Audience reviews
12 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Unemployed-Sama
It's always such a pleasant surprise when moe stuff like this turns out legitimately funny and endearing, and this show was that for me. There's cuteness and fan-service (which I loved as well) for sure, but also legitimate character work, joke-writing, and pretty entertaining animation which helps elevate it. There's not so much a story as a great premise and lot of comedic pay-off that comes from it, often funny and a few times LOL hilarious. The characters are so fun to watch too because they're so awful and selfish a lot of the time (except poor Aiko) and that really lets them be over-the-top, clashing these extreme personalities together.
The OP is great, the whole serious parody just get's funnier as the show goes on, the yuri-bait too. The EDs are probably actually my favorite par…
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A nostalgic ecchi anime that I just can't not love. It was one of my first animes to the ecchi side of anime, and I'm really glad It was this one. It's a very fun series, with 4 main girl protagonists: Liru, the werewolf; Uma, the witch; Pachira, a vampire; and Aiko, the android. The anime go through their daily life as they dont know how the human world works. They also seek love and a partner in their lives, what causes a lot of fun situations. If you're a fan of old, but kinda of wholesome, comedy ecchi anime, this one Is for you!
I fell in love with this anime and wish it were more popular! It has a vibe that most anime don't have nowadays—one that just makes you feel relieved and happy when you watch it. The girls are very expressive and you can't help but like them. It's a anime tha…
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A surprisingly funny and nostalgic feeling Ecchi comedy featuring a cast of lovable stereotypes in a complete joke of a show. Everything from the woefully stupid cast constantly fighting over the affection of boys down to the "yuri-bait" (but admittedly pretty awesome) opening theme that doesn't fit the tone of the show at all. Its quite a fun collection of spoofing anime tropes, animation jokes/puns, and borderline nonsensical reasoning behind the actions of the cast for humors sake.
The setting involves 4 "princesses" that in-explicitly live in the human world in a treehouse together with a ghost chaperone (presumably to save on the animation budget) and are super naive to how said world works (or even basic logic). Antics ensue. It's probably not the most original plot or style of humo…
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I'm not often a huge fan of Ecchi anime, as they're usually pretty one-note. They hook you with the anime tiddy, but typically offer little else. However, Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan, or Magipoka as I'll call it for the rest of this review, really is something special. It's hilarious, creative, passionate, and really only barely classifies as an Ecchi at the end of the day. In fact, it's more like a Moe Slice of Life with Ecchi elements. From start to finish it is charming, endearing, and effortlessly funny, setting itself apart as one of the hidden gems of the mid 2000s. Beginning with the story, it's a simple setup, with four girls living together in a big treehouse and trying to understand the human world, these being the Android Aiko, Vampire Pachira, Witch Uma, and Werewolf Liru.…
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This is one of the best "chill" shows I've ever seen. The fact that it's ecchi and even has some hentai scenes in one episode probably drives a lot of viewers away but thats ok because "real" anime fans are the target audience of this show. It's funny, it's cute, it's relaxing, it's got cool supernatural stories.
I see some people hating on it for being episodic which I don't really get. Some shows are episodic, stories have been told episodically for millennia and there's nothing wrong with it. I preferred being able to put this on to wind down when I felt like watching something chill and funny. I wonder if some people who hate episodic shows just ruin them for themselves by watching them straight through?
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Revisiting Magipoka 15 years later, I found a lot of new things to appreciate that maybe went over my head when I was new to anime.
Good: It really has a unique vibe, and the surrealist elements make it stand out. The characters are super charming of course, and I also love how this show isn't afraid to have attractive male side-characters that the girls actively fawn over. Despite ostensibly being an ecchi comedy, they are depicted with genuine agency and they're allowed to be silly or stupid or unattractive sometimes!
Bad: There's a couple weird moments that don't really work for me, and the way the rule of three is used almost formulaically doesn't always quite hit (Or rather, a lot of the time it's extended to a "rule of 4" which can feel a bit dragged out). I would also have liked i…
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Imagine if four magical princesses — a vampire, a werewolf, an android, and a witch — all boarded the same house, with little knowledge about the human world. For example, in Episode 2: まやかしの呪文はTVショッピング ("The Make-Believe Spell is TV Shopping"), the girls fall for some infomercial scams and order a ton of worthless items! The series itself is less of a monster show and more of a comedy, slice-of-life with a group of gal pals experiencing practical things, in the real world! As well as some strange supernatural events, like a group of devious ※Japanese raccoon dogs tricking the gullible girls into bathing in an imaginary hot spring!
※Also known as tanuki (タヌキ).
⚠️ This review is spoiler-free ⚠️
—Story/Characters
If you're a huge otaku, transitioning into a point in their adulthood that'…
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Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan is a magical girl comedy from 2006. It was brought to us by Remic. Never heard of them? Well, they don't have many credits to their name so that's not a surprise. Let's hope it gives as favourable first impression.
Story:
We follow four princesses from the Netherworld. The witch, Uma, the vampire, Pachira, the werewolf, Liru & the android, Aiko. One of these things is not like the others, not like the others, not like the others. The four of them are living in the human world and all kinds of shenanigans ensue. That's the basic crux of the comedy in the series, the bizarre outsiders getting into strange situations.
The biggest weakness in the comedy is simply that the series sometimes puts its desire for more fan service over its humour. Its “jokes” tha…
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Supernaturally funny! What a surprise with this anime!!!
When I saw pictures from this anime, I thought nothing much about it, it was just another anime to check out, but from the start it became a memorable one. It 's just one story about the life of four stereotype characters from tales: vampire, werewolf, android and witch, all of them innocent girls but with a ecchi touch, just a little, making things incredibly funny and unusual, trying to living in peace with humans in our mortal world; isn't the biggest plot ever but is so easy to love very quickly these girls from the bottom of your heart as every episode pass by. If you're searching some anime to laugh a lot and not be picky about the style of drawing, give it a shot, you'll not regret it, is a simply anime but at the same time o…
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Majipoka isn’t exactly what you might think it is. Unless, of course, you think it is a mostly disconnected set of episodes filled with absurdist humor, and largely free of ecchi content. Majipoka is more cute and/or moe than ecchi. There are some mildly ecchi moments, but they serve the humor rather than distract from it.
The show makes great fun of the modern world and of pop culture. I like that kind of humor, especially when it avoids specific references to other media. Majipoka does just that. Enjoying it requires no familiarity with any other shows or media.
Even if you aren’t immediately thrilled with Majipoka, you may want to keep watching. It is made of pairs of half-length episodes. They are only marginally related, and each brings something new to the show. The downside of thi…
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Imagine a flat share with a female vampire, a female werewolf, a loli witch, a female cyborg and an invisible girl who all long for good looking boys and you have Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan (I'll use "Magical Pokaan" for the rest of the review).
Story: As usual for slice-of-life comedy series there isn't that much of a continuing story. To be precise every episode consists of two short completed stories which have nothing to do with the other episodes, which makes this series good for non-continuing watching. Magical Pokaan is good for inserting a random episode in your anime watching just when you need a break of the anime you are currently watching.
Art: The character designs are good and the animation itself is nice and clearly. there is nothing to complain about it.
Sound: The…
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I'm not really a fan of ecchi comedies, and at first glance that what Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan (or MagiPoka as it's more commonly known), looks like. However, the old aphorism about never judging a book by it's cover applies to many anime and manga titles, and this is one of them. Anyone who labels this show as an ecchi comedy has probably missed most of the humour in it. Yes, there are ecchi moments, but unlike many other shows (e.g. Eiken, Amaenaide Yo!, Girls Bravo et al), MagiPoka has very strong anarchic and surrealistic comedy elements.
In other words, this series has more in common with Seto no Hanayome, Yoshinaga-san`chi no Gargoyle, Inukami, Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu and other strange and equally "wrong" shows than it does with the typical ecchi comedies.
The story…
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