Katsute Mahou Shoujo to Aku wa Tekitai shiteita.

It is an incomplete story as its creator passed away during its creation & it was made into an anime out of respect/passion. It lacks a satisfying ending and while it explores a lot, it lacks further clarification to its elements understandably due to the above. It features wholesome, cute and sweet moments & comedy between the two main leads with beautiful & incredible art/animation. It has dark humour between the wholesome sweetness that varies in severity. One review on here says that it is "kid safe" and I highly disagree as it features sexualisation, exploitation and assault by parties other than the two Main Characters & an unclear/questionableage gap. Lastly each episode is about 10-12 minutes in length. Honestly, if you can overlook the ecchi/assault/exploitation, enjoy the magical girl & romcom genre and also want diabetes this is for you.

Cocoa Fujiwara the author and illustrator of the series passed away at age 31 in March 2015 leaving the series unfinished. The third and final volume of the manga was published a full year later after consulting with her family so as to serve as the finale. The anime, made a full decade later in her memory, is a sweet romance that makes fun of the usual magical girl tropes. Mira is our straight laced lieutenant. Just think straight A honor student, class president, five million afterschool classes, calculating kind of guy. Now make him a simp and you got it! For some reason his reactionis to always throw his credit card at the girl lol! Byakuya is our wilting flower of a magical girl. Soft spoken, gentle, feminine, stupid. Now throw in perpetually broke and works every job under the sun (and moon!). You got it! The forbidden love trope never gets old but here the series does lean more on the "moe" factor to turn Mira into a simp defender. It's very upfront about it too so you see his reaction coming a mile away which just adds to the fun. Normally I hate the wilting flower trope but the anime is very aware of the genre tropes and actually plays them up so it's more of a shared joke with the viewer than anything. It's sweet and at 12 minutes per episode doesn't over stay it's welcome. Also it helps that the feelings are mutual, in most shows the female lead will act oblivious throughout, having the feelings returned was far better. My one complain is that the show doesn't really end but sadly that can't be helped considering the circumstances.

Oh, mein gott!!! This is by far the best anime (bias) in this entire year! Everything from the characters, art style, animation, story and all are beautifully made and I'm being overdose on cuteness each time this anime airs a new ep. It is sad to see that this anime and manga is over in a sense that this anime only covers 15 chapters of 20. And with the death of the creator "Cocoa Fujiwara" who died back in 2015 of march 31st. It doesn't seem we'll be getting any new updates unless someone close is willing to continue her story, aside from that. Thank you CocoaFujiwara for making me fall in love with your story, I hope wherever you are, you're still creating more mangas with love and all

The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies - Between the never-ending battle of good and evil, Love is (always) War. What comes to your mind when it comes to love and romance? I'm sure there's a lot of things that you can think of, but when it's all summed up, it's a complicated affair. Just as every romance has its own excessive use of melodrama, so too is the ever-oversaturated combo of the mix known as the rom-com genre. Many people choose to display the rom-com genre by their own agendas, but at the end of the day, there's always a coupleformed at the end of the way, even if at the whimsical wishes of the shipping wars. And in this season, more than the trials and tribulations of dealing with good and evil, the warm-hearted feeling of good and evil seemingly protecting each other in secret, now that's what you call an escapade. May I introduce to you: Katsute Mahou Shoujo to Aku wa Tekitai shiteita. a.k.a The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies, or shortened to MahoAku, the very last and unfinished work of beloved late author Cocoa Fujiwara, who tragically passed away in March 2015, her most famous work being Winter 2012's Inu × Boku: Secret Service. As always, with the current trend of anime with cancel culture and all, most people would see a couple with a sizable age gap and say: "This is not possible at all, cancel the anime!" To that I say, please remove your spectacles of criticism and see this from a different POV. With that out of the way, this is just a very simple romance story between good and evil: the evil organization that's led by Mira to bring waste to Earth, and the faction of good that is always traditionally associated with: Mahou Shoujo i.e. Magical Girls, to protect the peace and harmony on the same planet, led by Byakuya Mimori. And you know what they say about first impressions in the romantic tense: "From the moment I saw you, I can't take my eyes off you. Shall we date?" Yelp, I just felt the cringe writing this sentence for the review, someone help me xD Being in the Shoujo sense that's marketed as a Shonen work, I have to say that from the moment that Mira laid his eyes on Mimori, I am immediately smitten by their pure and unadulterated relationship, more than what the average Joe can only summarize of a disgusting love between a minor and an adult that it's just sick to imagine. To be fair, those of you who've watched or read Inu × Boku: Secret Service (which I will applaud you if you have done so) would have caught on that this is Cocoa Fujiwara's signature trait of the adults protecting the children, with the progression of the bond translating into a romantic relationship, and MahoAku is pretty much in the exact same ballpark as said series, only in a more sweet and diabetic way that most couples could ever dream of a enemies-to-lovers storyline, that the male MC just can't simply get over his crush so much so that it not only cost him his heart but also many pairs of glasses in the process, as predictable and excessive as it is to go crazy over her. With both Mira and Mimori doing all they can to preserve their secret taboo of a relationship that must not be found out by their colleagues, it's definitely a battle to the very end if they're exposed. Moreover, the colleagues on either side...are not normal people at all, if ever concerned for trivial instances. Mira may be the evil Lieutenant, but he has colleagues ranging from the lazy Fomalhaut, the free and easy-going "couple" of Alcyone and Spica, as well as the yandere fantasizing of Bellatrix. And as if this crazy crowd of evil colleagues are the insanity that Mira can't exactly control, Mimori has it hard too with her Mr. Cat Familiar, who came to the world to assist her...or rather, request her to do things that should not be exposed to the innocent and purity of the young teenager girl who works odd jobs by day and night, and even with fellow Magical Girls in the form of Hibana Kagari with her Familiar of Betelgeuse, whom she can only swear as a form of admitting her approval. God, I can't tell you how much of a comedic relief Hibana is being excessive in her vulgarism; that's her natural sense of speech, it always gets me laughing each and every time. This is a cast of characters that you will not want to get on their bad side, or they'll torment you with the tools of their choosing. I'm actually very surprised that studio Bones was chosen for this side project, considering that aside from the staple that is My Hero Academia and the recent new seasons of Bungou Stray Dogs over the last 2 years or so (let's just forget about the mess that was Winter's underwhelming and studio-anniversary insulting Metallic Rouge), the studio is going all guns blazing on the complete adaptation of the popular Shonen series franchise that they've started since Spring 2016. Still, it's good to see some diversity with the studio adapting stuff like this, that shows the versatility of Bones with their last handful of great series from Vanitas no Carte and the recent conclusion of Mob Psycho 100. And I feel that MahoAku stands together with the other shows in Bones's biography quite well with its adaptation under female director Akiyo Ohashi, whose directorial works range only with the 2020 BL film of Umibe no Étranger a.k.a The Stranger by the Shore and the Given: Movie's OVA the year after. Even with less experience, this half-episode series is still notable because she has to make clear cut decisions to thread the unfinished manga that Cocoa Fujiwara left behind into the anime, and that's no easy feat to adapt and create both existing and original content that still feels like an open-and-shut case of consistency. The music is a feels ride, not gonna lie. Lezel's half-episode OP song is one of the most beautiful and rhythmic songs I've heard this season and is such a perfect fit for a series like this. I can take it or leave it with the ED featuring both Miya and Mimori's VAs, but it's just decent. The show being a great sign-off to the late female mangaka, I hope that she is able to see this work from Heaven, because this is a small lil' series that truly respects the work that goes behind not just the anime, but also paying the tribute with the foundation from the manga that's an honour to the loving memory of Cocoa Fujiwara. MahoAku's a wholesome, cutesy, dramatic rom-com despite the age gap, without a shadow of ANY doubt.

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