There is
definitely some Freudian significance to magical stick trying to make a naked
loli grab it, just sayin’.
So, this
anime? Well, it all made perfect sense
to me, and I’ve never been involved with anything in the Fate franchise. And it was
dumb. Really, really, dumb.
That’s what
I’ve got to say in a nutshell. This just
felt dumb as hell to me.
So, the
plot. Two magical girls are fighting in
midair, and their wands (who are sentient, for some reason) dislike that fact
and leave them (causing them to lose their powers fall a dangerous distance).
A loli is
taking a bath, and the wand flies in.
The two have a conversation, and the wand is obnoxious to her.
Because
incest is relative.
I swear this
wand is as annoying as ahoge-girl from The
Chronicles of The Going Home Club, except it doesn’t have awesome
hair. So, the loli, annoyed, grabs the
wand with the intent of throwing it out the window.
OSHIT.
Apparently,
in this universe, if a girl touches a wand, she’s a magical girl. Even if she doesn’t want to be one. So, the wand forces and tricks her into being
a magical girl against her will (Kyubey
wasn’t this bad!), and then uses its wand-powers to control her body. And it’s for comic relief. I would have completely accepted this if it
was framed as a dark, evil thing, but it’s framed as comedic so it pisses me
off.
Screw you,
wand. I actually feel bad for this
character that I previously couldn’t have cared less for. She’s still a fairly bland loli, so I don’t like her, but still…
One of the
magical girls that we saw earlier (who survived) shows up and is pissed at the
wand. She tries to fight the loli,
because the wand flat-out lies about what the loli’s thinking just in order to
make its former master mad enough to try to physically harm the loli.
However,
eventually, she just decides to let it go, and tells the loli that she’s a
magical girl now. No free will
necessary. Episode end.
In addition
to the most annoying character ever and the fact that half the episode is spent
with the main character naked and the incest (but they’re not really related, which somehow makes it
okay in the eyes of the writers), I also didn’t like this because there’s no
real sense of urgency. We haven’t even
see what the magical girls do, or why.
In Madoka, it was set up that the witches
caused really bad stuff to happen, so the magical girls had to get rid of
them. It was urgent because innocent
people died if they didn’t do anything, and it made us, the audience, care.
However,
here, we really don’t know what the hell’s going on, and there doesn’t seem to
be anything wrong with the universe that needs fixing, so why should I
care?
It isn’t for
the characters, I can promise you that.
Especially that damn wand.
Dropped.
Dropped.
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