Ahh...the magical girl genre. The innocence, the justice and more. It's just that there's one part of the magical girl genre we all know. The dark magical girl genre.
Okay, you may say "Oh my gosh, this is a copy of PMMM!"
Nope.
As a LN reader, I get offended when people compare MGRP to PMMM. They are nothing similar. One is about 16 magical girls and they get halved and the other is a totally innocent magical girl show.
If you've watched PMMM, at least give this a chance. I promise you, it's not that bad.
Story:7
Okay, the story is what you probably would expect. You have your "weak" main character(I say this because she does grow) and she turns into a magical girl. Then (huh!!!) everything quickly turns twisted. I have to say, the
story was kind of cliche. There are a lot of tropes in this series like, "Childhood Friend", "Weak Main Character" and etc. The anime sort of screwed up the ending by not telling us viewers why Snow and Ripple were fighting at the end and by also not introducing a certain character.
Yes, the story is somewhat mediocre. But, as the episodes rolled on, I felt like it got better and better.
So: RECAP: First half, weak. Second half, good. Ending, eh?
Art:6
Okay, guys, I'm not an art person. Despite art being my minor, I can't draw. So please don't take this part as seriously as the other categories of the series. Okay, so I believe the art was okay. Wasn't bad, wasn't very good. The animation wasn't very fluid to me. It kinda just used exaggerated movements to depict action. During the fights, however, the animation is very fluid and is great.
The character designs are actually pretty good. They represent the character that received the design.
Sound:5
Ok, just no. Why was this done like this?
In the first episode, the music was decent to me. However, when they start repeating the music OVER and OVER, it gets very boring and tiring. To me, there are only like 6 songs in the soundtrack.
Ok, see?
1. Opening
2. Ending
3.Battle Theme
4. Fun Theme
5. Calamity Mary vs Ripple(Finally!)
6. Sad Theme
The ending and the opening were good, at least.
The sound effects were good, as well, but the whole sound of the anime was very mediocre.
Character:7
The characters were good. Although the main character was sort of bland at this point in the MGRP series, the other main characters were reasonably developed, however, the went overboard on the backstories.
Nothing else to say, really. The characters were not 3-dimensional, but weren't like cardboard either.
Enjoyment:10
This is the high-point of the anime. The theorizing about who dies next and who kills who is very fun. It's tragic when someone dies, but that's then enjoyable part of the series.
Overall:7
The series isn't that bad. Granted, it isn't very good either, but as an LN reader, I can tell you that the next few arcs do a way better job at composition and stuff.
