ohara.darron - 2015-12-21 20:12:05

I was perfectly fine until I got to like the seventh episode and just somehow boarded the feels train.

zachariah.pfannerstill - 2015-11-12 06:05:05

It seems like it was heavily inspired by Madoka Magica, but after a little bit of time it makes its own story. The animation was beautiful but there was a lot of CGI but luckily it blended in pretty well. The music was nothing special, the only thing I remember from it was the one track that was played over and over again during the transformation scenes and the fights, that one was pretty good. The characters were pretty stereotypical at first, but as the show progressed they developed a lot. This anime hits a lot of the right spots for me, it has an interesting premise, it reconstructs magic in a unique way, and it had a lot of slice of life stuff in the beginning. All in all, it was a solid anime that I think most people should check out, even with its shortcomings, I give it an 8.25 out of ten.

prohaska.lonzo - 2015-04-23 19:09:04

The Magical Girl genre of anime is always brushed off by most as a show about girls waving magic pixie stix at eachother but that's not the case. Princess Tutu got released in the early 2000s and it did a phenomenal job at conveying an intellectual story that kept many viewers, boys and girls, interested. The problem is many fuck ups appear more often than a buggy game from Ubisoft which gives people the wrong impression. Come 2011 we got Madoka Magica showing us that once again dark themes in a Magic Girl show can work. One Happiness Charge Precure and we have Yuki Yuna!! But how does it stack up to it's predecessors. Will it be thrown out of the window like broccoli launched from an obese man's hand? Or does it succeed like a Hispanic at Pinata University? Lets find out!

Yuki Yuna is an anime created by studio gokumi who has produced more shit than a barnyard full of Bill Gates pooping out cash. It is a Fantasy, slice of life that aired from Oct 17 2014 to Dec 16 2014. The original creator of Yuki Yuna is the smart individual who wrote Akame ga Kill Myself. The director is Kishi, Seiji who directed Haibane Renmei 2.0 and Danganronpa the Animation. Without further ado I now introduce the story.

THE STORY
The story of Yuki Yuna revolves around classmates Yuna, Mimori, Fu, and Itsuki who are a part of a club entitled the Sanshu Middle School Hero Club. The club participates in helping those in need of assistance. During a normal school day a not so normal occurrence happened, everyone is frozen in time but the protagonists and the world swiftly morphs into a colorful abstract terrain. All of them realize that they must partake in battling hostile monsters of the world known as the Vertex before they annihilate the Shinju also referred to as the Divine Tree, or else the consequence will be the earth being obliterated. The girls together use a special app on their phone in order to transform into magical girls with different powers in order to destroy their enemies. From there, we see the mysteries unfold before us, and see how the characters cope with the heavy weight on their shoulders to save the world.

A special thing that people should be well aware about is that the show is that it focuses mostly on the characters with heroic values and ideals. You, the viewer, are given the questions. What is truly a hero? And at what cost does a hero have to pay in order to ensure the well being of others? Are you sure you want to go through that cause? How about the consequences for your actions? All of these questions manifest in your mind and you the viewer witnesses the girls as they ask themselves all of the above.

One Yuki Yuna does right is its balance of not only characters but themes as well. No character feels overpowered compared to the others creating a moreso fair playing field that anime doesn't really do that often. The anime displays a balance, evenly distributing it's slice of life, action, and psychological scenes with no theme feeling like it's completely dominating the anime. 

The slice of life theme of the show can be perceived as filler, but I saw it as girls just wanting to have fun, no no no I'm not talking about the song. let me elaborate quite a bit. The anime is revolving around normal everyday girls therefore in their time not fighting monsters what else do you think they would be doing? Training? No! Instead the slice of life scenes actually give a reason for the girls to fight! Perhaps I may be incorrect, but the slice of life scenes show what the girls intend to preserve which just so happens to be their normal life that they strive to get back.

The psychological buildup shown in this show, though is highly incomparable to Serial Experiments Lain is prominent in this anime. Trauma and anxiety are both evident as the females try to endure their situation that is disrupting their everyday lives, but if I said more it might go into spoiler territory so I'll stop there. But I'll leave you with this, one episode had a fantastic example on how to execute psychological stress building up and finally cracking perfectly!

Action sequences hold much tension keeping the viewers eyes on screen and drooling for more when they are over with. The fights hold much weight, not only on the psyche of the girls but also on their world allowing for the viewer to remain invested to see what happens whenever a fight is over, what are the repercussions it has on the girls.

This anime knows how to present to the audience questions that will circulate your mind as you are watching, though some of these questions are sadly left unanswered, the ones that are answered leaves you quite satisfied. However some of the questions not answered left an annoying impression on me, the lack of explanation in some areas could have been dealt with better.

The pacing for this anime was not the greatest but held a solid foundation in the second half, the anime to some may feel too slow during the slice of life scenes which can turn off people due to the fact these segments happen right after well paced intense battle scenes.

Quite honestly, due to the pacing of the slice of life scenes, I felt that the first half of buildup was just okay and nothing too special. Though it was worth the buildup I still can not excuse the uneven pacing in the first half that I encountered. The slice of life scenes were fine and they were to give a message across, I just wish they transitioned to
them smoother.

The actions of each character feel reasonable, unlike most characters that act positively whenever hit with a conflict the characters sometimes act negatively right from the get go which is refreshing giving plausibility to the characters and their interactions with the world.

The exposition unlike Madoka Magica by Gen Urobucher is handles rather well giving the audience enough to make them think for themselves rather than spoon-feeding you like a vegetable. Though I feel as if the show tries to be more complex than it should be at some point with its multiple plot twists.

The story's danger factor diminished along the ride as a certain plot twists came up that stirred up some questionable thoughts in my head leading me to believe that the characters are always safe no matter what. 

The ending of yuki yuna tore many people apart farther than a Native American Tribe away from the white men in fear of them decapitating their heads and taking their spines. In my honest opinion, the ending was acceptable with all the events leading up to it. Could it have been handled better? Yes it could have because it was the type of ending that made everything that the characters went through obsolete, but it did fit well with the themes of the show as well so it's a double wammy and highly questionable but overall acceptable. Once again, since I like to keep my reviews spoiler free, I shall not disclose the ending to Yuki Yuna, so you all are safer than Anne Frank in her attic.

But Yuki yuna overall had a nice premise that was executed really great but had somewhat uneven pacing, questions unanswered, and halfway into the story an overall lack of danger factor. The show doesn't truly blossom until its second half which is a shame.

THE CHARACTERS
The characters of Yuki Yuna were an interesting bunch. Each character acts as a human being, which in nature has a flaws, nobody is perfect and I feel the characters represent this in a presentable manner. They are a part of different archetypes, including Yuna as the energetic one and Itsuki as the shy one. But that is only the icing to the cake of their characters that we see at a superficial level, but as the story progresses there is much more depth to the character than meets the eye. Each character encounters a different hardship as a consequence for fighting to protect the world. This causes their heroic values to deteriorate. The characters then through genius interaction assist one another in order to leap over the tall hurdle that has been plaguing them. Each character goes through some form of development throughout the whole ordeal that changes who the character is and the way thy think by the very end. 

Yuki Yuna is highly energetic and always works with a smile, I can's say the same for the librarian I have done the street, ew, her skin is like flowing molasses, like an ogre. She is the type of person who will throw herself in harms way in order for her friends to benefit instead of her. Her heroic ideals makes her quite the interesting character but I believe she could have had more time to be fleshed out.

Mimori is confined to a wheel chair creating an upsetting feeling within her due to the fact that she believes she is only holding Yuna back by being a burden due to her lack of feeling in her legs. 

Fuu is the older senior of the group and constantly works hard to preserve the well-being of her friends. This causes built up frustration in which slowly throughout the anime we witness a dynamic change in her train of thought.

Itsuki is the youngest of the group, thus making her the most vulnerable to negative emotion. All she wants is to be able to do things by herself without her friends needing to
help her all the time which holds a heavy weight on her.

Karin is the only character I thought didn't start out strong because she was leaning towards sticking with the tsundere archetype but luckily thanks to some smart writing she becomes better throughout the series. I just wish we got more of a back story on who she was prior to the events of the show.

Though the characters are all likable, the only truly memorable ones are Yuna and Itsuki, the rest are developed but don't have that one scene that makes them stand out from the rest. The show knows how to create a fair playing field for it's characters, developing them for the most part evenly. The characters sadly don't truly shine until the second half when the audience gets to finally see the built up emotions within each character, I just wish it showed us this sooner rather than later.

THE ART/ANIMATION
In terms of visuals, the magical world of Yuki Yuna can be compared to that of the game Candyland with it's colors bursting with energy allowing for the world to come to life. The character designs for each of the magical girls are cute and fit their personalities like a charm. The dazzling color palette adds flavor and came off as being quite unique. The only issue with the art that bugged me was the CGI which I feel did not blend well with the vibrant world. In the real world, thought bright, I felt lacked in a lot of detail. 

The animation however I have a few gripes with. Sometimes the animation for the Vertexes were very choppy in the sense that their movements weren't fluent which distracted me quite a bit. The animation when the girls fight though is when the show shows off its highest quality though sadly in regular bits the animation is super standard, not feeling below average or above average either. Might I add in that the special effects were beaming with energy and were from an artistic standpoint super pleasing.

The art and animation for Yuki Yuna can be overall described as being above average with some glittering moments that shine compared to the rest!

THE SOUND
For me, the sound was a bigger surprise than the time I went to Russia and they put glass in my pizza. While the general ost for me was average there was one standout song that when it first played, my ears literally felt like it went on a majestic journey down a river with flowers springing up in numbers around me. The voice acting I thought was generally good until one character by the name of Fu in one of the later episodes blew her voice acting out of the park to the point where I had to pause after the scene and re-watch to truly get a grasp and appreciate how well the voice acting was done not only in that scene but in all the emotional segments as well. While being the weakest category of them all, the sound does an acceptable job at setting the tone and giving the characters life in terms of voice acting but fails to create anything memorable with the exception of 1 song for the general ost.

kirk.reichel - 2015-04-05 05:03:51

 it's kind of like that one show i don't think i need to mention

alicia50 - 2015-01-19 16:10:25

rstroman - 2015-01-18 17:18:46

kirlin.heather - 2014-12-29 17:59:46

          In an age where a single idea can be copied, transmuted, inverted, and manipulated in millions of possible ways, the phrase "That's just a rip-off of ______" has become increasingly more common. For example, I've heard many arguments that Nagi no Asukara is just a rip-off of From the New World, and while there certainly are similarities between the two, it's quiet a stretch to say that a romance drama is just a rip-off of a dystopian horror series. However, there are times where the degree to which something is copied is so severe that "rip-off" really is the only way to describe it. So, when a title gets to that point, is there still enough enjoyment to be gleamed from this newer series to justify its existence?

          I supposed it'd be best to address the elephant in the room first: this is a magical girl series with an incredibly blatant attempt to cash in on the "little girls suffering" idea that Madoka Magica had popularized back in 2011 and is continuously called upon again and again within the anime industry because it continues to print money. While in the past I may have suggested that Selector Infected WIXOSS was also riding the Madoka Suffering Train, at least it also had a plethora of new ideas to bring to the table. Yūki Yūna is an absolutely shameless clone of Madoka, from the suffering girls to the horrifying world backdrop. 

          There's also the matter of someone getting the bright idea to insert multiple episodes of slice of life-style comedy that served more to pad out the run time than to get us acquainted with the characters, and by the time we had our third slice of life episode in a row, the pacing had slowed to such an unbelievable crawl that I had considered dropping the series and not even doing this review. Additionally, the tonal shift between cutesy fun and heavy action leaning towards horror creates an incredibly unstable and schizophrenic tone for the series overall. With Madoka, the tamer and more relaxed episodes were confined to the first few episodes, but once the rug was pulled out from under us, the pacing grew more and more intense until it threatened to swallow up everything by the end of the series. With Yūki Yūna, the pacing shifts far too much in the first two thirds of the series for us to get a grasp of the true stakes.

          However, despite all that, the payoff that occurs when we hit the final third of the series was really solid; predictable, but solid. It also does take a very slight variance away from Madoka, mostly to avoid plagiarism, and ends up gaining its own level of disturbing horror in terms of the "little girls suffering" motif. There is also a very definite exploding point that happens, and once it does, the series really does pick up the pace from there and sprints towards the conclusion. It's just unfortunate that this doesn't happen until the show is almost 70% finished, and at least 40% of that is an annoying slice of life borefest. For that, I'm sure that we can once again thank our head of series composition, Makoto Uezu (Akame ga Kill!, School Days). There were also quite a few gag-worthy moments in the script that were so unbearably cutesy and friendship-loving that I almost wanted to take a break after each episode and switch to Black Lagoon for a few minutes. As for the ending, I won't spoil it, but it certainly didn't deserve the ending that it received, and you can take that for either good or bad.

          The characters aren't really anything new either, yet it's still pretty satisfying to watch their world start to crumble around them. Yūki is our standard heart of gold "I can do no wrong as long as I believe in the power of friendship" lead character, aka Madoka Kaname without the indecision, and I was actually surprised by how little screen time she got compared to the others. Mimori is Yūki's best friend who is bound to a wheelchair due to an accident that cost her part of her memory, and her friendship with Yūki ends up being a rather interesting point of development for her. Fū is the slightly older, mentor character of the group who has to deal with the fact that she got everyone involved in this situation in the first place, while Itsuki is Fū's little sister who honestly just seems to be there to further Fū's development. Finally, we have Karin, who could not be more like Kyoko Sakura if she tried; an outsider who is initially put off by how well the group functions together but gradually grows to like them. On a more general note, aside from Fū and Mimori, it was rather disappointing to see that everyone else's character development was done in a rather direct and low effort way, whereas Fū and Mimori are the only ones that really seem to experience any true sense of psychological terror.

          The animation was produced by Studio Gokumi (Kiniro Mosaic), and let's not beat about the bush on this one: the animation for this series was incredibly mediocre. While the idea of making the girls cute did get executed well, it was executed almost too well, and some of the girls' expression were so full of sunshine and rainbows that it make me rather uneasy. I do have to praise them for the other emotions that filled the character's faces though, as you really can feel the absolute terror pouring out of them during the final third of this series, especially with Fū. Aside from that, most of the animation was pretty bad. The Vertexes were rendered in almost eye-bleeding 3D, the fights scenes weren't that spectacular and the girls were often replaced with 3D models for said fight scenes, and while the set designs in the parallel world were very ominous and intricate, the backgrounds in the real world felt incredibly generic. On a quick side note, I really would like to know why the wheelchair chick got so much of the gratuitous fan service. It seemed horrifically out of place and started giving me Katawa Shoujo flashbacks.

          There is currently no dub for this series yet, and I wouldn't imagine one coming out in the near future.

          The soundtrack was composed by the group MONACA, and the soundtrack as a whole ends up being one part Yuki Kajiura imitation and one part generic slice of life background music. However, it's in those imitation Kajiura tracks that we find some really solid and meaty chunks that drove home the intensity of some of the more exhilarating scenes. The opening theme "Hoshi to Hana" was performed by the main voice cast and plays us in with a rather subdued pop track, while both ending themes "Aurora Days" and "Inori no Uta" were also performed by them and end each episode with a soft ballad.

          Overall, in regards to a recommendation on Yūki Yūna is a Hero, I'm left asking myself a single question to determine my decision: is there something that this anime brings to the table other than what Madoka Magica has already done and done better? To be honest: no, it really doesn't. Any enjoyment that can be gleamed from this show can just as easily be achieved by rewatching a much better magical girl deconstruction.

conor.russel - 2014-12-29 08:31:38

It starts off quickly and kind of gives you a "God Complex" storyline, but if you stick with it you'll soon hit the brick wall of feelings and will have been happy to not quit on it.
The story centralizes on characters and gives it a sort of slice of life feel but with a science fiction motif. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be WTF'ing. Definitely worth a look.

kweissnat - 2014-12-25 18:35:01

It's a shittier Madoka Magica.

I was told this show was going to be like Madoka Magica, and they were partially right. Except Madoka was great all 12 episodes, even the first three slow ones have replay value once you understand the full context. Madoka Magica is pitched as a magical girl show with dark tones and little cute girls suffering. Yuki Yuna attempts the same except I’m the one that’s suffering because it’s so boring. The emotional payoff—while fantastic—is NOT worth it.

Look, there’s only so much time and energy we all have. We work, we go home, and our free time is precious. I can work through my Steam library of 300 games, I can finish reading The Hunger Games, I can catch up on Breaking Bad, or I can watch some anime. Point is, there’s a million alternatives I can do which are far more satisfying.

Like this incredible show.

The premise is that these girls are chosen to defend the world. They can transform to have magical powers, and they fight off monsters. Turns out there’s a cost. Who knew? There’s going to be SPOILERS because I do not recommend this show to anyone. It drags on far too much, and it’s so boring you’re left numb. I was begging for something interesting to happen. The emotional payoff is good I’ll admit, but it’s not worth it.The girls can go into a second more powerful transformation to defeat the increasingly stronger monsters, but they suffer permanent damage to their bodies like going deaf, mute, blind or even losing limbs.

How I felt after watching this show.

It’s this sacrifice that carries the dark undertone of the show, and it’s a fantastic story element. I’m sick of power ups with no cost. Oh, there’s a new stronger enemy? Lemme get in my hyperbolic time chamber and train and go Super Saiyan 4. This is how you get power creep. But the fact that the girls literally sacrifice life and limb for their powers makes the battles a lot more engaging. Unfortunately, there’s very little action until the end of the series.

These sacrifices are hidden from the girls until they find out which drives the emotional payoff. For example, one girl wants to be a singer but later (after using her secondary power up) she goes mute. Everyone thought their injuries would heal, but they soon realize that it's permanent. There’s a great scene where the older sister realizes this and breaks down. Before, there was a heartbreaking moment where the sisters were eating dinner in silence after earlier episodes showed them eating, talking, and laughing. It's a subtle but excellent scene with set up and payoff. One of my favorites from the show.

The character and enemy designs are so generic and bland. Not that Madoka’s character designs were much better, but they had enough style to make them distinct. Here the characters look like anyone else. The enemies aren’t threatening looking in the least. They’re masses of bland parts thrown together. Madoka’s witches had that surreal, nightmarish quality to them.

Can you tell these two groups apart?

The characters themselves aren’t actually interesting at all. They’re just as boring as they look. The reason the emotional payoff near the end is so great is because of the story’s set up and not the actual characters. The elements and the plot details are there so when they click together it’s great.

For example, in the third episode there’s a new girl. She’s the tough, “I don’t need friends” kind of character. The other girls eventually throw a birthday party for her and she realizes the value of friendship. Shit like that. Later there’s a big battle in the middle of the show where she doesn’t use her secondary power up. This was before they realized the bodily costs of the second power up. This was early in the show and good set up.

Later, during final battle she goes all out and uses her second power up over and over. She fights the monsters while yelling about protecting her friends. After it’s done, she’s left blind and deaf. This was the payoff, and was very satisfying.

The pacing of the show is awful. It drags and drags. It doesn’t help the characters are boring, but the actual events in the show are dull slice-of-life. They eat udon, they hang out at karaoke, they go to the beach—it’s all so mundane. There’s nothing else happening. It’s all very linear. There are no subplots to keep it exciting. And this is most of the show. I constantly felt numb at how boring it was. I kept asking “When is this going to get better?” A good show should never make you feel numb.

And I'd prefer an anime that wasn't shit.

I kept track of how each episode left me feeling and 7 out of the 12 episodes I’ve watched were terrible. Fucking seven. That’s 58% of the show that’s shit.

• - Would you watch a movie where half of it was boring?
• - Would you read a book where half of it was a chore?
• - Would you watch a TV series where it doesn’t get good until halfway through the season?

Absolutely not. Worse, you can’t really skip the episodes either because through the boredom they sprinkle in details as set up for the later payoff. You certainly can skip, but the emotional payoff won’t be as strong. The boring episodes develop the characters and sets everything up for later, but this doesn't mean the development was good. You still have to make the actual, minute-by-minute screen time of the characters exciting. Just showing them off and setting up by itself isn't interesting.

This is a real plot point in the show.

Now here's the worst part. After any investment you had in these boring characters, guess what? It's all ripped away by the final episode. All their sacrifices, all the damage to their bodies, the entire emotional drive of the show is made worthless. The mute girl talks again, the crippled girl can walk now, any blindness is gone—the emotional payoff that you waited for is given and taken away by a happy ending that wasn't earned.

So was there anything I liked about the show? Little details here and there. I liked the crippled girl in the wheelchair. She was my favorite because it was a novelty.

Look at me when I talk to you.

 They use smartphones to transform so it makes it feel modern.

Look at how outdated this iPhone is. It's practically a dinosaur egg.

I was so bored I actually enjoyed the fan service, and I almost never do.

The animation is good enough. There's some nice jokes.

There’s actually a lot of subtle foreshadowing which I really appreciate.

(Maybe not that subtle.)

There were moments that showed character emotions and intentions instead of using cheap monologue.

One of the best moments in the show.

I don’t recommend this show at all. The emotional payoff is fantastic and satisfying, but it’s not worth it. I’d say because I was so bored that the payoff probably felt better than it should have. The show has hints of good writing when they set things up, but most of the plotting is so fucking boring and mundane you’re left feeling numb and exhausted. This should’ve been a movie instead.

kevon.murazik - 2014-12-19 04:34:44

Yuki Yuna wa Yusha de Aru. Aka, Yuki Yuna is a Hero. The show I wasn't going to watch, the show I kind of decided to write out as "not my thing omg" before even knowing what it was about. Then a friend on Skype told me "it's an sol Madoka Magica." ...SOL Madoka Magica? I thought. Hmm, that interested me. I first thought. "It can wait." Then he asked me again if I had watched it. Not sure what was getting into, I watched episodes 1 and 2 on 10/19/14. What a mistake I made deciding not to watch this show when I saw it on Live Chart. I almost missed a masterpiece.

THIS SHOW IS IN NO WAY A MADOKA MAGICA RIPOFF. Sure, it has a similar plot twist, but is in, and I repeat, in no way, a Madoka Magica ripoff. In my humble opinion, this anime is the secondcoming of Madoka.

The basic storyline is this: there's these four girls in a hero club together. Yuna Yuki, Mimori Togo, Itsuki Inubozaki and Fuu Inubozaki. A club dedicated to helping the community until they must deal with these creatures called the Vertex... becoming Heroes themselves. (You know, the usual magical girl business.) The story gets darker from here later on. As one would expect from magical girl these days, but I won't spoil a thing.

Okay, first of all, the actual description for this anime said nothing about them being magical girls. I saw the genre slice of life and watched the pv and saw the girls putting on a puppet show. I wondered "what's so interesting about this show"? But then I fell for the trap that the show was trying to set up. It only wants you to think it's a slice of life anime. Alas, it's not. But the first episode tries to trick you into thinking it is one. So before dropping this anime on its ass, REMEMBER THAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.

In the beginning, the episodes are really, slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Like, the show starts out kind of slow, but it's never boring. It starts picking up the speed in episode three, and no, in episode three, nothing SUPER BAD OMG THE SHOW IS SO DARK happened. The show's pace really started picking up even more around episodes five through seven, and yes... it gets dark. As the episodes come through, the story gets better. Though, around episode five, I was worried what is going to happen to the show. But after a few weeks, the story got intriguing again until the point where it became the second anime this year to literally take me for a torture joyride. I actually cried three times already while watching this. It's almost Selector Spread WIXOSS level evil, and I wasn't expecting that. \

Also, I'm going to comment that this is how a magical girl anime should be done. Madoka was okay, but it was kind of unrealistic. This one feels more realistic in some sort of way.

The animation is absolutely flawless. The regular animation for when the girls are normal girls is pretty good! But the animation becomes flawless when the girls are battling as Heroes. Rainbow worlds and the fighting scenes are in such clean animation! I've never seen better animation than this this year. Studio Gokumi did really well on this.

The sound is also flawless. The OP is really good. (Though I don't like the ED, lmao.) The soundtracks are even better. They set the world up in a way and I just love how the voices sound! The sound is perfect in this anime. I'm really impressed with the sound and music here.

The characters are amazing in this series.

Yuna's sheer willpower and determination for her friends and as a Hero is really amazing. Yuna really cares for her friends so deeply, and I love her for that. Like, woah. And unlike Madoka, Yuna doesn't cry all that much. She is determined and fights to the limit. I love her.

Mimori is awesome. She figures out things and developed pretty nicely, in my opinion. And she's a pretty good representation for the disabled. She isn't alienated for it or anything like that, which is good!

Fuu is also nice. Once the plot twist kicks in, I get a little bit more easily to cling to her character, but in general I just love her senpai role that Mami was so poorly able to fulfill. 

And Itsuki is amazing. Amazing. Really cute kid! And she's got a dream, so I admire her. YOU CANNOT HATE ITSUKI. SHE IS ADORABLE AS HELL.

Karin is also great. I feel like her character was explored greatly and she is my favorite character in this show. She seems kind of tsundere at first glance, but she isn't really at all. I enjoy her strange eating habits (ie, eating sardines) and seeing some interesting sides to her, and in the end, her determination is also amazing.

This anime is amazing and I didn't expect it to get dark at all. (Then again, I say that a lot, don't I?) WATCH IT. YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT. It's really good and you'll see what I mean if you give this magical girl the time of day. ^^

96 out of 100.