Introduction
Every day, Aya Asagiri thinks about killing herself. She is bullied relentlessly at school, and at home, her older brother Kaname physically abuses her to relieve the academic stress put on him by their father.
One night, as she lies awake wishing for death, a mysterious website called Magical Girl Site appears on her laptop, promising to give her magical powers. At first, she dismisses it as a creepy prank, but when she finds a magical gun in her shoe locker the next day, she doesn't know what to believe. Deciding to take it with her, she soon runs into her bullies once again. But this time, desperate for anything to save her, she uses the gun—and her assailants are transported to a nearby railroad crossing, where they are run over.
Aya's conscience is unable to handle the fact that she murdered two of her classmates with magic, and she desperately tries to understand the situation. However, when she finds herself in trouble again, she is saved by Tsuyuno Yatsumura, a classmate who can use magic to stop time. This duo has a lot to do: not only do they have to fight alongside and against other magical girls, but they also need to uncover the truth behind the website and the apocalyptic event known as "The Tempest" that is soon to occur.
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Audience reviews
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Iwacchan
Another show that tries to be Madoka Magica but it´s only an edgy suffering porn. That´s it. However wrote it clearly doesn´t know how to handle heavy themes and it shows.
You would probably have a better time rewatching Madoka Magica or some another great mahou shoujo anime. The only way you will enjoy this anime is if you are a 13yo otaku on a ongoing edgy phase that thinks anything with blood is peak.
The only saving grace of this anime is the art style that I think it´s pretty decent. If you really want to give this narrative another chance, then go to the manga, it´s not a masterpiece but it´s certainly better than the anime.
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Maybe some people just like "edgy" things? Maybe it's okay to enjoy a gorefest that has no complex story? Mahou Shoujo Site ticks the boxes for me, as someone who loves gore and horror. And I mean, it's kind of even better when it's happening to characters who look so innocent - makes it easier to accept the ridiculousness of what is happening. This is not a series that is to be taken too seriously, even though it tries to be. And that's okay.
Story: Cute magical girls team up to stop an otherwordly evil and face hell in the process. Except the anime is non-canon and it ends on a cliffhanger. If that puts you off, don't watch this. There's bloody backstories, enemies to friends, a cute beach episode, and terrible villains.
Characters: There are a number of characters you have to pay att…
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Magical Girl Site, or Mahou Shoujo Site, is probably the worst anime I've ever watched. Despite this, I loved it.
It's an edgy shitshow that relies on shock value and little substance trying to piggyback off of the success of Madoka Magica, and I adored every second. I do have to admit that some of the character designs were quite nice, though. Anyway - I loved it, personally, in a "so bad I can't stop watching" way - but do I recommend it? No.
The main character, Aya, had an almost laughably tragic life that was clearly set up for the sole purpose of being a sob story, as with most of the other magical girl characters. Not to mention how her brother was just an irredeemable, unlikeable character without any depth.
Read at the sourceViolentPete
The premise of this show is that it's Madoka except trying to be even more edgy without understanding why Madoka is a decent show in the first place (when you ignore the godawful final episode). The first episode is essentially just a series of unfortunate events happening to our protagonist (the most pathetic person alive) and it's hard to take it seriously because it's so over the top. That's basically how the rest of the show goes, things happen but you can't take them seriously because they're too ridiculous or they just don't make sense.
Madoka had the whole thing with the soul gems and the wishes and the aliens that made it feel like more than five minutes of thought were put into the premise. In Magical Girl Site, the jannies of some deep web site give magical powers to depressed…
Read at the sourceKHC_Murdz
You say edgy, I say real and relatable.
As someone who's touched unimaginable depths of suffering in life, I found Mahou Shoujo Site thoroughly relatable and moving. It was truly a treat for me and I'd imagine it'd be a treat for anyone like me too.
Those that say MSS is edgy for the sake of being edgy have got this anime all wrong. Sometimes truly horrible things happen to at the hands of people who aren't so great and that's just reality for some us.
And if you're one of those people I 100% recommend this anime to you.
Read at the sourcemisterbadluck
Associating the “Magical Girl” concept with brutality, torture and killing can be contradictory at first. You’re basically taking the innocence of that magical girl trying to save the world and reducing it into “Girls with supernatural abilities trying to kill each other”, regardless of their intentions. Torturing someone to death, even though he deserves it, doesn’t really fall into the heroic nature of the “Magical Girls” concept. Because it is still a wrong thing to do. You’re no better than the person you’re actually harming. Because you’ve become him. Point is, you can forget about the whole “magical” genre here. You can replace the title of the show with anything you’d like, say “Devilish Girls Site” or “Mentally Unstable Girls with Powers Site” and it’s not going to change a thing.…
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The anime is self aware of its sick universe, and that's why Mahou Shoujo Site is full of contrasts. Even in a world full of hatred , perversity and chaos , we still get some moments of comedy (these moments are so weird that you dont know if you should laugh or feel uncomfortable), friendship, happiness and , most of all , true love. And thats why I like the main protagonist Aya Asagiri : she loves everything inconditionally , she is just a good girl who is tired of being pushed around , searching for a place to fit in ... what could be more relatable ?
The other characters are good too. in some of them, it is possible to perceive the influence of their tragic past in traces of their personalities. Yatsumura, for example, has a good trajectory and the development of her personality is ve…
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The "Horror" genre of anime comes with an extremely bizarre and inexplicable phenomena, in where people who absolutely hate this genre will watch it anyways expecting it to be something else and then lambast it for in fact being exactly what the show originally claimed to be. This is then followed by multiple Dunning-Kruger inspired reviews that vary in intellectual quality but are all easily spotted by their superfluous use of the word "edgy". Why horror is the only genre "haunted" ( dohohohoho I make joke ) by this oddity is anyones' guess.
But anyways, on to the anime in question itself: Mahou Shoujo Site. Some people will immediately compare this show to Madoka in the trendy line of "Dark" magical girl series. However, this is somewhat of a mistake. Madoka was a Thriller that intended…
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**CONTAINS SPOILERS**
An anime that stands out in his own way, with its own originality, with its own glorious moments, that's what you should call Mahou Shoujo.
The anime is based on a magical site that gives super-powers to the girls that had unfortunate lives. This "site" is led by some "administrators" that are also unfortunate girls that died and "stored" a lot of negative energy into their stick.(the stick being their magical weapon)
Story : 8
You don't always find anime with an original story like Mahou Shoujo's.Though the immense amount of gore existing in the first episode is ridiculous and may want you to to "drop" this anime.The story was pretty original but it had it's own common scenes that you'll going to see pretty much everywhere.
Art/Sound : 10
The art is original an…
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Magical Girl Site is what you get when you take Madoka Magica and mix it with Higurashi, but then remove all of the interesting story elements. It is a grim-dark, edge-lord misery porn revenge fantasy with no real substance to back it up. Oh, also while we’re making this comparison, get rid of any interesting character development from Madoka and any well executed moments of levity from Higurashi. Because you know, it doesn’t really matter if you actually care about any of the characters that are having horrible stuff happen to them and you totally don’t need any nice moments to break up the misery, right?
So this series is bad. Really bad. While I’m not going to go into any particular details, people should know what they might be getting into. This series tries so hard to be as dark and…
Read at the sourceAndreikun
Will contain very minor spoilers.
I started this show with high hopes and watched it every week although I rarely watch an airing show (hate cliffhangers) and was one of the guys that liked episode 1. Thought that it was necessary to move the show forward.
On all levels this has been a disappointment.
Characters act in ways that are not believable, they try to kill each other one moment, the next they're best friends because of plot, plot which get forgotten in the end. Not anything psychological here.
The art and hence the fights are boring. I have the feeling the art quality drops from episode 6, in episode 8 or 9 the facial features are not there, the characters look like cardboard cutouts. The fights are boring and some not even animated or not there to be considered a fight. A…
Read at the sourceWotakunai
Why you should watch Mahou Shoujo Site?
The story is Outstanding (10). I was was never a fan of the Magical Girl genre since I was young, although I've watched a good amount of Card Captor Sakura and Sailor moon since I don't have a choice back in the Television era. But there is something with Magical Girls and a dark and morbid story that really tingles my weird taste in anime.
Mahou Shoujo Site is another anime that I did not expect much to blow me away in the Spring Anime 2018 lineup together with Hinamatsuri. I just thought that this is a mixture of totally contrasting genres and since I love opposing genre mashups I would give this a try. And after watching the very first episode, it swept me away like a tempest at the end of days! I could not get enough of it that I have started…
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(No specific spoilers are mentioned in this review, however the overall direction of the anime will be mentioned through vague descriptions and thematic comparisons to Madoka Magica which I presume everyone here has at least watched since this is yet another grim-dark magical girl anime.)
You may have stumbled upon this review wanting to check if anyone would have given the likes of Mahou Shoujo Site a perfect score of 10 and whether a review like this was written on the premise of satire. This will be my first review, so satire is completely unintended.
The grim-dark magical girl genre is nothing new, but for as copy-paste as most people normally give it Mahou Shoujo Site is the much needed exception that would be highly praised if it were any other anime.
I can sum up this genre easil…
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Mahou Shoujo Site is absurd but its also an argument against absurdity. If that sounds like I made a contradiction that's because it was intentional. The absurdity within the show is also intentional. The show uses contradictions as a tool to highlight absurdity. It uses contradictory imagery and the main character also acts in seemingly contradictory ways. Although the show contains absurdity it also rallies against absurdity by having its characters fight for meaning in a meaningless and cruel world. Despite being absurd, Mahou Shoujo Site has strong morals and a positive message.
Mahou Shoujo Site uses contradictory imagery masterfully to juxtapose negative and edgy concepts with positive and hopeful ideals. Take the main character for example, she is shown in the opening theme song ai…
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In my opinion, Mahou Shoujo Site is basically the King's Game of this season. It's an "edgy" anime with a low score. But this anime's been called edgy countless times and it's used as a reason to show why it's bad. I don't really agree with this.
Ok, so, the story of Mahou Shoujo Site revolves around Aya and her miserable life and a website that can turn people into magical girls. It had the potential for some good psychological depth...but that potential was kinda wasted. I feel bad for a lot characters, especially Aya, but I wish more depth could've gone into them. And in the last episode, there's a scene that's confusing. Aya was unable to perform a certain action before but then she suddenly can. Yes, I get that it sucks when an anime's potential…
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Does taking an anime series less seriously make it better? Sometimes an anime series doesn't take itself seriously in order to be more enjoyable. By making itself self aware to be over the top and absurd can lead to some very enjoyable scenes and moments that keep you entertained. But what about those shows that unintentionally make you take it less seriously. Does it make it good or does it simply cover its flaws? This anime series optimises this idea by taking a dark spin on a genre that is generally light and fluffy but making itself enjoyable in the way it didn't want you to.
So Sit back, relax you poor, unfortunate souls as I present to the anime review for Mahou Shojou Site, or by its English translation, Magical Girl Site. lets begin.
Story 4.5/10
The story follows Aya Asagir…
Read at the sourceMozillaFennekin
The term “edgy” gets thrown around as some sort of criticism by people who like to sound smart and mature, because they engage with a medium for people half their age. Personally, I don’t use the word as a criticism, because I often enjoy edge a lot. I think there’s a level of edge that gets enjoyable, because it passes so many levels of believability that I don’t believe it was meant to be taken seriously in the first place. That’s where Mahou Shoujo Site comes in.
A more accurate term to describe this anime would be “campy”, but fucking nobody uses that term so I’m not gonna bother. This anime has knives so therefore it is edgy ha ha ha never saw that joke coming did you.
You may be thinking that this is a matter of “turning your brain off” to enjoy something--ignoring the flaws to ind…
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What is an edgy anime?
Edgy anime are the type of series that uses it and themes to make a serious tone however unlike mature shows where they create a permanent tone eddy shows would very often switch it’s dark tone around in favour of having a more lighthearted narrative and tone. A lot of the time these shows would often have a lot serious topics, and themes that ultimately goes nowhere thanks to they awful tone shifts and because of this a lot of theses edgy shows ending up very pretentious as a result. The real problem with theses edgy shows that like with ecchi and harems they have the high chance of seeing well which sadly attracts the lowest common denominator where the audience in that group would only a show because it’s dark themes and violence.
Akame ga Kill is one of the wor…
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Just about anyone could have made Mahou Shoujo Site. I say this with an open mind because it really comes down to a bunch of grimy ideas mixed together at once. Before I get to the who, what, how, where, and why, you really need to be aware of what’s ahead. As someone who have read the manga, I say with regret that Mahou Shoujo Site (Magical Girl Site) ended up being one of the worst shows of Spring 2018. It’s actually a bit demoralizing considering that there aren't many big magical girl hitters this year and it already set the bar very low.
Forget the happy moments you’ll find in some magical girl series, there’s little to none in Mahou Shoujo Site. What you will find is a misfortunate girl named Aya Asagiri who has been bullied throughout her life. The thought of suicide often come acr…
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Have you ever seen a show so banal, so worthless, so unintelligent, so uselessly defiant, so lazy and so pathetic that you hate it with every fiber of your being the longer it goes on as lazy jump ship of popular trends? For me, the biggest example of that, is the latest edge cancer to pound the anime community known as: Mahou Shoujo Site.
It is inevitable that within a community, when some concept does something to “break the mold” in a unique way and becomes a mega hit, there will be a ton of copycats spawning from it, to get a slice of that sweet sweet dough. In Western Animation, films like Shrek, as well as cartoons like Ren & Stimpy and South Park made such big impacts that they inspired a jillion ripoffs continuing to this day, all misunderstanding what made their originals work.…
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