Mahou Shoujo Site (Magical Girl Site)

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Japanese: 魔法少女サイト

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 7, 2018 to Jun 23, 2018

Premiered: Spring 2018

Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:55 (JST)

Producers: Sotsu, Avex Pictures

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: production doA

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, Supernatural, Suspense

Themes: Gore, Mahou Shoujo, Psychological

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.52¹ (scored by 97,927 users)

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Ranked: #6932²

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Popularity: #1018

Members: 237,758

Favorites: 1,284

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Every day, Aya Asagiri thinks about killing herself. She is bullied relentlessly at school, and at home, her older brother Kaname physically abuses her to relieve the academic stress put on him by their father.

One night, as she lies awake wishing for death, a mysterious website called Magical Girl Site appears on her laptop, promising to give her magical powers. At first, she dismisses it as a creepy prank, but when she finds a magical gun in her shoe locker the next day, she doesn't know what to believe. Deciding to take it with her, she soon runs into her bullies once again. But this time, desperate for anything to save her, she uses the gun—and her assailants are transported to a nearby railroad crossing, where they are run over.

Aya's conscience is unable to handle the fact that she murdered two of her classmates with magic, and she desperately tries to understand the situation. However, when she finds herself in trouble again, she is saved by Tsuyuno Yatsumura, a classmate who can use magic to stop time. This duo has a lot to do: not only do they have to fight alongside and against other magical girls, but they also need to uncover the truth behind the website and the apocalyptic event known as "The Tempest" that is soon to occur.

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Opening Theme

"Changing point" by i☆Ris

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Ending Theme

	1: "Zenzen Tomodachi" by Haruka Yamazaki
	2: "...Watashi dake Mitete♡ (...私だけ見てて♡)" by Nijimi Anazawa (Yuu Serizawa) (eps 3)

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Jul 24, 2023

ViolentPete

Recommended

The premise of this show is that it's Madoka except trying to be even more edgy without understanding why Madoka is a decent show in the first place (when you ignore the godawful final episode). The first episode is essentially just a series of unfortunate events happening to our protagonist (the most pathetic person alive) and it's hard to take it seriously because it's so over the top. That's basically how the rest of the show goes, things happen but you can't take them seriously because they're too ridiculous or they just don't make sense.

Madoka had the whole thing with the soul gems and ... the wishes and the aliens that made it feel like more than five minutes of thought were put into the premise. In Magical Girl Site, the jannies of some deep web site give magical powers to depressed girls, and they're supposed to use those powers to hurt people, and somehow that makes the jannies more powerful? It comes off as a lot more vague and generic. Maybe the manga does a better job of establishing how the whole system works, but most of the time it's hard not to think about how similar this stuff is to Madoka and how much of a better job Madoka did with the "edgy magical girl" shit. The way the magical powers work is kind of weird, too. They're physical objects and it seems like anybody can use the objects. For example, our protagonist has a gun that teleports things. If she handed the gun to someone else, that other person should be able to teleport things, too. Of course, since this is just like Madoka, using the magical powers shortens your lifespan, so you shouldn't use them too often. Okay, cool.

The problem I have with this is that there's a character introduced in the first episode who has time stop powers, which is clearly the most overpowered power you can get. Introducing something like that so early kind of fucks you over, because now you have to figure out a way to not make "just stop time lol" be the best way out of every bad situation. Supposedly the character with the power doesn't have enough magical energy left to use it without dying, except that isn't actually a copout because she should be able to just hand the device that gives you time stop powers to somebody else. But she never does that. I feel like I have to have missed something, some reason why she never just hands the thing over to the protagonist. It's totally baffling. There are plenty of other things that happen in the show that are like this, where you aren't sure if you missed a detail or if it's just bad writing, but this was the one that kept sticking out to me because, again, they introduce it so early and then barely use it even though it would have helped out in so many situations.

With that said, I think it's safe to say that I highly recommend this. I hate to invoke memes but it's a "we have Madoka at home" situation where it seems like they wanted to make something like Madoka but didn't understand what made Madoka actually good (when you ignore the godawful final episode), so what you get is a Madoka clone with all the edgy shit turned up to eleven. By the way, there's a beach episode.

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Mar 21, 2023

dars809

Mixed Feelings

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.

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Feb 4, 2024

mrachna

Not Recommended

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.
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