Introduction
In the city of Maebashi, Yuina Akagi is a free-spirited high school girl with a hobby of buying trendy clothes online and taking photos of her life's highlights. One day, a talking frog suddenly speaks to her, sees in her the potential to become a witch, and transports her to the Witch-Verse. There, the frog introduces Yuina to four other girls he has recruited—the cheerful Choco Mitsumata; the composed Kyouka Kitahara; the easygoing Mai Kamiizumi; and the short-fused Azu Niisato who is apprehensive of Yuina's arrival.
Despite the initial clash of personalities, the five girls aim to become true witches. To achieve that goal, they must grant people's wishes in the real world through music—the most efficient conduit for channeling magic. As Yuina learns to control her newfound powers, her journey into a magical life helping others will be far more vibrant than any photo her camera can ever hope to capture.
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Audience reviews
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dearymai
This was such a lovely little watch. It's a great show to give a shot if you don't have a lot of time, as it's only 12 episodes. If you like idols, magical girls, and slice of life, then I especially recommend this to you! I enjoyed how the characters had depth and unique personalities while still embodying the familiar "dere" tropes. It could get a little heavy at times, but it was never overwhelming. It touched upon topics such as dysphoria, sexual harassment, complicated friendships, and other topics that don't always get elaborated upon in anime. The animation and music were great too, and really this show is just straight-up underrated. I hope more people are able to watch this, even if right now it isn't talked about much.
My only critique is that I wish it was longer or had an upco…
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Maebashi Witches is a magical girl anime with musical performances, but despite the songs and stage elements, it’s not really an idol anime. The story follows five girls mainly Yuina. One day, a magical frog appears and asks her if she wants to become a witch and grant people’s wishes. The goal is that if they grant enough wishes, they can become full-fledged witches and have their own wish granted. While granting wishes, they also perform musical numbers. As the story progresses, we learn that the frog didn’t explain all the nuances, and being a witch and collecting wishes is not as easy as it sounds.
When I first read the synopsis and watched the first episode, I expected a very straightforward “cute girls + music” anime. It is still that, but it also clearly wants to do more. Whether i…
Read at the sourceOtaku_Senpai
This anime is about a group of young magical girls(witches) who must grant wishes to regular people so they can become full time witches with more unrestrained power. Its a nice looking anime which only looked bad during idol song & dance sequences when it switched to CGI. The show is primarily for young girls. If you are a boy you might have hard time with the show, as the show is very girly.
This is a good shoujo show, and I am not the target audience. There is hardly any male characters in the show. The clients the witches grant wishes too are also girls or women. And the wishes are very grounded. Nobody wishes for a million dollars, or super powers or immortality. So it never gets too overly exciting. I think it is a positive for the show.
Though I haven't seen a ton of Shoujo, this…
Read at the sourceTahoSOS42
To my surprise, i liked the anime.
Of course there are problems here, but i don't want to spoiler it. It's not a new madoka, but it's very good in the idol genre.
The characters have flaws, the characters change, the anime sometimes raises serious topics. Some are very nasty, and in others you want to say "this is literally me".
Very beautiful design and good animation, but 3d is the average.
I honestly didn't like the songs, but i guess the lyrics are good? I just didn't have subtitles for the songs so it's hard to say, but i guess every song is related to the plot. But again, i'm not an idol fan and i don't listen to that. I prefer girls bands (for an example girls band cry), but almost not listen to idols.
I watched mostly for the plot and the characters. It's not something brillia…
Read at the sourceKirumin
disclaimer: my technical review in this part might be bad take but ill keep it genuine on real talk part based on my viewing experience on this anime
mahou shoujos x idols is rare breed and both of these genres are my favorites so i wont miss watching it, the animation is good too mixing 2D and 3D though they only switch to 3D when performing STILL they stick to shiny/glowy beautiful animations, even their character designs are beautiful themselves, their personalities were shockingly unique 1st of a kind individuals in anime history its like real personalities of a real person
real talk:
story is simple they help people grants their wishes so they can become witch themselves thats all ngl deep down i was expecting atleast a fight scenes since they have magic powers but they didn't in f…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
Sunrise have once again given us an amazing group of girls to fall in love with. This time it’s a mix of two of my favorite things, idols and magical girls and man, what an experience this was. Maebashi witches is definitely one of those shows you need to push through to be rewarded with an amazing ending. It started kind of rough, I wasn’t really a fan of any of the girls until about episode 4-5 and actively hated one of them(Azu) until about episode 7, but I’m glad I stuck it out because I really fell in love with the cast and the story got very good down the stretch. Pound for pound this has to be the most underrated show of the entire season and I promise it’s much better than the scores suggest. If you like idols, magical girls or cute girls doing cute things with good character devel…
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Maebashi Witches — an "idol" show with no strings attached to similar counterparts. How You Like Dat?
I'm just going to be frank with you: the feeling of sometimes having to play Devil's Advocate on some shows that the minority will think are "the greatest thing in the world," but which are sold in a genre that the masses will generally skip, is these kinds of unintentional Freudian slips that expose quite the fanbase that those shows are marketed towards, and let's be fair here: they work out for the most part. This is most certainly the case with Sunrise's newest non-"Idol-based" series, Maebashi Witches, a not-so-Love Life!-esque series that's all about being regional witches to help people solve their problems, no matter how major or minor the issues can be.
If you're wondering why t…
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