Audience reviews
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phaolo
This OVA was a dark comedy about an evil sadistic magical girl arriving on Earth (school setting) and defeating people with spells or.. melee combat.
All the characters were quite basic, including the main one. The stories were episodic without continuity except for new characters (but magically healed and friendly). And of course there wasn't any proper ending.
Animation and music were decent.
This anime was ok, but it felt less funny (and less fanservicy) than Dokuro-chan and kinda more mean spirited (the bone-breaking moments were brutal for a comedy).
Only for people who need some dark humor, but already saw the better titles.
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I've reviewed quite a few magical girl parody series before. Usually pretty bad like Bokusatsu Tenshi or Puni Puni Poemii. Now, I'm delving into that field again with Dai Mahou Tenge, a four episode OVA from Diomedea. That's right, the studio behind Ika Musume & Akuma no Riddle. The OVA started getting released in early 2006 and didn't finish until late 2008. Which seems excessive, but isn't that unusual for an OVA. Let's take a look.
Story:
We open with a young girl being told that she must spend a year on Earth. Much to her father's distress. He's worried that our environment won't be hospitable for humans that long even though we easily have twenty years yet. Actually, he's just an over-protective dad. But with that put aside, Punie travels to Earth for the year and starts attending…
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I came into possession of this DVD after purchasing a grab bag at an anime convention (LPT: the vast majority of the content in con grab bags are inventory they need to get rid of because nobody wants it). It had been sitting on my DVD shelf for three years before I'd even touched it.
Fast forward to this past Saturday, when my WiFi went out, unable to be fixed until Tuesday morning. What better way to catch up on the DVDs that I'd acquired but never watched?
My expectations were super low going in-- I mean it was a grab bag DVD! But, I was pleasantly surprised. I haven't seen many parodies of magical girl shows, so I don't have much to go off of, but I like the dichotomy of Punie's cutesy stereotypical mahou shoujo image and her hard-shelled badass alter ego.
There's no English dub of…
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"Lyrical Tokarev, Kill Them ALL!"
I've decided that I like magical girl series. Nah, not the cutesy, childish stuff. The super-saccharine, gleeful murderous type. Split personalities, bloody messes, broken bones, and ultraviolence; now that's what I want to see!
Well, it turns out there's basically a whole genre devoted to this dark, twisted inversion of magical girls, and Punie is top of the stack.
Punie Tanaka is a girl sent by her mother, the queen of Magical Land, to study on Earth for a year in order to... hone her "queenly" skills. These apparently consist of: Cheating, ruining lives, destruction, sending your entire school to the hospital multiple times, and foiling near constant attempts on your life as the next-in-line to the throne by your pet, classmates, bitter rivals, unh…
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An unbelievably underrated series is what I'd say about this anime. It's dark,funny,twisted,bloody and ridiculous yet it's good. I think it'd be much nicer if this series receives more recognition but then when people watch they might be turned off with the contents as it's not suitable for anyone or they end up comparing this series with another one which I don't need to mention because it's obvious.
Story: 9 - Tanaka Punie is going to be the next queen of magical land but for that to happen she has to spend time on earth for a year while living a 'normal' girl's life. But a lot of people are attempting to take her life for various reasons. What prevents this anime from turning into a shoujo,romance,adventure story would be one major reason and that is that our heroine may look all sweet…
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No more. No more soothing, healing, friendship, love, kindness and compassion. No more oh-so-cute girls and their perfect parents, no more pink and fluffy familiars, utopian magical kingdoms and noble rivals. All these things won't provide you with power to reign.
Be rational. The most efficient way to overcome an obstacle and to make sure that it will not bother you again is to destroy it. Crush your enemies, for the sound of their bones breaking is so sweet and pleasant. Abuse your friends, for they are simple pawns and weaklings. Make your allies do the impossible, and when they fail, just dispassionately watch them commit suicide. A king is not strong enough to rule the land? Dethrone this worthless loser. Siblings are trying to overthrow you? Make them regret that decision. Nobody sh…
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Story: 5 (Mediocre)
The story is simple. Punie (the main character) is sent to Earth by her parents (more willingly by her mother) for one year before she is eligible to become the next queen of Magical Land. To use her time on Earth wisely, she gets enrolled in a school. While there, she meets a few enemies with whom she encounters in battle over the course of the show. Note that this anime is a parody, so the story is supposed to be terrible.
Art: 6 (Fair)
Colours are nice, Character designs are decent, and the animation isn't bad, but sometimes the frames go by a tad fast in a lot of scenes, making it a little awkward to watch.
Sound: 4 (Decent)
What can I say? It's average.
The OP and ED are both nothing to call home about, and the ambient tracks played throughout the show are real…
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Well, "Magical Witch Punie-chan" isn't a typical comedy/parody anime.
Or not completly typical, at least. The setting is, as usual, a run-off-the-mill high school the only distinction of which is Punie-chan, a witch sent from the Magical Kingdom to Earth to allow her to inherit the throne. Punie isn't really discreet about her unearthly abilities, which include not only magic, but also knowledge of martial arts (and stuff).
The whole humour of the anime revolves around violence and fighting. They're different from the ones seen in "Dokuro-chan" series, though, since Punie deals with her opponents in a completly different way. What's the whole point in this anime is watching some generic characters actually fight each other hand to hand. Additionaly there's a slight amount of more typical a…
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Dai Mahou Touge or Magical Witch Punie-chan reminded me right off the bat of another series, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan. That wasn’t a good sign considering how much I hated that show. However Punie is something Dokuro-chan wasn’t, a truly funny and entertaining dark comedy/parody.
The premise of Punie-chan is pretty basic. Punie is a princess from another world sent to earth for a year by her mother for "training". It is unclear what this training is beyond defending herself against an onslaught of characters out to kill her, including her own siblings. The series is episodic in nature and have very little to do with each other from a story standpoint. While the plot is really nonexistent what this show does so well is the humor. It is crude, violent, and decidedly dark but very funny.…
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Dark, twisted, tainted and through'n-through madness. If you are not a fan of dark humour and twisted jokes you will not enjoy this series.
But, if you do enjoy stories and gags which are just completely wrong, in every little way, then you will love this show, because it delivers encore upon encore of wretched, bizarre and just plain evil jokes and enjoyment. There is no overall plot really, the story revolves around the heroine, Punie Tanako, who is sent to the human world from her home-world of "Magic Land", to study and grow stronger so that she can eventually inherit the title of Queen. And that's about it, the rest of the show is just glimpses of how the little girl deals with everyday life in the human world. So if you're hoping for an epic plot, you won't find it here.
What you w…
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There's kind of a weird juxtaposition needed to fully enjoy the series of 8 12 minute segments arranged in four episodes. To find it really funny you have to be pretty familiar with magical girl anime but, at the same time, you have to really dislike magical girl anime. If, as I do, you fit this category, you're really gonna like this one. Or, if you're a fan of Hayate no Gotoku you'll probably get a kick out of this one, also.
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Okay I originally decided to watch this series because I thought it would be funny because it's a magic, shounen, comedy. I thought it might be something like beat you up angel except without all of the violence...I was wrong. At times it was funny but most of the time I spent anticipating something funny which is not what you should be doing when your watching a comedy. I congratulate the creators they did find a way to make violence funny. So let's beat through the skull and get to the brain of this review.
Story- Well it was kind of lacking in story realistically. Basically we have our magical girl who is to become the new ruler of magic land but before she can do that she must for some reason go to the real world to learn how to be a proper ruler. The real twist is that everybody is tr…
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Dai Mahou Touge is an hilarious, parodic series from the original manga adaptation. To start things off, it has no actual plot other than what is being stated in the synopsis, it features some hilarious parodic moments from a few famous movies and series and its generally a short series consisting of 8 episodes in total. (2 episodes of 12mins each in one).
Considering the series is somewhat plotless, I'm gonna talk a bit about Tanaka Punie. Well to start it off, she really is the queen wannabe from her magical land considering she has a candy stick as a magical weapon and her well known, all famous 'submission' move where it either kills the person and the person comes back to life the next day or paralyzes the person in which making us think they are dead. But really, none of us can hat…
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