Introduction
In recent years, creatures known as Kaii have frequently attacked cities and wrought destruction. Exterminating these monsters quickly became a popular and well-respected profession, carried out by magical girls. More than five hundred magical girl companies, ranging from small ventures to large corporations, offer their aid to those who need it.
Kana Sakuragi is a studious college graduate struggling to land a job despite attending numerous interviews. But when a Kaii attacks during her latest interview, she finds herself assisting the magical girl responding to the crisis. Although she lacks battle experience, Kana relies on her exceptional memory and knowledge to help subdue the monster.
Hitomi Koshigaya, the headstrong magical girl who faced the Kaii, recognizes Kana's potential and invites her to join Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.—the startup where Hitomi works. Wishing to make a difference, Kana accepts the offer to become a magical girl herself. While Kana may not be suited for the corporate world, it soon becomes clear that her true calling is to rise as one of the most talented magical girls in existence.
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Audience reviews
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Upholder
This is a show characterised not by the presence of any serious negatives, but by the utter lack of positives. There is no real plot, the characters have no real depth, the events have no real stakes, the anime has no style. It's so bland that there is nothing to really recommend or criticise. It just is.
Utimately this is a show about start-ups and business/working culture, indeed occasionally it is sickeningly complimentary of start-ups. However, combining the premise of a business start-up with magical girls sounds like it should be fun, but Magilumiere's greatest sin is that it does nothing interesting or memorable with the concept. I was bored for much of the run time, particularly in the later episodes.
I've watched good anime and bad anime to completion, but this is the first time…
Read at the sourceZoeyBito
Watched this show on the off chance thinking it was a typical magical girl anime however it's more action based than I expected, the magic skills and dialogue between characters is great, set in a world where magical girls are hired by companies to go against monsters called Kaii.
Kana joins an independent company that hires magical girls over aesthetic than raw data and company deadlines and the crew is a brilliant rag tag of oddballs which makes them all charming (Nikoyama best boy btw) the blend of hi grade technology and magic is a refreshing mix too essentially blending arcane with sci-fi.
Overall a fun show with a great set up and even bigger potential with a season two. I give it a cheerleading Kaeda out of 10.
Read at the sourceOtaku_Senpai
The show looks great and its obvious it had good production value. Right from the start I was surprised by the adult voice of the magical 'girl'. Right away I knew I probably would be seeing a different take on the magical girl genre. I generally expect magical girls to be young students at a school. But here she was an adult. She didn't have the kawai characteristics of magical girls I am used to seeing. I half expected her to smoke or drink beer in the anime. But later magical girls who fit the generic profile more came to the show though all were professional women, & none were school girls. The show has Magical Girl Transformation sequences and they are beautifully done. I think much of the budget of the show went in doing the beautiful transformations.
They fight natural phenomenon's…
Read at the sourceAhoMahouShoujo
This was a very fun and light take on the magical girl genre. It's set in a hypercapitalistic society wherein Magical Girls are kind of like private firefighters used to be, or like private exterminators are now. So while you do get awesome magical girl action and adorable transformation scenes, it's given a backdrop of this small startup business in a difficult market. But the characters really sell the story, and this is one of the few anime where I can genuinely say I liked all the characters and was excited to see them every time. I'll lay out the show's pros and cons as I see them:
Pros: Great dialogue writing and character designs. The personalities of each character are very developed and they're pleasant to watch. You get a real sense for the underdog feel of the characters. The a…
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Seeing the trailer, I initially thought this anime would be terrible solely because of the animation like the 3d low-quality animations for the monsters they’re fighting. I’m thrilled that they improved the animation to be not as bad as the trailer, the animation of Magilumiere has become decent! I loved the manga because it was a fresh new take on magical girls, an innovative concept! The story and development were meaningful yet unexpected which makes it exciting. It touches on realistic themes due to its concept of magical girls as more of a corporate and technological industry driven by software and programming instead of solely on magic. It's a more mature and systematic concept, especially with themes of idealism vs efficiency of corporations and issues on corporate slave. I hope the…
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What is the main issue of this show? I really can't suspend my disbelief at the setting sometimes. Generally speaking, I wouldn't say I am very picky when it comes to worldbuilding. After all, complaining about how physics just doesn't work with 3DM gear in Attack on Titan is just an "erm actually" moment and doesn't actually affect anything. However, Kabushikigaisha Magi-Lumière fails to even pass my low expectations.
It's magic in modern world! The problem is quite apparent once you look at even just the first few episodes. The show is a profession-type show, with the main focus being the logistics of how magical girls fight Kaii (monsters) with their magical powers. The way the magic is generated, the pipeline towards subduing kaii, and overall the general worldbuilding surrounding ma…
Read at the sourceDangerous_Boy
Mahou Shoujo only in words, Magilumi is (in general) closer to New Game! and (in anime that aired with it) Trillion Game as a workplace drama anime, rather than close to Precure in any way. But while both New Game and Trillion Game are mostly personal, focusing on the human element of the many working parts in an office, Magilumi is mostly professional and the cast is quite shallow.
This first season was pretty much about a singular thing: Kana's professional growth. She is good at learning the theory, but through these episodes she learns from people, from experiences, from the industry and through working. And that's it. Kana as a person doesn't shine through, and neither does anybody* else in the cast. If Kana is to be Aoba, Koshigaya is to be Kou, which is not only Aoba's Vergilius, b…
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A refreshing take on the magical girl genre, while also fantastically wholesome.
The big bad first. During my viewing of this anime, I'm always aware of its quality of drawings. This season is full of anime of the action category with solid art quality, Magilumiere unfortunately, does not have that luxury. Its weakness becomes especially apparent during action sequences. The most important action, the magic attacks, are really just the girls staying almost motionless with their wands out and let the passable special effects take over the screen. The antagonist in this story are mostly monsters called Kaii, which mostly have very limited movement and almost zero expression. Magilumiere also has this interesting take on how magical girls work, starting their action sequence with this long…
Read at the sourcebossunhimeswitch
When I first saw the manga, it was several chapters in and so I didn't end up reading it, and I'm a little sad I didn't just jump in because this series is so fun and engaging. The characters are easy to like and root for. It's nice watching a blend of slice of life, magical girl, and work place comedy/drama. It also has the benefit of most magic girl stories that are shounen of feeling a bit fresh since they're approaching the subgenre from a different perspective as shoujo typically does. I don't have much to complain about either. It didn't set my brain on fire but I still had a good time. I'm looking forward to season 2.
If you enjoy magica girl and are looking for something that feels kind of grounded in reality then you'll like this. If you're looking for high romance then look els…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
As a massive Mahou Shoujo fan I came into this season very excited because of the number of magical girl entries we had. Out of all of them, Magilumiere was the best and honestly I think this is one of the best magical girl stories ever. Even with all the titles JC staff had this season, they didn’t miss a beat with this one. Cool fights, transformation, a great soundtrack and a really fascinating world. Kana and Hitomi rocked my world and are definitely in the running for best duo this year. This is a must watch for any magical girl fan!
Instead of just being cute magical girls fighting monsters of the week type of story, Magilumiere puts us in a world where magical girls are a legitimate career with entire companies, staffing agencies and more dedicated to them. This show focuses more o…
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This one was an oddity for the season. I picked it up relatively late and spent a lot of the time with it just vibing with the worldbuilding. I’ve done that with other series like Delicious in Dungeon, but that series left me constantly hungry (pun intended) for more information on the minute details of how the world works, whereas this one just kept me lightly entertained with its details, more like a continuous drip feed. The two do share a relatively middling narrative throughline and each has their interesting characters coming in with their own baggage, but the concept of this one is more basic by design. It’s part of a larger trend of taking fantastical concepts and bringing them down to earth by making them part of a more mundane, systematized setting. That’s not a negative, but it…
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Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. - A Mahou Shoujo work focused on corporate management? That's a first.
"A satirical, grounded take on magical girls, where they fight the biggest evil of all: corporate management." That's the comment from the ever-so-popular AniTuber Gigguk, and I have to say that the sentence rings true for mangaka Setta Iwaka's lone series that is a fascinating take on the oversaturated Mahou Shoujo genre that houses within the much-popularized platform of where manga series become huge juggernauts in the process: Shueisha's Shonen Jump+. And truth be told, you can experiment on a genre so much to the point where it becomes stale by the dozen (at least when it comes to Isekai/fantasy works), but at least in the case for Kabushikigaisha Magi-Lumière a.k.a Magilumiere Magic…
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