Well... JoJo part 5 look way more bizarre than I expected…
Mahou Shojou Ore is a meta comedy anime focusing on and attempting to make humorous commentary
on the main genre’s tropes and popular themes.
It stars a young girl who desires to be both the stereotypical pop idol but also a magical
girl who fights evil.
Only to eventually be given that chance, start up her transformation sequence and turn into….
a dude.
This is not the first time the magical girl genre has done gender bending, in true “The
Simpsons did it” style for the genre Sailor Moon covered this back with the Sailor Starlights
in the 90s, and even more recently there was that Magical Boy anime “Cute High Earth
Defence Club Love!” that quickly arrived and just as quickly was forgotten about.
The selling point for Magical Girl Ore is how much the meta commentary on the genre
will get lost on you or not.
Here’s an example, in episode one we have the main pair of female characters singing
a song that’s basically an off key rip-off of the cutie honey theme.
It's not exactly the theme but, you know that's what they were going for.
But if you don’t get why that’s at least interesting if not downright hilarious then this show
probably won’t be for you.
That’s not saying that there is nothing irredeemable about this series to a non-fan
of the genre, or a casual fan.
It’s jokes thus far are not limited specifically to the genre, having the main character run
out the door with an entire plate of food instead of just a piece of toast in her mouth
is something that most anime fans will understand.
Plus there’s the simple WTF factor of it.
The main character transforms into a buff muscle bounded guy in a dress and he goes
off to fight equally musclebound bear things?
Sometimes they have tentacles because
That could be a draw for some people...
This series is like on the opposite end of the spectrum from like say Madoka Magica.
They are both taking pot-shots at the genre’s tropes but while Madoka does so in a very
serious, these characters are going to have a bad time kind of way, Ore just puts it all
on display for us to laugh at.
With mixed results.
Sure you can have a magical girl staff!
But it does nothing and a gun would be far more effective!
The rules and laws of this universe are decided by how much comedy they can attempt to squeeze
out of any given situation.
On the plus side though the manga it’s biased off of is completed so this will, or at least
should, be a complete adaptation.
It’s got that going for it at least.
But honestly I don’t know if this is the kind of show I’m going to be continuing personally.
I might have to from a scholarly standpoint because I’ve been making it a thing to watch
a bunch of Magical Girl anime since it’s one of my favourite genres and I even run
a panel about its history at conventions sometimes, but that’s more of a work thing.
If I was watching purely for pleasure I might only try another episode or two out
to see if it starts to re-use gags at all which for me is a major turn off for comedy anime.
But we’ll have to see in a couple of weeks.
Why a couple of weeks?
Well because apparently Crunchyroll got this show two episodes early, Japan hasn’t even
aired these episodes yet so that’s a thing.
But also if you want more that means your just going to have to wait until they come out in Japan like every other
series, we just need to wait for Japan to catch up.
Perhaps whatever enthusiasm I have for the series will be gone by then and I’ll
drop it entirely.
Not sure.
If you have seen Magical Girl Ore and have thoughts let me know down in the comments!
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That is it from me and until next
time stay frosty everyone!