Machikado Mazoku

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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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

Sata, Anri Supporting

Senbongi, Sayaka Japanese

Ogura, Shion Supporting

Suwa, Ayaka Japanese

Lady With a Dog Supporting

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Yoshida, Seiko Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Metako Supporting

Nanase, Ayaka Japanese

Nakamura, Shinichi Producer

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Producer

Tanaka, Junichirou Producer

Okada, Kouji Producer

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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 ... this whole anime. There are others characters too but they for me do not come as important or are funny for the most part.

I do not know how but this anime looks visually this good and have decent animation despite its coming from the same studio who gave us abomination called OPM S2, thats right studio J.C staff is behind this anime. Maybe it looks and have best animation because director knew what was he doing and kudos to that director.

The only problem I have is that, characters talk fast, I mean really fast that I had to stop 2 times for a single sentence. I do not know why characters talk so fast, maybe budget was narrow thin or director wanted to add more into the single episode.

This anime is at core is what people call cute girls doing cute things, if you like that kind of anime then you will enjoy this one too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 4, 2020

CanAKATheIndigo

Mixed Feelings

A cute and sweet series that does not stand out


Released on July 12 during the summer season of 2019, Machikado Mazoku, or as it is also known, "The Demon Girl Next Door", is the anime adaptation of the manga published since 2014 by Izumo Ito, the series is a production of J.C. Staff studios directed by Hiroaki Sakurai, which came to have a total of 12 episodes.

Being one of those titles to which I did not pay much attention during its premiere, to the point of passing it, Machikado Mazoku was a series that I decided to keep an eye on after seeing some screenshots ... of it on Twitter, finding in it a simple and adorable-looking title but at the same time quite fun and enjoyable.

The anime, then, is a slice of life with a comic tone, which largely parodies what would be the typical anime of magical girls, telling us the story of a young girl named Yuko Yoshida, a seemingly normal high school girl, who a day after a peculiar dream wakes up with tail and horns, discovering after this to her surprise and through the words of her mother, that in fact her family is descendant of the clan of darkness apparently eradicated ages ago, and that now Yuko as successor of it, has been chosen to become a demon girl and make war on her enemies, the clan of light, who in the past imposed on the dark clan a horrible curse that forces them to survive with a misery of money a month, so with the order to improve the finances of her family, our heroine, now known as Shadow Mistress Yuko, or simply Shamiko for short, must look for some magical girl from the which get her blood to break the curse, a difficult thing since not only the awakening of Shamiko as a demon girl has not really granted any remarkable physical or magical ability, the girl being a full-fledged weakness, but also because Momo Chiyoda , the first magical girl she meets, and who is a classmate of her school, is not only ridiculously strong, but also does not take Shamiko very seriously even pitying her, dedicating herself more to trying to train the demon girl so that she has some chance against her before confronting her, and constantly looking for ways to help and coax her so that she does not feel like challenging her, being born with this a peculiar friendship, with which Shamiko will not be very happy.

The series then follows the day-to-day life of Shamiko in her otherwise unsuccessful and innocent attempts to defeat Momo, or she, at least, considers her a rival, while the latter one on her part does her best to make crumbs with our protagonist despite her stoic personality, being then the attractiveness of the series precisely seeing the entertaining interactions of these two characters, as well as how they coexist with the other secondary characters, such as their classmates, the family of Shamiko, or some other magical girl who makes an appearance later, and in addition to obviously seeing the different blunders and bad fortune of our protagonist in her daily life.


We have then with this and as I already mentioned, a fairly simple series in premise and execution, but by others pleasant and entertaining, that among its competent comedy, pleasant characters, adorable aesthetics and enjoyable atmosphere, you can see it in nothing.

Visually speaking the series is fine, delivering a competent but not outstanding animation, some beautiful and aesthetic character designs, a palette of colors you could say pleasant and lively, and a fund work for nothing remarkable.

Likewise, there is nothing to say about soundtrack, this being an element not at all outstanding in the work.


In conclusion, a light and pleasant title that comes in handy to pass the time, like many other titles of this style is not that it is a work at all essential, being in fact very surely a work that you will forget shortly after finishing it, but even with all this, it is an entertaining work that comes quite well to kill some hours of boredom.
This is not the kind of series that I recommend as something that you have to see yes or yes, much less. However, even if you do not miss an experience that changes lives by not looking at it, this story of adorable and clumsy girls doing adorable and awkward things is a light and optimistic spectacle perfect for spending time. If you are a fan of the slice of life or the moe, this is a series that cannot be missed. Something adorable and generally innocent does not do bad every so often.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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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 ... of life with fantastical elements type show have some basic structure and predictable plot elements to them, with the delivery and execution of its contents differentiating them from one another. Like, Endro had a very similar premise (with a switch in perspective), but that show at least felt good to watch and was pleasant to sit through. Machikado on the other hand felt downright claustrophobic at times. The characters are fine, but I never really liked Shamiko. Her being the tsukkomi to most situations just boil down to her explaining what just happened to the audience. A very lousy way of setting up jokes. I quite liked Mikan breaking up the monotony but she appeared far too late into the series by which I was already exhausted. Similar shows would typically incorporate characters like these somewhere in the middle as that's usually the point where they would exhaust the standard jokes and setups with the existing cast. In either case, the narrator is surprisingly my favourite character of the bunch. His optimistic "Ganbare Shamiko!" never fails to make me smile and out of all the cast, he is the only one to receive any payoff by the end of the show. The music was surprisingly nice, although maybe I tend to notice it more since I usually zone out watching the show and start paying attention to the background elements.

I deliberately didn't include any paragraph spacing just now to demonstrate how it felt watching the show.

4/10

Ganbare Shamiko! May you receive better adaptations in the future.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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