Tejina-senpai

The topic of magic is honestly not an interesting topic. However, the way the series presents this subject and blends it with humor has made the subject seriously entertaining and interesting. Since our story reflects an event from life, we are not strangers to emotions. The characters and their personalities are seriously relatable. Having a bit of obscenity in the job also makes the job more fun. At the same time, his Drawing style is seriously sweet and colorful. If you want to watch a colorful story in this boring life, I can recommend this series. You won't regret watching it.

As for the negative aspects, ... I can say the following as my personal opinion. Senpai's magic attempts can be long and tedious at times. Other than that, nothing else bothered me.

Magical Sempai, is the other short-form anime for this summer season of anime. Again, I went in with limited expectations, considering the fact that it was short form. I actually preferred this anime to Sounan Desu Ka, because this felt more like a comic relief anime than anything else. It did a decent job of not taking itself too seriously, or trying to be more than it really was.

Story: Well, Sounan Desu Ka actually had more of a story than this, albeit, not much more. Magical Sempai has a school magic club, which is struggling, due to a lack of students being interested in joining ... the club. Eventually Assistant Kun, and two others later, join the school magic club, and this show follows the events that take place in the club. They come in the forms of mini-stories, which there were generally 4 or 5 of them in each episode.

Art: Now, I give the art a pretty high mark, because, again, I think they did a good job of recognizing what kind of anime they were making, and worked to their advantages. It also helps that Magical Sempai is definitely a waifu. They did a good job of expressing Magical Sempais hopefullness, and Assistant Kuns dismay on a regular basis. They had a healthy mix of actual character art, and cute chibby characters and UwU faces. Again, they didn't take themselves too seriously.

Sound: The OP was nice, I didn't notice anything lacking in terms of voice acting or sound effects.

Characters: Despite the fact that Magical Sempai, and Assistant Kun were never actually formally introduced with their actual names, the characters were fairly charming. The dynamic between Assistant Kun and Sempai were great, and the added dynamics later, between Saki and her brother, made for some entertaining episodes.

Enjoyment: To be fair, who doesn't enjoy a good sexual innuendo? This anime is full of them, and paired with the constant Ecchi/Fan Service, it was fairly enjoyable to watch. That's not to mention, that Magical Sempai, is absolutely out of her mind, and there were several situations I found myself laughing at.

Overall: I give it a 7/10. Again, I find short-form animes hard to judge, because I personally, don't consider them real animes. It's hard to judge something that intentionally doesn't really have much of a story, or any depth. So, my rating here comes strictly based on how much I enjoyed watching the show week to week.

This was pretty fun, a bit more on the fan service side, but fun nonetheless. The characters are good and have some hilarious scene’s. although it has its funny moments, it doesn’t keep up in story.

Story – 4
Is there one? Really? Not really, it’s more of a bunch of characters being chucked into weird situations that ends with some mildly sexual joke.

Art – 7
I like it. the art style is pretty nice and the character reactions are hilarious, built on a multiple shorts per episode basis, it has a nice sort of brake from long stories.

Sound – 6
I like the OP and ED, the background ... music isn’t anything special, but the OP and ED are very happy and shows that the series is an over the top comedy.

Characters – 6
I like the sort of character ark of senpai, but it doesn’t feel very complete.
Senpai is your clumsy, unaware main girl that tries to convince her assistant to help her in her magic tricks that obviously end horribly.
Assistant is a good main male character, with a sort of laid back, but thoughtful personality. It’s fun to see his interactions with Senpai.
The side characters are pretty good, but are pretty plain. The characters may be plain, but they have very good chemistry.

Overall – 6
Overall, it’s not bad, it’s a nice story about magic. With the obligatory beach episode particularly standing out, I enjoyed to watch the embarrassing scenarios. I wouldn’t recommend it really, but if you want to, feel free.

tl;dr: It is a well put together ecchi comedy similar in style to konosuba but involving a magic highschool club , if you like ecchi comedy you will enjoy it if not don't watch it.

This is an ecchi comedy anime which wears its jokes on its sleave. If you are looking for highbrow comedy, a visual thriller or a heartfelt story on the level of Clanned you will not get it. This show is about ecchi comedy and it absolutely nails it. It is focused around a highschool girl and her desire to form a magic club with her new friend aptly named assistant. ... This leads to many various comedic shenanigans which combined with the short run time of only 12 minutes gives the show a fast pace feel in regards to the comedy as the quick scene segments means that most of the comedy is physical or situational rather than referential or call backs like many other anime. Shows like this often get a lot of unjust criticism for pandering to the lowest common denominator but in the case of this show it manages to pull it off well with good character writing and interactions ensuring that the comedy works rather than just lots of pointless ecchi scenes strung together. Overall every time I watched it I really enjoyed it but as this review states it is down to taste if you like Ecchi comedy or comedy similar to konosuba then I would recommenced trying it as I think you would probably enjoy it. If you don't like the darkness comedic elements in Konosuba then I don't think this show is for you. Overall I would give it a 6 for the story but a solid 10/10 for how much I actually enjoyed the anime averaging out as an 8/10 which I feel is fair for this anime as you will either enjoy it immensely or it is not in your taste.

It was a really good anime. It has not a specific timelined story, the plot is really simple but enjoyable. If you want to just spend your time laughing and having a good time with the ridiculous ideas that Tejina always come with, you definitely have to watch this anime.

At first, I thought i would not enjoy this anime as much as I did. I really liked the personalities of the different characters (and it was impossible not to ship Tejina and the assisstant lol). How their friendship develops and how randomly some other two students join the group is what makes the anime this ... good.

Also, the art was great. Additionally, it has a good opening and ending. For sure, I am gonna miss this anime.

This show is absolutely wonderful and really funny, the characters are super enjoyable and each have their own quirks, the episodes are about 13 minutes long so they are super easy to breeze through and they are well worth it, sometimes shows with short times don't quite pack enough punch but that is definitely not true for this one, theres enough time to establish character and make you laugh consistently.

The show stays true to itsell episode to episode creating the same kinda format. Sempai wants to do magic, she messes up a little, embarrassing situation, hilarity resumes. To summarise the show, Magic Waifu, innocente but ... still suggestive comedy and a great time.

This anime looked like it would be a fun comedy anime with some fan service, boy was I wrong. For context, every week I watch a 12-16 episode anime in a single night and since this was on my list, I decided to give it a try, but that's a whole 2 hours and 10 minutes of my time wasted. I never thought that 12 minutes and 30 seconds could be so long.

Firstly, the story is bad. It is about a girl who really wants to revive her old "magicians club" that was being disbanded due to having only 1 member. One day however a ... male named Assistant-kun (I don't remember if his real name was ever mentioned) was searching for a club and stumbled into the room where the magician (she will be called "sempai" now) is at. She forces him to join the club and do magic tricks that she always fails. 3/10


The art is nice; the characters actually look pretty good, especially sempai. It wasn't a pain to look at (at least the art wasn't) and because of that, the art gets the highest score of 7/10.

Characters are bland. Each of them is the exact same and never changes. 1 girl loves making balloon animals but for some reason really loves her brother (like unhealthy type love) and throughout the anime, she doesn't change. It's just the same thing over and over again. 3/10

I really struggled to sit through this anime. Luckily, the episodes were only 12, and a half minutes, but those 12 minutes felt like hours. I nearly fell asleep in my chair from how boring it was. The comedy is completely reliant on Sempai getting herself into classic ecchi positions. She gets put into weird positions that expose her panties; her clothes will be ripped off (in one case, pops); her boobs are constantly being shown, etc. I don't care about fan service, and all that, but when it's all you rely on for comedic value, it is really annoying. I couldn't enjoy this for the life of me. 2/10 for enjoyment.

I will be fair to this anime and give it a 6/10, but I really debating whether or not to put it lower than that. Watch it if you need to fall asleep and you have insomnia, I guarantee you will be out in 5 minutes.

TL:DR
Boring, 5/10.

Magical sempai took a deep leap into Ecchi genre. Giving us the consumers that are watching this anime a treat. This is at-least well having to be the first tv-series that did ecchi magician. female protagonist. The episodes aren't building deeply into a story but it's just for some giggles and tease. The comedy feels a bit hentai type. (Idk how to explain it kind of). The humor is great in it. The intros and outros ARE AMAZING!! The episodes feel like you're watching a ordinary show without story but just for fun and laughs also checking out that cute magician girl. The ... art style was alright like a regular romance ecchi anime. I would recommend this to people who wants to watch this for fun and like ecchi stuff.

It's dumb, silly, horny and fun. For a few minutes. Sometimes that's all it takes to make a show worth the admission.

Magical Senpai is a short comedy series with even shorter runtime of about ten-twelve minutes each. Synopsis looks dry as heck but I gave this one a chance one lazy afternoon and taken back how much I enjoyed it. Slapstick in anime can be an acquired taste and through the years, I began to appreciate it. Too many shows inject too much 'message' or 'progressive' elements to them and while they can be well-meaning sometimes, shows especially comedy are first and foremost made to, ... ya know...entertain. Magical Senpai knows what it is and it doesn't care for doing much else. An underling gets dragged by a lunatic sexy senpai to her obsession with magic tricks and shit happens. Simple and effective. Most of my enjoyment comes to the sheer audacity, kinkiness, and sometimes wholesome antics and interaction between the two leads and the other characters and with a limited cast, it did it best with its twelve-minute bursts. The show's story is like gum; flavorful, arguably disposable, but damn right I'll take one any day.

Nothing particularly interesting about its art and character designs whatsoever but the epomynous lead was quite distinct in my opinion. Animation was ok. Music however was great as its both OP and ED were bangers, but more so on the ED.

Characters are fine and not really unique. The whole 'magical trick show' theme does get some merit. The lead however is just a lovable, determined idiot and most fun i had was just how the people around her react to her raunchy failures and whatever misfortunes that come down to her and the others.

To sum up my feelings, the show does nothing noteworthy in terms of storytelling or anything groundbreaking but what it does was to give gags that jumpstart giggles that harms no one but its cast. It is ecchi, so expect some rising boners or so. It knows what it is; a slapstick comedy involving magic tricks that is over before you know it, but leaves something to smile on at the end of the day.

Watch binged as it doesn't really take long to finish it.

Story: The plot is enjoyable at first, but after a while it gets boring and repetitive. Sempai does a magic trick, fails and gets into a situation where she's in a sexual position, then her assistant makes a snarky remark, wash, rinse and repeat. It even recycles the same senerios, making it feel lazy and uninspiring. There is not proper ending really. Which is a shame because the last senerio would've lead to a funny conclusion which the writers brushed off.

Art: The art is nothing special really, it's pretty mediocre.

Sound: Nothing special about the sounds either

Character: The characters are one dimensional and stale, only ... having one personality which makes the anime more stale. No character development.

Enjoyment: As mentioned before, it gets really repetitive and lost focus, which isn't good for an anime that is only has 12 episodes that are 10 minutes long.

Overall: There is some Enjoyment in this anime with funny moments, which Ultimately become repetitive and stale. In the end it's just a lazily written ecchi comedy, with lazily one dimensional characters, which relies on recycling content.

Maybe the real magic was the friends we made along the way!

TLDR (ratings):
Story: 5, passable

Art: 6, Nothing special but the girls are cute although I hate Assistant's bowl-cut hair

Sound: 6, Both the sub & dub have entertaining and enjoyable voice actors but the score is lacking

Character(s): 5.5, fairly one-dimentional but quirky
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Enjoyment: 7, some pretty funny moments throughout the show ngl

Overall Score: 6


Tejina-senpai is a light-hearted comedy with ecchi moments. The anime is set in a typical non-descript generic school starring the resident waifu "Senpai" and her new victims/ club members. The premise of the show is very simple; Senpai our loveable air headed magician try out a new magic trick and fails miserably (usually ending in an ecchi moment).

The show is an easy watch with some decent gags guaranteed to receive a chuckle or two. The show has a great sub/ dub and a runtime of only 12 minutes per episode. Each episode is broken up into 2-3 acts with multiple gags along the way.

Perhaps I've been spoilt by anime the community considers good, but when I started Tejina-senpai, the pacing and method of storytelling put me off. The characters themselves adhere very closely to their tropes- e.g. cluelessly lewd girl, a girl obsessed with her brother for some reason- and it makes for fairly predictable storytelling.

The main character- by the way, why don't he and senpai have names?- has some nuance to him; he's not a classic pervert or deadpan MC, and he shows a little bit of promise now and again. He does succumb to the usual... stray glance... but his long-suffering attitude and reluctant care for ... senpai does add somewhat to the story, and I think this aspect was pretty well-written especially considering the style of the show is that of multiple skits being put into already short episodes.

Regarding sound and art- they're about what you'd expect for an ecchi. The art style is decent until the ecchi kicks in, and suddenly the entire animation budget looks like it's being spent like water in comparison. The sound doesn't detract from the show, but it's mild and forgettable (in my opinion! I don't know much about music).

Personally, I couldn't finish the show. If you're the type to invest in story, characters and arcs like me... well, you probably wouldn't start this anime to begin with. But for a lighthearted, low-investment anime with gratuitous shots *peppered* through twelve twelve-minute episodes, it's pretty okay.

tl;dr: A series of really good comedic shorts about a girl that’s constantly screwing up magic tricks in bizarre ways.

Tejina-senpai is a short comedy anime about about a girl running a magic club who has terrible stage fright that renders her unable to do magic, and her assistant that has to put up with her nonsense. This isn’t the story of her overcoming her stage fright or anything of the sort, rather that’s just the justification given for why every trick she attempts ends horribly to amusing effect. There are very few characters in this anime, and the two main characters aren’t even named, simply ... being referred to as Senpai and Assistant throughout. The cast overall is incredibly flat, with absolutely no character or relationship development. They also have very little depth, basically just fitting into the narrow slots needed for the sake of the comedic scenes.

Still, despite all that, the anime is pretty enjoyable. Senpai is really likable in that she’s really passionate about magic so she keeps sticking with magic despite constantly screwing up, but she’s also really innocent and kind of stupid so she keeps making the same mistakes again and again. She always starts out unjustifiable arrogant but then ends up in a panicked often crying state after she screws up. Other characters are kind of mean to her sometimes, usually because she does something that results in her deserving it, but more so than that it kind of feels like she’s bullying herself, which is kind of hilarious and also kind of cute. Assistant is a good balance to her, in that he calls her out on all her nonsense which makes him work well as a tsukommi, but despite that sticks with her and the club. A core part of why he stays is likely because he finds her hot, but that just makes the circumstances even funnier.

In addition to Senpai the magician and her Assistant, the rest of the cast includes a scientist, a street performer who does stuff like balloon art and ventriloquism, and a psychoanalyst. However, only the scientist and street performer are actually competent at what they do, with the psychoanalyst being just as incompetent as Senpai. This gives the the comedy some variety which allows the show to be entertaining even though it’s just a steady stream of comedy. The explanations by the scientist and street performer were also somewhat interesting, which further helped with pacing. It was kind of disappointing though that there wasn’t a competent magician to explain the magic though, as this is a series mainly about magic, but it is what it is.

In addition I would also like to note that the anime is structured perfectly for what it’s going for. There are twelve episodes, but each is only half length. In addition, each of those is composed of a series, around five or so, of separate segments. There is some continuity at times, such as when they go to the beach and there are multiple linked segments there, but for the most part each segment is completely disconnected from the others. As such, it can focus solely on the comedy without even attempting to be anything more, and because of it’s fast paced short burst format, that works really well.

The art and animation are also pretty solid. The character designs aren’t super unique, but they’re used well. The animation is also full of visual humor and in general the art is pretty nice to look at. The OP and ED are both also a lot of fun both in terms of the songs and the visuals, even if they are pretty standard. The soundtrack isn’t particularly memorable.

I don't think this anime is good for quite obvious reasons: the lack of plot and character development. I understand that in 12 episodes of 15 minutes each it is very difficult to make a well-articulated plot, but I don't understand why a person should watch an anime full of comic gags already seen (in other series and repeated in the episodes). The characters don't even seem interested in the main plot, generating a feeling similar to that which certain actors generate when they play a film reluctantly. The idea of explaining magic tricks is nice, but I think the way in which the explanations ... have been attempted is totally wrong, both because they are hasty and because the characters themselves don't seem interested. Tell me, what's the point of explaining things that don't affect history? I'll tell you: nothing. One of those series that you forget the next day; if it wasn't short, I would have definitely dropped it.