Nurse Witch Komugi R

NOTE: This MAY contain spoilers! Story 7/10: I always enjoy a good anime that has the nostalgic feeling of magical girl animes. It cute and fun to watch. It's great to see how the characters balance their daily lives while battling monsters. Characters 8/10: All three main characters are students and local idols. Komugi is dressed up as a Nurse after her transformation. Her sidekick is Usa-P. She is kind and quirky. Kokona is dressed up as a Maid. Her sidekick is Tanu-P. Kokona is kind, determined and intelligent, however; she displays a different side of her personality while she is transformed. Tsubasa is dressed upas a Sister (Nun) after her transformation. She wears man's clothing and her sidekick Neko-P. Overall enjoyment 7/10: Very similar to magical girl animes (i.e.: Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura and Pretty Cure). They have their great moments. I hope one day that there will more powers and monsters to come. It's also interesting to see their character development as idols. I hope that they will become even more famous. I thought the anime is okay. Even though it is very similar to almost all of the magical girls we have seen over the years, I really enjoy watching this anime for fun!

Magical Girl Parody anime revival 15 years in the making... This anime is being a blatant magical girl parody from the premise alone but it's a fun blatant one at that, from a narrator who appears out of nowhere giving us the quick detailed information about the Magical Girl's attacks, to main cast members being self-aware to the point LA sees Komugi, Kokona and Tsubasa being parodies off other magical girls, from Komugi's behavior being very similar to Sailor Moon, Kokona taking a page from the current magical girl genre (without the dark and depressing) to Tsubasa being in love with someone a la ''Cardcaptor Sakura''style level of unrequited love. As a parody of the magical girl genre it's primarily a comedy with no seriousness (not until the final 2 episodes and even by the end it still keeps to it's comedic nature and light heartedness) and as a comedy, LA still finds it fun watch, this IS an anime revival of an anime OVA almost 15 years old so LA can take it up with it's new spin on the magical girl parody genre in mind. In terms of plot, LA does have a small compliant about this anime, but before LA says, this anime follows a typical "Monster of the Week" where "Magical Nurse, Maid and Sister" all vying to fight the monster by the end of the episode with the running theme reflecting on the monster in some way where either Magical Nurse, Maid or Sister will always do the final blow and collect their card for the episode. Now Magical Nurse, Maid and Sister do get screentime of their own episodes and since Magical Nurse, Maid and Sister all have dual identities (though it's really obvious who they are, just the characters don't) even their ordinary selves get screentime with Komugi's motivation as a rising idol being the most prominent, except not...the anime seems like it comes to a halt once Tsubasa appears and brings up this unrequited love subplotline and it actually takes centre stage and MANY episodes are dedicated to Tsubasa's constant talk about her unrequited love. Umm Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R, you do realize that your own show is getting hijacked by Tsubasa?...YOUR NAME IS ON THE GOD DAMN TITLE. But even then LA really isn't agitated by this as this anime does focus on it's main three magical girls with their own episodic episodes and wacky themes to go with it. LA isn't gonna say that this anime absolutely has it's priorities straight, but it does keep itself balanced between it's magical girl, idol and school elements. In terms of animation done by Tatsunoko Production is just "decent" throughout the board, LA can't really say much other than LA didn't really see any lower quality at all throughout and it's generally consistent, though the 3D CGI idol scenes is baffling but typical. There is probably one voice actor LA will talk about and that's the main protagonist's Kei Tomoe, LA thought Komugi was voiced by ''Yukari Tamura'' considering how well she pulled off the cutezy ditzy vocals, the rest voice actors are ok at the very least though the mascot characters can get slightly annoying. LA did forget to mention that this anime is ripe with A LOT and LA means A LOT of Tatsunoko Productions' previous anime characters as cameos. The ending did give us a villain, only for how convulted the three magical girls takes down this villain (as well as the villains motives are also kinda convulted), however all's well that ends well???, at it's least it's a parody in the loosest sense through and through. Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R has A LOT of plotlines to juggle and they keep it balanced and at least they give character development to the three magical girls and sure the anime might go in a tangent about an unrequited love story but nonetheless, as a comedy magical girl parody, it's in-offensive for the most part to watch and can be funny when it can. This anime has a lot going on but thankfully it doesn't try to be nothing more than a fun slice of life comedy parody about magical girl idols.

Recommendation: A fun but inessential series for fans of magical girls. If you aren't into this genre, skip it, but it's fun if you are. Nurse Witch Komugi-chan doesn't break any new ground, it's a straight magical girl series, the only unique gimmick being that the magical girls are also idols. It's sugary sweet and totally unserious, it would almost be appropriate for little kids aside from a small number of fanservice scenes. The main girls all have their own simple gimmick, the peppy Komugi, the shy and ultra-competent Kokona, and the publicly manly but secretly girly Tsukasa. Tsukasa gets the closestto having actual character development with her relationship with Yuto, but there's very little of that here overall. It's just them being cute and having fun together for the most part, there's not much to develop. But that's fine, they're all fun and likable characters in their own ways so they don't need to change that much to be good for the show they're in. The story is laughably thin, to the point that the show itself regularly lampoons how pointless and unexplained everything is. The girls become magical girls to collect special Fan-C cards, which drop out of the sky and turn whatever they touch into a monster, usually to comedic effect. What these cards are, why they're being collected, or why it's a competition to see who can collect the most are questions that are never explained, and it becomes an ongoing joke that any time the girls ask about any of these things, they don't get any answers either. The monsters are simple and unthreatening and the action scenes barely qualify as such, replicating the exact same animation of a monster being destroyed by a magical beam every time for comedy in lieu of an actual fight scene. That kind of sums up Komugi-chan's general approach to comedy. They love to repeat the same joke over and over until it becomes unfunny, and then continue repeating it after that until it loops back around into being funny again. This is obviously going to be hit or miss for some people, it's probably just as likely to piss you off as make you laugh, but I got a kick out of it. In general the art is okay, but don't expect anything flashy or unique from the magical girls. There really aren't even action scenes as such, as mentioned above. There are a few CGI idol performances that look pretty much exactly like you'd expect, like video game cutscenes. Not good at all, but you learn to live with it if you're watching idol shows. In short, this is a fun and cutesy series, it's exactly what it looks like from the promotional materials (maybe a little funnier than you'd expect). There's no plot and most everything is played for comedy or adorableness. Go in with no expectations and enjoy some low stress magical girl fun.

This is not an anime to be taken seriously, so dont expect something like cardcaptor sakura or madoka magica, because there is no real plot. This anime is more comparable to a parody of magical girl anime. Its absolutely silly, and i enjoyed it. Storywise, theres no real story, just girls becoming magical and fighting monsters. If anything, the story mostly revolves around how the character relationships grow, but just barely haha. Art and sound is generic, but it isnt bad, its just unnoticeable. Aside from CG dance parts for the idol scenes, but they are acceptable. I've seen worse lol. Characters were the better partof the anime. Although generic, the cast had good chemistry with each other. The character that generated the most interest seemed to be Tsukasa because of her complex and love problems. I enjoyed this anime way more than I expected. I had many laughs at just how silly it was. Like everything was crap, but it had comedic value, especially with some of the sudden sexual innuendos. I totally didnt expect it from an anime that i thought was for kids, but the sex jokes made my facepalm and smile lol. By the end, I'm pretty sure the anime was self-aware of what it was doing, so I must applaud it. I repeat, dont come to this anime with expectations, just have fun with it. Overall, it was 7/10, good, I was way more comfortable watching it than I thought I would be, but you might have to be in the mood to watch something underwhelming to really enjoy it.