Reviews

Hehe, this anime was honestly a truly weird one. It's a major cringefest from start to end. The main idea here is moronic characters, being fairly self-aware and the surrealistic setting. It pokes fun at the standard mahou shoujo stuff with girls who transform into macho men and beat things bloody with physical items or fists. I mean, it's pretty much what you'd get when you think "what if we took the standard mahou shoujo trope and reversed pretty much everything to the complete opposite?". So, instead of cute girls, we have macho men, instead of cute mascots, we have creepy yakuza-like mascots, instead of magical beams and magic wands, we have wands made for physical lashing, instead of the pretty fluffy way enemies are supposed to be defeated in, we get a lot of blood and censored bodies, instead of ugly, warped monsters, we have cute mascot-like demons/monsters.

Well, you get the idea. So, it's all kind of flipped around and that's the thing this show is going for, having little to no other interesting parts about it. It was fairly amusing, but giving it more than a 6 is honestly impossible, especially as I was getting more and more bored towards the end(not to mention that even after a few episodes around the middle, there was already an episode or two that I just wanted to end already while I watched it, might've been complete filler episodes though). It relies on surrealism and breaking conventions to the point where once you get used to it, it's just kind of boring. The jokes themselves aren't really that creative or good, it's just a wacky comedy that would've done better with twelve ten minute episodes(since the manga is just 12 chapters, that would've truly been a much better way to do things). Twelve full length episodes from 12 fairly average in length chapters... There's a lot of fillers to go around. Yeah, reading the manga might be a better experience, could probably read it all in an hour easily instead of wasting a bit more than four hours on watching this thing, sadly it's not completely translated.

Well, that's what this show is about. Oh, I kind of found the love/romance part to be annoying, might as well mention that as well. "Love power" is the power source of these girls(surprise, surprise), so all of them have to love someone a lot to be able to transform. This gives us a situation where everyone is in love with someone else. What this author decided to do was to, probably for the sake of comedy, make all of them fall in love with someone who doesn't love them. Kind of like, this girl loves that guy, that guy loves/likes a transformed magical girl and then we have magical girls loving other magical girls. The author made it like this for the sake of comedy but this means none of them actually end up together or has any chance to, it ends up feeling a bit tragic. By the end, we still have no relationships whatsoever going on and it feels somewhat lackluster and disappointing. There's also a lot of plot holes present, which can be frustrating to some people even if they didn't watch it for any story or plot. At least I wish they would've told us a bit more about certain characters who were just skipped over after making a big entry as if they were important, like fujimoto the self-proclaimed cyborg. What was even up with that guy? The author got us interested in his backstory and then just completely stopped using him, urgh.

So, 6/10 is me being generous because it was fairly amusing despite the many flaws. Good enough to watch when you desperately want something to waste your time with.