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魔法つかいプリキュア!
50
TV
Finished Airing
Feb 7, 2016 to Jan 29, 2017
In the human realm, witches and wizards seem to be mere creations of fantasy. Ever the adventurous teenager, Mirai Asahina sets out to disprove this notion by following the tracks of a peculiar shooting star that had fallen the night before. Sure enough, Mirai soon has a chance encounter with Liko—a clumsy witch apprentice who hails from the Magic World, a colorful realm inhabited by magicians. As if by fate, the appearance of strange villains forces Mirai and Liko to join hands. In doing so, they unleash their strength as a pair of legendary magicians—the "Maho Girls Precure!" Now gifted with unbelievable power, the unlikely duo embarks on an adventure filled with magical spells and powerful gemstones. Along the way, the two girls discover the hidden marvels that tie their individual worlds together. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
7.4/10
Average Review Score
63%
Recommend It
8
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(this will include spoilers, also I haven't written a review before so uh yeah-) I'm not going to go into detail but I'm just going to write my thoughts. The characters were very good! we obviously have our happy pink main, a must for all Precure seasons. then we have our beloved smug witch Riko!! I love her so much! I don't know, something about her is just amazing but I don't know how to describe it. Mofurun was adorable and fun, most mascots in Precure are annoying brats, but Mofurun was just so nice and pleasant. Kotoha is a caffeinated pure baby and I willprotect her with my life. I love how we got to see her grow,,, it was so cute to see Mirai and Riko (along with Mofurun of course) raise her-it was accomplishing in a way to see her turn human. As a childhood Precure fan, I hold this franchise close to my heart. and there were only a few times it has made me cry, but to say that this shows ending made me cry was an understatement. oh boy. I SOBBED. We got to see our 3 heroines friendship grow and now that it has been ripped apart....Niagara falls were streaming down my eyes. I think I flooded my room. But that part that actually got those big 'ole crocodile tears churning out my eyes was when Mirai grew up and she got that stick and tried to bring Kotoha and Riko back... (at least I think that's what happened I haven't watched it in a while) But... episode 50....yeah I think we should all agree it should have not existed. SO IF MIRAI, RIKO AND KOTOHA ARE ADULTS WHEN THE KIRA KIRA GIRLS STARTED, CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN THE LATER COLLAB MOVIES?!- (also design-wise, the designs were probably Top 3 in the whole Precure franchise? I really liked them.) Enjoyment 10/10 Overall 10/10 Ship 10/10 (Mirai x Riko will always be my Precure OTP) my favourite Precure season so far!!!
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The beautiful Witch Liko are crash landing in to the sakura trees on a calm night when the full moon are at its highest point on the night sky. In a distance Mirai stand witness and mistaken it for a falling star,, What she don't know is that this "star" is going to brighten up her life more than she ever could have dreamed of! Early the next morning after the sun have just raised! Mirai takes her beloved teddy-bear Mofurun to seek out the falling star!! After some searching the star finds Mirai and together their magical adventure beyond their wildest of dreams have juststarted! Characters 10/10 Characters are extremely important to me.I need my girls, and to feel for them, and their cause. Most importantly they need to love and cherish each other.My girls deliver on every plane. The immense love and passion they share is remarkably deep and creates a immersive experience .That makes this a very charming and entertaining media. This shines through on every level when it comes to their relationship .I cheer for my girls I laugh with them and I cry with them,,Most importantly I'm there with them. It also have interesting side characters that adds a lot to the story!!! Art 8/10 Not the best.But neither the worsted ,, It's even! They pick a tone and stick with it!! Its warm lovely and cute! Story 10/10 The story is alluring charming beautiful sad and everything in between! I love the world build and how it drags you in. and hypothesise you in way that makes you wanna watch the next episode right away,,It's hard to put down!!! A fantastic fun fantasy world full with wonders and joyful adventures!! Sound 8/10 I like the monsters battle-cry , And the music overall especially in the transformations!! Enjoyment 10/10 I have so much fun! And sometimes i was angry and sometime i have feelings of sorrow .Everything that i want to feel is there and i got so invested .And it was really even throughout out at the whole thing.It started great and just keep going.For me the most enjoyable part is my girls. And their strong love for each other and that they always cared so much! They don't just talk about the big game they show it!! Words are cheap my girls love for each other are not Overall 10/10 I consider this to be one of the best media ever created.Its the Precures chef-d'oeuvre in my meaning,It have a lot of heartwarming moment and are at the top of the magical girl shows .It's truly brilliant and I cant recommend it enough!! Matter the fact I'm going to re watch it again. Got the cravings after writing so much about it
(This review may contain Spoilers. Please do not read until you've watched the whole season.) Mahoutsukai Precure: The seventh season I'm watching in the Precure franchise. My experience in watching this season can be summed up like this: Miracles do happen- But are you willing to wait for them? Mahoutsukai Precure (Referred to as MahoPre from here) is a war of expectations and hope as a viewer, demonstrating Toei's exotic ability- Or perhaps a vicious curse- of keeping you hanging by a thread over standards they can't keep up. MahoPre has many shining moments and filled with touchy emotions overall, but if you don't look at the bigpicture, your patience will be pushed to your very limits with the season's overall quality. Story: 7/10 Get ready because this will be one hell of a rant, ladies and gentlemen. I never thought I'd say this again- MahoPre, just like Star Twinkle 3 years after it, is an example of a story that was never done justice. And in truth, I am utterly heartbroken about it, because as I am about to explain later in this review, the Cures are actually not at fault at all for the story's downfall, as the story of the Cure team and the mascot this time around was excellent and beautiful. Unfortunately, let's talk about the Premise. The premise of the story is that there are two worlds, the magic world and the non-magic world which is Earth. And we have two Cures that come from these two respective worlds, filled with many fascinating differences and special things for our protagonists to learn about. We are pulling a Harry Potter in Precure, exposed to a Hogwarts-like mystical world. The amount of world exploration and story potential from this is insane! And since we know so much about the world we live in, surely the magic world should take more of the spotlight! Yet, that never came to pass, as most of what we see was centered around the magic school. We do see a slice of this other world, but they don't seem to be as big of a spotlight in comparison to the episodes in the school or Earth. And then, *sigh*. The villains. HOLY BEJESUS. TOEI, WHAT ARE YOU DOING. WHY. LIKE, WHY. This season has the worst villain camp I have EVER seen. In this day and age, throwing a story about people being evil for the sake of evil is... Bland. I mean sure, if you're Disney then I have nothing to say, but WOW does this season's villains feel BLAND as all hell. The first half was somewhat better, each villain is sort of different in ways, but as a motivator to push the story forward they are very lackluster. Oh, what's that I hear? That's the end of it, you ask? NOPE! I HAVEN'T EVEN BEGUN WHAT I WANTED TO SAY. They pulled a Futari Wa and made ANOTHER VILLAIN TEAM. And this one is EVEN WORSE. I could complain about The Cataclysm being the absolute most BS antagonists I've seen till the sun is dead, so I will save your and my sanity by keeping this as short as possible. PURELY generic villains. UNBELIEVABLY CHILDISH motives. ABSOLUTELY NO personalities that differentiate them from one another. AND they had to make them as ANNOYING as they can possibly get, with their whole "Mugic is better than magic and magic is garbage so we win and you can die in Deusmast's reign" trashtalk. MY GOD, they were so garbage that the final battle of this season was only FIVE MINUTES long. YEAH. That just shows even Toei knew they messed up. IF YOU'RE GOING TO PUT ANOTHER VILLAIN TEAM, DON'T F*CKING MAKE THEM THE STUPIDEST AND MOST HORRIBLY WRITTEN VILLAINS I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE!!!! I'm sorry, my fellow viewer. I'm just really annoyed. Art: 10/10 So after that horrendous rant, let me move on to something I can praise about this season, shall we? The animation and art style for MahoPre was very enchanting and pleasant to look at, fitting the theme of the season. Besides all the pretty backgrounds and fight scenes and the concept of multiple transformation styles, this season basks in the full power of implications and details with its animation. Examples of this include the love confession by Mayumi in episode 34 and the final farewell between Mirai and Riko in episode 49. Perfect in this department. Sound/Music: 10/10 Also exceptional in this department. There are lots of soundtracks that I see as exclusive to this season and you'd know it's this season when you hear it because you won't hear as many magical music pieces as you do in MahoPre. Two of my favorite and personal best songs in the Precure franchise, Sparkling Vows and Two Wishes, come from this season. And can I just say, when Two Wishes played in episode 49, I want to cry. T~T Character: 9/10 This Character review is probably one of the most infuriating reviews I have ever done on this website. Not because of the Cures, though. First! Mirai. Now, I'm sure I wasn't the only one who thought that Mirai in terms of her voicing was super underrated. No, I'm not just talking about how superb the voice acting was for Mirai in several moments, but I want to take this chance to vent out my disappointment of her being overshadowed by characters who, like her, was voiced by the amazing Takahashi Rie, during the season's running. Because wow, Mirai is good. Just watch episode 49. Of course, I have to look at the story. This season's development is a bit different for our Pink because the show wanted to heavily emphasize Mirai and Riko's friendship, but on her own Mirai is also very much likable, bright and a bundle of fun by her own right. Mirai can get clumsy at times but she's also very strong and treasures her friendships greatly. For Riko, since she didn't come from the non-magic world, we got to see more development on her individual character than we did for Mirai. Over the course of the season, Riko learns more about what it truly means to acheive her dream as an excellent magician. She learns the value of friendship, trust and support. When paired with someone so different from her as Mirai, she helped Mirai to bring out the best of herself as Mirai did the same for Riko herself. MahoPre's approach to Mirai and Riko's friendship is excellent, and makes the final farewell all the more heartbreaking. And then, we have a fairy Cure and a mascot. Kotoha aka Ha-Chan has taken the place as my third favourite Cure in history, and though she only debuted in the disasterous second half, her beginnings as Kotoha in the 20s was pleasant and joyous to sit through. As if Mirai and Riko's friendship wasn't enough, Ha-chan joins in the fun and turns this team into an outright Precure family, and it's just friggin adorable how that turned out. Mofurun also took the cake as one of if not the best mascot/Precure ally I have seen so far, highlighted in her friendship with Mirai both in the series and the movie of the season. She received more profound development than many other mascot I've seen so far, and that's saying quite a lot since this is my 7th season- And of course, the quality doesn't disappoint. You can see- I have nothing against the Cures and Mofurun, they were unbelievable in all of their stories and had the best team dynamics of all the teams I've seen. But lord and behold, of course the villains had to come and destroy everything. Not only is the development on that horrible, it is so bad that I would honestly wish the manga had been the legitimate story of MahoPre. The villains do NOTHING but drag down the story pace. No, not so much for the Dark Magicians (First half), but the Cataclysm ones. Although I have to give props to Oruba and of course Chikurun for trying to be decent, the latter being much better at it. Enjoyment: 8/10 2020 was quite an awkward year for me and Precure, since I've been expanding on other anime. MahoPre got caught in the crossfire easily with many of its problems. Poorly written villains, really unstable quality of episodes, pacing slower than it had to be, and of course, it's been so many seasons and I'm used to all the Precure flair now. But if I had to say whether I enjoyed the series, of course I did, I've seen much worse (You can tell by looking at my anime list.) As I said, this season's team is friggin adorable together, and I can't ask for more than just 3 Cures and a teddy bear and sometimes a bee going through a cool double life of saving the world. The season had so many cute moments, quite a bit of emotional wrecks, and arguably the greatest season finale which made me had to wait like over a week to write this review so I have no bias. Overall: 8.6/10 Mahoutsukai Precure has, in some ways, been a letdown. But the great moments of the season make the gaps worth it- You'll just have to be patient for them. So if you're not the kind to wait for the good content, this season might not be for you, but the story of the Cures is one to smile at nonetheless. But don't take my word for it- Do find out what others thought about the season!
Story: Mirai a middle school girl who still carries her teddy bear accidentally finds a witch named Riko. A magical miracle happens when both of them hold their hands together as they wear same kind of linkle stone and there are 12 more which they must gather. Characters: At first i got a feel of looking 'harry potter series 1" with only female students ( especially train station as converging point to magical world station, snail train etc). Introduction of Principal was good. For me the only character that was good in it is Maffurin ( the teddy bear) For about 20 episodes, the series was unpredictableand creative. We wanted to see it what happens next with curiosity. There is so much adventure that can be feast to your eyes . Art: Too good. Beautiful scenery is shown in the anime. For instance there were lot of flower garden, mythical pegasus and fairy world. Sound: Perfect sound tracks. But the most boring part is "transformation" scenes. It is unbearable to see a single transformation once in this kind of anime but here there are 2 levels of transformations which occupied lot of time in an episode. Villains are just dummy. There is stupidity in confusing the viewers by trying to introduce "dark magic" is different from mugic and mugic lead to dark magic concepts. It may have confused you here. But if you see the entire series. Enjoyment: I enjoyed only the first 20 episodes ( later 6 episodes or so) as the next episodes seem to be dragging the series unnecessarily. Overall: This shoujo anime is just for little kids to whom we want to teach the value of friendship. But for grown ups, when Mirai constantly says about Friendship in obsessive manner, it irritates. Her cries to see Riko at the End seemed unnatural and gave me the feeling of shoujo ai and awkward. I was not able to comprehend here longing for Riko alone when there is Haa-chan too. For me that spoiled my interest in the series.
Overall: 7.5 With the most impressive, in-depth world building of all the Precure shows, you'd think it would go to great places... except that it mostly does not. Story: 7.5 You could divide this show into two halves - the first half, which is well thought out and consistent, and the latter half, which goes from unique and interesting to a messy abomination and back within a few episodes. While there is some filler, most of it does actually contribute to the character's relationships, and aren't totally useless for a change. Characters: 7.5 Not the most unique set in the Precure universe, nor the most developed. But they're not irritatinglyexaggerated, either, and it's their relationships as a group that really makes the show watchable. In fact, the side characters are all surprisingly well fleshed out and involved, given they're barely ever on screen. Art: 8 There's three different magical outfits for the duo, which are all wonderfully unique and befitting of their characters. The uniform and clothing designs are adorable, and definitely worthy of a cosplay or two. There's some gorgeously drawn and unique scenery, and a few cool angles from Mofurun - the teddy bear- 's perspective. Even the CGI dancing is visually interesting, though by no means a masterpiece. It's perhaps the most consistent of all the Precure series in terms of visual style. Sound: 7 The ED's are... annoying. They're exactly what you'd expect from an off-beat children's anime. The OP is fast-past and interesting, but ultimately nothing special.