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The only way I can describe this anime is Madoka Magica in comic sans. They tried nearly everything to make a dark, angsty, magical girl anime and failed miserably. Fair warning, this review will include spoilers.

The first few episodes of the anime are fairly decent. It begins by explaining the main character's, Aya's, misfortune. This leads to her being chosen by the Magical Girl Site to obtain a "magical girl stick". She's also introduced to Tsuyuno, someone she allies with throughout the rest of the series. Each character's story is just sympathy baiting, the worst torturous things happening to a single character all at ... once.

After about episode 4, everything really drops off. Random characters begin to be introduced without an explanation. The antagonists, the Magical Girl Site, motives aren't explained either. Everything ends up feeling incredibly rushed. It becomes confusing and muffled. Episode 6 is one the worst, in my opinion, it randomly becomes a yaoi fetish-y beach episode. All character development is thrown out the window. The plot holes are absolutely endless.

When things really, really went to shit are the final two episodes. All these characters we don't know anything about decide it's time to take on the Magical Girl Site. The finale is the absolute worst, giving us our first and last look into the antagonist's world. These girls who were given powers by this same site can suddenly now defeat it. Aya can also somehow override the "admin system," which once again comes up out of nowhere and is never explained. Not even going to try and explain the blue hair detective who kidnaps Aya's brother and has him in a torture dungeon... We see this one girl at the very end as if there's supposed to be a season 2. There are so many loose ends that I don't know they meant to tie up without a second season or OVA???

In conclusion, Magical Girl Site is just pointless gore, yaoi fetish, Madoka Magica wanna-be, mindless nonsense. It's only worth the watch if you go into it randomly, not knowing what the hell is going on. The only support I can give it was: at least it wasn't boring.

Story 5- Doesn't really have much of a story since it's a quick 5 minute an episode mini-series. It's an episode by episode type deal with no extended plot.

Art 6- The character designs are nice and stay true to the original series. Though since it's a cheap webisode series, the animation isn't exactly the best.

Sound 6- Voices were good, I recognized some voice actors since a few also voiced The Idolm@ster characters.

Character 8- Definitely think the characters here are given better personalities than the original American webisodes and movies. Though some don't get much screen time, you can definitely tell their personalities pretty ... easily.

Enjoyment 7- Since I'm a Monster High fangirl I enjoyed this pretty well, but it's definitely not for everyone.

Overall 7- Personally I enjoyed this series because I feel like they represent the characters better here than in the American series. Since there's no official subtitles so I had to watch a fansub on YouTube. If you're a fan of Monster High I would recommend watching since it's a pretty quick watch, but otherwise I doubt it would be anyone else's thing.