Okay, yeah. The description did sound original, within the framework of Mahou Shoujo of course.
The Mahou Shoujo genre is increasingly repetitive, that's why even magical girls fighting against terrorists sounded more interesting than it was. However, the more the episodes progressed, the more I questioned myself whether this was really a Mahou Shoujo or a hentai of terrorists. Don't get me wrong, I know that there are transformations and magical powers like in any MS, but most of the times that the subject is touched it's so... ridiculous. I will develop it in more depth in the Story Development part.
Now, I will summarize how bad the development is by saying that I think that in each episode I could recognize a different fetish.
If it helps you, this anime is 50% fanservice, 35% cringe and 15% action and scenes with meaning. Although I will comment later on the characters, it is impressive how blands they all are during the development of those twelve episodes. The action scenes are decent, but often exaggerated to show the Magical Five more badass than they really are (I'm talking about you, Rapture). And obviously, we should not forget about the fact that most of them have tits bigger than Nozomi's head (We couldn't do it even if we wanted to, the tits are in the center of the screen most of the time).
Oh, boy. This poor, small quintet is so interesting ... in the bad way, obviously.
Let's start with Asuka, which had PSTD at the beginning of the show. Oh, this could develop well, right? Oh, wrong. Because Asuka's PSTD disappears, ironically, with more violence. Surprisingly, she is the most sane of the gang. Then we have Kurumi who is, for me, the worst of the Magical Five. His personality and story seem as if they were taken out of a bad fanfic of Wattpad of 2012, when it was fashionable to be edgy. That, and her attempt to be yandere in 2019, is really embarrassing. On the other hand are Mia and Tamara, who are not so different from each other so I'll put them together to save me time. Both of them belong to the army, more or less, and they like to shoot things and so on. The only thing that distinguishes them is that Tamara has a fetish with "tender and adorable" things, and Mia's unique personality is based on her revolvers. And finally, and obviously less important although the show tries to make you think otherwise, Lau Pei-pei. Pei only appears in the last episode, and we only discovered that while the other girls have returned to fight with the Disas and that kind of stuff, she became an Asian Paris Hilton who is also a hit man. Oh, and obviously she's also a bit of a nymphomaniac, like most women in the whole series. The funny thing is that although Pei-pei has not done anything in all these episodes, we still have her in the last scene of the season (or series, rather) with the others, in an attempt to message us something like: "These are the heroines you've seen during all these episodes! Yes, even Pei-pei."
I wrote so much in the previous point, that I will be brief here: this series is hard to enjoy, and if you are looking for something serious and with good characters, then go your way. Still, I will give it 5 points for the fact that at least I finished it.
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