Introduction
Saki Uno is an average 15-year-old girl with a side hustle as a member of the exceptionally unpopular idol duo Magical Twins. Despite this, she absolutely loves the time she spends with her best friend Sakuyo Mikage as she strives to become closer with her childhood crush, Sakuyo's brother Mohiro. Her peaceful life, however, unravels when she finds a yakuza-looking thug trying to enter her house. Forced to invite him inside, Saki learns that her mother used to be a demon fighting Magical Girl, and that her brutish guest is actually a mascot named Kokoro-chan looking to recruit a replacement. Dumbfounded and skeptical, Saki is hesitant accept the request until Kokoro-chan reveals that Mohiro is a target of some cute, squirrel-tailed demons.
Rushing to his side, Saki's overwhelming desire to save Mohiro activates her Love Power, and a daring confession awakens her as a Magical Girl. However, because her body is not suitable for combat, Saki's transformation turns her into a muscle-bound man clad in a pretty dress. Now, as a fully-fledged Magical Girl, Saki must team up with Sakuyo to protect the love of her life from the fluffy, demonic menaces that run rampant in her world.
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Audience reviews
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wesayheather
Magical Girl Ore is an anime that is not to be taken seriously, as it certainly doesn’t take itself seriously.
If you enjoyed the first episode, you should enjoy the whole, as the themes and jokes are pretty much the same throughout.
I won’t go too into detail on the show as you can read the synopsis, but it’s got demons, magical “girls”, fairies and even different dimensions. I wouldn’t say this is a romance show as, aside from the girls having to declare their love to transform, there isn’t really any other romantic aspects, so don’t expect anything like that. I’d say this is just straight up parody and comedy.
If you’re looking for a bit of fun, then I think you should enjoy this. I watched it between more serious shows and it was perfect for lightening my mood.
Read at the sourceMr_Socialite
Not gonna lie; this show was hard to get through. I cannot remember when I began it, but it took me about a year to watch all 12 episodes because I simply did not find joy in it after the first three. That is to say, certain parts of it are very funny; however, the same joke or punchline can only be done so many times before it is not funny anymore. I tried my hardest to watch it, but throughout the majority of it, my mind kept getting distracted, and I would pause an episode for 3 hours just to go on TikTok because I could not get entertained. The men are hot, do not get me wrong, but something about this show and its pacing just really did not do it for me.
Read at the sourcemerily57
If i could give 0 start i would do it. I feel like i wasted hours of life watching this... thing.
Why? do you ask. Well, lemme start from the beginning.
At first, you will be tricked into having some kind of interest about the story, which starts to die after the 3rd episode. This thing (it won't have the honor to be called an anime) tries to make fun of magical girl genre. Yes, i said "tries", because can't make a fun joke without taking it to the weirdest points, in a bad way.
Do you like gore? Then lemme put a "gore" scene, but i'll take the image AND censor a random blob of BLUE??? to make fun of it.
You're telling me that you like yaoi huh? Well, lemme force in the most unconfortable way possible a love story between a man that can't even stand up straight, and a weird parody of a jo…
Read at the sourceLiteralGod
Pure crack parody anime.
I loved it. It's fun, weird and keeps up the momentum until the end. I do, however, put this down as mixed feelings because you have to vibe with a Japanese sense of humor, be cool with bl/gl fanservice, and be prepared to not take it seriously at all. Also, skip Episode 5 because it was completely out of place and WILL kill the interest of most people. I have no idea what they were thinking there.
If you like the premise and your experience with anime isn't limited to dubbed versions of the most popular anime you find on Western TV, it's worth watching. Your viewing will benefit from a familiarity and appreciation for a particular sense of humor found in less Westernized anime.
Also, I've seen several people say the anime confused them and I'm confused at thei…
Read at the sourceYnv71
This is an anime that never takes itself seriously and is amazingly whacky I freaking love it and the straight out gayness is also a freaking added bonus!!! Altho it's a bit sad they all got friendzoned it is mainly a comedy anime so nyeh I really died laughing at the rival bit and the drawing...!! Beautiful, plot is truly ???? And I'm all here for it 100/100 need more of this mostly wholesome chaotic energy in my life roflmao
I actually cannot wait for a sequel lol the manager will definitely get replaced in the demon world and someone will send someone new and the magical girls will have their hands full haha! ...also a uh - acknowledgement of who the magical girls were at the end then by princess peach would've been neat but dude is oblivious as so it's all in character lolll
Wished…
Read at the sourcePixelB
A parody of the popular magical girl genre.
Was it good? Not exactly. Actually, this show had some opportunities for success. The concept of a girl turning into a guy in a magical girl parody show isn't that bad. However, they seem to lose focus a lot. There isn't a lot of creativity when generating the scenarios of the episodes. For a parody and comedy show, it falls short completely. I mean, I'll admit, there are some scenes that are funny, but overall, it's pretty bad. There's just a lot of "fluff" and actual action, believe it or not, among all the episodes. Plus, there's a bunch of side characters that get entire arcs that are plain bad, like the mother arc, prisma arc, and the fujimoto arc. I just feel like the main cast isn't involved in those because the people making the show we…
Read at the sourceSeregosa
Hehe, this anime was honestly a truly weird one. It's a major cringefest from start to end. The main idea here is moronic characters, being fairly self-aware and the surrealistic setting. It pokes fun at the standard mahou shoujo stuff with girls who transform into macho men and beat things bloody with physical items or fists. I mean, it's pretty much what you'd get when you think "what if we took the standard mahou shoujo trope and reversed pretty much everything to the complete opposite?". So, instead of cute girls, we have macho men, instead of cute mascots, we have creepy yakuza-like mascots, instead of magical beams and magic wands, we have wands made for physical lashing, instead of the pretty fluffy way enemies are supposed to be defeated in, we get a lot of blood and censored bodie…
Read at the sourceRequiemOfNEETS
This was... an anime. There is honestly nothing to say about this anime, I can't comment on it, because I'm not sure the maker could explain what happens in this anime, but I'll try.
The idea is that Saki, a 15 year old, is a (not very good) idol and (really really bad) singer trying to make it big to impress her can kinda not really talk childhood friend Mohiro, with her gay for her regardless of gender friend, Sakuyo. One day, she gets an offer by a Yakuza looking fairy to become a magical girl, and she takes it, turning her into... a man. Thus, she becomes, Magical Girl Ore! And with her new found masculinity, she must protect Mohiro from the demon teddy bears from Hell (yeah, I can't make this up), before being joined by her somehow even more gay when transformed Childhood Friend, Sa…
Read at the sourceLoomyTheBrew
Magical Girl Ore is one of the strangest anime I've seen in some time.
Not quite as strange as something like To Be Hero, but definitely up there. I'm not going to reiterate the synopsis of the show, but this is essentially a satire of the magical girl genre. You got cute girls turning into burly magical men and demons that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime. Already sounds odd and hilarious right?
But it goes deeper than that: enemies that disrupt animation, Godzilla(?), sauna competition, using the magical girl rod to literally beat enemies to a pulp, Yakuza fairies.... the list goes on.
For me the show was a mixed bag. Ya, it's funny with the gender bending magical girls, but the novelty got old for me about halfway through. The show in my opinion was best when it was compl…
Read at the sourcelevelgrind
Deconstructions and subversions of magical girl anime have been popular for quite a few years, and while most have tended to skew darker to try to explore the horrifying realities of what it may be like to be a magical girl, Magical Girl Ore sets out to do the exact opposite, by cranking up the ridiculousness to its absolute maximum.
More closely resembling zany classics like Excel Saga than Madoka Magica, fans of any genre of anime will likely find something to laugh at. This isn't to say that fans of classic magical girls won't find enjoyment in it, too, however. There's plenty to love, from a wide cast of amusing characters to fun music and competent animation. The staples of the magical girl genre are parodied and then some, with just as many jokes often falling into poking fun at ty…
Read at the sourceHollweg
Mahou Shoujo Ore presents a synopsis so great one may argue the actual anime isn’t necessary, since it’s unlikely it will reach the absolute zaniness of its premise. And to be frank, parody anime as a whole is a tricky business: jokes being repeated to exhaustion, plots that refuse to go anywhere (when it can afford to have a proper plot to begin with) and characters who are just basic archetypes tend to be the ground rule, which means the number of parody anime that manages to be something more than a bunch of random gags stitched together is ridiculously small. Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE!, which also tackles the mahou shoujo/magical girl genre, made great use of its clichés in its first season a few years ago, while others like Hatsukoi Monster aimed to obliterate shoujo conventio…
Read at the sourceMoskovskaya-chan
Overall: Mahou Shoujo Ore is an anime that from the beginning until the end doesn't take itself seriously. I really don't really get the anime at all .
Its like a big joke at all dialogues scenes are so cliche that in some way you probably feel you just watching any other anime but in the same time is totally bizarre the setting with jojo's mahou shoujo with dreamy fairy-yakuzas trying to become the idols that everyone want to be.
It's a story about how Love can change someone and where ambitions can take someone.
The episodes 5 and 10 are in totally diferente level of the others i think in these two you can really grasp the meaning of deconstruction of the genre of mahou shoujo even madoka couldn't achieve that.
The episode 12 Mahou Shoujo Watashi is when shit get real. The name WATASHI a…
Read at the sourcePixEFit
Many anime try to adapt or subvert the genre they exist in. Whether a show is a slice of life or a shonen series, they want to be different from the rest. To stand out. Sometimes, the anime goes as far as to make fun of the genre they exist in. Creating a meta sort of show. Magical Girl Ore is a satire of the magical girl genre. Magical Girl Ore is about a startup idol named Saki partnered with her best friend Sakuyo. Although Saki isn’t very good at singing or dancing, she is determined to become closer to her love, and Sakuyo’s brother, Mohiro, who is a successful male idol. One day, Saki finds out that her mother is a magical girl and she meets her yakuza looking contractor fairy. The same day, her love Mohiro gets kidnapped by buff but cute demons, and Saki makes a contract to become a…
Read at the sourceRebelPanda
Magical Bros turned out a way better and funnier than anticipated (or Mahou Shoujo Ore if you prefer). It's a thoroughly entertaining, if slightly uneven, magical girl parody that has plenty of funny meta-jokes, self-aware commentary, and a cast of likable characters. Perhaps its source material simply wasn’t long enough to be adapted into 12 episodes, but aside from some sluggish pacing around the series midpoint, it's a worthwhile watch.
Even now, the plot synopsis sounds like a crazy fever dream. The first two episodes are supremely ridiculous parodies of a typical intro to a magical girl series. Protagonist Saki plays the straight man in a world of insanity, with hilarious well-timed reaction faces and her perfectly dumbfounded voice performance. Her mom already knows magical girls e…
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