...Can we just skip this one? No? Are you sure? I'm pretty sure we can skip this one and it'll be fine. Really???
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I don't wanna! But fine!
Mahou Shoujo Site is an adaptation of the manga by Kentaro Satou. Which is apparently a spin-off of Magical Girl Apocalypse which I guess is magical girls + zombies? Didn't really ever think we needed a combination of magical girls and horror but here we are, I guess...
I just want to say right out of the gate I don't fucking see what people saw in this at all. And I'm not even talking about the people who liked it. I'm talking about the people who hated it and dropped it out of seemingly vehement disgust.
To me, it wasn't edgy enough. It wasn't gory enough, it wasn't bad enough, and it wasn't funny enough. It might partially be a result of the transition from manga into anime... like maybe there's some edgier stuff that was just toned the fuck down or something.
But yeah, episode one was the closest this series had me going. The over the top tragedy stuff with Asagiri was wonderful. When she was talking about like wanting to die, I kind of couldn't think of a rebuttal. Because of what we're shown of her life, it's basically a living nightmare.
She gets the shit kicked out of her and is tormented at school, then she comes home and gets the shit kicked out of her by her sadist brother, and her parents just completely do not give a single shit. Also, the cat? The fucking cute cuddly looking cat that looks like it doesn't even belong in this series?
"Yeah, there's no way that cat's gonna be found by the bullies and be gruesomely killed in some wa--oh, it already happened."
For a glorious moment, I thought this was gonna be the series. Girls who have suffered horrible and terrible lives who are given magical girl powers and then just go on fuckin' RAMPAGES of viscera everywhere.
Instead no. Instead fucking no. Like that shit is immediately thrown out of the window once episode one is done. The show just immediately becomes finding out more about the site and magical girls entering a conflict between the entities that run the Mahou Shoujo Site. And...
...that was just supremely boring to me the entire way through. I just could not care less about it.
But the Tempest is gonna be an apocalyptic event and... I just did not give a single fuck. Like there's a point in the show where they describe like a way better version of this show, and that's like the idea that there's a contest of like winning your way to be guarantee your survival once the Tempest hits.
But the way to win the contest is you have to be like the magical girl who causes the most pain and suffering. Why couldn't that have been the show. Why couldn't that have been the fucking show.
Yet no, we gotta battle the Mahou Shoujo Site! Which... in addition to not caring much at all about, I'm not sure how I or anyone was expected to ever take seriously. Like I started laughing every single time they showed like the table with all of the site administrators around it. Wow, they look so spooky! I'm so scared!
These idiots are pissed off that the magical girls are using their powers against the site because they learned about the Tempest but how did they learn about the Tempest...? Oh, the way the site's programmed is if you click a certain part of a site administrator's body, that'll take you to another section of the site that is a literal countdown to this mysterious apocalyptic event that the site administrators seem very in favor of happening.
Maybe... maybe you should have... not had that be visible? On your site? That you run? You're the ones running the site so if you didn't want them to find out about that then WHY LET THEM BE ABLE TO ACCESS THAT?
Really, apart from I guess episode one, the closest times I was ever entertained through this show was when Asagiri's brother was on the screen or talking.
That voice actor knew exactly what was he doing and was just being as over the top and insane sounding ~~and annoying~~ as he possibly could. When the brother just starts full on fucking with the magical girls in spite of whatever's currently happening with the site, I was honestly very entertained.
But good things of course have come to an end, and the show returns to the bland magical battles and talking about the site and I just... ugh.
Completely boring! I guess apart from Asagiri's brother, I kind of liked Asagiri's friend. ~~Though I've forgotten her name at this point.~~ But that's about all the things I can think of even praising. Like the edgy parts or the parts where some of the magical girls were acting insane were... fun? It's... it's still just not enough.
Maybe there'll be another magical girl and full on horror combination in the future that changes my mind (I doubt it), but I just don't think it works honestly. The spooky site administrators are just... they're just funny. I laughed or chuckled almost every single time they were on the screen and especially when they started battling with the magical girls. I would describe basically the entirety of this series as laughable.
When the most entertaining parts of your series is when you're trying to be as dark and "feel bad" as you possibly can, and the rest of your series is just occasional magical battles or just talking about a spooky mascot website that's gonna bring about the apocalypse (which of course sounds fun in concept but isn't in the execution)... eh. Just... eh.
A completely deserved 3 out of 10. I probably wouldn't recommend it. It's not good, and it's not funny enough to be "good bad." I guess when it comes down to it, all I'm saying is I really wish the entire series was about that brother character.
