Machikado Mazoku (The Demon Girl Next Door)

After a strange dream of a mysterious ancestor, high school student Yuuko Yoshida wakes to see that she has grown demonic horns and a tail. Dazed and confused, her mother reveals to her a dark family secret: her family is descended from a Dark Clan that was banished to live powerless and destitute by their mortal enemies, the magical girls of the Light Clan. The only way to lift their ancestry's curse is for Yuuko to find a magical girl, murder her, and splatter her blood all over her ancestor's Demon God statue.

Fortunately for "Shadow Mistress Yuuko," a magical girl saves her from being run over by an oncoming truck. Unfortunately, Momo Chiyoda happens to be Yuuko's classmate at Sakuragaoka High and is much stronger than her in both strength and endurance. Taking pity on her wimpy assailant, the magical girl agrees to train Yuuko and help her unlock her dormant powers. Now, Yuuko must rise up and defeat her generous frenemy to save her family from the terrible grip of poverty.

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Adaptation:	Machikado Mazoku
Other:	Machikado Mazoku Mini, Ugoite Hamidase! Machikado Mazoku
Sequel:	Machikado Mazoku: 2-choume

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yoshida, Yuuko

Main

Kohara, Konomi
Japanese

Chiyoda, Momo

Main

Kitou, Akari
Japanese

Hinatsuki, Mikan

Supporting

Takayanagi, Tomoyo
Japanese

Lilith

Supporting

Takahashi, Minami
Japanese

Yoshida, Ryouko

Supporting

Oowada, Hitomi
Japanese

Ogura, Shion

Supporting

Suwa, Ayaka
Japanese

Sata, Anri

Supporting

Senbongi, Sayaka
Japanese

Lady With a Dog

Supporting

Koga, Aoi
Japanese

Yoshida, Seiko

Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka
Japanese

Metako

Supporting

Nanase, Ayaka
Japanese

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Nakamura, Shinichi

Producer

Tanaka, Junichirou

Producer

Sakurai, Hiroaki

Director, Storyboard

Yamakawa, Yoshiki

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Opening Theme

"Machikado Tangent (町かどタンジェント)" by shami mono [Yuuko Yoshida (Konomi Kohara) and Momo Chiyoda (Akari Kito)]

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Ending Theme

"Yoimachi Cantare (よいまちカンターレ)" by Coro Machikado (コーロまちカド) [Yuuko Yoshida (Konomi Kohara), Momo Chiyoda (Akari Kito), Lilith (Minami Takahashi), Mikan Hinatsuki (Tomoyo Takayanagi)]

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Sep 26, 2019

The-Observer95

Recommended

There was same nature of anime this year called Endro, its like that anime but with better comedy.

The whole anime basically revolves around just two characters, and that is lot of burden of on those characters. They have to be funny and show chemistry between them to carry the show. Lucky for us Yuuko (as known as shamiko) and Momo are the cutest things I have laid my eyes on this whole year. The funny moments between them keep the anime fresh and want to make me come back for more, specially yuuko is so funny and cute and momo's laid-back attitude is what drives ...

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Sep 28, 2019

SanaeK10

Not Recommended

Machikado Mazoku is incredibly cute and at times brings a warm smile onto my face.

Now this sentence doesn't explain my score on the show and you'll see why in a moment.

It's a cute show, don't get me wrong. But the contents and delivery of said contents are difficult to swallow. The direction and pacing are all over the place. Sometimes its too slow and scenes/jokes drag on for far too long, and other times its too fast giving you hardly any time to take in the information. The story itself (or premise at least) is cute but it's nothing special. Honestly most of these slice ...

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Sep 26, 2019

KANLen09

Recommended

"Don't think this means you've won!" - Yuko a.k.a Shamiko

If the Summer season hasn't been graceful to comedic slice-of-life anime, it's because of how it has become the fad in recent years due to the overwhelming and continuing trend of Isekai series (which should be stopped). Remembering how Grand Blue and Asobi Asobase did wonders last Summer in the comedic space, we have Joshikousei no Mudazukai and Machikado Mazoku this year. Unlike the former's increasing attention, the latter (which is this series) is constantly being forgotten on the wayside. But that's why I'm here to tell you that this is also a damn great SoL ... comedy series that is definitely worth a watch too that doesn't take itself seriously. Hell, I'd pick this super underrated series over the other show anyday (what's up with underrated series being the most enjoyable ones this season?).

You know how Mahou Shoujo series go with the Magical Girl and Demon Girl, that's pretty bog-standard. What sets this episodic series apart is in its spin/take of the parody that is the ever popular Mahou Shoujo genre. Gabriel DropOut is one prime example of this, and this series retains both the character casting, with the comedy and feelings as if you're watching a heartwarming SoL series, and mainly being character-driven as well. Ara ara, did I forget to mention that it's also a CGDCT series?

Starting off with what is easily the most adorable but very Zannen (unfortunate) demon girl, Shadow Mistress girl Yuko Yoshida a.k.a Shamiko (guess where that name came from) is more than just your average demi-human. Due to unfortunate circumstances with her family, she is constantly having to fight against "undesirable forces" just to make a living, and she has to lead the daily life of misery and poverty. Compared to her, yet another cute Magical Girl Momo Chiyoda enters her life to wreck...er I mean, help her improve her life for the better. More than just being rivals to each other, the smart and intelligent Momo finds that Yuko is TOO WEAK to fight her, even in the bestest of conditions (plus saving her from being isekai-ed as a first meeting), so Yuko pacts a truce with Momo to be frenemies in alliance until their (supposedly) "final" (and friendly) battle.

Adding to the insanity is the partners of Shamiko and Momo, Ancestor Lilith from her support Demon God statue on Shamiko's side and Mikan from Momo's side. Ancestor Lilith is the epitomy of dumbness, whatever she could think of is constantly derided by Momo, and even thrown into oblivion. Mikan is the type of friend who is blur and situationally unaware of everything around her, so much so that Momo has to get her into awareness and asks of her basic understanding.

What this all comes down to essentially, all characters are idiotic and stupid, but yet funnily memorable in their own unique ways that sparks the endless amounts of heartwarming joy in the hearts of people.

I remember the times of (former) J.C.Staff who are just willing to be just random and make anything worthy of their stellar quality in both visuals and overall production, and this series harkens me back to the times where time and money aren't a major concern, and the people there are willing to dabble into such random stuff and still be remembered to this day. Unfortunately, as much as memorabilia serves, this series only has decent art quality and animation that doesn't stand out for reasons I will never know. Maybe it's that "comedy is subjective" notion, and that the current J.C.Staff is absolute trash.

The music here doesn't scream wonders, but more of its cuteness overload. The OP featuring both Shamiko and Momo's VAs is easily one of my uncontested favourites this season, not just for the happy hoppity-boppity music, but also how heartwarming and enlightening it is always to not skip it every episode. The ED is fine though.

What all this boils down to, is that this show teaches kindness and positivity in the most cutesy of ways possible, and that giving up is never an option to achieving the power to be your best.

It's been a great experience watching this stress reliever of a show, and i highly recommend this series to people whom has too less time of their hands watching anime, and need this as a means of a cooldown.

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