Not quite as strange as something like To Be Hero, but definitely up there. I'm not going to reiterate the synopsis of the show, but this is essentially a satire of the magical girl genre. You got cute girls turning into burly magical men and demons that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime. Already sounds odd and hilarious right?
But it goes deeper than that: enemies that disrupt animation, Godzilla(?), sauna competition, using the magical girl rod to literally beat enemies to a pulp, Yakuza fairies.... the list goes on.
For me the show was a mixed bag. Ya, it's funny with the gender bending magical girls, but the novelty got old for me about halfway through. The show in my opinion was best when it was completely random and off the wall (my favorite episode was the Godzilla episode). It was trying to make fun of a lot of magical girl and idol tropes, but it also felt like it didn't always succeed in its delivery. It felt pretty repetitive at times and in some ways it fell victim to some of the tropes it was trying to make fun of. It didn't take itself seriously, which is the point, but it also didn't take its comedy too seriously which left this show feeling dry.
Just because you're using overused tropes and showing how boring and stupid they can be doesn't mean it's any easier to watch if it's not executed well. I felt like this show should have really amped up the satire and comedy and make it even more crazy and out of nowhere. During the Godzilla episode I was wondering what the hell I was watching, but it was absolutely hilarious, I was dying during that episode. I wish there was more of that. Most of the time though the comedy felt flat and some times it was excruciating to watch because of how boring it'd get. But at random points in the show it'd throw a curve ball at you that'd keep me entertained just enough until the next curve ball came. But overall I didn't feel too satisfied once I reached the end.
In terms of satire, ludicrousness, and comedy, I was let down, this is definitely no Space Patrol Luluco.
For the characters, they're not much to write home about. They fulfill their roles fine for the show, nothing much more to say about them. The MC is about what you'd expect out of a magical girl MC, but it's different since she turns into a muscular man which makes it kind of funny (some of those camera angles though lmao, there's definitely manservice in this show). There's a complicated love triangle that's kind of assuming and some of the side characters are funny too, but are mainly pretty forgettable. The art and animation is pretty average, not much to say here. The episodes with the intentionally bad animation was pretty funny though.
To sum it up, I wouldn't really recommend this show to anyone unless you're just dying to watch some macho men in magical girl outfits with some crazy antics and a lot of pokes at the magical girl genre. In terms of comedy, there's not a lot of great material here and the delivery was hit and miss, even for some of the better episodes (Godzilla episode was great though). This was an interesting experiment that seemed like it was a lot of fun to make, but in a lot of ways I feel like it fell felt and didn't have much else to offer besides its main selling point: burly men in magical girl outfits. But maybe, that's all it ever wanted to be.
