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Dec 18, 2016
Do you like poorly written stories with little bit of complexity, horrible characters and a plot that will make you say "mm, that's ok, i guess" ? Well, Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku might be for you. Yes, it's a Hunger Games with Magical Girls. Excuse me if my review seems like a spoiler, but it isn't. This anime is so poorly written that is predictable.

Story 3/10

What happens when an anime based on a game doesn't follow its own rules? Well, this happens. I will quote Danganronpa. Danganronpa was a killing game that had precise rules: they will apply to anyone and they will be followed no matter what. This anime doesn't do this. At first, they tell you they need to cut the magical girls to 8, then they tell you you can buy magical items to get an advantage, then they tell you that they have to modify the rules yet again so the plot keeps going. This is totally dumb and unimaginative. Instead of the girls trying to figure out how to avoid getting killed by following the rules, they are forced to do stupid things like buying magical items.

Then I must tell you this is heavily rushed. At first i felt the pacing was just right, but then we get 4 deaths in an episode. That means 12 minutes of flashbacks.

But the greatest sin of this anime is letting you know who is going to die just before they do. I feel like watching Akame ga Kill, when someone is about to die, they just show you a flashback of how this magical girl got her powers. And even after all this senseless slaughter, it was completely predictable who was going to win.

Character 1/10

Pathetic. Characters are pathetic. We have Snow White, she doesn't do anything at all except crying while everyone wants to protect her for some reason. People tell me not to compare her to Madoka, well, she's Madoka, except she doesn't do anything at all in the end. Then we have Ripple and Hardgore Alice which admire Snow White for some reason, in a Homura way, I guess. The cast is divided in 2: bad magical girls and good magical girls that protect Snow White. Fav is a Monokuma-Kyubei clone and it's dumb. Also, all of the cast get like 3 minutes of development prior to her deaths. I'm sorry, but this is not how you write a character.


Sound 5/10

I don't even remember the ending because I skipped it, generic.

Art 6/10

The designs were good, I must admit. But I hate the placement. They all fight in the city at night, and they don't do anything else. Most of the fights develop in a building's ceiling. Cool, I guess.

Enjoyment 4/10

Decent entertainment because you are trying to figure out who is going to get killled next...then the death flag appears.

Overall 3/10

Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku is a poor anime. Bad story, bad writing, terrible characters. Even the fans of gore will likely find amusement in another story. Please avoid it at all costs.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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