioned is not as apparent in Madoka, but just think about it.

It's a Puella Magi Madoka Magica wannabe parody that can't do anything right, the plot is all over the place, the villains are all badly stupidly written with nothing to go for, companions' background is not properly developed, and for some godawful reason, they had to add a beach episode

Its worst sin, it deviates a lot from the manga's story but not for the better, were it a faithful but incomplete manga adaptation I would have been slightly generous with my rating, but only slightly

If someone wants to know the anime/manga differences, here they are below:

Chapters 01-17 - there are differences.
Chapters 18-31 - ... major differences.
Chapters 32-42 - almost coincide with episodes 8-9.
Chapters 43-45 - there are differences with the first half of episode 10.
Chapters 46-55 - terminal difference in plot.
Chapters 56+ - not filmed.

Most people are hating this anime, since it's "edgy". And that's the exact reason why I like it, tbh tho I wouldn't have finished this anime if my friend didnt bugged me about finishing this.

The story is great and all, but the characters are just undeniably frustrating. For example the mc, asagiri. It was as if, that she was a sorry excuse for an main character. No matter how you look at it everyone has an breaking point, so I was expecting for asagiri to fight back, but in the end i was just disappointed.

Now the art, it was good and was the only thing ... that kept me from not watching a different series. I remember finishing 3 eps. and my reaction was "That was 3 eps? I thought I almost finished the whole series", due to the lack of enjoyment.

Next, the OP's and ED's. I never skipped an anime OP, so I basically listened to the op for 12 times, and I must say i wasn't hooked with it. Although I started listening and liking it when my yt recommendations showed the OP for this anime. And now the ED, as a person who watches anime since she(me) hates reality shows. I LITERALLY SKIPPED THE ED THE MOMENT I SAW ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS, since i was watching due to my love for animations. I listened to ed again in YT where I can only see anime characters, and I was glad I always skipped the ED, since the music is just plan old classic unoriginal song.

I don't even want to talk about the character and enjoyment, since everything is just so messed up.

Definitely not the greatest show but I'd be lying if I said that I didn't enjoy my time watching it. In the beginning it's front loaded with immense amounts of dark and depressing subjects but I'd rather watch a train wreck than paint dry which is what the latter half of the season suffers from. When I think back on this show I immediately think to the more absurd things at the start, whereas the second half feels like they ran out of edgy things and realized they needed an actual plot. However! The magic system is very cool and I really enjoy it! I ... just wish such a good magic system was attached to a show I could earnestly recommend for something other than an ironic watch. If you're looking for a way to kill time or have a "bad anime night," with friends, this is for you.

Mahou shoujo site is a poorly done adaptation which lead the anime to be full of plot hole and incoherence and it also tries to munch to be dark which leads it to be ridiculous more than anything. But in a certain way, that’s also what made it enjoyable for me.

The overall animation and visual of the anime are good. Nothing stunning but nothing bad. I really liked how the anime manage to be colorful and still maintain an overall dark atmosphere, I really liked the using of light, shadow and colors during the whole anime and the chara-designe of the site-admin are also very ... creative and interesting. I would just say that in therms of staging and imagery, the anime is kinda poor.

The sounds in the anime are also good, there’s nothing to say about it. But the musics are kinda bland. There’s nothing very original and there’s no particular theme that manage to stand out. The only theme that manage to stand out for me, and not in a good way, was “Innocent Murderous Intent”. The song is basically your very cliché horror song with kids singing and it makes every scene it’s used in more kitsch either than making them more scary or disturbing.

The opening is very good. I think that it really manage to retransmit well the dark atmosphere the anime is trying to create. The ending on the other hand… I can really take seriously actress in school girl uniforms dancing on the top of a building with giant 3D sperm flying around them. And as far as I’m aware there’s no particular symbol or something like that that justifies it.

The characters are very bland. Most of them are bad person ( which doesn't mean they are badly written character ) and because of their way of thinking and acting they will confront the consequences of those, but they will never be questioned or learn something through those events which lead those character to never grow or change. The only development characters in this anime have is their background ( which is sometimes thrown just before the death of the character just to hope you will miraculously become attached to them ) which is basically always the same: “some bad shit happened to me ( bullying or murder ) so now I’m an asshole that do not hesitate to kill”. Some character could bring some interesting theme but they are never developed fully. It always just feels like those element are here for the anime to look more dark but after that nothing interesting is done with those elements with potential. There’s literally a character in the intrigue that stay in the background and seems to become more and more dangerous because of how unstable he become but then he just get killed by another antagonist before having any impact on the story. One thing I liked however was at the end of each episode where we view thing from the big brother perspective, I found those moment really funny and it also build the megalomania of the character.

The story is very interesting with some good plot point but it suffer from a terrible execution. Has I said, the story try to munch to be “dark” with it’s character, it’s just “let’s make them suffer but let’s not try to do anything or say anything through it”. But the story is also full of plot hole ( and I’m usually very forgetful about plot hole ) and by reading the manga I discoverer that most of the incoherence and plot hole are because of some explanation or scene that allow to understand what’s happening are missing in the anime adaptation. And I think that the story get even worse when it throw a beach episode out of nowhere. It’s not just that it almost served nothing for the plot, it’s also that, in my opinion the anime destroy it’s own credibility by making some weird fan service episode when it constantly tries to be dark. Overall, there's a ton of more or less smaller element that just make the story not work for me.

But overall, I did enjoy quite a bit this anime. In my opinion, it’s part of those bad fiction that are enjoyable because of bad they are. There were still some moment that where legitimately boring, but overall it was still fun to watch. But on a more serious note, it’s also very hard to not compare Mahou shoujo site to madoka magica. It’s not the same story and also not a copy of MSMM, but it does takes multiple plot element from it, and the thing that, in my opinion, makes them bad or not as good, is that Mahou shoujo site doesn’t try to give depth or meaning behind those elements and use them just because “it’s dark”, and by forcing it to munch, the “dark” element of the anime become more laughable than anything else. But it’s still an interesting watch that I would recommend if you think it’s your type of anime.

I simply cannot put into words how mediocre this anime is and how much of of a failure this is. the show tries way to hard to make us feel bad for the protagonist and root for her, so much that it makes the protagonist seem unreasonable, naïve, weak, pathetic and simply infuriating. To the point that I can't stop myself from rooting for the sadistic characters that are supposed to be the villains.

Overall this anime is simply one that you re better off not watching and doing something productive of your life for once. I mean it when I say it but ... absolutely nothing is enjoyable when it comes to this anime

This anime is a mess. The characters are a bad written. Specially the main character aka. the goddess of stupidity made me hate this anime so much. An unrealistic trash show with lot of blood. If you are underaged and hate your parents because they wont let you watch your favorite fortnite streamer this may could be your most wanted anime. But there are also good sides! The music + opening are fine. But the real enjoyment I had with the brother of the MC and his godmode. He even wear a girls pantsu just to rule girls club with a idiotic idol with no, ... really NO SINGLE reason to be in this anime and just exist to be annoyning. Same with the main character. Only the mind reading girl and the typical always bored and depressive girls are entertaining. Well - They tried.