Yes, we continue to mention the Tempest up until the end, but that’s just it. Instead, they are just used to introduce new plot points, which essentially led nowhere. Basically, everyone agrees to get along to deal with the Tempest, but wait, let’s forget that that’s important and just work on killing off the administrators because for some reason, that’s going to do something.Įssentially, Mahou Shoujo Site was only good at introducing conflict.
Rina was a psychopath who seemed to relish killing off everyone, but let’s forget that as she’s only used to introduce the idea of the Tempest. Let’s start off with the fact that a lot of the characters started off the anime wanting to kill each other save for Aya and Tsuyuno. However, we want to be honest and discuss every facet so we can’t just ignore the weak plot development. If we didn’t want to pull apart Mahou Shoujo Site, it’d be easy to say it was somewhat entertaining and reflects the development of Aya as she goes from a tragic heroine to a self sacrificing hero. There’s something unspeakably unpleasant in seeing Aya get magical girl powers only for them to make her more miserable, when the genre was historically a source of positive escapism.Why You Should Skip Mahou Shoujo Site (Magical Girl Site) 1. This is a shounen horror series, and an irritating reminder of the industry mentality that the way to make stories about young women appeal to men is to make them cry and suffer-a mentality stemming from a genre-shifting work that strolled in and said “Hey, what if this genre that’s been pretty exclusively for women was also a thing that men could have, actually?” (and boy is Site doing a hack crib job: Aya’s future totally-platonic-bestie has time-stopping powers). The moments of grimdark hilarity, like magical girls crying blood, are few and located far between the long sessions of wallowing in watching a young girl suffer. It delights in showing the lines of exhaustion under Aya’s eyes, her bruises, the vomit and spit and tears every time she’s pushed down or hit. Magical Girl Site has no shortage of detail. Pictured: The writer of Magical Girl Site (or Madoka Magica, or Yuki Yuna, or…)
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But that kind of show generally relies on a certain level of technical incompetence and an eliding of detail that strives for the punch of horrible plot beats without actually wanting or knowing how to showcase them (see: School Days). This “pile on the misery” approach to plotting (“her mom is dead-no wait, she’s an orphan! With an eyepatch! And she HAS A PAPERCUT”) has been rife for unintended comedic appeal before, as it usually crops up in shows that have little to no grasp on how to powerfully portray even one traumatic event in a moving way, much less six all at the same time. Hell, our first glimpse of Aya is her internal monologue that “every day, all I think about it dying” as she imagines stepping out in front of a train. Over the course of this episode Aya is beaten, held down in a toilet bowl until she passes out, has her kitten murdered, has a box cutter stuck in her mouth, and is assaulted and almost raped. I can’t lie, I kind of had hopes for this one-there have been a few dark magical girl shows I liked, and sometimes they make me laugh-but the actual result is just too unpleasant to qualify for so-bad-it’s-good. “Oh Disposakitty, you’re my only friend!”
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