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OtherFritz
There is a certain genre of Magical Girl anime with darker themes that arose in the wake of Puella Magi Madoka Magica's success; a genre that has developed a reputation for being shallow, derivative, overly edgy and generally lacking in quality. Magical Girl Raising Project is one such anime and it must be said that it very much lives up to the genre's less-than-favourable reputation. The anime has a fairly simple premise, centred on a death game which (as the title suggests) features a cast of magical girls. Unfortunately, the creators evidently failed to understand the appeal of either genre, resulting in a joyless unfocused meander of an anime that fails to take advantage of its own ideas and presenting its audience with disappointment after disappointment.
One of Raising Project's big…
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To preface: I love the survival death game genre. Was Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku enjoyable to me? Yes, since it's the type of show I like. However, even if you don't like it, you might want to give the show at shot. Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku is one of the few survival death games shows where the participants involved actually had enough characterization for the show make me care about some of the characters.
I think that this show had some potential to be as good as something like Puella Madoka. The reason why it doesn't comes down to a few factors: the pacing, art style, animation, and execution of a lot of the scenes in the show.
These problems kind of intertwine with each other. The main reason why I liked this show to begin with had to definitely be because of the…
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Character deaths done right are one of my favourite things in fiction. The absolute gut punch of losing a character I cared about, the ways the story's cast will play off of it and develop, and the impactful, irreparable tone shifts.
You've already read the score I'm giving this, so I'm sure you realize none of that applies to Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku.
It isn't hard to look at Ikusei Keikaku and see exactly what will go wrong with it. It's a one-cour show trying to tell the story of sixteen different magical girls -- and if that wasn't already a difficult enough task, it's a battle royale where this expansive cast get butchered.
In other words, the show rides or dies on one specific thing: making me care about these characters and the tragedy that befalls them. It has far less than…
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Great anime! I was looking for a dark magical girl anime and came across this!
I would recommend but of course like most animes it has flaws.
{Story 8/10}
The story was good, I liked how it was different to Madoka Magica, but it still carried the dark magical girl aspect. The story was sad and I really wanted to kill Fav, freaking fav. But it was a bit quick at the start. All of a sudden she was a magical girl, then it turned into the hunger games in less than 2 episodes. If they had an extra episode showing us different good deeds and how the magical girls get along it would have added a lot to the anime.
{Art 9/10}
The art was amazing! The character designs were so cute and unique. The style wasn't messy or sketchy, and very clean. The animation scenes were very realistic t…
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So, this series attempted to do something unique with the magical girl genre; turn it into a real battle royal. However, in it's attempt to do that, it completely gutted itself and ruined any potential it had.
I'll start with the good things. The character designs were somewhat unique. Despite feeling like some of the characters were blatant rip-offs of a certain other magical girl series, there were also several that had super unique abilities and how they used them were well designed. Especially Swimswim, I liked her ability... even if at times it felt like they didn't quite stick to it fully.
The art and animation for the series was also above par. I wouldn't say it was anything groundbreaking or specifically a reason why you should watch it, though. The voice acting was also pretty g…
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In recent years there has been the rise of a sub-genre of anime I’d like to call ‘moe flip’. In this sub-genre, cute characters are immersed in harsh conditions, often brutal, that are unlike what the characters represent by their looks alone. These shows engage the audience through their shock value; having cute characters commit brutal actions or transform into psychological monsters. The masterpieces in this sub-genre go beyond the shock value and deliver compelling characters.
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku is a ‘moe-flip’ show that excels in delivering great shock value but fails to present meaningful characters.
[Magical girl battle royale]
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku, or Magical Girls Raising Project (MGRP for short), is a fantasy thriller adapted from a light novel of the same title…
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Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku is a Hunger Game-esque anime at its core that attempts to bring in an array of "characters" with varying magical talents in an attempt to show an edgier side of the Magical Girl genre. Through a mobile app game, girls are chosen by the magical entity Fav for unknown reasons, but they accidentally selected too many girls to become magical girls, and so now they all need to compete in a competition of either gaining the most candies or killing each other (someone will die by the end of the week regardless) in order for them to survive.
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Story: 3/10
Story-wise, Ikusei Keikaku is filled to the brim with nothing but terrible cliches. It became clear that any character whose backstory was shown was very likely to be among the victims of that…
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This show has a wonderful premise. Honestly. It does. But the execution of that premise and the direction the story goes is very mediocre. All of the characters are excellently designed. Aesthetically, they're pleasing and they have pretty deep backstories. But then they're all killed off like such fodder, with the viewer being given so little real time to grow with them, that their deaths aren't what anger you. What angers you, or more accurately frustrates you, is the absolutely squandered potential of each and every one of them over the course of the show.
On top of that, everything is very predictable. Who'll die next, why everything's happening, who will be the last one standing... And the motivation behind the conflict is not only revealed halfway through the show, rendering there…
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Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku - One more "Mahou Shoujo" to the collection
I realize there are "mahou" animes but I do not understand why they have to be so bad.
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku is an example of how a "magical" anime manages to be tragic.
The synopsis tells us that there is a social game called "The Magical Girl Raising Project" that allows one of them to be chosen to be a "magic girl" within a group of people (hence the tone "mahou" of the whole anime), which means she will have extraordinary physical abilities as well as magical powers that differentiate from the rest from the humans. What happens next is that, in a district where there are 16 girls, the administration thinks it should reduce the number of "magic girls" where each one should consume some "magic candies" but s…
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This show is pure schlock with delusions of depth, but good enough if you're just kinda looking for something to watch. Character development is all rushed and last minute to the point where it's kind of insulting that we're supposed to care about the characters at all. The weakest character happens to be our protagonist, who hardly gets any screen time and doesn't develop very much at all throughout most of the season. Then again, she's the only character who reacts to her circumstances like a real person. Everyone else just kind of hopped on board the death and murder train the second they found out about it. The character designs are kinda wonky. It the classic anime problem of having eyes too big, set too far apart with no nose to speak of with the added dimension that you really can't…
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Do you like poorly written stories with little bit of complexity, horrible characters and a plot that will make you say "mm, that's ok, i guess" ? Well, Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku might be for you. Yes, it's a Hunger Games with Magical Girls. Excuse me if my review seems like a spoiler, but it isn't. This anime is so poorly written that is predictable.
Story 3/10
What happens when an anime based on a game doesn't follow its own rules? Well, this happens. I will quote Danganronpa. Danganronpa was a killing game that had precise rules: they will apply to anyone and they will be followed no matter what. This anime doesn't do this. At first, they tell you they need to cut the magical girls to 8, then they tell you you can buy magical items to get an advantage, then they tell you that they…
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Few reviewers will be able to express eloquently the trainwreck that is this series. In nearly 12 eps, Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku turned a unconvoluted premise convoluted, obtuse, unfocused, and just outright weird.
The entire core of Magical Girl Raising Project was inspired from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a critically acclaimed gem from 2011 that received praise for subverting the magical girl genre. It really blows that one of the few if only merits of the series is inspired from another, arguably better series made several years ago.
The main content of Magical Girl Raising Project is watching Magical Girls perform brutal violence. The first four episodes had great pacing, shocking twist, and established the characters. Then it proceeded to drop the ball on every single plot point.…
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Well, I was expecting this willl be kawaii girls anime to be enjoyed for this season.The fact is, as you can check that FALL 2016 is full of mahou shoujo. Then I decided on a whim to choose this, and I don't regret it at all. There are two main reasons:
The first reason is.. a lot of types of mahou shoujos!yes, each with different ability. I thought that it would be interesting to see them battle each others. And it is executed very well I say. The battle scenes are not much, but they are pretty good. Sometimes they are not fight heads on but trick each others, which is interesting to watch too.
Another reason is.. there are some plot twists in this anime. No, I'm not talking about how they'll die here. Anyone who see this anime will be able to conclude, which one will be dead next time…
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Hello, I am here to deliver a review for Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku. I just watched episode twelve tonight.
I am not that into "magical girl" anime, so I won't be very bias in my review.
メ Story: The story is very good. I am judging the story on it's plot twists and fear factor. The first three episode are delivered as the entire anime was meant to continue to be calm, but friendship is fickle in this one. There is a lot of intensely edgy backstories and death that make this anime even more edgy. It's sad at points if you get easily attached to characters like I do, otherwise you'll think it's a "over-the-top edge-fest".
メ Art: The art of the anime was very good in terms of movement and shading. The style in some frames could have awkward movement at some times. The art style is diffe…
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The battle royale theme is no stranger to the anime medium, with many series incorporating it in their storyline from Mirai Nikki to the Fate Series just to name a few. The method of execution is what usually enamours the audience, which is a quintessential requirement for its overall success. Now can be it done with magical girls? The answer is a yes but the degree to which it is provides an entertaining storyline is variable. Anyone who is well versed with a last man standing format should have a complete grasp of the problems associated with it.
The conspicuous social experiment that enables a total of 16 magical girls battling each other to the death sounds amusing at first. The chosen participants are selected on a purely random scale each with their fair share of problems to boot. I…
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Ohhh not another dark reconstruction of the magical girl genre...yes, but it's also it's own thing at the same time.
Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku has a social game of becoming magical girls turned battle royale and sure on the surface it looks like a Puella Madoka Magica ripoff just under a "social game setting", but as much as Puella Madoka Magica comes at you with it's dark themes so suddenly without warning, Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku goes for the more slower approach and giving us some VERY well done anti-villains along the way.
In terms of characters, it is one of greatest strengths towards the entire "Battle Royale but under the social game schema", but it has it's ups and downs concerning if it's towards the more level-headed peaceful characters or the more psychotic ones. If it's…
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This anime in 8 words: “Anticlimactic Magical Girl Death Game With Wasted Potential ”
Yes, this is just another magical girl dark twist anime. Unfortunately, it's not that great of one either and here's why:
This is what a series looks like when it tries to have emotional shock factor, but fails because it's only 12 episodes long and has too many characters. When characters die, most of the times you won't even care because there are too many of them and you don't ever know their backstory until the episode of their death. This series has a damsel in distress, innocent, naive main protagonist. There are no moral messages to be gained from this anime and no overarching reasons for the events that happen. It’s, simply put, excessive “just because” death-game violence. However, I believe i…
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This was a rather strange anime, but I very much liked it, the characters are all interesting, and each are unique, and of course you have the obligatory chars you love to hate, and those you just outright hate. Watching this series unfold I was never really 100% sure how it would win,
The story itself is really cool, others have compared it to different anime, but maybe it's just my lack of seeing many but I found it different enough that I ddn't notice or care.
Visually I would say it's not too bad either, giving you enough of what you want, without going too far, from what I understand the manga and anime are a bit darker, but it didn't bother me that it lacked some of that here.
I would give this series a definite recommendation, and suggest anyone thats curious about it checking i…
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“I kinda like it when a lotta people die.” --George Carlin
Sometimes, all you need is kill. Ing. That’s what I was looking for with Magipro. I was a little stressed, you see. I was in a weird spot at the beginning of the season: pets dying, mothers hospitalized, promotions at work, dads who live forty miles away and need rides to work another forty miles away. Oh my god. I have RESPONSIBILITIES?!
Tough times call for easy viewing. I wanted something that I didn’t have to think about. Something fun. And the synopsis of Magipro fit the bill. Magical girls killing each other? Don’t care why, I wanna see it. People dying is sensational and thrilling. Violence, murder, blood, death, despair! Sometimes, all we need is a little action. Fantasy is for the things we don’t want to experience. It’…
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Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku, yet another entry for the "dark and edgy" as well as unnecessarily sophisticated "mature" magical girl genre.
The Magical Girl Raising Project took a creative risk to introduce the completely original and unique concept (*major sarcasm) of the dark side of Mahou Shoujo‘s to audiences. Plot: Girl(s) with ``surprise surprise’’ problems in the real world distract themselves from their problems by playing a free to play (*with micro transactions) magical girl game on their android or IOS devices. But! Get this, in the game The Magical Girl Raising Project, one in tens of thousands of people to get to be a real "magical girl” even guys apparently... that’s a spoiler for another day. Besides the unwanted shock at the beginning of the series, the plot of the story wa…
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