Majo demo Steady

Name: Majo demo Steady
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Ecchi
Released: 1986-09-05T00:00:00+00:00
Rating: 4.72

魔女でもステディ

4.72(1,533)

Rank#14454

#10723

OVA1 ep.Finished Airing41 min

An ordinary day for Seki Hisashi consists of working a nine-to-five shift at an auto parts company in Shinjuku, evading his flirtatious boss' advances, and then riding his motorcycle back to his apartment, where he lives alone. One morning, however, becomes anything but ordinary for the young salaryman. After Seki awakens to a naked woman lying beside him in his bed, he is even further shocked when she reveals her desire for them to be together. Even so, this does not explain her supernatural abilities, telekinesis being one of many. Rather than questioning her elusive nature, he immediately cuddles with her—finding the woman to be his ideal type. On his way home from work, a vision of his newfound love leads Seki to crash his motorcycle, giving rise to a police chase. Meanwhile, the woman awaits him at his apartment but grows restless, apparently unable to be apart from him. Arriving a moment too late, Seki watches her vanish without a trace, unaware if his unnamed soulmate will ever return. Little does he know that returning is something she indeed plans on doing. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Reviews(5)

itsmekarlyyy

March 3, 2022

RecommendedFunny

Nothing was explained. Not a damn thing. There was some underlying thing that had a hint of sense and mythology, but it was overshadowed by pure confusion and wtf-ery. It left me in stunned silence more than once. I hated it so much that it gets a 10 for the feelings it made me feel. My brain feels like scrambled eggs. It's 40 minutes of my life I won't get back so I'm telling everyone else to go watch it so maybe I can pass that feeling on like a curse. Kind of like The Ring. Thanks, I guess. Good luck.

lkevsan

March 13, 2020

This is the most WTF Anime I've eve watched and that's saying alot. Longtime no see my MAL friends. One of the things I am always invested on is the media that was around the times I wasn't born. Watching many shows that my parents used to watch and to find old media that not everyone doesn't care is always fascinating to me and you come across OVA anime, specifically 20th century OVA anime and let me tell you, it is the most perplex form of anime that you can encounter. I have watched horrible anime like Try Knights and Conception, idiotic animation like Varanoir, themost ridiculous hentai that was Tsui no sora, but Majo Demo Steady is by far the most astonishing thing I have seen so far at this point. I am using astonishing in a confused and loosely way. So let me tell you about this OVA from 1986. You don't mind some spoilers right? The story at first looked like it was going to be like Bewitched (1964) with some touch of ecchi here and there. But what you get is a mumbo jumbo of random stuff going on. The story begins with our main protagonist waking up with a girl in his side, everything standard so far, but then the girl disapears and creates other dimensions after the protagonist comes back home. But his boss wants him to play with his stick and stalks him almost every moment after he leaves his job. But then our witch transports herself to the bar where he was and fights some demon spirits that appear and then she makes doubles of him and her, but she dissapears again and then some pyramids start appearing at the town they live and she is transported to another dimension, our main protagonist enters the dimmension and she rescues his wife in the most ridiculous way of entering to the part where she was and we get some "philosophical" talk about the Anima and Animus for some stupid reason and our main protagonists become one. The End. Honestly writing what this thing is about is not enough to express the WTF kind of animation I just watched. It is so bizarre and beyond the mind of anyone that wasn't the production team. Because it is that but the way the things happen here will make your brain explote trying to put together everything that occurred here. The characters are there I guess? They only have traits, our main protagonist wants to be with his girl, the girl is a manifestation that has magical powers and the boss is a perv against out protagonist just that. The art is not bad, but I don't like how many of these 80s shows don't have a constant artsyle between characters when some of them look way too cartoony and others have a certain artstyle. It is distracting to me. Sound is ok. Most of these shows don't use many sound effects and decide to throw many songs in a scene to save for a lot of dialogue. Talking about dialogue, the voice actors did the best, but you will forget them Overall if you want to watch some of the weirdest anime that you could find produced in the 80s and that is 40 minutes long, the Majo demo Steady is your show. Maybe if you are high enough you may comprehend something that I didn't see there. Thanks for reading and take care in this pandemic situation.

stmwg01

May 2, 2022

Mixed Feelings

"Like in a movie about youth! Run straight without making sense!" The irony that this line from the OVA perfectly sums up the entire movie is not lost on me. I'd recommend this only if you really enjoyed the back bone to Urusei Yatsura. Otherwise, you'll not find this show enjoyable. I'll preface by saying I don't want to compare this to UY, but it mimics UY so much, it's nearly impossible to do so. I will attempt to keep the comparisons to a minimum. Going by the release dates between Urusei Yatsura and Majo demo Steady, the latter was an attempt to ride on the coattailsof the popularity of UY. Honestly, the similarities are pretty uncanny at times. Ironically, the back bone of Steady is actually pretty good. I guess I have a type, liking the concept of other world girl and earthling boy pursue a relationships despite challenges. The issue with Steady lies in the lack of explanation. Things seemingly happen out of the blue and our leading girl, Asami, just blames herself. How she creates this mess or why, we never learn. Is she just a klutz or does her magic require an equal, opposite reaction to work? These questions and lack of explanation are rampant throughout the show. The art isn't bad, but the animation is choppy and non-fluid much of the time. Sound is mediocre as well. The opening and closing are dated, but unfortunately didn't ripen with age, missing the campy, nostalgic vibe some 80's songs instill. Sometimes the sound effect doesn't match the action and is noticeably different from what you'd expect. Characters are decent, but there is no depth to them and they don't really develop significantly. It's actually a shame because I think they'd actually lead to a good story if given time to develop. Overall, I enjoyed demo Steady because I like the concept. It wasn't the best execution and leaves a lot to be desired. I think it's a bit harshly criticized, but at the same time, I think it rightfully deserves a lot of what it gets. If you like relationship and/or magical girl animation, you'll like demo Steady, just don't expect anything ground breaking. If there's one more thing to add, it's that I'd like to find the source material for demo Steady. I'd like to know if things were better explained or if this adaption was doomed from the start.

Sapphireloid

June 14, 2022

Not Recommended

What. The. F***. I'm quite sure that's the most rational reaction to Majo Demo Steady, but it's such a good example of 'so bad it's good'. For the life of me, I cannot even begin to describe anything about the plot. There are some extremely outdated 80s homophobic stereotypes about one character that made me roll my eyes, but other than that the rest of the anime felt like an intense fever dream that always seemed to completely subvert my expectations but in a "WTF" way. Art is cute at least, even when everything goes off the rails. There's one scene though that has a heavy amount offlashing/strobe effects so watch out for that if you have epilepsy/photosensitive. Watch this anime with friends, most fun I've had with watching something together in a while.

Mandalorian

February 26, 2023

Recommended

I tried to write a decent review for this OVA countless times, but I failed every single one. This anime is so nonsense that I came to the conclusion it's impossible to review it. You just can't, that's it. I mean, this isn't the worst thing I've ever see because at least the animation and character design are acceptable, but the plot is... there is no plot, period. There are a bunch of weird things happening and none of them makes any sense. I just watched it and I can't summarize it because nothing is clear nor linear, I'm so confused that I don't evenknow what did I just watch. This anime is bad, but in a weird way; I surely recommend it because it will let you live a new experience, throwing you into an abyss of despair, confusion and nonsense, and leaving you crying and curled up in the fetal position on the floor, naked and trembling. At least that's what happened to me. Help.