The reason I watched this series is because I like to look into certain individuals or studios and what all they've done. Currently that is studio White Fox. Being their only original work, this magical girl series has a unique take and is more playful with itself than it appears (given the stigma of the genre), but it's potential starts to wain with its quick run time.
The 9th episode starts the downfall. Up until his point, the series was well-paced, the lore & mystery was intriguing, the character were fun to watch, and was direct pretty fine for 2/3 of its life. One problem with this is how much time is given for the series' finale. Episode 9 kickstarts the final arc with a lackluster directing, a crammed plot, a villain that appears and dies as quick as they came giving no time for any sense of what they are about, and important plot stapled in. The following episode only suffers in the same manner adding the common problem of many anime of having characters babble out their thoughts and ends with random twist villain cliffhanger moment.
This is not to fault the team behind it. The animation is good; not White Fox's best but not unwatchable. Episode 6's self-aware opening where the comedic character inserts her face over the other girls is a fun little laugh. This is one of those cases where it should have been a 2-cour series, but being original it probably is harder to sell that especially given the saturation of the media increasing in the 2010s.
