Back with more fansub impressions, this time:Magical Canan (ep 1, fansub)
If the title and screen capture weren't enough to clue you in, "Magical Canan" is another entry in that fascinating genre of Magical Girl. One episode in, "Magical Canan" follows the formula fairly well - unsuspecting school girl has magical abilities imparted upon her by/with the aide of a cute sidekick, and must begin to fight forces of evil, or something. So yea, nothing much original or new so far.
There are a couple indications that there could be more, or at least a little bit different, in this series. The threat of the cute sidekick getting dissected by school nurse, along with a smattering of ecchi (one focal point of the transformation sequence is the increase in size/roundness of the main character, Chihaya's, assets), indicate that this is not targetting the typical mahou shoujo audience, but is rather going for a male one.
The character designs are solid and quite enjoyable so far. Animation is average for a tv show.
There really isn't enough in this first episode for me to make any solid decision on this series. It was just setup for the main character; nothing that grabbed me, though. I will likely watch another one or two episodes before I decide if it is worthing continuing to watch.
Magical Canan ran a few seasons ago, and has not been licensed yet, so my suspicion is we will not see this one released in the West.
Content Ratings (out of 5)
Character Designs - 4: I find the designs to be pleasing and varied, including quite an elaborate and impractical bow on the school uniforms, but it still works.
Animation - 3: Normal TV animation - well drawn, but not too fluid or movement-rich.
Ecchi - 2: Maybe I am going down the wrong trail, but it seems the series may put some H in it - not much here, but a little, so it warrants the Ecchi label.
3 comments:
We're watching this one with Corey.
Well, he is the original Mahou Shoujo, is he not?
One of the oddest anime that loosely can be called Magic Girl (very loosely) is the OVA, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan. See: http://www.bin-kan.com/main.php
The title can be roughly translated "Club-to-death Angel Dokuro-chan" or "Beat-down Angel Dokuro-chan".
The basic premise is the "angel" Dokuro is living with the main character, for whatever reason, and anything he does or is perceived to do something perverted, he is club to death (quite violently and with copious amounts of gore) by Dokuro. Then, she has to use her powers to bring him back to life. It is a rather amusing series with lots of gore, humour, and ecchi. It is good that it is only 8 13 minutes epidsodes long, as you couldn't reall sustain it for more than that.
I've only seen the first 4 eps, I'll have to watch the enxt two shortly, and post my impressions for my next main blog post ...
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