An edgy story about "hope," "despair," a bunch of girls, an emotionless transfer student the main character saw once in a dream, and a creepy cat with contracts that grant one single wish like a lamp genie in exchange for you to become a magical girl and fight witches.
Mix Persona 4 with Houseki no Kuni, replace the fun with long-winded bad sci-fi explanations from Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, narrate it like Bakemonogatari, add some magical girls in it, then you have this anime.
Also similar to: Shinsekai Yori.
12 episode anime original.
2/10★ - Too much talking and overly dramatic.
Weaknesses: weird artwork makes fight scenes artsy but sub-par, whole cast is dumb as a rock, way too much exposition.
Frustrating. Entirely based on little girls' feelings, rejects logic. Forcibly paced at a crawl, lots of explaining its magical girl system and characters avoiding saying important stuff.
Just like in Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, no matter how much time you waste explaining magic, nothing changes the fact it works "like magic." At the convenience of the author, it can do virtually anything. So all the pretense of sci-fi of the show goes waste and is replaced by a bullshit miracle machine fueled by love and unicorn powder.
Just like in Blood+, having a mysterious character show up just to stay quiet and not cough up the plot right away is increasingly irritating. The forced "mystery" and "suspense" becomes a real annoyance through the series, specially since the main character isn't confrontational enough.
You'll be literally sitting still and waiting until the episode comes they feel like talking about what they already knew since the very first episode. There's no investigation in this series, just waiting.
This is a serious anime with stuff like suicide, and magical girls that fight to stop it, but what's in their head while fighting is "yay, I made a new friend!" If this were Boku no Hero Academia, they'd be worried about saving lives, not their personal relationships.
This way it stamps the girls' feelings over its deliberately harsh reality is probably the main reason reason I hate it, and probably the essence of the anime as well.
AniDB - MyAnimeList - IMDB
There's no romance. It's not ecchi. There are a few "should I call this nudity?" scenes with the female body becoming a silhouette. One of the girls has a rather girl-x-girl-love inclined imagination; that's foreshadowing of the type of fan that likes this anime, but that's about it.
Although there's some violence and rather cold-hearted, edgy themes, there's no gore of any kind in this anime, all of it cleverly hidden by its rather abstract artwork. At most, there's a bit of blood and tears.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
PMMM.
Mix Persona 4 with Houseki no Kuni, replace the fun with long-winded bad sci-fi explanations from Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, narrate it like Bakemonogatari, add some magical girls in it, then you have this anime.
Also similar to: Shinsekai Yori.
12 episode anime original.
2/10★ - Too much talking and overly dramatic.
Weaknesses: weird artwork makes fight scenes artsy but sub-par, whole cast is dumb as a rock, way too much exposition.
Frustrating. Entirely based on little girls' feelings, rejects logic. Forcibly paced at a crawl, lots of explaining its magical girl system and characters avoiding saying important stuff.
Just like in Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, no matter how much time you waste explaining magic, nothing changes the fact it works "like magic." At the convenience of the author, it can do virtually anything. So all the pretense of sci-fi of the show goes waste and is replaced by a bullshit miracle machine fueled by love and unicorn powder.
Just like in Blood+, having a mysterious character show up just to stay quiet and not cough up the plot right away is increasingly irritating. The forced "mystery" and "suspense" becomes a real annoyance through the series, specially since the main character isn't confrontational enough.
You'll be literally sitting still and waiting until the episode comes they feel like talking about what they already knew since the very first episode. There's no investigation in this series, just waiting.
This is a serious anime with stuff like suicide, and magical girls that fight to stop it, but what's in their head while fighting is "yay, I made a new friend!" If this were Boku no Hero Academia, they'd be worried about saving lives, not their personal relationships.
This way it stamps the girls' feelings over its deliberately harsh reality is probably the main reason reason I hate it, and probably the essence of the anime as well.
AniDB - MyAnimeList - IMDB
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This is a magical girl anime. Despite technobabble and suspense, it's obvious from the cast that this is a magical girl anime.There's no romance. It's not ecchi. There are a few "should I call this nudity?" scenes with the female body becoming a silhouette. One of the girls has a rather girl-x-girl-love inclined imagination; that's foreshadowing of the type of fan that likes this anime, but that's about it.
Although there's some violence and rather cold-hearted, edgy themes, there's no gore of any kind in this anime, all of it cleverly hidden by its rather abstract artwork. At most, there's a bit of blood and tears.
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魔法少女まどか★マギカPuella Magi Madoka Magica.
PMMM.
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