Review of Gushing over Magical Girls

And with that, I've also seen the "please don't let it get out anywhere that I watched this show" anime of this season - somehow one of those comes out every season. And I have to admit, when I compare "Gushing over Magical Girls" to the other anime in this category, it was the best in years. Hiiragi Utena is forced one day to become the bad guy and hurt her beloved Magical Girls. But somehow she seems to like it too much? As it turns out, she is a real sadist who could make a fortune as a dominatrix. With this summary in mind and slightly drunk,I started the series and really enjoyed it. It deals with all kinds of topics that would be considered taboo even among taboo topics and that is admittedly often fun, even if some of the 'things' dealt with made me look away. For example, someone played an infant and wet his pants...

But the main focus of the series is and remains the sadistic protagonist Utena and lesbian games. The whole thing goes so far in some episodes that I have to ask myself if that only counts as softp*rn. If such scenes were often unpleasant - no matter how hard the anime tried to make them funny - the series has a certain charm, especially the characters are often way too funny and at least watching it once can't hurt.

However, not everything is cake eating. As to be expected from an anime in this category, there are issues in the production quality. It's not as bad as some other cases have been, but scenes are inconsistent (e.g. characters just spawn) and the German subtitles also have some really rough mistakes.
The biggest problem, however, is the "story" that the series starts to sprinkle in at the end. I don't know why more and more anime do this, but of course there has to be a big, secret plot that could turn everything upside down. Season 1 only mentions this in passing at the end, but it turned my stomach, made my hair stand on end and almost made me stop watching the series. When I watch "Gushing over Magical Girls" for messed up characters, taboo themes and funny scenes, I don't need or want some secret evil plot interfering with the funny scenes. END.

Conclusion: If you could already stand series like "Redo of Healer" and found "Interspecies Reviewers" funny, you'll have fun with this one too (even if "Interspecies Reviewers" is much better). This is one of those shows that is best watched drunk, with friends, or drunk with friends, and which is then fun to watch.

Edit: This would probably have been more fun if it wasn't about magical girls. Japan seems to like them, but I just don't get into them. Also, the anime has my respect for never sexualizing the obviously underage "Nero-Alice" in any way, just as there are no lolis. Even if it is questionable that the magical girls are all teenagers, a certain boundary is maintained.