What’s it about? The marketplace for magical woman companies is booming, and Magilumiere is a tiny startup in a sea of 500. It could be an organization stuffed with weirdos, however it’s the proper place for latest graduate Sakuragi Kana, who desires nothing greater than to be one of many employees.
A second of silence for Magilumierethe present about grown-up magical ladies that individuals consistently beg for however won’t ever see as a result of it received shoved into the concrete boots of Amazon’s non-existent advertising and got down to sea on the backside of Prime’s mainly unusable streaming search . It is a rattling disgrace as a result of I like an ensemble comedy about bizarre adults and it has been some time since we had one.
Since Kana does not be a part of Magilumiere till the tip of the episode, quite a lot of these preliminary proceedings depend on the promise of the premise… perhaps just a little an excessive amount of. We get a high-octane chilly open that pits senior magical woman Koshigaya Hitomi towards a large Taxxon of a monster, which the artistic workforce clearly hopes will have interaction the viewers till the climactic focus. And the main points of the world are enjoyable once we get them, together with a protracted transformation sequence for a magical woman costume that is mainly an workplace uniform with a number of bows on it.
However there’s quite a lot of peace in between, as we comply with Kana by means of a protracted day of interviews, throughout which she not solely does not take into consideration magical woman jobs, however appears utterly oblivious to the sector. It isn’t dangerous character work, however scenes drag previous their level of effectivity in a transparent try to show what will need to have been the tip of a single chapter into the climax of the episode.
When Hitomi and Kana lastly meet, it is simple to see extra – name me a sucker for the ‘laidback veteran meets tryhard beginner’ dynamic. The motion itself is a bit perfunctory, maybe a symptom of the relative inexperience of the workforce as a complete, however it pops the place it must and delivers the largest emotional beats.
The one trigger for concern, which I have been bracing myself for ever since I noticed the character designs and got here nearer to haunting me within the post-credits, is the introduction of Magilumiere’s boss. Shigemoto is launched with the complete “scary man in gown” body, with further angular options in comparison with the remainder of the solid, a trembling tread, and response photographs of terror from Kana. I am fairly certain this will probably be thrown out two minutes into episode 2 as a “haha, humorous misunderstanding, that is simply how he’s!” Simply kidding, however that does not make it any much less transmisogynistic.
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I additionally took the freedom of glancing on the wiki to analysis Shigemoto’s gender scenario, after which took a second to quietly die inside. When will I be free from the trope of ‘cross-dressing over a lifeless sibling’? I assumed the reply could be ‘1997’, however right here we’re.
That annoying caveat apart, this was a stable middle-of-the-road swing on a premise I would actually prefer to see accomplished properly. Extra grownup magical ladies throughout the board, please.
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