Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka (Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka)

Three years ago, a bloodthirsty race of interdimensional beings known as the Disas appeared and destroyed everything they could reach on Earth. With regular weapons rendered useless, humanity's only hope of survival relied on humans who became magical girls after forming an alliance with the Spirit Realm, who had followed the Disas to Earth. After a violent conflict, the squad of magical girls emerge victorious, with the survivors now known as the "Magical Five."

Following the war with the Disas, the Magical Five disbands. Kurumi Mugen, Mia Cyrus, Tamara Volkova, and Lau Peipei independently continue their own military services, while their leader, Asuka Ootorii, retires and becomes a high school student. However, Asuka's peace is short-lived, as it seems there were survivors on the enemy's side as well. As magic must be fought with magic, Asuka is dragged back into combat as an even worse battle looms on the horizon.

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Jan 25, 2024

Deepfry_Water

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So what do magical girls do after defeating the big evil?
Ofc, fight terrorists, mercenaries, join the army, special forces, etc.... there is no happy ending here.

That was the basic idea. The fact that they don't really do this and go again to the big evil is stupid.
There isn't any big reason why everything is happening, we're getting scraps about the actual plot and after I finished it I don't really care about it, because the reasons look shallow.

Now, for the parts that I liked. Lesbians, 90% of the girls in the show. And big tits. Huge badonkadonkas. Also, magical spanking.
The ...

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Dec 20, 2020

CandleNekra

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Story (5/10): A veteran mahou shoujo is a wonderful idea, but the anime did a poor job with the concept. There were too many plot holes which in the end, concluded with many questions not being answered. How were they chosen to become magical girl? Why were the humans the one being used as energy? How did the humans get in touch with these magical being? And so on. Due to the confusion, I could not attach myself to the show nor show any sympathy towards those who died. It was very difficult to continue watching the anime.

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Apr 14, 2024

AeroGunz

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“Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka” is what happens when You have a pretty interesting premise but lack the writing skills to elevate it into something great.

War against the magical race called the Disas suffering from a boner for murdering humans ended. Mainly thanks to the efforts of 11 magical girls. Only five of those girls survived. After the conflict ended the squad was disbanded and the girls went their separate ways.
Now, 3 years later, a new conflict is threatening to start.

“Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka” is a show that tries (and mostly fails) to juggle different genres. I went into this show blind and oh boy, do ... I regret that. I was not prepared for the level of cringe and fuckery I was going to experience. On one side it’s a semi realistic show that uses political drama, military and pretty serious topics like PTSD, terrorism and some other delicate subjects. On the other it shoves fan service, feel good crap and borderline cute bs that comes with almost all mahou shoujo shows. Normally there wouldn't be a problem with such a mix. You need contrast and some space for the elements to breathe, to make the most out of them. This show however does a 180 on its genres to the point it sometimes feels like someone stitched two different shows together by accident.

The main heroine is the titular Asuka. The leader of the five magical girls who survived the war. She quit the military and decided to be a normal, if You can call it that, high school girl. She suffers from PTSD but does nothing to remedy the problem. She just lives day by day with no regards to her mental health. Until her PTSD disappears for some time, then re-emerges because Asuka needs to pretend she has some deep thoughts (spoiler alert, most of those are just cringe or some obvious bs). She isn’t a tragic idea, to be honest there are moments where her writing could even be called good. The problem is those moments are scarce and far between.

There are other characters but to be honest they are just one trick ponies and are there just to have an excuse for an info dump, trigger an event for Asuka to deal with or to force fan service. Honestly, most of the cast could be cut out and nothing would change in the plot.

The show uses pretty heavy subjects but it does it mostly for shock value. It handles those subjects in a very surface fashion with no real thought about the implications. Most of the time the dramatic events are just said as an excuse for some actions, or are shown and forgotten the next episode. It’s obvious no one had any actual idea how to use them properly. The most interesting thing that shows how shitty this aspect is handled is that, for some reason, only Asuka is shown to have any kind of trauma from the war. Well… that’s not entirely true but there is nothing to indicate that the others who have emotional and mental instability got them from the war and at least one of them was like that before.

Logic isn’t exactly this shows cup of tea. A lot of times the only reason why the heroines survive is plot armour. A very thick layer of plot armour. We are talking about at least 2 metres of kevlar plot armour. They should be dead in episode 5 but because of writing laziness they survive. Later in the third act all of them should be dead but, once again, they survive. It honestly annoys me how bad the writing is then it comes to a logical cause and effect.
The most infuriating thing in this whole show is the bullshit they pull with “healing” the PTSD of one of the side characters. It’s so fucking insulting to anyone who even suffered from it that it should be cut out entirely. The writers know jack shit about handling delicate subjects like that. And don’t give me that “It’s magic” bullshit. Incompetent handling of the subject is still an incompetent handling of the subject.

That said, if You don’t really care about writing and just want to watch some cute magical girls trying to fit into a semi realistic military You could find some enjoyment. I didn’t.

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