Girl internet, huh?
I got tired of waiting for a clean version, so the clips are of the Youtube stream with giant watermark.
Impressions:
I know there weren’t too many reasons to expect otherwise, but as I mentioned in the preview, it is Symphogear’s original creator, and Silver Link’s most insane director at the helm, so I wouldn’t have been shocked if this was subversive to the whole magical girl schtick in some way. Or if not that, at the very least, a legitimately action-oriented thing of girls punching weird monsters.
Alas, it is indeed an awful PreCure knockoff, and kind of a particularly… uh… not exactly inspiring one. You see, there’s a secret magical website that only teenage girls can log into and be VR transported into a magical world where they can live out all their dreams, whether it’s being an idol, doing makeup, being an idol, eating pudding, fashion, being an idol fan, tea parties, or being an idol. There’s also an evil dude who summons monsters to ruin their concerts and steal their… uh… dreams? It’s not actually clear. So they start singing ala Symphogear and beat them up so they can go back to being idol fans in peace. Well, one of them does. The protagonist just awakens to her power after vowing to Do Her Best to protect her wannabe idol friend who had her brain sucked or whatever. Which is honestly probably the least traumatizing thing that would happen if you sequestered off an entire portion of the internet to only teenage girls.
So… no. Not subversive. Not particularly sensical. More than a little weirdly sexist, even for a Sunday morning magical girl show. Not even all that well animated, especially considering it’s attempting to horn in on Pretty Cure’s racket, with lots of awful looking stills and very little expressiveness from the animation. It mostly comes off to me like a PreCure knockoff where they sing as they fight like Symphogear. But I’m not even confident of that since there’s only the one fight, so even that may not actually be a consistent thing. Is this meant to be Symphogear, but sanitized for the under 13 crowd? Without the animation strength of Satelight? That’s the most optimistic thing that I can think besides the obvious.
Next Episode:
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