Review of Gushing over Magical Girls

I'm someone who generally doesn't understand the appeal of ecchi anime. Now don't get me wrong, I'm definitely a degen myself but I've always found them to exist solely for the fan service part because they usually just toss the actual plot out the window and at that point I'd rather just go browse some actual full-blown adult works. And I'm also not very familiar with Yuri anime. So needless to say I felt a bit frisky checking this out. MahoAko is a story about girls' self-discovery, but not the kind you would normally expect in the medium of anime. This show is straight up adegenerate fantasy where the writers wanted to see how much they can get away with on TV and I'm very much surprised this ever even got to air. It is fully shameless and self-aware. The entire thing felt like a straight up hentai doujinshi.

As I expected the plot is straight up trash. It only exists for the sexual themes. And speaking of which, we have a full on pokedex of fetishes on this one. There's a lot of tame stuff but some kinkier ones too so everyone can probably find something that works for them, or something that completely turns them off on the flipside.

Besides the degen stuff, the characters are the other main focus of the show. Utena is certainly a main character that will get a lot of mixed feelings from people I'm sure. Personally, I feel like if you are watching a show that's as blatantly messed up as MahoAko, you shouldn't be too surprised in the first place. Outside of her sexual self-discovery, she even goes through some actual character development too, much to my surprise.

In addition to Utena we have the other villains of Enormita and of course the Tres Magia magical girls aka the good guys. The show definitely didn't try to hide the fact that even the magical girls are absolute perverts. I think the cast overall is fine and works for what the show wants to be. Still not sure how I feel about Korisu though. They toned down the stuff with her but I still feel like I'm going to end up on a list after finishing this.

I honestly struggled with rating this show. The story is bad so it all basically comes down to how much enjoyment you get out of the lewdness. Considering how impressive this feat was to get this on TV and I'll admit, opening my eyes more to the genre and some fetishes, I overall still liked it.