Introduction
Fantasies and miracles never interested Ayu Tateishi, a popular second-year student at her middle school. She was content with preserving her image of being cool, calm, and collected—all to catch the eye of her crush, Tetsushi Kaji. Ayu's carefree youthful days are interrupted by the appearance of Nina Sakura, a new transfer student who turns out to be a witch. As the only person who knows about Nina's ability to cast spells using a mini-computer, Ayu is forced to help Nina with her mission to find the five Holy Stones, qualifying her to marry the prince of the Magic Kingdom.
Unfortunately, Nina's ineptitude with magic and her habit of meddling in Ayu's personal life cause nothing but trouble for the two of them as Ayu toils to maintain her good reputation and Nina struggles to hide her secret from the discerning eye of Hiroki Tsujiai, Tetsushi's best friend and an avid fan of manga. And when Nina's search for the five Holy Stones brings allies and challengers from the Magic Kingdom, Ayu is dragged into a world she never even dreamed was possible.
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Audience reviews
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xShiningxMoonx
8/10
Sometimes a touch of magic is all we need to find the courage to change ourselves. Poor lovestruck Ayu Tateishi can’t seem to catch a break with the object of her affections, until chance bestows her with a clumsy, yet endearing witch in training named Nina. Through Nina’s friendship (with maybe some wacky magical antics), she’ll teach Ayu the value of that the true magic lies in us.
Based on the classic manga from 2001, author Wataru Yoshizumi (creator of Marmalade Boy) offers a cheery, feel-good setting, positive female role models, wacky comedy, and an endearing, simple message. The saccharine world is further complemented by pretty character designs, soft animation, and a pop-y opening and ending. While the abundance of filler and sluggish first half ultimately distract from tig…
Read at the sourceGraciana
Ultra Maniac is a charming magical-romance anime that blends comedy, friendship, and a bit of everyday school life. The story follows Nina, a clumsy witch whose magic rarely works the way she expects, which leads to many funny and chaotic moments. Her friendship with Ayu becomes the heart of the series, creating warm and genuine interactions that make the story feel light and comforting.
The colorful art style and energetic tone match the magical theme well. The characters are expressive and memorable, and their personalities help keep the episodes entertaining. The humor mostly comes from Nina’s unpredictable spells, which often turn simple situations into amusing disasters.
While the story is relatively simple and sometimes follows a familiar episodic structure, the series maintains a…
Read at the sourceLostNomad4471
Ultra maniac is a rare kind of anime. An anime that's so bad it's funny. It fails in every category, but it fails in such a hilarious way that it's just so much fun to hate.
Story 1/10
The most obvious problem with this anime is it has a really unoriginal premise. Seriously, I can name at least a dozen TV shows (not just anime) where it's just another fish out of water story that has a main character whose a witch (or an alien, a robot, a goddess, a vampire, etc.) whose going to a school for humans and has to adjust to her new surroundings.
Of course, even if your story has an unoriginal premise that doesn't necessarily mean the story as a whole is awful. A good example is Kiki's Delivery Service which is also about a witch moving to a new home. However, while Kiki tells the basic fis…
Read at the sourceYemi_Hikari
STORY
This is another Magical Girl series that deals with two girls race to get a covited position in their society by going to the human world, but it is refreshing as it really isn't revealed until later that this is what is going on. Also, the ending is a nice twist to the whole plot line that one gets from these race series, it is in fact the ending that makes it unique from them. It is also very comedic.
ART
The art is very acurate and detailed. In this one, the middle schoolers actually look to be the age of middle schoolers, which some Anime's made to look younger. There is also detail in the Magical girl costumes and each character, expessully the girls have their costumes fully designed out.
Also, the scenery looks to be a real place, as if one can actually go their, even the…
Read at the sourceDragonsWhip
A good show with a lovely ending
Story
The story starts not too quick, but not too slow. Ayu and Nina are good friends who are attending the same school, but Ayu is the only one who knows that Nina is a witch from the Magic Kingdom. However, Nina isn't really good at magic and that's why she came to this world. Of course there's a boy that Ayu likes, Kaji. The show views Ayu's and Nina's daily life around school, magic, love, etcetera. It doesn't sound that original and that's true, but it has good point and that's why this show immediately grabbed me from the first episode. The story has this really lovely ending, which I didn't really expect and it still was good.
Art
The art was okay. The persons are pretty good looking and the backgrounds are sometimes pretty cool! The only thing tha…
Read at the sourceChoto
Okay this is my first review ok here i go.
Ultra Maniac is a really good anime, its a great rom com anime not like those cheesy romance ones. What makes this anime twice as great is the fact that it involves fantasy, drama and romance which really pulls you into the story. One of the good points of its story is that very often more and more new characters join the story and old characters may reveal secrets about themselves that were previously unkown.That is probably what pulls most watchers more and more into the show. The only thing i didnt like about the anime was that the romance kind of comes later on so if your a romance kind of person you may have to wait a while before you get to that point. Other than anything else, just get away from it all, have fun and give it a shot try watc…
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