Original TV Anime 'Maebashi Witches' Announced for Spring 2025

Always nice to see a show that's not another high school romance or "trekking through a fantasy world with my harem"

@Fail_Man_X I don't see much difference since you can say the same about generic all-female bishoujo shows like this. Purely a matter of taste.

@RobertBobert The difference is in the quantity of shows being produced.

@Fail_Man_X What are you talking about? We also get a lot of all-female and bishoujo titles of various types, as well as other genres. The last couple of years have been at least 4-5 every season. I can understand that you want more and there is nothing wrong with that. But this is clearly not a reason to be antagonistic to other popular genres.

@RobertBobert I don't know why you're trying to pick a fight with me. I didn't say anything about the quality of those shows. I'm also not the one who commented on the announcement of a show to wonder about why we get 2-3 per season of its type, despite that number being relatively small, or calling it generic. If anyone in this topic is complaining, it's not me.

Looks like generic idol stuff. Meh...

@Piromysl

yea i was thinking the same thing

doesn't look creative enough :/

@Fail_Man_X But you were definitely the one who almost openly rejoiced that this was "not another rom-com or isekai", as if all current anime belong to those genres and we hardly get all-female/bishoujo/yuri bait anime enough. I didn't mean to start a fight with you. If you got that impression, I apologize in advance, that was not my intention. But i'm tired of how people create antagonism between audiences of different genres or themes just because they don't get, or rather feel like they don't get, enough anime in their favorite genres. Although now is the time when there is more than enough anime of any type.

@RobertBobert You were literally the first person to comment, and your post can easily be inferred as "why are we getting so many all-girl shows?" Question: did you ask the same thing in regards to the "dude in a fantasy world surrounded by cute girls" show that was announced yesterday?

If the answer is "no", that's honestly fine. If 10 isekai/isekai-adjacent fantasy shows and 10 high school romances aren't enough for you, and you think there are too many all-girl show, that's your business, but don't be a hypocrite about it.

@Fail_Man_X "Interpret", huh. I have a counter question. Why should I, in 2024, be interested in the reason for the excessive amount of isekai anime when most people either know or guess the reasons for creating so many similar shows? And what's wrong with wondering about the reason for such a sharp increase in the number of original bishoujo shows, when both you and I are well aware that creating a multimedia franchise from scratch requires a lot more money and effort than adapting the another isekai LN or high school rom-coms that you also, for some reason unknown to me, doesn't like?

I understand that you took a random number, but excuse me, in this season alone we received at least 5 such shows, and in the past even more than 10. Can this be called an insufficient number? So stop all this talk about hypocrisy and other “no, you!” for someone else. I'm never complained about anime outside of my radar and after completing a decent number of CGDCT and general all-female shows that are interesting to me for that or this reasons, I'm clearly not someone you can attribute complaints about all-female or bishoujo shows to.

@RobertBobert I doubt the sincerity of your original question, and it comes off as you complaining that there are too many all-girl shows. We get a handful every season, though I don't know what season we got 10+, and while I'm not asking for more, it's definitely not too much. So, yeah, I took a shot at romance and fantasy shows.

TBH from the premise of the title, and that it was an original, I seriously thought that this was another P.A. originals at first. But apparently, it's by Sunrise instead.... omoshiro~
(I mean, c'mon. This REALLY sounds like a title P.A. would came up with)

A Sunrise idol show? So you mean a Love Live-alter ?

But from the synopsys, there seems to be magic/supernaturals involved. So a Sunrise Mahou Shoujo instead maybe ?

Or both? A Sunrise idol-mahou-shoujo ?

Edit: Hollup! Just watched the PV. Are you sure Love Live has nothing to do with this!?